People generally recommend Debian-based distributions because they tend to be more popular, have more applications designed first and foremost to work on them, and tend to have the most community support because they are more popular.

If I had to guess, the meme was probably made by someone who likely has English as a secondary language. I doubt there was any disrespect intended.

Private companies do the same, often going as far as to have whistleblowers executed. People (and especially organizations) protect their interests, even (or especially) at the expenses of others lives.

Thanks for the advice! I’ll be sure to keep it in mind :)

As someone planning on visiting there in a year or two, do you have any advice?

As someone planning on going in a year or two, this is really good advice. Thank you.

Why?

One of them would have to be Life is Strange 1, it’s a pretty good port and honestly it’s one of my fav games of all time.

Great write-up! The biggest bugs always end up being the “simplest”/one-line things lol

Not just the police and ICE but don’t forget fuck USCIS, USBP, CBSA, etc.

Gabe is helping, sure, but he isn’t holding up gaming. People were gaming on Linux before Proton even existed, myself included. Also, even if Valve went away completely, Proton is open-source and there are people like GloriousEggroll who work on Proton entirely as a community member. Proton will live on, specifically because it is open-source. All the progress made on Proton won’t suddenly disappear, all the games that were previously playable on Proton will still be playable on Proton.

It’s a somewhat reasonable fear but it’s not a realistic fear. Proton isn’t going anywhere.

Sure but it still requires trusting them when they pinky promise they won’t send any recall data. Fuck them tbh. It just makes me feel even more right about my decision to switch to Linux years ago.

If you save it on your computer instead of on their servers, how could they possibly be expected to analyze your data? Come on now, be reasonable!

Until you step on the owners dog.

I don’t know why but the image of wiping with a baseball is hilarious to me.

This is honestly one of the benefits of WFH, no need for 1 ply, I can have 2 ply or maybe even 3 ply if I’m feeling fancy.

There were some nice ones.

Yeah but that’s not new, that has existed for years even in Merlin firmware. People were saying that this affects Merlin but I’m not seeing any indication of it yet.

Yes I know ASUS is shitty and evil, and it sucks that those features are gated behind abandoning your privacy, but I was saying that part isn’t new, and I don’t think this new stuff affects Merlin yet.

We’ll see how it all plays out, though.

Merlin

That thread isn’t about Merlin firmware?

The symptoms were the internal display went black after an automatic firmware update (you can’t disable firmware updates, they happen automatically) and never came on again, and then external display also went black after working only once. The device would power on, you would hear the fans running, but there was no display and no startup chime.