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Cake day: November 21st, 2023

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  • I care about privacy for the same reason you do. Actually I don’t care about my personal privacy bacause I’ve always been careful to not share too much with big tech companies, but I refuse to use products from amazon, meta, alphabet, apple, or microsoft (outside of work hardware/software) because of how they abuse their position of power over the poor.





  • In addition to rhe other advice, I’d add what helped me the most: install arch from scratch.

    Use an older PC you have lying around, or just a VM. Use the installation guide on the arch wiki (or a video on feetube if you prefer to listen to a human explain stuff) and just learn as you go.




  • This certainly isn’t of the same caliber as some of these other comments, but I found it to be fitting to the topic.

    Last year I was having problems getting the game stellaris working on arch. (I use bazzite now, btw) My solution was the following:

    1. download the game via steam.
    2. switch it to use proton
    3. switch it back to linux version
    4. use the terminal to make the entire game folder read-only, so that steam couldn’t touch the game anymore and screw it up.
    5. add the exicutable to PATH
    6. start the game via terminal

    If any one of those step was left out, it didn’t work. I’m no linux expert, so I didn’t have the skills to actuality find the real problem.


  • Well I for one hope they figure out an alternative income, like a premium subscription? Or perhaps look to get acquired by proton and get some integration going with those services? I’m no expert here, I just think that they have a lot of happy users, and there must be some way to figure this out financially.