You think UK would be the first country to ban VPNs? There are thousands of talented and very committed computer scientists in authoritarian countries tirelessly working to enforce internet censorship. They discovered many wonderful technical solutions to this problem.

All the mainstream VPN protocols like OpenVPN and Wireguard don’t even try to hide themselves and are easily detected no matter what port you use. They are useless if you country is seriously set to block VPNs.

There are different protocols specifically designed to circumvent censorship and they do so by masking their traffic to like something innocuous like HTTPS. However even they can be detected using advanced traffic analysis. For example, if a given machine only sends and receives HTTPS traffic to a single specific overseas server, it is safe to assume that it’s not actually a genuine website traffic but a VPN masquerading as HTTPS.

There is special hardware that all users’ traffic goes through that detects these patterns and automatically throttles/blocks these connections.

You don’t make connections because Yoh believe you will be abandoned.

I don’t make connections because I know I would be a shitty friend and incapable of actually maintaining a friendship.

How dare they defy our daddy gaben

It’s called a “polkit agent”. Every DE has one. In GNOME it’s a part of the gnome-shell. Killing gnome-software didn’t work because it shows the dialog indirectly. It asked permission from polkit daemon, which determined that user needs to provide credentials, so polkit asked an “agent” (which is in this case gnome-shell) to show authentication dialog.

Although the error message complains about permissions of executable which is a part of polkit itself. But the fact that cancel button didn’t work is also a bug in gnome-shell.

“Searching” (actually just destroying) their home (with a warrant of course).

Taking them to a police station for a “talk” or arresting them for a bogus (but legal) reason, and them releasing them, repeatedly.

“Finding” some crimes that these relatives committed that only the state can prove such as tax evasion, money laundering, etc.

Making so that they can’t get a job at government institutions (or any company that receives government funding).

Setting bureaucratic roadblocks when they need to interact with the state in some way (if they need to some kind of permit or a license from the government they kiss it goodbye).

Instigating doxxing and bullying campaign on social media (a more recent practice).

Plainly paying someone to beat them up on the street (which the police of course will fail to investigate).

The possibilities are endless.

Yeah they should follow the lead of China and Russia and create their own sovereign internet, under EU control.

You don’t need to cause something to opportunistically benefit from it.

“Look for those who benefit from thing” can be used a starting point for your research, it’s not a cosmic law.

It does have cock and balls though, and goes by he/his pronouns.

I guess not even Disney has the money to extend copyright indefinitely

There are a lot of people play such such games at least occasionally. And on Windows they just work. The moment gamer try to do this on Linux and realize that it doesn’t, they will go back to Windows.

The paradise of easy gaming on Linux ends the moment you try to leave Valve’s walled garden.

4790k is about 15-20% faster than 4690k, but it’s still outdated compared to modern cpus.

You will need a new motherboard, cpu and ram (ddr4 or ddr5 depending on cpu generation) if you want a meaningful upgrade.

If the game is not on Steam or doesn’t have a native Linux port (which is actually worse more often than not) then manually setting up to run through wine/proton is pain the ass.

Generative ai is just a tool for creating text and images. Not everything created using is art, just like not every piece of text written by a human or an bunch of pixels drawn in photoshop is art. What matters is intention of the author, the effort put in and whether other people perceive it as art.

It silly to call everything created by ai as art, but not because of the tool used. Most of it is not art simply because it was not created for that purpose, it is there for pure silly entertainment.

It is equally silly to vehemently hate it if the creator does not even claim it’s art.

That dude was an actual neonazi. Ukraine was using him because he created an image of “Russians fighting against Russians”. Though to be fair Putin has a bunch of neonazis fighting for him too.

Restraints on armrests would do the trick

Does it at least apologize to you when it adds bugs anyway?

And who is going to create this perfect and resource efficient OS? Literally all tech corporations are headed in the opposite direction. All proprietary consumer OSes are getting more bloated by the hour, and their developers are being replaced with incompetent vibe coders.

Dumb devices will not be able to run shitty vibe coded OSes and apps. Your modern Android phones has orders of magnitude more computing power than 20 years old PDA despite having the same (or even less) functionality. Or even compared to 10 year old Android device. Software has been becoming slower and more bloated for decades, and it’s only going to accelerate with “ai”.

There will be more software restrictions and locked down “ecosystems” but I don’t see the hardware becoming weaker. There is no going back.

It’s not even futures, just basic demand through scarcity.

There is an expectation that there will be a severe shortage of RAM soon, which causes people to panic buy it now, which drives prices up. It’s not that complicated.