“Finally I see some gears turning. We’re making progress here people!”

I’m sorry, I don’t think I can see the point you are making. Are you saying that one can get around the 3-5 people by using flatpaks, ro home directories and other mitigations?

A matter of perspective I think. It’s a flaw in my opinion. Just downloading anything from anywhere sets one up for failure/malware.

Code Signing on its own is useless, I think. If there is no distribution structure or user-validated trustchain, of course. But then you don’t really need Code Signing, a simple hash is enough.

My personal preference are the distro repos, to a point where I even dislike additional package managers like pip, npm or cargo.

I do mean downloading random stuff from random websites.

True. Still the most windows-like installation method.

Your wanted option is not gone, you can still download the binaries if the author presents them; or you can compile it from source. This is just another, more convenient way to distribute the program.

If you are looking to get your programs Windows-style, to download a binary or “install wizard”, then you can look into appimages.

Like any form of distribution however: someone has to offer this, be it the author or “some rando”.

Happiness is just a lack of information.

• Nico Semsrott, Demotivation Coach (roughly translated)

Fuck those people. Still not worth getting infected by a rootkit.

Have to test it but guides suggest that it’s possible

I didn’t try yet but there are guides.

Oh, I still use Teamspeak! It’s very nice for small groups up to 32 people (after that one has to use the paid tiers). I do not use X though.

Maybe I’ll give Mumble a shot, so I can integrate it with Matrix/Synapse/Element.

Ah, well, same spiel though. Also, fuck Denuvo.

Also washing machine and dish washer. As someone living alone, this is the tits.

They already are throwing punches because they noticed people being less gullible than them. I’m guessing this would result in a “double down”, like “The developers wouldn’t have to kill this game if the pirates would have bought it.”

Try Mint, it’s nice :)

“Endangering the brand” by using “specialized tools” to tamper with “company property”.

Reads like the patent bullshit combined with the copyright bullshit. Some laws about software are just idiotic.

This whole “selling licenses” needs to stop. What, my government runs Windows and now Microsoft can strongarm my government to decisions against the interest of the people? All with the power of letting the license expire if company policy isn’t met?

Probably because he used “specialized tools” to edit the software, thus attacking the “trade secrets”. He tampered with company property, thus endangering the brand.

Stupid stuff, but at least they are only wasting tax payer money /s

It means pretty much that, I would say. The reasoning is that in the case of a conflict you have to solve it by involving police and advocacies ( I think this is the right word ). The senate is only involved in setting the ground rules for the conflict in front of a judge.

Of course, there is stuff like self defense (so one is not completely defenseless), but anything like revenge is heavily pursued.

Probably a bad translation from German. Maybe a better translation would be “force” instead of “violence”. It means only the police is allowed to use force.

My point was that there is some institution on your site of that standoff. This will not be the case if you have to fight against your own government. So it’s better to have to fight a foreign government, rather than one’s own.

TikTok is a dangerous influence, yes. I wasn’t trying to argue against that. But then, so are Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter and similar social media. Maybe even all social media.

Other than fighting with shortsighted regulations I don’t know how one would fight such an influence other than widespread education of the people. But that would make them more resilient against any propaganda.