“Finally I see some gears turning. We’re making progress here people!”

I’m sorry, I don’t think I can see the point you are making. Are you saying that one can get around the 3-5 people by using flatpaks, ro home directories and other mitigations?

A matter of perspective I think. It’s a flaw in my opinion. Just downloading anything from anywhere sets one up for failure/malware.

Code Signing on its own is useless, I think. If there is no distribution structure or user-validated trustchain, of course. But then you don’t really need Code Signing, a simple hash is enough.

My personal preference are the distro repos, to a point where I even dislike additional package managers like pip, npm or cargo.

I do mean downloading random stuff from random websites.

True. Still the most windows-like installation method.

Your wanted option is not gone, you can still download the binaries if the author presents them; or you can compile it from source. This is just another, more convenient way to distribute the program.

If you are looking to get your programs Windows-style, to download a binary or “install wizard”, then you can look into appimages.

Like any form of distribution however: someone has to offer this, be it the author or “some rando”.

Here.

That’s the joke ^^

But it also shows the influence of watching YouTube|TikTok|Other Streamers that ARE using advertiser friendly language.

Gotta keep the language advertiser friendly.

It’s very versatile. It can be used as a threat, a sudden shock or long term torture. I’m not comfortable going into further detail.

Honestly I would be angry too. But then after I would have completely woken up I would laugh about it. And think of a payback. Maybe even something involving a moist, cold sponge.

“Nice, all plans cancelled with a valid excuse.”

Fuck those people. Still not worth getting infected by a rootkit.

Before any of that: Let her try it out on your machine (assuming it can be used for this kind of workload) during business hours. She will run into problems (Software not working, something upstream at her workplace not working, …). If all of those are fixed or she deems them negligible, then you can start thinking of switching her over.

This can take over a year of time, depending on how frequent some work related tasks are.

Dualboot on the new machine can also be good alternative, if you don’t mind spending the money.

A “do or die” approach might lead to a very big fight about her not being important to you, or even respected by you, among other things.

Oh nice. Did somebody learn something from Helldivers 2? Let’s game it out

Indents

edit: Because of the indentation.

Ah, well, same spiel though. Also, fuck Denuvo.

They already are throwing punches because they noticed people being less gullible than them. I’m guessing this would result in a “double down”, like “The developers wouldn’t have to kill this game if the pirates would have bought it.”

But do you really want to rob kids of their attention and tiktok careers? For that?

/s

I did make the mistake of trying to convince people that learning Linux and using FOSS is the only way to keep some power as the people.

That created a clique of friends that are now telling me every single time they pay for a movie from amazon (calling it buying), that comment every problem I encounter with “That’s a Linux problem” and keep telling me they have “nothing to hide” (“nothing to hide” just means “nothing to protect”).

So yeah, I pissed them off by being too emotional in that topic, and now it’s a game for them. I will refrain from being seen as “too involved” because of that.