You will still need to go through the login page.

Yeah being against Valve is just evil. I love giving money to Gaben. It gives me the sense of pride and accomplishment. I would never hurt him.

Maybe, depending on the game. But your OS and running programs will still be making http requests to various servers. Microsoft’s, Google’s, Steam’s, etc. Modern devices and OSes phone home constantly. If you have VPN all your traffic will go through a single server (unless you configure split tunneling to use VPN only for certain sites) and that’s easily detectable.

There also databases of known VPN IP addresses, and if you set up your own then analyzing hardware/software will still know see that you are communicating with a rented server in cloud and will flag you as suspicious.

I meant a completely different kind of cream

Also I’m pleading the fifth on the ice cream

You think UK would be the first country to ban VPNs? There are thousands of talented and very committed computer scientists in authoritarian countries tirelessly working to enforce internet censorship. They discovered many wonderful technical solutions to this problem.

All the mainstream VPN protocols like OpenVPN and Wireguard don’t even try to hide themselves and are easily detected no matter what port you use. They are useless if you country is seriously set to block VPNs.

There are different protocols specifically designed to circumvent censorship and they do so by masking their traffic to like something innocuous like HTTPS. However even they can be detected using advanced traffic analysis. For example, if a given machine only sends and receives HTTPS traffic to a single specific overseas server, it is safe to assume that it’s not actually a genuine website traffic but a VPN masquerading as HTTPS.

There is special hardware that all users’ traffic goes through that detects these patterns and automatically throttles/blocks these connections.

You don’t make connections because Yoh believe you will be abandoned.

I don’t make connections because I know I would be a shitty friend and incapable of actually maintaining a friendship.

How dare they defy our daddy gaben

It’s called a “polkit agent”. Every DE has one. In GNOME it’s a part of the gnome-shell. Killing gnome-software didn’t work because it shows the dialog indirectly. It asked permission from polkit daemon, which determined that user needs to provide credentials, so polkit asked an “agent” (which is in this case gnome-shell) to show authentication dialog.

Although the error message complains about permissions of executable which is a part of polkit itself. But the fact that cancel button didn’t work is also a bug in gnome-shell.

“Searching” (actually just destroying) their home (with a warrant of course).

Taking them to a police station for a “talk” or arresting them for a bogus (but legal) reason, and them releasing them, repeatedly.

“Finding” some crimes that these relatives committed that only the state can prove such as tax evasion, money laundering, etc.

Making so that they can’t get a job at government institutions (or any company that receives government funding).

Setting bureaucratic roadblocks when they need to interact with the state in some way (if they need to some kind of permit or a license from the government they kiss it goodbye).

Instigating doxxing and bullying campaign on social media (a more recent practice).

Plainly paying someone to beat them up on the street (which the police of course will fail to investigate).

The possibilities are endless.

Yeah they should follow the lead of China and Russia and create their own sovereign internet, under EU control.

You don’t need to cause something to opportunistically benefit from it.

“Look for those who benefit from thing” can be used a starting point for your research, it’s not a cosmic law.

It does have cock and balls though, and goes by he/his pronouns.

I guess not even Disney has the money to extend copyright indefinitely

There are a lot of people play such such games at least occasionally. And on Windows they just work. The moment gamer try to do this on Linux and realize that it doesn’t, they will go back to Windows.

The paradise of easy gaming on Linux ends the moment you try to leave Valve’s walled garden.

4790k is about 15-20% faster than 4690k, but it’s still outdated compared to modern cpus.

You will need a new motherboard, cpu and ram (ddr4 or ddr5 depending on cpu generation) if you want a meaningful upgrade.

If the game is not on Steam or doesn’t have a native Linux port (which is actually worse more often than not) then manually setting up to run through wine/proton is pain the ass.

Generative ai is just a tool for creating text and images. Not everything created using is art, just like not every piece of text written by a human or an bunch of pixels drawn in photoshop is art. What matters is intention of the author, the effort put in and whether other people perceive it as art.

It silly to call everything created by ai as art, but not because of the tool used. Most of it is not art simply because it was not created for that purpose, it is there for pure silly entertainment.

It is equally silly to vehemently hate it if the creator does not even claim it’s art.

That dude was an actual neonazi. Ukraine was using him because he created an image of “Russians fighting against Russians”. Though to be fair Putin has a bunch of neonazis fighting for him too.

Restraints on armrests would do the trick

Does it at least apologize to you when it adds bugs anyway?