• msmc101@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    52·
    16 hours ago

    Christ a bit of paranoia would do modern internet users good, I still remember when it wasn’t normal to have every single piece of identifying information online and readily available for anyone.

    • leisesprecher@feddit.org
      211·
      16 hours ago

      Isn’t that pretty much a thing of the past? This meme is maybe true for Facebook, but most sub 40 people don’t use that anyway and the “public diary” days are also pretty over. Sure, you can stitch together a lot from geolocating Instagram posts and LinkedIn information, but it’s not like it’s the searchable database Facebook was in 2012.

        • leisesprecher@feddit.org
          1·
          7 hours ago

          That’s not “readily available”, and it’s certainly not given voluntarily by users, it’s often straight up illegal. That’s a very different case.

          • pemptago@lemmy.mlEnglish
            51·
            6 hours ago

            It’s available to whoever is willing to pay. Consent is given when users agree to privacy policies and ToS. Unfortunately, unless you’re in the EU, it’s legal, and when companies violate permissive laws or suffer a data breach, the penalties are often inconsequential. The original comment was vague and didn’t specify the case. In the context of linux users vs MS and Apple, I’m leaning towards a distrust of big tech and “readily available for anyone” being inclusive of a multibillion dollar ad industry and the ecosystems developed around it. Though, technically not anyone can access every piece, so I guess we could dismiss it as a thing of the past.

            • leisesprecher@feddit.org
              12·
              5 hours ago

              Though, technically not anyone can access every piece, so I guess we could dismiss it as a thing of the past.

              That’s how words work, yes.

              The threat of public information for most people is not a data broker, but their neighbor. And unless you have a particularly psychopathic neighbor, they can’t realistically access data from a data broker.

              It’s threat modeling like every cyber security. My phone’s password protects me from a random thief, but if a state actor really wants my data, they will get it, but the chances of them even trying are very low for me personally.

  • Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
    78·
    18 hours ago

    I think the real thing we need to do to attract windows users is have tuxkart installed by default.

    • madthumbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1127·
      18 hours ago

      Or maybe stop treating it like a religion that needs converts and only appeals to conspiracy theorists in the long run when people realize the lies they were fed about it.

      • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
        121·
        14 hours ago

        I went from not owning a proper computer for nearly a decade to exclusively using mint for work, school, and gaming emulators. Works flawlessly, everything’s pretty intuitive, zero issues whatsoever. Maybe my use case isn’t crazy but for the average joe, Linux works just fine. What lies was I fed?

      • linuxisevil@discuss.onlineEnglish
        313·
        14 hours ago

        There’s no point in reasoning with these people, they are criminal scum supporting an operating system made by and for criminals and trying to normalize it despite all the problems with it so people stop being suspicious of them. The biggest underlying problem is that they are criminal scum to begin with.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      131·
      17 hours ago

      The key is to have that infinite money glitch, aka be born rich and have parents that stay rich

  • IHeartBadCode@fedia.io
    27·
    18 hours ago

    In all fairness paranoia is important in things like finding someone trying to slip a backdoor into xz. Going by the most recent Windows 11 update, Microsoft seems to be “we’ll fix it in production”.

    • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
      15·
      17 hours ago

      Well it wasn’t so much paranoia as obsession. The person who found it wasn’t paranoid, they just went “Why is my connection taking a quarter of a second longer than it used to? This is unacceptable!!!”

      • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        17 hours ago

        Technically they thought they might have introduced a bug that caused the delay / a regression and set about investigating it. Pretty sure it was a Microsoft developer too.

        • Evkob@lemmy.ca
          6·
          17 hours ago

          Pretty sure it was a Microsoft developer too.

          Indeed it was, a PostgreSQL dev by the name of Andres Freund.

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        15 hours ago

        I mean, small things like that add up, you want your stack as optimized as possible

        A quarter of a second here, another quarter there, and suddenly it might take 2 seconds longer for a connection to form, which matters a ton. A lot of work in the modern web is going into reducing latency

    • madthumbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      18 hours ago

      There are much better kart games out there like Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed, or Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. Tuxkart does have a lot of user created tracks and you can make your own, so there is somewhat a draw for that.

      • leopold@lemmy.kde.social
        1·
        6 hours ago

        Eh, even with track creation, I prefer Modnation Racers and its spiritual successor LittleBigPlanet Karting. Shame both games are stuck on the PS3, but then SuperTuxKart still looks like it came out of the PS2. They run well in RPCS3 and online still works for track sharing through fan servers.

        Also, I wasn’t that impressed by Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled. It does have tons of content, certainly worth the price. Never played the originals and the remake sure does look pretty, but the track design feels pretty simple, probably because they’re from a PS1 game. Simple track layouts, few gimmicks. Some people might prefer that, but not me. I’m sure CTR beat the socks off Mario Kart 64 back in the day, but the tracks in modern Mario Kart are to me far more interesting. I expected more out of it given all the hype. Plus, for some unfathomable reason despite being multiplatform the game was only released on consoles, not PC, so that’s another game you have to emulate to play on PC. And if you do have a console to play it on, it’s locked at 30fps regardless of platform, which is disappointing for a racing game. There’s a 60fps mod if you emulate tho, thankfully.

        All-Stars Racing Transformed does have my glowing recommendation, though.

        • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          17 hours ago

          Nightmare Kart is like playing Mario Kart for the first time again, or Chocobo Racing. Gave me nostalgia for a game I never played before.

      • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
        1·
        14 hours ago

        Sonic all stars racong transformed is so peak, i played it on me moms ipad when i was little.

    • jqubed@lemmy.world
      4·
      17 hours ago

      Mario Kart can be fun depending on how your partner is with video games in general and how you are as a couple competitively. Overcooked can also be a good franchise as a coop game but I’ve also heard in some languages it’s referred to as “divorce kitchen” so your mileage may vary.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    6·
    17 hours ago

    Windows users have regrets

    Mac users have stockholm syndrome

    Linux users have a computer

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
      71·
      17 hours ago

      If you’ve consistently only bought products from one company rather than buying the best product available, and never even bothered trying something else, then yes, you do seem to.

  • abbadon420@lemm.ee
    2·
    16 hours ago

    I’m a windows user and I don’t deny anything. I’m just too lazy to switch to Linux and I need the full functionality of Teams for my job.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      1·
      15 hours ago

      The Linux Teams app works. I’m not sure what is missing other than MS abandoning dev on it

      • abbadon420@lemm.ee
        2·
        15 hours ago

        For one thing, you can’t make break-out rooms in Linux, which is something I need to do all the time.

        • BCsven@lemmy.ca
          4·
          13 hours ago

          Hmm, that sucks. I was disappointed they trashed it almost as soon as it started…like a Killed By Googke thing

        • Petter1@lemm.ee
          4·
          14 hours ago

          Crazy, that the web app is missing this, when the windows app is just webView as well…