Quoting: Guest

[..]the difficulty in securing it is only compounded by all the frustrating differences between distributions.

The world upside down.

The spin-doctor was spinning so hard on this one that he accidentally slowed the flow of time [External Link] for a few seconds there.

I think Shmerl said it best:

Quoting: ShmerlLol. Let them get lost with these excuses about why their invasive anti-cheat is contradictory to the open nature of Linux. The problem is with invasive, not with Linux.

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Seeing how willingly people are installing root kits, basically lending complete control over their device, just to play their favourite shooty shooty bang bang for a few minutes a day, makes one think that now might be a good time to develop something similar just to collect credit card information on a large scale. And while accepting all the money they’re kindly handing over one could leave a few files on their storage device as a counter-value. Some of them might get the idea to report their happenstance to the police - unwittingly pointing investigators right to the above mentioned files, whose presence they then might have to explain.

Aah… being inundated with credit card debt and spending time behind bars for your desire to play a little bit of shooty shooty bang bang. Isn’t that The Dream™ ?

I’m baffled by the high number of people who are willingly and without question installing root kits on their machines.

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Not funny...

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Am I shadowbanned?

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Quoting: TevurHope they soon fix the issues with some metrics impairing with game performance. Some of the display options cause considerable regular frametime spikes, when enabled.

Which metrics are doing this? Maybe I will turn them off on my setup, if they aren’t already.

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Quoting: scaineYT's captions solve this issue, although not sure if there is caption support in YT-Shorts.

Exactly what I meant: YT-Shorts is the platform decay of YT.
The motives behind making their platform worse - in this case a perceived threat from insta and tiktok - do not play a role.

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I don’t understand how to use this tool.

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Quoting: jareddmccluskeyHey all! We'll make the subtitles optional for Youtube next time :) Yes, it's quite common on TikTok/YT Shorts to have the captions hardcoded since people scroll through videos on their phone without always having audio available.

Thank you for covering this Liam! Happy to answer any questions.

The issue is not with the subtitles being hardcoded*, but showing single words for a split second where they just loose their purpose. Subtitles are a solved problem, making them flashier does not necessarily make them better.

*The necessity to make subtitles hardcoded in YT shorts is a direct consequence of the enshittification[1] of YT... but that is another story.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification [External Link]

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceLet's apply some logic. You get caught not paying your ticket. They ask you to but you refuse. They call the police. The police tell you to but you refuse. The police issue you a ticket or straight out arrest you and you refuse to comply. They go to take you by force and you resist. They end up killing you in the struggle.

Dude, they will let me go. After some time, I will receive a letter. And after some more time a judge will simply order my employer to send a part of my salary to pay for the initial ticket plus fees. If I’m self-employed, some official will confiscate part of my belongings until the debt is paid in full.
Because we live in a civilization and not in the wild, wild west shouting ‘Yeehah!’ while emptying our mags…

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PublicNuisanceAs soon as you make a law you have to be willing to have have people killed to enforce it. If you aren't then you can't have the law.

You're an American, aren't you? Just a wild guess.

Last week, I stationed my car at a parking spot without paying for a parking ticket. I was therefore shot by a cop five minutes later.
Advisory: Pay for your parking tickets!

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