It can not exist. Microsoft can and will bring it back if they want to. Unless you are also disabeling all windows updates, the computer will never be under your control. And disabeling windows updates … lets just say there hasnt been a month without a 9-10/10 security vulnerability in a microsoft product in a long time.

I dont think its meant as “90% of games that exist came out this year” and more of “90% of games that came out this year are not part of a preexisting series”. Its more a statement on final fantasy 27, fifa 2041 and call of duty ancient space warfare

I dont think that is odd actually. Food just does not have a high status on your side of the family. It is something you do to avoid dying and not something you do to enjoy.

When you make them nice food it is just the same as the bad food on the “gives me nutients” scale. The taste/enjoyment scale is never used to rate your food.

Why though? How does this force anybody to do anything? They will fine anybody 2500$ for handing this to a kid and call it a day. Maybe even move closer to the maximum fine because it is a deliberate breaking of the law.

You are asuming the cost of a network card and a microchip is higher than the profit they expect from the ads. Many smart TVs are cheaper than an equivalent dumb TV

License? I never mentioned licenses.

Selling drugs is illegal because drugs are illegal. If a OS without age verification is illegal, then (depending on how stupid the laws are) having a site where you can download such a OS could also be declared illegal.

Basically force all providers of OSs to include verification or block downloads to those states, or face fines for “distributing illegal software”.

I am saying, if they are stupid enough to do X they might be stupid enough to try the even more stupid thing to achieve X.

They will make it so that “allowing users from California to download the OS (or code) from you is already a crime”. So for example canoical will have to geoblock californians from downloading ubuntu and any peer-to-peer downloads will be illegal anyway because fuck you.

It could also be solved in any other way.

Everybody puting the toilet upside down. Everybody going outside and not having a debate anymore. Everybody outing the seat up. Everybody getting a seatles toilet.

The “everybody agreeing one one solution” is the thing that ends the debate and not what the solution is.

Because somewhere on their side they have a synchronization process that runs periodically every 10 minutes. If you click the link directly some of your information will be sent to a system that doesn’t yet know the link has been sent because it wasn’t synchronized.

Complete failure of design but from an IT standpoint it is understandable.

Yes, cloudflare will not tamper with your record because you are not important enough to be worth the reremovedtion loss. Realistically, no harm will come to you from cloudflare.

However! They are still the party that could theoretically cause the largest amount of damage to both you and your users.

Cloudflare cannot track visitors of my website, the only malicious thing they can do is to tamper with my DNS record.

They “cannot” only because they say so. Changing your DNS record allows them to read 100% of all incoming traffic even if it is TLS encrypted (because they can acquire a valid TLS certificate for your domain through a DNS challenge).

DNS is the most important foundational stone. Whoever controls your DNS can redirect all of your users to any address they want AND present a valid TLS cert through a DNS challenge. They can also redirect all E-Mails of the associates domain, and if any address was used to register an account, they can reset that accounts password. Trusting someone to handle your DNS is the highest trust you can put on someone on the internet. And that is both for a website povider trusting the registrar of their domain and for a end user with their DNS resolver.

It has since developed into a full voxel engine, supporting community made game modes and modpacks

Thanks, that’s exactly what I was talking about. What does that mean? Its a Minecraft clone?

What actually is this? The Website is rather unhelpful. Its just a Minecraft clone?

Windows will break your bootloader in a few updates time. It will literally check all drives in your PC and put a windows bootloader on it, overwriting any others that are already there.

With a tiny bit of offsec you can make pretty bulletproof setup.

Work only exists inside of a Win11 VM. It never touches the underlying system! All files associated with that VM (most importantly the virtual disk) live on a separate partition, or better separate drive. That partition is not mounted in fstab. So under normal circumstances it should never be mounted. So any fuck up they do to their Linux system will leave that partition untouched. If worst comes to worst that can boot a live iso from USB and run their work VM from there.

I would trust that setup infinitely more than having windows as a base system.

Few Years ago I read an article like " study finds you can get self driving cars to crash by throwing a human shaped pupped in front of them". I was like, yeah no shit that also works for humans.

For smaller (indie) studios it can make sense. If the game costs more money to developed than the developer has, preordering is indistinguishable from crowdsourcing like kickstarter. It removes the need for the developer to take a loan and investors, possibly giving up creative freedom.

Anything backed by a (big-ish) publisher should never be preordered!

Yeah standard bash Ctrl+r is just so painful. I much rather use “history | grep searchtearm” than that awfull search. fzf is a whole other level. But nowadays I just use fish shell which IMO has even better search than fzf

Yeah allow/block does not need cultural context to be understood. You can take someone from an uncontacted tribe in the amazon (and through a magic translation device) they will understand what a allow list is. They wouldn’t understand blacklist.

Maybe a short introduction what the terminal actually is. Programs are a bunch of code that runs on your computer. With many of that programs you as the user want to interact with. The point of contact between the program and you (and actually other programs) is called an interface. Some programs have a graphical interface (GUI - graphical user interface). Other programs have a Comand line interface (CLI). Writing a CLI is a lot easier than a GUI and it works on a lot more different systems. So many programs chose to only have a CLI while some only have a GUI and some have both. The terminal is your way to access those CLIs. And some problems are a lot easier to solve with a CLI than with a GUI. Maybe a function in a GUI is in a few menues deep so you need to click a lot to get there, and then use a slider to set a value, then click accept, etc. In a CLI, it is just one word you have to type. Especially in Linux a lot of developers are not designers so they write programs with good CLIs but bad (or none) GUIs. Especially when it comes to system settings sometimes there is no GUI to achieve what you need. So when you open the terminal, don’t think that you are diving in to a whole new magic world, but just that you are taking a different route to talk to the same programs that you were using already, and some new ones that you didn’t knew before.

Maybe just to take some of the mystique away, take a program you are used to (maybe Firefox?) and call that from the CLI. Type “firefox --help” and see the options that you have available there and compare them to what you know from the GUI. Most things will be in both but maybe some are very well hidden in the GUI.

After that it is just getting used to the utilities that you have for the terminal, all the little programs like “cd, ls, pwd, cp, mv”, etc… They are just programs that do things you are used to do with your mouse in the file explorer. Just the CLI analog to “select, right click, copy, paste”. Since CLIs are text based you also have a lot of utilities to handle text like grep, sed, cut, tr, they just do what you were doing in a text editor.