You gain the loss of the ability to play League of Legends and Fortnite

I can’t believe all of you who are opposed to this.

Won’t you think of the poor data brokers who’s entire library of intimate personal details about every person who’s ever used a smartphone is practically worthless without the ability to link it to your actual identity.

Screw the children, think of the shareholders you monsters.

I haven’t tested this, but fairly sure you could just install vortex, mo2 or whatever other modmanager to same prefix as where the game is.

Yeah, you can use protontricks to execute any executable inside the WINE environment. You can take the command used to do that and put it in a .desktop file so you can run the program from a desktop icon or launcher.

Installing mods mostly considered a ‘problem’ by the standard of gaming on Steam where you just press play and let Proton take the wheel. If you were running games through WINE prior to Proton, it is much easier now.

You, a Heretic, after the inquisition is done with you:

Nobody in the regular world has ever been effected by not having ECC.

Based on the article, it looks like at least 10% of crashes are caused by not having ECC.

Linus suffers from not understanding normal people.

Well, you are demonstrating that you’re an expert people person so I’ll just have to take your word.

Exactly, one of the ‘nerd edge cases’ (as the now removed comment mentioned) is that I use ZFS on my NAS.

There’s lots of checksumming and encryption. Errors in that process are not acceptable and could potentially cause data loss. Since the one of the points of using ZFS is the enhanced data integrity, not using ECC means losing out on that guarantee.

You can’t.

Social media is public, period.

If you want private social interactions then use end-to-end encrypted communication services.

Any oppressive regime will have multiple tools that can identify your access to social media services and determine who the human is behind the keyboard. Assume that everything you post on public social media has your real life name and address attached to it.

Unless you’re an expert and taking extreme measures (and you wouldn’t be asking this question if you were such an expert) then anonymous access to online services with respect to a sovereign power with an intelligence service is impossible.

I don’t know about you, but I use my RAM for a lot more than a browser.

I value my finite time more than I value a few Watt-Hours.

You could go to your local library and read through a bunch of books rather than using Google if you’re interested in more power savings ideas.

The joke is this, but updated with modern memes

I still have my great grandfather’s torches and pitchforks in the family armory, so I’m ready for the next stage also.

The Father -> Richard Stallman

The Son -> Linus Torvalds

The Holy Ghost -> GNU+Linux

The Holy Temple -> Arch Linux

Uhh, it’s GNU/Linux actually

Another tip: Be careful linking images from hosts that you don’t control.

You don’t want to come back and find your funny.gif picture is now displaying a goatse.

After discovering the robbery, the bank installed doors and locks.

The earth has enough microplastics.

I’ve heard that the best billionaires really love Greenland, just let them roam free in northern Greenland (wouldn’t want to annoy any actual Greenlanders). Don’t worry about them, these Masters of Industry will pull themselves up by their bootstraps and have a fire and shelter in no time.

I’m waiting for the Rust re-write.

We know that the chosen one is out there, they have yet to make themselves known.

A meme? Lying? I can’t believe it,

3/3/26 never forget

Primarily, there are a few EAC games that haven’t checked the ‘Linux allowed’ box yet.

They’re giving good advice but, in my opinion, they are using the reputation of Mullvad to ‘privacy-wash’ their public image by associating with a trusted brand.

WhatsApp is not a secure messaging service, your messages are not private. Being end to end encrypted doesn’t mean anything if both ends are compromised by having the app installed on them (or being vendor rooted).