I make people upset just by using my eyes and brain, as such please be careful to ensure your tears do not get into your electronics, thank you
I air gap my shit
that’s an interesting claim, how do you use online multiplayer games and discord while “air gapped”?
and again, your “tangible benefit” is rendered largely moot by the fact that you can absolutely get around kernel anticheat. All it really does is keep the skids releasing free cheats on UnknownCheats and MPGH out.
“I’m OK with companies using incredibly shitty, intrusive software practices because I don’t think they’ll affect me personally” is such a shit take for so many reasons, to name a few:
giving software kernel access, especially when it does not or should not need kernel access, is a security risk, and does open the door for malicious actors to take advantage of vulnerabilities even if the software is not malicious in and of itself
occasionally, intensively intrusive programs like this do break things unintentionally, which can lead to all sorts of fun issues. StarForce DRM is a good example from years past.
just because you do not have anything on your PC that you consider sensitive, does not mean that applies to everyone.
Kernel level anticheat can be bypassed. It’s usually not cheap/easy, but it can and has been done. Meaning, for all of the above concessions you make, there is no real benefit.
these are just the few I can think of immediately.
Mint is the distro of choice for people who want to work on their computer, not work on their computer.
Like I’m glad for all the nerds who change distros as often as they change pairs of pants and enjoy fiddle-fucking around with their setup, but some of us only want a computer that just works and doesn’t give us shit.
Because as we all know, being a gamer means you can’t also be a fucking moron.
… Wait.
One experience with other people on Xbox Live voice chat can disprove that.
you can essentially already do this with TrackMeNot and AdNauseam
I’ve had no significant driver issues with Mint and a 2080, myself. I switched back in February, and most things – games included – just work. The few that didn’t, were easy to fix with some searching on stackoverflow and reddit (about the only thing that site is good for now).
if an idiot like me can do it, so can you.
I usually hook my Steam Deck up to my TV via a USB hub and HDMI, and then fire something up on Plex, which I keep running on my desktop.
Bonus: Make it a wireless HDMI dongle (which I’m too cheap for but are a thing), and now using it from the couch is even more convenient.
And then nobody ever made another emulator for Nintendo products again and this definitely does not foreshadow an endless game of whack-a-mole powered by spite.
Surely not.
I’m Brazil
hi Brazil, I’m Dad!
I believe OP is either a child, or perhaps trolling.
Read that username and tell me that isn’t an Xbox live gamertag from 2008.
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which is a hilarious threat because the #1 way to make my viewing experience worse would be turning off my ad blocker, lmao
Microsoft why are you trying to pull an Elon and destroy your own brand, stop that – what, after all, has a dedicated keyboard key on Windows keyboards, and has for decades?
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Sir this is a Wendy’s