We've been quiet for years now. Google's been on a path to turn Android into a locked down system for many years at this point.

Don't you think every single nation has been watching what Iran has been doing to the US military and have been taking notes?

he’ll just push updates without having anyone test them.

This person is a clown and shouldn't be allowed near any production stuff.

I would bet top dollar that he pushed back on Linux because it scares him.

The title is misleading. It's not "discovered", but rather "observed for the first time". Since black hole stars have been theorized for a while now. And they're actually the only "accepted" explanation for the origins of super massive black holes holding galaxies together.

A good majority of European countries have switched to Linux or FOSS solutions for governments or militaries.

France's federal police have been using Linux for over 15 years now.

My university has a specific contract with MS that says our data cannot leave the campus or the country.

That contract is worth nothing due to the Cloud Act.

Well every single time an article is posted about Germany, it turns out it's a single state and that they reverted a few years later.

You're thinking of the story about Munich from over a decade ago. And that story is more complicated than the media does it justice for.

But to summarize Munich: they did a pilot switching to Linux. It went very well and started a full rollout. Microsoft jumped in with money under the table and promised to setup a new Microsoft HQ in Munich for switching back to Windows. New government came in and said "uh, no. We're not ditching Linux and our very successful pilot." So now it's mostly a hybrid setup.

That's the traditional viewpoint, sure. But as each day goes by the rest of the world is looking for more ways to circumvent or outright cut out trade and reliance with the US.

There's a reason why 5 years ago BRICS was kindof a joke, but today it's taken very seriously.

It would tank the value, which would trigger other parties to quickly do a sell-off, which would further tank the value.

It would ultimately result in a cascade effect that drops the US dollar value to unprecedented lows.

the only thing that canada exported to the USA that was worth a shit

• potash
• electricity
• lumber
• steel

this type of bullshit is common across the repair industry

No it isn't. Most independent repair shops actually know what they're doing and care about customer satisfaction.

This only happens at "corporate" repair places, just like BestBuy.

I suggest you to not play proprietary junk that belongs to evil corporations.

You have no idea what you're talking about, and frankly you sound like a psycho.

Companies like EA make up a small fraction of the available games. Most of them are small studios with people who have a passion for making games.

So do other evil corporations like microsoft and google.

Which proves my point that FOSS can't exist in a vacuum. I hope your using the Hurd kernel, otherwise you're still benefiting from and using the work of evil corporations!

Valve ceo owns more megayachts than bezos or elon musk

He owns a shipyard. It's a side passion of his. And most of his vessels serve a scientific purpose, like marine research.

He seems a bit like James Cameron in that sense. Cameron's first passion was marine research, and he used his earnings from film production to fund his own research stuff.

There is NOTHING wrong with someone who made bank using their money for their passion. It means they keep they money flowing through the economy instead of just sitting in a bank account.

They are just as bad

Then either you are ignorant of the world or have a child's understand of things.

You are defending a billionare corporation

A bit, ya.

do you have any reputation at all?

Yes, lots of people know me. Therefore I have a reputation.

Users with local non-AD connected systems (which bypass GPOs)

Found your problem. Nothing to do with Linux/WSL.

Windows that needs the Ol' Yeller treatment.

FTFY

That would officially be WW3, and it wouldn't go well for the US.

Pretty much the entire world either dislikes or outright hates the US right now, and that's not going to change anytime soon. There's far more positive sentiment towards China around the world than towards the US.

Any non profit company who's products isn't a proprietary third party software launcher.

You're being disingenuous. You know full well the context of the argument precludes non-profits.

They have built a semi-monopoly on videogames relying for two decades on closed source products and windows, they are now looking at the linux share because microsoft in the past years made bullish acquisitions in the videogames industry.

You might want to check your math on that. Steam on Windows was originally released in 2003, and released on Linux in 2013.

And the reason for their interest has nothing to do with Microsoft's game studio acquisitions, and everything to do with Microsoft's attempts to lock down the Windows ecosystem back in the Windows 8/RT days.

If the client doesn't matter that much that's even more reasons to release the source code.

No one said it doesn't matter. It's their software/platform/service. They can do whatever they want, and it's their right to do so. If you don't want to use their platform, you don't have to.

companies usually make money, non profit organizations help people

Usually. But the fact that Valve's interests align with the benefits of its userbase isn't a bad thing. Making money isn't a crime, and making money while building a system people like also isn't a bad thing.

You seem to have a strange hatred towards Valve for simply existing. Are you friends with Tim Sweeney or something?

Both of them.

Between 2003 (the launch of Steam on Windows) and 2013 (the launch of Steam on Linux) Microsoft acquired two game studios. Whereas in 2018 alone (the start of their acquisition spree) they acquired six.

Exactly, don't use it

Well, I want to use it. There is no better game store with as many good deals, and that supports Linux.

Show me a game store that supports Linux with a good selection of games of modern and major game titles.

Also, Steam directly supports and funds a plethora of open source tools that benefit everyone.

My interests are in free, open source and decentralized platforms. What about yours?

Agreed, which is why I use Linux and support companies that also support Linux.

Making billions is a crime because there is no good way to do it

Billionares and corporations do not simply exist, they are built on the exploitation of others

You're right about 99.99+% of cases. And I'm not defending Valve as some altruistic company. But lumping in Valve with the likes of Amazon, Oracle, Nvidia, Monsanto, Elon Musk, etc, simply on the amount of money they make is desingenous at best, but frankly is insane.

You're one of those people that have a militant mindset when it comes to FOSS that gives open source a weird and bad reputation.

Open source literally cannot exist without companies using it to make money. The majority of funding for things like development of Linux itself comes directly from donations from for-profit companies.

Hell, the historically two largest distributions by install count (Ubuntu and Fedora) are developed and maintained by for-profit companies.

Say "hi" to Tim Sweeney. Tell him Canada is just fine without him moving here.

That's your clapback? K

Name one other company that's doing more for open source and open platforms than Valve.

They've helped push gaming on Linux from a very niche process to basically having Windows native games work better on Linux than on Windows. They do this via Proton which they upstream into WINE (all open source and free to use by anyone).

They've silently funded an x86 to ARM emulator for years and it's entirely open source (anyone can use it).

The Steam client is a 1st class citizen on Linux. It doesn't matter that their client is closed source, because all the tools they employ is open source. The client is mostly just the store portion of their stuff. The actual tools that run the games are open source.

They're also the only major games store that supports Linux natively (itch.io exists, and they're great, but Steam is so much bigger).

Name a company that does even half of that. Just one company.

What the user was doing is that they don't trust that the system truly deleted the account, and they worry it was just deactivated (while claiming it was "deleted"). So they tried to do a password recovery which often reactivates a falsely "deleted" account.

I've done this before and had to message the company and have them confirm the account is entirely deleted.

I was ambivalent about systemd up until now. If this gets merged I'm moving to a non-systemd distro. I do not live in California or even the USA. I do not want age verification garbage in my OS.