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There are lots of traditional crafts channels from all the corners of the world, if that scratches your itch. How about something like this?

On windows at least, Arma 3 uses battleye which is absolutely kernel level anticheat. It may be different on a Linux install, but I wouldn’t expect it.

You get to choose whether to use it or not.

Off the top of my head: Anything Valve (CS2, Dota 2, Deadlock, TF2), the entire Civilization series and Arma 3. Last time I played them Starcraft, Overwatch 2 and Valorant worked fine as well, though it has been a while and I don't know if they've gone the way of Apex Legends since then.

There is no "dilemma" here. There is no solution or compromise to be found here. Kernel level anti-cheat systems are simply not needed. While the games the tout them figure that out I'll simply play all the other ones that already have figured it out.

Danke, kannte ich noch nicht.

I mean... German rivers certainly aren't the toxic waste dumps they used to be in the 70s... but actively seeking to take a dip still seems strange. Then again who am I to judge if the local expert end up signing off on the requests 🤷

On what?

What do you mean? Everyone knows that a person can only ever have one password.

Ich habe Disco Elysium durchgespielt. Bin blind in das Spiel gegangen und hatte eigentlich ein traditionelles Rollenspiel erwartet, es war dann aber eher eine Art point-and-click-Adventure. Ist vielleicht auch einfach eines dieser Spiele, die man nicht gut in Schubladen einordnen kann, aber ich bereue meine Zeit darin nicht - da ist ganz klar viel Liebe und Sorgfalt reingeflossen und das weiß ich zu schätzen.
Jetzt fange ich ersteinmal wieder mit einem Nordland-Trilogie playthrough an, der letzte liegt schon wieder zehn Jahre zurück. Vielleicht diesmal als Solo-Magier...

Entdeckt habe ich den StayForever podcast der ehemaligen GameStar-Redakteure Gunnar Lott und Christian Schmidt - eine gute Art und Weise, die Spiele, die man damals vielleicht verpasst hat, doch noch einmal mitzuerleben.

Relevant Brennan Lee Mulligan sketch

The civil war in Germany's car sector

Not sure if intended, but that's the most subtle implication of "Corporations are people!" I've seen yet.

Driving a car and doing it regularly is the most dangerous task most anyone living in any number of western societies with service-based economies will ever undertake. There is nothing wrong with treating it accordingly - with awe, care and a healthy portion of respect and fear.
But whether the decision not to do it is a good one depends on your life circumstances. Do you live or plan on living in a big European city? Yeah, you don't need a car in your life, good riddance. Do you live in a North American suburb or rural area? Er... not using a car is probably not an option unless you relocate.

I had a pretty bad car accident due to failing to yield the right of way (I struggle with multitasking)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here. It should go without saying that when one is driving, one's attention should ideally be focused on nothing else and multitasking therefore shouldn't be a factor.

Thanks, that's a lot of pointers!
I'm fine with not the absolutely latest and greatest. In fact, since basically all of this is still cutting-edge I'm mainly trying to weed out the hype, the scams and the malware and at least find the somewhat well-trodden paths. It's all terribly fascinating but casually downloading month-old programs from random github repos and running cryptic docker containers with instructions that are half in Chinese and half in LLM-generated English (which still ends up too technical for me to fully understand) is kind of... stressful for me. That's just not how I usually use a computer 😅

Aber wenn man Leuten die das Bürgergeld missbrauchen die Sozialleistungen streicht, bleibt ja für die wirklich Bedürftigen mehr übrig. Mindestlohn und dergleichen müssen natürlich mit steigen, damit es auch Sinn macht zu arbeiten. Dafür muss man dann aber auch andererseits die Steuerlast für Unternehmen senken.

Wenn man ein Sozialsystem etabliert, hat man einen zu erwartenden Anteil an Missbrauch. Den akzeptiert man, sonst kann man kein Sozialsystem haben.
Wenn man dann bei einem Ausgabenvolumen von zweistelligen Milliardenbeträgen einen Schwund im zweistelligen Millionenbereich hat, führt man keine Debatten über Sozialbetrug sondern lässt die Sektkorken knallen, da das System offensichtlich bereits unglaublich effizient läuft.

Wenn einem so eine unglaublich geringe Missbrauchsquote nicht gut genug ist, kann man natürlich immer noch nach Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten suchen und dann plausibel darlegen, warum eine "Reform" mit möglichen Verbesserung im Promillebereich die Spucke für eine nationenweite Debatte überhaupt wert ist.

How do you know? Statistics reported by websites… which are recording user agent strings?

If you randomly stopped people in the streets and asked them what a user agent was, you'd get a certain percentage of folks that give you the correct answer. That percentage is the upper ceiling for any possible error margin that websites recording user agent strings have in attributing those strings to actual browsers, since nobody unaware of that term will know how or be interested in changing their user agent.

Do you think it likely that this percentage is going to be in any way, shape or form... impactful, considering that most people won't be able to tell you what a browser is? 😜

Not really, it’s just logical conclusion of believing in a project but then watching it fail repeatedly, and finally questioning whether it’s worth saving. His actual proposal is for a deeper democratic federalism, but he doesn’t think that will fly, because he’s disappointed.

Ok, there's a big disconnect here. I'll try to convey what I'm seeing when I read that sentence:
"Here's this complex and unique alliance structure, a transnational proto-pseudo-state, brought into being over the course of generations of humans, not only to keep the most wartorn region on a planet full of quarrelsome monkeys at peace - a task at which, through its multiple iterations, it has excelled at for almost 80 years - but also to slowly put its constituent nations into a mindset of cooperation instead of competition.
... anyway, let's apply some completely different arbitrary success criteria, determine this arguably staggering and most unlikely achievement of the human race a failure and suggest to tear it down, what could go wrong?"

Yanis would like to federalize the EU but realizes it’s maybe time to dismantle it.

What a strange non-sequitur.

This asylum policy has been an issue for many years, and our government fails to address it every time.

What's the issue arising from the current asylum policy?

every country would be better if shitty people like this could be kicked out. though there is no place to kick them to.

because of people like this, i’d rather stay and die with my belongings if war ever came to my country. Its awful world to seek asylum anywhere.

We're all just people and some of us have shitty ideas. The people can't go anywhere, there's just this one planet. The ideas can change, it's just very, very hard.

Oh wow

Thanks for the input!