I use a desktop all day, every day (Arch, btw) because I work a tech job.

Android is based on Linux, true but it is hardly a desktop environment (and is mostly controlled by the carrier/Google from a privacy/enshittification perspective).

I think the Steamdeck is a better example. It’s converting console gamers into Linux desktop users and showing people that Linux gaming is very much possible.

Nobody strap laser beams to their heads

Made in Britain, uhg typical

The short answer is no.

There’s a lot of study on this topic from the cybersecurity perspective. If you could create an undetectable virtualization layer then it would be used for real-world cyberattacks to steal money and the existence would be quickly noticed by security researchers (and future hardware would include changes to mitigate the vulnerability). It wouldn’t be used for creating aimbots for video games.

If you want to read into the technical details, this stackoverflow thread has a lot of links to various papers and articles on the topic: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39533/how-to-identify-that-youre-running-under-a-vm

I never suggested or implied that copyright laws need to be removed.

It does appear that OpenAI’s position is “copyright laws are dumb and need to be changed” which, during the Aaron Schwartz story, was the position of the community.

Now, since the entity involved is an AI company, we’re seeing people who’re on the side of using copyright laws to punish infringers because they don’t like AI.

Either copyright laws need to be changed or they don’t need to be changed. Someone’s position on the topic shouldn’t change based on who is being negatively effected by said laws.

Oh man I know were not really in too much disagreement here but that false equivalence argument grinds me a bit.

Yeah that’s fair. I didn’t feel like writing a book so I was being a bit bellicose with my comparisons.

I’m not a Civ stan, so I’m not dying on this hill, but despite the core gameplay being similar across all of the games each game adds new features that change the gameplay loop. Leaders bonuses, wonders, the way Ages function mechanically, how diplomacy is handled, exploration, etc all get modified and tweaked with each major release. It does seem samey, but the net result is that you’re doing different things while using a familiar system.

I guess a better comparison would be to something like Dungeons and Dragons. In the end you’re sitting at a table, talking and rolling dice. Trying to explain the differences between 3.5 and 5th Edition to a person who doesn’t play seems like you’re splitting hairs (“oh, so you just roll two dice instead of adding -5?, that’s basically the same thing”), but the updates are more aimed at refining the experience for existing players while also making enough changes to keep the gameplay experience fresh.

If you want a more in-depth explaination, PotatoMcWhiskey on YT (the big Civ content creator) has two reviews on Civ 7 where he talks about the changes between Civ 6 and Civ 7 from the perspective to a player (one review is focusing on positive things and the other on negative things (largely UI related)): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLm8D6tN6GA

When Aaron Schwartz was in trouble for downloading copyrighted articles everyone was on the side of “copyright laws are dumb and need to be changed”.

Now it’s more popular to hate on AI and so now people want to see strict adherence to copyright law.

It Mmkes it seem like people lack real convictions on the issue and are just being led around by memes.

Copyright law is terribly implemented and needs to change. This isn’t new and doesn’t become less true because your favorite memes want you to dunk on AI.

When I see Republicans calling for the erasure of trans people, what do you think that tell me Republicans deserve to be treated like?

Either the behavior is wrong or it isn’t.

If you think it is wrong, then you would wrong for wanting to do the same to them.

If you think it isn’t wrong, then you’re okay with erasure and mistreatment as long as you get to choose the people being mistreated and erased.

Thinking “they do it and I don’t like it, so I’m going to do it to them” just makes you a hypocrite.

You mean using the power of the government to suppress dissent?

The War on Drugs was largely used as an excuse to target anti-Vietnam War protestors.

We had https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism where the government targeted the left, accusing them of supporting Communists.

Or, more recently, the government arrested and is attempting to deport a lawful permanent resident and Colombia University student explicitly (from Trump’s own mouth) for protesting against Israel:

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-440828980a4ee7bf4ddcf3d123e02b3e

During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan many people were arrested for donating to charities which were ran by groups that the US designated as “supporters of terrorism”.

There’s no end of examples of governments suppressing dissent and protest using the violence of the State.

The law isn’t automatically moral.

This issue just exposes how ridiculous copyright law is and how much it needs to be changed. It exists specifically to allow companies to own, for hundreds of years, intellectual property.

It was originally intended to protect individual artists but has slowly mutated to being a tool of corporate ownership and control.

But, people would rather use this as an opportunity to dunk on companies trying to develop a new technology rather than as an object lesson in why copyright rules are ridiculous.

Thank a lot Obama

And for some reason suddenly everyone leaps back to the side of the FBI and copyright because it’s a meme to hate on LLMs.

It’s almost like people don’t have real convictions.

You can’t be Team Aaron when it’s popular and then Team Copyright Maximalist when the winds change and it’s time to hate on LLMs or diffusion models.

Dang, that sucks.

My OSMC box doesn’t do any of this, is completely open source and is just Linux under the hood so I can customize anything I can imagine.

Roku has been shit since inception, they’re only now starting to become obvious in their shittiness. In a few years it’ll be right in the “scam purchase” territory.

Is it year of the Linux desktop yet?

I read it on the Internet and so I know it’s true

Actual manners

No, that’s flawed reasoning.

If someone says second hand smoke kills people, it doesn’t make them wrong simply because someone points out that car accidents kill more people.

Both things can be true

They’re hucksters waving their hands and making noise to make a buck.

Yup.

They’ve learned that doing outrageous things and pissing people off makes the line go up and so they’re going to keep doing that regardless of the consequences to discourse in society because it puts money in their pocket

Every Civ has had pretty significant gameplay changes compared to the previous ones.

Sure, there are a lot of similarities because it’s the same 4x genre, but saying every Civ is the same is like saying every FPS is the same and so Doom and Marvel Rivals have the exact same gameplay.

I do agree that they really twist the knife on pricing and DLC, but that also comes with years of continuous support, patches and major updates.

Nobody here can afford to speak to Congress