Well, buddy… I got news for you!

Also, (and this is from security research articles here) most kernel level anticheats seem to focus more on datamining than anticheat (see: anything from tencent)

Its so bad that a lot of corporate environments ban any work being done on machines that also have them installed (source: my employer)

Over time more and more anricheat companies have realised that personal data is gold and they are harvesting more and more of it.

Just read the eula some time. Most of it state in plain english that they send files from your documents, take screenshots and log keys.

And we give them kernel access…

Ah yes, the shitty new boeing turbulence radar strikes again. Expect more of these in future!

More and more games are shipping with mega sus kernel level anti cheat which can (and does according to their EULA) take screenshots and files from your PC to make sure you “aren’t cheating”.

Valorant, for example, is made by riot, owned by tencent, owned by the Chinese government, and has a nasty kernel anti cheat in it.

So this means that with essentially no effort or changes the Chinese gov can just take this file and related screenshots of everything you do wrapped in a bow

And they 100% will do this.

Except for the overview transition, which is more like sharpened gravel.

There is tactile plasma holograms like right now. Dropped only a week or two ago.

Well, Ubuntu is definitely not the way to go. They are very microsofty at the moment and keep trying to make snaps happen, and they aren’t gonna happen.

Wanna game? Use nobara OS, and if that is too hard then try bazzite. Literally all the tinkering is baked in for gaming by the guy who makes alternative windows emulator runtimes and hes a straight fucking boss.

Imagine a comedy TV show for magical tech support. Cranky burned out wizards trying to solve magical bugs for fustrated wizard customers.

Fuck I’d watch the shit out of it.

Libadwaita is only compatible with gnome and only works with gnome. Other DE’s can try to make it work in their DE, but the experience for them is hostile.

To put it mildly, gnome devs are being dicks about it as much as they can be, because they consider themselves the only “real” desktop environment to Linux.

If you want your apps to be cross platform, you can just use gtk3/gtk4 instead, or any other ui library. Even QT.

I use gnome ATM because I think paperwm is the best desktop experience on any OS, but the gnome DE devs are just assholes and they break my heart.

Just last year I was at a security conf and they said the biggest threat to security right now is anticheat software, especially that owned by state actors. The venn diagram for people with anti cheat installed and people with admin priveliges and SSH keys for work installed is almost a circle.

We definitely should reward it, and respect it. But people.are assholes, and that’s not a fixable problem

Ah… This guy sounds a bit like a prima dona tbh. This shit is standard fare for all open source projects.

If you can’t handle the heat…

As someone who learned about Ai in uni and now works in Ai, this shit is straight up bullshit and its infuriating.

The most obvious thing about this being all bullshit is that the LLM’s don’t have their own idle emergent “thought” - they are purely reactive, so not sentient. Case closed for fucks sake.

Go slow, pick an easy distro like pop OS and take it easy.

If its for gaming, even https://nobaraproject.org/ is great as it has a lot of gaming optimisations.

Remember, Linux with a GUI is not more complicated than windows with a GUI, you have just spent your whole life learning the windows one.

Lin…UX?!

I use paperwm, and I think its the greatest user interface ever. Actually makes my odyssey super ultrawide useful

Lin…ux?

I’m almost certain super earth is gonna get massively flanked by the larger automaton army once we win

The problem is not the cheaters, it’s the amount of money they earn from mining your data unrestricted with kernel level access. It’s a fucking gold mine.

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