Don't have a webcam on my desktop (main PC) and I have no intention of getting one.

I surely hope they never will, no user program should ever be allowed to run at kernel level, that's what malware does.

I personally avoid those kind of games, but those who won't can dual-boot.

I never cared about the systemd debacle, now I do. I don't want that shit on my PC.

Your entire premise is wrong, because these laws have nothing to do with protecting citizens, they're made to protect Meta from accountability and fines.

Reasoning around a false premise doesn't make any sense, unless you're trying to gaslight people.

What part of "now I do" you didn't understand?

most mods dont work on linux

Mods work just fine, it's mod managers that sometimes don't work.

If mods don't have manual setup instructions, I install them on Windows, copy back to Linux the mod config file and happily play on Linux.

The layoffs are directly tied to Oracle’s aggressive and debt-heavy expansion into artificial intelligence infrastructure
money the company urgently needs to fund a massive buildout of AI data centers

The bubble can't burst soon enough.

They're destroying the environment more than ever before, they're pushing companies to replace workers with AI making people lose their jobs, they're scraping everything on the internet without any regard for copyright laws, they're screwing hardware market so consumers can't afford decent PCs anymore.

And they expect us to be happy about it?

Systemd is NOT an operating system provider, so they didn't have to do absolutely anything.

It was their choice to do what they did, not the law, especially since it won't be active and enforceable before next year.

Witch hunts are despicable indeed but lets not use that an an excuse to justify what they did.

sounds like it could be a hook into a system for automatically generating labels to categorize the various incident reports made in Steam multiplayer games
hints that Valve might use AI tools to summarize suspicious activity history or patterns in potentially fraudulent Steam accounts

If they train their own model, use AI only to sift through the massive amount of data to recognize patterns (something AI does very well) while leaving ALL the decision-making exclusively to humans, it won't be bad.

If they let AI take actions, well... Steam has been fun while it lasted.

Guilty as charged xD

I know the debate around systemd is going on for quite some time, I understood the basic reasoning behind it but I don't have the technical knowledge required to truly decide for myself, so I just didn't pay too much attention to it and followed what my distro of choice does.

The good thing about this "new development" is that it's not just a tech debate anymore, it has such wider implications that it'll be much easier for people to decide where to be.

Its a local, safe option for reducing child access to things they shouldn’t access.

With the proposed measures in place, any app can know exactly which devices children are using, something noone can do now.

When you implement a feature, there's no way in the world you can guarantee only "good people" can use it, and malicious individuals are way more interested in getting info about children than anyone else.

That doesn't protect children, it puts them even in more danger than they are now.

The details of origin and motives of the attack, along with mitigation tactics, are, understandably, being kept under wraps while the investigation continues

I hope they'll disclose at least the origin, and what they think their reasons are, when it's over.

I'm curious about who would attack Arch and why.

No you don't, and you don't give two flips about AI slops because those are where you get your money from.

The problem with Microsoft is they always try to cater to the absolute lowest denominator when it comes to users, I understand why they do it, because there are indeed some people that shouldn't look at a computer even with a binocular, but I don't agree with their approach nonetheless.

Being treated like a moron by an OS infuriates me and that's why I switched to Linux many years ago.

I don't get the purpose of this post. The title and what you listed are not the same thing.

You listed a mix of apps and wine versions, all those usually assume you already have wine to satisfy dependencies, that's not how to install wine.

You install wine (staging for gaming) from your distro repositories.

Being able to exclude open source would be amazing.

What infuriates me tho, is what I read in the linked reddit thread that the article doesn't talk about, that is, lobbyist pushing for this moronic law to try and avoid paying fines.

It would seem governments, this time, didn't do it on their own.

That's ... concerning. Kudos to that mod for making people aware of it.

Apparently anyone can do that, so I tried mine out of curiosity (I'm not a mod, never have been): https://reddit-wrapped.kadoa.com/ulu-mulu-no-die?share

This Redditor is basically a gaming savant with a spreadsheet addiction, meticulously dissecting game mechanics and then dropping mic-drop guides for the masses. When not optimizing virtual real estate or factorio builds, they're busy troubleshooting Linux like a digital mechanic, all while subtly reminding us that their 'fun' involves more calculations than most people's taxes. They're the kind of person who'd analyze their Reddit Wrapped to see if the algorithm correctly identified their 'efficiency at leisure' metric.

I've read the entire profile and it seems to me more like satire than an actual serious summary (quite some hyperbole in there), tho it's worrying that your entire reddit history can be analyzed so quickly.

This thing can end very badly in the wrong hands.

Instant unsub for me, if I ever saw it.

Make pricing tiers with different offers and let people decide if it's worth it, anything else is a scam.

Training humans doesn't destroy the planet, nor the hardware market, nor it raises electric bills for all citizens, nor it concentrates billions in the hands of a few individuals like you are doing with your company and all your brainwashing attempts.