Ya, the term “3rd world” has since become synonymous with poor or developing countries.

It’s not a correct or accurate term, but it’s still used.

You should look up how many people in the US are under the poverty line.

2GB of ram is useless no matter what operating system you put on it.

Ubuntu 16.04

This is an old photo

Saying the chance of something going sideways is smaller than on Windows isn’t saying much

True. I’ll grant you that.

I’ll pick a distro that’s stable by default

Arch isn’t “unstable” by any means. I’ve been running Arch EndeavourOS as my desktop distro that I develop on for years and it’s entirely reliable. Now I personally wouldn’t run Arch on any of my distros (I go with either Debian or NixOS), but there are people who do it and it works fine.

Edit: I said “Arch” but I meant EndeavourOS, which is Arch with some QoL improvements.

But if my client is angry and my boss is breathing down my neck, and I can’t work because a thing isn’t thing-a’lating, a support path is essential.

Arch is still stable enough for that. The chances of something going sideways is smaller on Arch than on Windows. And unless you’re a medium to large company paying Microsoft for enterprise support, you’re going to be stuck with forums for community help with Windows.

AGI

For a minute there I read that as “AG1” and thought “man, are we getting those ads in Lemmy comments now”?

Arch is incredibly stable. The old meme about it needing constant attention hasn’t been true for at least a decade now.

What about ladies?

Febranber. Those who know, remember.

This would work for areas that flood gradually. The flooding that happened had fast moving water. And water of that volume moving that fast is like an unstoppable force. I would trust that structure to hold up.

Did I miss something that happened?

They already made a Will Smith Superman movie. He was a drunk hobo version of Superman.

Wasn’t she just an incredibly horrible person though? I haven’t seen it.

We work in 20 minute microsleep shifts

I appreciate the Simpsons reference, but my god not everything has to be a joke all the time. NASA being gutted is a travesty for everyone in every country.

They’ll probably go to the private sector, or land a job at a foreign space agency like ESA.

you parents out there … clue me in, but isn’t this the pinnacle of irresponsibility, even on a cool day?

I wouldn’t leave my 1 year old alone for more than 5 minutes in the centre of a pillow fort in my house with the AC on (bad analogy, soft fluffy surfaces can be dangerous to small children if they can’t get their faces up reliably to get air).

There have been countless times when it’s a nice 18 degrees Celsius outside and I needed to run into the store to grab ONE thing. A total in and out time of maybe 3 minutes. I also live in a quiet and safe town. And yet each and every time, I took the effort to get my kid out of his car seat, carry him inside with me, get the stuff, and do the whole process of getting him into his seat, get him bucked in, get his toys set up again, etc.

I would throw myself off a cliff for being the worst parent imaginable if I left him in the car for those 3 minutes because I couldn’t make the effort.

This mother from the news didn’t deserve the child that died and neither of them deserved her as a mother, for all that term does any good here.

Why are you comparing theft to game hacking out of nowhere?

You made the comparison: “Much like every security system”

Source?

It’s out there, my dude. It’s a constant complaint in literally every competitive online game. If people are complaining about it, then it’s not working well enough. This isn’t an esoteric thought either. You ask anyone if cheating is a big issue in online gaming and anyone with knowledge about it will tell you it’s a constant problem that’s getting worse.

What do you mean by system in “full access to the system”?

If you own the hardware and have admin/root access to the OS. Then it’s yours and you have “full access” to everything. And I do mean everything. You can modify the OS. You can read the values of protected parts of memory. And so on.

If you don’t understand what I mean by “full access to the system” in the context of anti-cheat running on your own hardware, then there’s nothing I can say in a short comment to get you up to speed.

Someone still has to discover the exploit.

The cheat and anti-cheat battle is a constant cat and mouse game. The advantage is always with the cheaters because they outnumber the developers 100:1 at the least. Plus they have the will and determination to find ways around anti-cheats. In fact, building security against exploits is by far way harder than finding exploits.

The reality is that client-side anti-cheat is a losing battle.

What you’re referring to is deterrence, and it doesn’t apply to online gaming the way it does to theft of property. One cheater doesn’t ruin the game for one other person, they ruin the game for dozens or hundreds of other players.

And the efficacy being so bad is the reason why client-side anti-cheat keeps getting more and more invasive to the point of being literally, by definition, a type of malware and system rootkit. And yet it’s still not enough to defeat cheaters, because the cheaters have full access to the system itself.

And the guys writing the cheat software just have to put in the effort once to defeat the anti-cheat and then they sell it to people who install it like any other software. The cheaters who use the cheats have it easy.

Anti-cheat is a necessary evil for competitive online games

Client-side anti-cheat is useless. It’s not a necessary evil, it’s just evil. The minute the cheater/hacker has direct access to the system, you’ve already lost.