It still happens in tier 1 cities even in rich families.

It is a decentralized messaging app that can work w/o the internet (ig it uses Bluetooth). So it is very useful for protesters in countries where the police use jammers to block network access.

People who like handhelds will buy handhelds. People who like consoles and people who like PCs will buy PC. It is stupid to lock software to one specific type of hardware.

The only people I see posting are older people who have 0 idea how this shit works and too innocent (or dumb) to believe anything they see on the internet.

I just check the steam description. If it requires an account, uses a 3rd party launcher or/and has DRM, I pirate the game.

I just hate the onboard car infotainment system. A car’s job is to get me from one place to another. If you want to help with navigation, just give me a phone holder. That’s all i need. I might just get a used secondary android phone just for the car if they keep pushing shit like this. I won’t connect my primary device to the car ever.

The argument can also be flipped by saying that companies won’t make a better game on launch because customers are happy paying for a subpar experience even after knowing the game is not optimised. It doesn’t matter to them when a few customers leave as long as they are making a profit and the stock prices remain up. And pre-booking sales already help them with that.

I think Bradley means that Apple should also be forced to open up their OS to other manufacturers?

Agree with “just cost of doing business” argument for Google. But market cap and fine amount ratio are totally unrelated. A company’s stock price can be highly inflated in trillions in market cap and yet can have negligible incoming cash like maybe a few million dollars. So a fine of billion would definitely hurt them a lot.

*Proceeds to wait and pirate it anyway

ok then i go to frontends. if that also shuts down, then bye bye reddit.

Winzip, i think, is owned by Corel I think. Almost as evil as Adobe. In India over here a lot of small businesses use it and it is unaffordable for them to get such creative suites. Corel constantly sends notices to the ones using cracked copies and force them to buy it for 3 years to avoid legal damages.

Tell them to fuck their gods. ATP There should be forced climate action whether other people like it or not.

They are shit

c/fuck_ai and c/fuckcars collab

Fine agree with all of what you say. But still the AUR is the only repo where this happens majority of the times. So what to do next? I am sure the solutions I mentioned in a comment below are not that difficult to implement.

And what do you need so many packages for?

Zen Browser, Elecwhat (Whatsapp – which is recommended in Arch Wiki), Razer peripherals drivers, heroic games launcher.

Without the AUR Arch becomes a third world country distro because the official repos have only the basics.

I am not talking about the code. I am talking there are basically zero security measures.

Edit:

Demanding to do more work from volunteers which already do a lot of work for free is rude. If you want something done - do it yourself

Then don’t make the platforms in the first place. This is such a stupid argument. It’s like someone creating a nuke but then ignoring the security measures and telling the rest of the people to take care of it. Genius. Should stop asking people to switch over to Linux as well then. Might as well I should just start bad mouthing and defaming Linux because users are left on their own by a hostile community.

That’s why we have warnings plastered all over.

Plastering warning labels everywhere is a cheap way to shift 100% of the accountability onto the user. Security should be built into the AUR’s design (throttling new accounts, forcing forks for orphaned takeovers or maintainer-developer verification), not outsource your job to the users as a reading assignment before every system update. Humans are the final layer of defense not the first.

Or maybe don’t use AUR blindly? You’re doing the equivalent of sudo curl — | bash… So only do it if you truly trust it.

There is a massive difference between blindly curling a random script from the open web and using a centralized, organized community repository. Yes AUR helpers are not recommended but they exist and are used by majority of Arch users and you can’t expect the user to know code and pkgbuilds especially when distros like CachyOS make it so damn easy to install the OS with AUR being just a checkbox away.