Midnight Riders - All I want for Christmas is to kick your ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTZc3z21YVU

I don’t think the admins mind, so you can just leave the post here. For future reference, head to somewhere like the steam, steamdeck, or steamdeck piracy communities.

I don’t think it really goes here, but here’s my advice lol:

Unless you really need steam hardware (the steam deck is amazing for commuters, for example), you probably don’t need to buy it. That being said, they are fun to use, so feel free if you’d like to.

You can also get some games that are difficult to play pirated during a steam sale (mainly live service games, I believe). Just wishlist and wait.

Harder to centralize control over the user. That’s the big reason, I’d imagine.

My comment was referring to the fact that it is difficult if not impossible for governments to restrict a civilian’s access to effective lethal weapons. Legally, a government does maintain a monopoly on violence, and they can attempt to continue restricting the civilian’s access, but the continued development of technology is eroding the barrier of entry for effective weapons.

I understand it’s not a department or office lol, what I’m saying is any average joe now has the ability to download a single file off the internet and assemble a functional, reliable firearm with no prior experience. Or manufacture effective fragmentation IEDs. Or 3D print a lethal drone that can be controlled with a phone or a portable game console. With those developments, no population can be fully or effectively disarmed - so governments must accept that the population can be armed regardless of their wishes, and can disrupt the monopoly at any time.

Well there’s holes in the fact that resale of accounts is an active and common phenomenon, and creating a fraudulent identity for an online service (even if you have to doctor an ID template) is a low-risk barrier of entry.

Remember how people used death stranding photos to get around face ID? It’s the same concept.

That’s difficult to answer, because both groups use the social shield of religious identity (or more accurately conflating their views with religion to their followers) as a method to both deflect criticism from within their bases and to appeal as a legitimate representative to all who practice the faith (even if their appeal is hypocritical and baseless).

I agree with you that those abuses don’t undermine the concepts and values placed forward by the root faith (as mentioned in my prior comment, religion can serve beneficial/personal value components within a society), but a leader’s ability to wield religion within the halls of governance taints the religion’s “purity” among the populace as a whole. As the lies are perpetuated through generations, some concepts preached by these bad influences can become accepted or even indoctrinated as true values.

So again, tricky question to answer. In my personal opinion, the only way to disarm this particular scenario is to maintain a secular form of governance and keep religion only as a personal or communal liberty away from any decision made at a government level (appeal to empirical evidence or logical conclusions instead), but there are holes in that idea as well. Dang.

While I respect your devotion to your faith as a means of promoting goodwill, I vehemently disagree that faith should serve as any integral component for a just society. Theocracies allow for plenty of corruption, manipulation of history and academia, sanctioned death, and abuse of their populations simply under other names and with varying methods.

Religion can be an accepted component of one’s society. It should never serve as the bedrock of a society, lest it be seized and contorted by the next aspirational oligarchs seeking to write themselves in as “more equal than the others”.

Also that monopoly has been somewhat eliminated with the increasing development of technology that allows for killing without consequences. Drones, rigged explosives, remote detonation, incendiary devices, autonomous firearms, so on. (Developments of improvised firearms, explosives, and incendiary devices with common materials has also contributed to this, along with DIY drone construction).

At this point the correcting factor is if a state is able to control the collective perception or will of a population to a point where pacification is possible (China or UK’s surveillance states, for instance). But that is not a viable long term solution due to it simply bottling the frustrations of the populace rather than extinguishing them.

After all, in JFK’s famous words, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable”. With ideas able to be spread anywhere, no ideal can be stamped out for good, on any segment of the ideological spectrum.

Sucks for those who wish for a cooperative world, I suppose.

Probably could print the shell and buttons, would be quite difficult to print the wristband, and the screen, PCB, storage and battery would all have to be commodity components. Doable though.

Flatpacks have permission issues due to the way they are structurally designed. Applications like Flatseal and Bottles allow you to remove those limitations, but it’s a lot easier to just install the client outside of Flatpack.

You can export the steam linux runtime, right? That might be why it’s not in the other releases, since they can’t include it by default (presumably).

Unless you muck around in bottles a lot of things break.

I mean, weird flex but ok.

Well, just experimented (removed MicroG and purged the components, reinstalled the Graphene sandboxed play services), and it seems like it just works. Even Aurora seems to work okay, managed to download and install Signal.

So I guess if you’re willing, you can just use Aurora with an Anon acc if you just need base apps without google login.

I wonder if using sandboxed google play services without actual google account login (like in my case, using aurora) is a possible option, since I didn’t really check. It’s probably worth a look on the graphene forums at least.

You can have microG and use something like Aurora store for most applications (What I’m using on my setup right now)

Single Player Tarkov (SPT) with the co-op mods and various other mods to spice up the game is a great way to play it tbh - stopped playing official servers years ago.

“Do not tangle with the type of people who decide to put Linux on their PlayStations. Trust me, you are wasting your time.”

• Extra Credits host guy, like a decade ago.

Nah, that would be 2b2t. Anarchy Server - no rules except preventing the server from functioning.