I’m not an alcoholic, I’m a strategical drinker!

Yeah, it most likely isn’t an exe but a Linux binary! Other than that, you can probably run the server on your computer pretty easily. You probably won’t be able to host anywhere close to the number of players the official servers do, but that’s just a matter of stronger hardware.

So yeah, they don’t provide the server because they’re “evil”.

They could also do the bare minimum of patching the game so it allows any server and avoid stuff like certificate pinning etc. and then provide an OpenAPI specification for the server and let the community create their own server if they want.

That’s probably your social bubble. My company is currently deepthroating everything that has AI in its name. I jokingly mentioned they should rename the company to Jira&AI, the joke was not well received.

Anyway, most people I know (including me) are somewhere in the middle - not quite fans in the traditional sense, but definitely not disliking AI.

They still don’t. The analysts do and the programmers then implement it based on specifications.

They also force you to hand over all traffic, including https by MITMing it. Unless you have the enterprise license.

I know many, many people who don’t have a PC at all, phones are usually enough for most.

Seconding Plasma, it worked great with my touch screen.

Once you pick an app to open a certain type of files or as your default web browser, that is what the system will stick with. Plasma makes you the boss.

I wish this was true.

Did you live under the impression that all the smart missiles, smart guns, smart everything didn’t already require programmers?

Note that Ubuntu is no longer just a Debian clone, not in the sense of, say, Linux Mint and Ubuntu. Many Debian apps are not installable on Ubuntu and vice versa, I’d personally consider Ubuntu a base (original as you call it) distribution nowadays.

1. You don’t have to use it for everything, though prepare that a lot of Linux tutorials will have you putting commands there, because it’s simply easier.

2. I use Proton VPN as well and though I don’t remember how I installed it, I run it using a GUI, not terminal. Additionally, whenever you read a guide for Ubuntu, there’s 99% chance it applies to derivates without any modifications. Both Kubuntu and Linux Mint.

3. Custom mouse pointer - yes

4. Updating distro - yes, easy. App updates are also easy, it can be automated, though I personally prefer running them manually. It’s a few button clicks away.

5. Use a beginner friendly distro, of those I’d recommend Linux Mint, Ubuntu or Fedora (or its derivate, Nobara). If I had to choose one, I’d go with Linux Mint.

6. Installing Linux is extremely easy nowadays. Definitely easier than installing Windows from scratch. Making the computer absolutely unusable is really hard, pretty much everything can be fixed.

Yes, every application has access to everything. The only exception are those weird apps that use the universal framework or whatever that thing is called, those need to ask for permissions. But most of the apps on your PC have full access to everything.

And Windows does collect and upload a lot of personal information and they could easily upload everything on your system. The same of course applies for the apps as well, they have access to everything except privileged folders (those usually don’t contain your personal data, but system files).

I gave up on everything except Reddit in 2017 and gave up on Reddit with the api stuff going on.

So I guess I am that “hardcore”.

Don’t watch those, though the few I’ve watched didn’t really have that. But it wouldn’t surprise me.

But I think with kid shows it’s much more dangerous, they soak up the patterns and internalise them.

Same, I’ve been saying it for a decade that the current anti-men direction can only mean that young men will push against that and not in a nice way.

Well, guess who was right? Feminism has come all the way from something great and noble towards utter shit.

The dumb dad is fucking disgusting, it’s in pretty much every animated show for kids.

A nice “trick”: After 4 or so responses where you can’t get anywhere, start a new chat without the wrong context. Of course refine your question with whatever you have found out in the previous chat.

I’m not even gonna read it, but the 3rd pyramid is hilarious. Go on executives, just do it! See how it goes.

It literally does the same thing, except it’s self hosted?

Alza.cz! Probably not very useful to you in the US, I guess. Unless you visit Czechia and want to buy some electronics.