Yeah, I can’t wait to ditch it for linux. Although the Windows tax is not as expensive as the Apple tax. You mostly pay with your nerves…

Now that you say it…

EDIT: Checked out the video. It’s an ex-dude/trans-woman. So I guess that explains the funny proportions.

That’s the joke. I didn’t specify. Who you see as the unserious clown totally depends on your personal opinion.

If you sell your RAM quickly enough, you might be able to afford the dog meat, my friend.

There is no validity to the claim that immigrants cause crime.

Actually, there is, because you’ve misunderstood what I was saying. We’re kinda on the same page though. Immigrants WILL bring crime, because they’re just as likely as any other group of people to commit them. Now, the question whether they bring any crime at all is a totally different one than the question asking whether they are more or less likely to commit crimes (statistically) than the native population.

Crime statistics generally show immigrants charged for crimes at a same or lower rate than non-immigrants.

Which crime statistic? Immigration is a complex topic and the impact on crime statistics hugely depends on who immigrates into which country and who lives there.

If you ask left-leaning people to look at the historical immigration of European settlers to North America and the native population there, people will quickly say “Oh yeah, they were horrible! They came, raped, robbed and murdered the native population!”, but if you ask them how they see modern immigration, they will magically say that it’s all good and that all immigrants are good people and enrich the culture. Yet, those European settlers were immigrants as well (…). There is a huge bias towards how immigration is being seen there and it has something to do with the ideology you’re being taught while you grow up. As I have said, the truth is much more complex and harder to grasp. And you really have to look at the statistics, because some biasses turn out to be true - and others do not.

Some groups of immigrants may have a lower chance of committing crimes, others may have a higher chance of doing so.

In Germany for example, immigrants have a significantly higher crime rate than German citizens (https://de.statista.com/themen/13642/auslaenderkriminalitaet-in-deutschland/#topicOverview) and the ratio of immigrants to citizens in criminal convictions has been rising for the last 6 years (https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/223/umfrage/verurteilte-straftaeter-nach-nationalitaet/). There are many factors to consider here, like citizens more likely to report the police to the crime of an immigrant, immigrants living in poverty or destitute conditions (making it more likely for them to steal for example), less availability of lawyers and legal assistance and so on. People from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria were much more likely to commit violent acts - including rape - for example (https://www.bpb.de/themen/innere-sicherheit/dossier-innere-sicherheit/301624/migration-und-kriminalitaet/). While immigrants from Georgia and the African countries were more likely to commit acts of fraud or thievery.

Things might look totally different for the USA, Brazil, Mexico and so on.

It’s factually true to say that immigrants always bring crime.

It’s factually false to say that immigrants always bring more crime than the native population.

It’s factually true to say that immigrants can commit more crime percentage-wise than the native population.

It’s factually true to say that immigrants can commit less crime percentage-wise than the native population.

Well, that’s great and I’m happy for you! Obviously doesn’t seem to be the same on my system though.

For a person who works in a law firm, you’re shockingly bad at communication and image management.

No, I just realized that you’re an incompetent shithead who doesn’t have the humility to admit that the OS or programs can have flaws and blames it on the user.

For a person who works in a law firm, you’re shockingly bad at communication and image management.

And this just comes after…

Not the extremely the extremely hostile and confused person.

You delude yourself into somehow thinking that I will - after that - now start to cater to you, post links et cetera? You wrote that textwall for nothing. Go eat shit.

And by the way: I did work in IT and IP law for some time (European laws make it annoying though). And you sound exactly like the kind of programmer who thinks his programming is brilliant until he gets sued with a six or seven figure claim for his disfunctional shit insert surprised Pikachu face Maybe ask the questions first next time.

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Nah, I need those fonts for my job unfortunately, because we have standardized fonts and we use a program that explicitly requires Microsoft Word.

I agree on the Fortnite part and don’t care about Photoshop, but the other two are actually pretty good.

Because they are end-to-end encrypted, as evidenced by their account-recovery mechanisms: they cannot offer one.

Correction: They TELL YOU that they can’t offer one. Doesn’t mean there actually isn’t a way. Smartphone messaging apps offer end-to-end encryption. Yet, the NSA can regularly crack those. Why? Not necessarily, because they crack the encryption, but because they crack the keyboard systems you use to input your password. You can do the same with any password manager program.

LastPass had a mere security breach, and they suffered a 50+% market share drop between 2001 and 2024. An active backdoor would drive any company to 0% market share damn quick, which in business terms is called a fatal level of risk – a business killer for anyone in the security industry.

Only if it’s discovered, properly delegated to the news and so on. And no, an active backdoor would NOT drive any company to 0% market share damn quick. NEWS about such a backdoor do that. And there ARE and were such backdoors. Just look at EncroChat and Microsoft Outlook for example.

Then, you need to learn about NOBUS approaches. If you have a billion dollar NOBUS approach, normal mortals like you and me won’t find those backdoors. And they will be accessed in a very smart way that you will very likely not be aware about.

I’m not laughing… I feel sorry for you. […] They didn’t think you would out yourself as such a security anti-intellectual.

Yeah, how nice and helpful. That’s surely make me think better of you and not as a salty linux user.

For the record, not only can you script secure BitWarden exports to your storage enclave of choice, but you can even script exports to KeePass for offline access.

I know, and flash harddrives can fail. And exporting them takes time etc. Putting them on paper is fucking easy. You make a .docx or .txt file, input the information, print and file it and you’re done. Unless there is a fucking fire, that shit is secure for 20+ years without a problem. Your pc can break, your harddrives can break, your USB sticks can break or get lost, but that paper is very likely going to still be there. Plus, it’s super quick to read, transport and update. Bonus points if you use an easy encryption system.

X-Doubt. Ubisoft did not store their passwords in plaintext. Those passwords were all hashed appropriately.

Ah, the good old linux user “I know it all better than you”-bullshit. But no, actually, you’re wrong. I got an e-mail from Ubisoft, apologizing for it, because they did not store it appropriately. And yes, I’m aware of haveibeenpwned.com and I check it once a year or so. And by the way: That website is integrated into the Firefox password manager, so it automatically tells you if such a report exists for one of your passwords. And no, there are not any other password breaches for any of my other accounts in the last 20+ years. So go fuck yourself.

In all three cases, it’s user error on your part.

Remember how I said that linux users tend to blame every problem on the user? This is it. I’m sorry, but you’re an ignorant, incompetent hack who pretends to know things he doesn’t know. You know what? Actually I’m not sorry at all.

Hopefully it is obvious why open sourcing a payment processing application with tens of millions of user and bank accounts tied into it would be highly problematic.

It wouldn’t be. In fact, it would be a lot safer, because there are more eyes on the code. You have to control the code integration authorization process obviously.

You might as well be demanding PayPal or Epic Games Store to be open source.

Okay, I demand it. What now?

There are 0 games I have that do not work on Proton.

Well, I have 13 out of 15 games that do not work on Proton, Proton Hotfix and Proton Experimental. And none of them are multiplayer or rootkits. And as you say later, you’re on Bazzite, not Linux Mint. But of course you’re the center of the universe, so all you say must be right and universal, my lord? It’s impossible for other people to have a different experience and problems with the system, right?

All game devs that say its too hard or impossible to make AC work on linux are incompetent or lying.

Who gives a shit about what the devs say. For me only the end result counts. My games either run or they don’t. And currently. 15/15 run on Win11 and 2/15 on Linux Mint. That’s just how it is at the moment. That’s reality. I don’t like it either. Sorry, not sorry.

I have absolutely no idea how you managed to screw up Waterfox,

See, this is exactly the kind of “IT WAS YOU, MY PROGRAM IS FLAWLESS!”-behaviour of linux users that I was referencing. You’re incompetent, ignorant people who can’t admit if there is a problem with a program. The bug is/was listed on the project page by the way, but of course you were too fucking lazy to check.

I’ve never encountered any behavior from it like what you describe as a default setting.

Well, that doesn’t mean it’s not happening, you incompetent hack. Someone can have a motor failure or a flat tire on his car, while your car still runs fine. Doesn’t mean that’s the driver’s/user’s fault.

It is entirely possible to work and play on either Linux Mint or Bazzite.

You just said you only use Bazzite. So how would you fucking know whether it works on Linux Mint or not?

With LibreOffice, yeah, you don’t get all of the proprietary Windows fonts directly out of the box, but uh, Bottles is a neat flatpak that rapidly sets up a Windows environment, with a GUI, and its a few clicks to add the ‘all fonts’ dependency, snd then voila, you have your proprietary fonts.

Yeah, I’ve heard that “just a few clicks” bit a bit too often from linux users now. I don’t want an extra Windows environment. I want the program to fucking work natively. That’s why I’m saying that Windows is easier to use now. That you’re emphasizing the “proprietary” part just shows how fucking salty you are that it’s not integrated into LibreOffice. I’m sorry, but my law firm uses that font and that’s how it is. They’re good fonts. Not everything you don’t like is bad.

What you almost certainly are is a jaded Windows poweruser who expects non Windows operating systems to function and be tweaked and follow the same paradigms as Windows.

Oh my! I expect an OS to function! And to be improved! How horrible and arrogant!

You know, I WANT TO switch to linux, because I don’t like Microsoft either. But the linux desktop environment doesn’t offer the same native functionality and comfort that I need to switch my main pcs to this OS. I don’t wanna deal with the problems. And to be honest: I don’t want to deal with people like you who blame every problem with the system or programs on the user. Keep seething. I will switch when I think the time is right.

No wonder nobody takes them seriously.

nice profile pic! Snatcher was a gg

sell it and buy again cheaper later on -> profit

Only if you can make Word, Excel and all my games run natively without extra steps.

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The reasoning is that few immigrants - just like in the local population - will be committing criminal acts. I don’t think the crime statistics show that there are no criminal acts committed by immigrants as well. But maybe I have misunderstood you. What exactly is your point?

Thank you for blocking, fragile person. Be proxy-offended somewhere else.

That’s not about BitWarden or 1Password. That was about the password storage system integrated into Waterfox. And no, they are locally stored and relatively safe. I have used that system for 20+ years and I have never had any of my account data stolen.

And I do actually keep them separately and on paper. Laught about it if you want to, but it’s easy and most reliable. I’ve had pc’s die on me, so I’m happy to have it that way.

Why would you trust companies like BitWarden or 1Password? It’s the same as with EncroChat or similar services. Agencies start up a company that promises to protect your sensitive data. Then you give them your sensitive data. But they put a backdoor into their programs. So now they have all your sensitive data. I don’t know who is behind those companies so I don’t trust them. With Mozilla, that’s just an old habit and nothing of essence is in there.

I have a different way to do it, but I’m not going to disclose it here. Just saying that in the last 25 years, not a single one of my accounts got hacked by my fault. I had 1 Ubisoft account hacked, but that was because their servers got hacked and the password was stolen from there.

Well, the minimum of main culture aspects being supporting the democracy, a certain amount of tolerance for others with different opinion and looks, rule of law. “well integrated subculture” meaning people joining an already exisiting main culture in different ways, like immigrants and not being openly hostile to people with other opinions or looks who stem from other subcultures/backgrounds without proper reason. An indication of a failed integration are parallel societies within one country.

Yes, I would agree with you that polite, nonviolent and maybe even friendly interaction is positive. The main culture aspect or fundamental understanding of the US society is problematic these days. One could even argue whether it’s still exists. However, since there are many people who fight for it, you could at least argue that the idea still exists.

“we would be far poorer without the contributions from other cultures” Very much debatable. There are so many positive AND negative aspects of it. People from the ends of the political spectrum see it in a contrasting manner. Pro-immigration people will biased towards positivity á la “enrichment” while contra-immigration people will be biased towards negativity á la “criminals and rapists”. The truth is somewhere in between - both things can be true at the same time, often depending on the individuals and group dynamics. It’s complex.

The part about the food is very much true. The same thing is true for Turkish and Middle-Eastern food here in Germany and I very much enjoy it. An argument against it would be illegal immigration, human and drug trafficking, narco organizations, wage competition, wages without taxation and so on. On the other hand, you have great workers who value education for their kids, have good food, are sometimes lovely people, support the wobbly demographics and so on. I think we can all agree that your president and ICE are not a good solution for any of this though. It was never meant to be one.