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The article is not at all answering the headline

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Except that the spyware is so intertwined into Google’s products that many websites straight-up break without them. Google Drive won’t even let you download stuff with third-party cookies disabled.

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Yes indeed, Sir. Your generation was the only Enlightened one, everyone younger than you is just a reel-addicted monkey incapable of reading.

can nix for gaming pirates lead to easy piracy

nix allows for flakes which are 100% reproducible (ie. you copy paste a flake it would do the intended stuff only) , this make me realize that now we can have flakes for games like do you want inscryption , sure add this flake and this would install all dependencies and lutris etc. and you just have to link us to the...

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We are not in want of such solutions, Lutris and other existing solutions are capable of making game-specific environments already. The main problem is having enough volunteers to painstakingly run, test and submit the exact dependency parameters for each game that makes it run correctly. Same will be the issue even if we shift to Nix or anything else. The problem is manpower scarcity, not lack of tech.

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You at least have to appreciate the effort that went into writing this

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Microsoft only tolerates retail users, it has always intended its products to be for commercial entities.

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Nonprofits are not “companies”, and no non-profit exists to make entertainment for you.

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It’s the UI setup. All DE/WM combinations are, and have been, factually inferior to Windows Explorer in terms of optimization, clarity and animation.

Which may or may not be because of their excessively modular structure and fractured development. Each layer has its own opinionated dev team unlike in Microsoft or Apple, where it’s all synchronised and everyone across the board have (at least at the time of development) a clear vision of the product they want to make.

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Librarians are not always (but in fact, are very rarely) Lit enthusiasts who’ll know the best choices whenever you ask them. Most of them are just doing their jobs.

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But the libgen upload interface is cumbersome, requires way too many details and has regularly denied my uploads whenever I tried.

Random thought: Windows is largely successful because of Piracy

Windows as a software package would have never been affordable to individuals or local-level orgs in countries like India and Bangladesh (especially in the 2000’s) that are now powerhouses of IT. Same for many SE Asian, Eastern European, African and LatinoAmerican countries as well....

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Unbelievable. You genuinely think the rest of the world wouldn’t have had computers had your god Microsoft not been so benevolent as to donate a few machines to a few schools for PR

Stay happy in your pathetic white saviours’ world, I guess. There’s no point discussing anything with you

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How do those companies audit businesses that they don’t know are using their software? Do they have a special force built just to track creative releases from indie makers?

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It’s hilarious that you think Microsoft’s charity is what brought computers to the third world. Do you even hear yourself?

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Yes, I did. The setups crash midway during installation.

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Install the Nvidia driver first. Most things won’t work otherwise

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Good point.

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Update: tried with a few repacks. Both Dodi and Fitgirl setups fail during installation for some reason with Proton. Running them with Wine works fine.

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That sounds like a great way of doing it if it works

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Good to hear!

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Don’t. If Windows is so insecure by itself, imagine how secure some third-party mod of it made by some random bunch of people would be.

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Brave browser itself is in a public GitHub repo.

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*Chandran Nair is the founder and CEO of the Global Institute for Tomorrow. He is the author of “Dismantling Global White Privilege: Equity for a Post-Western World” (Penguin Random House, 2022). *

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