What we need to see is a major studio pushing for Linux like valve has been doing.

That’s it. That’s literally what makes it special. You, me, and half the fediverse probably aren’t going to use steam os unless maybe we buy a steam deck.

The fact that there’s a multi-billion dollar company throwing money at both it and proton is what makes steam os special. Its what’s going to give Linux a unified brand name that every machine can put on their case badge.

Normal people and the companies that sell them computers need that unified brand name. Why on gods green earth, I don’t fucking know, but I know that they do. Its how you get them to use shit.

Once valve drops better nvidia support into the kernel, and steamos starts coming pre-loaded on laptops and pre-built desktops it’s over for their consumer division.

Good I hope chrome does get fucking run into the ground.

Maybe then chromium can have some actual independence and spread its wings.

I like to run ufw on all my machines but I’m also a tinfoil-hat wearing wacko who believes that no computer should ever really be trusted. Just trusted enough to do specific tasks.

If someone somehow busts into one of my VLANs, at least the other machines on that net will still have some sort of protection.

The real issues are capitalism and the lack of green energy.

If the arts where well funded, if people where given healthcare and UBI, if we had, at the very least, switched to nuclear like we should’ve decades ago, we wouldn’t be here.

The issue isn’t a piece of software.

I know that was part of my point. Thing was mostly finalized by my birth year lmao.

Also, little off-topic but, as important as it is to computing culture, some of the gatekeepy shit put in there aged like milk. But I kind of expect that from nerd culture, especially 20th century nerd culture.

Fpv has a very storied history, yet we don’t see these bombings in peacetime. Like fucking ever. Even in the U.S.

Its almost like pre-made drones are locked down and tracked, and homemade fpv quads take like 20 hours of sim time just to keep in the air.

That’s before we discuss the fact that the munitions Ukraine straps to them are unobtanium for normal people.

This is really cheap if you’re a military with a bunch of people, training facilities, and explosives, but still a big pain in the ass for anyone else. I guess if you have a really angry hobbiest with hundreds of man hours of flight time, and explosives knowledge you’re in danger.

The only RC hobbiest that pissed off I know lives in New Zealand.

Bit of an unhinged and unreasonable nerd rant but here it goes:

The second dot com boom in the 2010s ruined us. Like holy shit. As someone younger looking down the line, living in tech bro culture, but exposed to the likes of the jargon file, y combinator and their venture capitalists literally ruined hacker culture.

We used to have a thriving culture that cherished freedom, real freedom, not freedom for the rich. What happened to the culture that spawned Windows buyback day? What of the dream that networked freedom would one day break the chains of economic heirarchy?

Like holy fucking shit. If you’re not here for the love of the machine stop touching a compiler or better yet go loose your fucking hands.

• sftp for quick shit like config files off a random server because its easy and is on by default with sshd in most distros
• rsync for big one-time moves
• smb for client-facing network shares
• NFS for SAN usage (mostly storage for virtual machines)

Publishers and companies will always want DRM

Developers should refuse to write malware.

Steam does most of the fucking around for you these days.

Well yeah in a better society where art was distributed freely and certain recreational substances weren’t illegal we wouldn’t need them.

That’s not the reality we live in today, however, nor will it be for a very long time, unfortunately.

Okay I get the hate for capitalism and global warming, but can we stop acting like anonymous payments for drugs and web hosting are a bad thing?

Do you like to get stoned and/or to trip balls? Do you like watching pirated movies? I fucking do at least, I imagine most people do lol.