It honestly might be cheaper to get a piece of shit phone and keep it squeaky clean for our overlords

A lot of financial apps require Play Protect and attestation. I had to fight for months to figure out how to spoof the integrity check so I could deposit some stupid checks.

I’d love it if we had a music co-op sort of situation. But as you say, that doesn’t make someone somewhere filthy rich.

Wayland is trying to replace a standard that people have been saying is obsolete for a decade. I’ll give them a bit of leeway.

Interesting you compare it to Windows, given how in OS X you literally just drag applications into your Applications folder to install them.

Plus make it hell on earth to a) access drives other than the one flatpak is installed on, b) interoperate with non-flatpak applications, and c) retain any amount of free space on my drives (exaggeration for effect).

In fairness, that comes with just not paying artists any money.

kill $SIGSAUER

I pray that you’re never in charge of anything, ever.

Imagine having the audacity to claim that you’re losing money to pirates and thus were justified in blocking Cloudflare IPs, and then claiming that there were no damages done to Cloudflare et al by your actions. The only way this makes sense is it Cloudflare is the only method by which people access pirate streams. What the actual fuck.

It’s become that ubiquitous because there’s an expectation of instant gratification.

It’s almost like people have gotten really used to instant gratification and it’s not reasonable. A certain amount of figuring it out should be expected.

In fairness, the community has plenty of assholes. However, I think there’s something to be said about electronic literacy and how a lot of people expect to have their hand held through every process.

If you see this meme and think “well actually, I had a really difficult time last time I tried to install Linux” - did you ask for help? That’s what the internet is for.

Are you using Proton? Also, what games do you usually play?

Publishers and companies always want DRM, that does not mean we have to let them do whatever they want with it.

I hate to be this guy, but after being mad that Pop OS now defaults to pipewire, it’s pretty fucking nice. It’s stable and a little annoying to configure, but it works so much better than pulse. Perhaps consider switching?

It is a problem, you’re right. We shouldn’t have to rely on people with the motivation to do good. Capitalism is failing because without regulation, it motivates people to fuck each other over for an extra dime.

You can either be publicly traded and let greedy shareholders sell things for parts or you can have private ownership and pray to God that they’re benevolent. There has to be another option, surely. Maybe one where Valve becomes employee-owned with a trust/foundation backing it once Gabe dies?