There’s the PEGI complaints board where appeals or complaints can be lodged by consumers and publishers. Recently Balatro did so successfully, as the 18+ rating for gambling was overturned by PEGI.
Note that PEGI is the games industry regulating itself (to avoid governments from having to do so).
In this case the rating agencies do, which Valve then follows.
Sure, but the slippery slope fallacy is still a fallacy. If it suddenly does become required, fork the thing. Or better yet: focus your attention on the shitty lawmakers who are pushing for this.
They ask each time because they don’t want to store the data themselves if they don’t have to. With this, they wouldn’t have to.
You can even not use it if you live in the US. There’s nothing that enforces you put a date in there (and nothing to verify if it’s correct, which is why people say it’s not age verification).
Auto-filling those “you must be at least X old to access this content” inputs could be one? Eg Steam could skip that page directly when accessing 18+ games.
I suppose you could ask the same for the realName and location fields that are already in systemd.
Payment Service Providers sit in between companies (eg webshops) and payment methods/banks/card schemes. So as a webshop, instead of having to integrate with a bank to do transfers or with PayPal, you only integrate with the PSP. A lot simpler to do, and instead of having to chase each individual payment method for your money, the PSP will handle that for you. They can also provide additional services like a unified dispute view, credit management, small loans, etc…
I understand the sentiment but payments are quite a bit more complex that people tend to realize. For most companies, handling payments directly without an intermediary is far too expensive, complex and risky.
Fuck MasterCard and VISA btw.
Source: I work for a PSP.
Even Microsoft hasn’t put ads in the terminal I think.
The average user just gets frustrated and tries to boot back into Windows. I’ve seen it first hand. Linux is basically all the same in their head so why bother distrohopping because if one is broken they’re likely all broken. They consider distros to be much more like the different Android variations, even though those are much more similar to one another than Linux distros are.
Average users just expect things to work. They don’t want to tinker or do long setups or navigate 600 different distros, they just want a clear good option and for it to work. It’s part of why Windows has this huge inertia behind it; there’s always one upgrade path, setup is basically automatic and in the vast majority of cases any issues are handled either automatically or don’t show up in the first place (in large part due to manufacturers providing support for their model PC/Laptop, not because Microsoft is amazing at support). And because the majority of their friends and family also use Windows, there’s usually someone around who can fix what is truly broken.
I genuinely think a user on a hypothetical Dell or HP or Lenovo laptop with Linux preinstalled would have a much better time on average than anyone trying to install it themselves.
Linus didn’t shit on Linux as a whole, come on. Last time he tried Pop was over a year ago, he figured something might’ve changed in the meantime. And he did research what could be causing the issues (and found a fix for L4D2), and did also mention that overall the system was intuitive, installing it was fairly simple and he enjoyed not having his data being sold. He also said that all his devices were plug-and-play, no driver downloading shenanigans required. But of course he is going to highlight the issues he runs into, it’s kind of the point of the video to show that not all experiences with Linux are seamless, and you can get radically different results depending on your chosen distro.
That’s definitely not what he did though. He did research on the internet, going through various websites and articles listing options, and asked ChatGPT. That’s imo more than what the average user does (or is even willing to do).
He then picked the distro that he saw was being recommended most to him. He installed it with default options, which ended up being Cosmic. Which is improving fast these days, but it’s still a bit unstable. But the install process won’t tell you that.
Pretending that these users are “bad users” or that highlighting these issues that regular users run into is disingenuous or somehow irresponsible is just unfairly dismissing a valid perspective.
The whole “Linux just works”-shtick just isn’t always true. And the sooner the community learns to accept that and works to help these users with their issues, rather than stomping their foot angrily whenever someone shows up highlighting problems. I’m pretty experienced myself with a job in software development, but even I needed to reinstall Bazzite 2 times when installing it for my sister because I somehow messed up something when mounting the hard drives, getting Bazzite stuck in an unrecoverable bootloop (none of the recovery options suggested online worked either). I hate Windows as much as the next guy, but I’ve never been able to manage that on a Windows install (once running Bazzite ran fine btw, just the setup was frustrating).
Doubtful. Librewolf still uses Firefox as base.
Isn’t the situation in gonewild a clear sign it’d be wise to set up two separate communities? gonewildgals and gonewildguys or something? If a community is “too broad”, niche content will always lose out. The answer is usually setting up a new community specific to that niche.
Fighting low-effort posts and memes either means setting up a meme community, more moderation on the posts or both.
WWIII is happening and you’re worried about someone worried about optimising their gooning.
You can’t fully verify it, but Claude is somewhat chatty. It’ll output its whole “thought process”, which can be reviewed. I recently had Claude write some C# analyzers for me, which I don’t quite know how to write from scratch. I can easily review its reasoning and correct it if it makes a mistake. It’ll say something like “Oh, I need to change X or Y” and you can then tell it it’s an idiot and correct it.
It’s by no means perfect and it does need a good reviewer though. I’ve seen it just “give up” fixing a test, subsequently deleting the test entirely. If you’re a good code reviewer, you can probably fairly effectively use these tools.
Controller updates were performed during system updates, or could be done manually from the settings iirc. I mention it because I mainly played on PS3 for years too and definitely remember updating those controllers.
I don’t think any of the updates were ever mandatory though.
Even the PS3 controller received firmware updates. This isn’t all that new.
I mean, try to do a spreadsheet on a PC without any accessories. You can’t, because there’s no monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc… All accessories. By this logic, only laptops can really be called PCs.
Replace any desktop tower with a Steam Deck and you’ll find it’s perfectly capable of doing the same job.
… No, Denuvo is “anti-tamper” software, meaning DRM primarily with anti-cheat as a bonus.