Mordikan

Thanks! I’ll take a look at this.

So, there is some aggravation (not really a con) in terms of package management systems.

You have MANY options not limited to your standard repo tools like yum, pacman, apt, etc. You also have 3rd party ones like flatpak and snap. You could also throw in the AppImage format to that. Arch has the AUR on top of that which usually means you’re running paru or yay. And then you have things like brew and crates which you might run into.

Working in any of these is straightforward, the problem comes from having to manage them all independently of one another at the same time. Pacman will update standard repo, but not AUR. Paru will update standard repo and AUR, but that doesn’t help with flatpak/snap. Then docker/pods/lxc are in their own little world while you get those handled.

In the end, the more complex you build a system the more complex it is to manage, but it still is an aggravation. I’d still take it over the one-size fits all approach Microsoft has, though.

But did you RTFM?

I used Arch for ~15 years before switching my daily driver to NixOS. In that entire time, I never once posted a question to the forums. The wiki is that well constructed.

If you do post a question without searching first (that’s a big no no), they will link to you the exact steps from the wiki to use. They might treat you badly at that point, but in a way you would have been treating the community as a personal assistant to look up things for you which I would say is equally bad.

I think redundancy is an important factor here as well. That was an issue I saw frequently on subreddits and a primary reason for me disengaging from those communities.

You would see the same low effort question posed with other users responding with high effort/detail (albeit redundant) answers. Regardless how well constructed the feedback might be, that response is dragged down by the lack of effort inherent overall to the post.

If nothing else except for the sake of space saving, a large percentage of those posts could have been nuked with no real impact to how readily the subjects/solutions could be found.

I was curious if it was some AI tool that asks the question, collects the answers, then removes itself.

I will say I am making the assumption that these are actual people and not bot accounts. Even if they were bots, why even bother removing the posts? It’s not like it is somehow detrimental to what they are doing.

How can you build a collective knowledge base when you delete your post after receiving an answer? I seriously don’t understand why people do that, either. No one knows/cares who you are and there is no reason to feel ashamed for not knowing how something works.

This is called “rosy retrospection”.

While they were saying games suck, kids were playing games that today they look back on with fond memories. Those kids then grew up to say the same thing about modern games. Every generation does this. It’s not unique.

edit2: thanks again everyone, you don’t need to check if it’s working. apparently I’m blocked from accessing the site, can’t see any other explanation. DNS resolves fine, flushed caches, tried private mode, clear cookies, tried everything on my end to rule stuff out, nothing

You might run traceroutes/mtr to see where exactly this is failing. Here’s the IP I show in case yours differs:

➜  ~ dig freedns.afraid.org @10.10.0.1 A

; <<>> DiG 9.20.23 <<>> freedns.afraid.org @10.10.0.1 A
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51734
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;freedns.afraid.org.		IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
freedns.afraid.org.	60	IN	A	69.42.215.252

;; Query time: 206 msec
;; SERVER: 10.10.0.1#53(10.10.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Wed Jun 03 14:48:58 CDT 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 63

Like Inception.

The article service that talks about a compromise to steal credentials that secretly steals your credentials.

I remember getting into security about 15 years ago. This was around the time of Android really kicking off and it was crazy all the stupid things you could get away with (and that’s just a static permission set). Now you have AI pentesting tools and AI slopcode to use it on. Depending on perspective, this is either a great time to be working in security and/or an awful time to be working in security.

At the very bottom of their link:

© 2026 Odysseus · Built from one prompt that refused to stop.

I remember the WoW killer spree. If nothing else we got a lot of fun games to play for awhile. That’s kinda like saying you’re going to take down a giant whale by creating a larger whale. It’s just self-defeating to approach it like that.

But I was referring to it as a “WoW Clause” in that subscription based games like WoW aren’t subject to this new law. The law makers carved out a nice little safe space for Blizzard to operate in. And I don’t think subscription models are as profitable as other models (again a plus for Blizzard to remove competition as they have it working). You can still make money from them, but people would rather have F2P with cash shop or sell their data so they don’t have a recurring bill.

(1)Any subscription-based service that advertises or offers for sale access to any digital game solely for the duration of the subscription.

I feel like this is the “WoW Clause”. I can see a lot of games going to subscription based models now. Since you can’t just “patch in” private servers, I could see games like PUBG/Fortnite/etc having to go this route.

But they could also just refund the game… that being $0 if there is no purchase price:

©A refund in an amount equal to the full purchase price paid for the digital game by the purchaser.

Bill: https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1921

EDIT: I think it will be challenged either way if passed, and I will bet the ESA uses the First Amendment: Code as Protected Speech argument established in the San Bernadino case between the FBI and Apple.

In California Jan 1st 2027, effectively yes. Please read AB-1043. All of this information is present there. It functionally forces any systemd‑based OS to populate it in order to comply with the law’s mandatory age‑collection requirements. It’s literally in the bill. Next time, just fucking read it, damn. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

California’s AB-1043 already passed, so we get to bitch about it now. Thanks for your support.

This is what I do as well. Process inheritance helps prevent any game that Steam runs from misbehaving outside it’s whitelisted directories.

Imagine being a dev and having this happen to you. Still, MFA is a thing.

Install and adblocker and then you can read the handful of paragraphs of actual content they posted. Also, get an auto reader mode extension. Unless you are really into all the distractions on page, that will help with sketchy gaming sites.

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