And yes, this is an AUR issue, but npm being used to host and dissiminate malware is also [a chronic] one, even if separate.

>The result is a rather long list of ~408 packages all doing npm install atomic-lockfile something something

[0] https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists....

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This is an exaggeration, but I wouldn't rule out your average smartphone user reading less in an average commute than they would do just reading store signs as they pass...

... Except, well, when it's the doing of this same, so called "defence" industry.

If there is anything characteristic of developing countries’ taxing systems, it would be how short reaching and inadequate it is. Many of these countries’ governments are corrupt, sure, but these small revenue extracting schemes are about the only way they can collect “taxes” at all.

Every other market where they could transfer their skills to is threatened by the same hypothetical. And if they jump the collar colour divide, they’d have be limited to the least skilled ones, which includes Janitors.

Now perhaps that would still not threaten the job itself as much, but an increase in supply definitely won’t be good for the wages.

Absolute resistance to auto updates (without assuming the responsibility of manual maintenance) is how you end up with WannaCry…

Personally, I don’t believe that would be the case. Jevon’s paradox mixed with the natural tendency to exploit others. One could argue that technology -in general- didn’t really save people time by itself, it’s regulation - a social construct, and I am counting both cultural and legal enforcement of them as well- that did. Just look at how workers in countries without your European-style protections fare. Wikipedia’s article on the Chinese 996 [1] has a nice map for deaths due to long working hours by country, notice the dominant colours for each quadrant of this (projected) globe.

Pre industrialised societies’ labourers were limited by daylight and travel distance. The modern availability and abundance of artificial lighting, mechanised transportation, and telecommunication means their grand kids are expected to -and often do- toil every waking moment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

Win10/11’s problem isn’t auto updates, it’s the severely reduced user agency in the matter (and the quality of said updates, but that’s another story).

Deleting your account may not make even a pixel of difference in their KPI graphs, but -in addition to the mental benefits- you get the moral one of not being a participant in this mess…

You wouldn’t throw the same fit if [insert dictator you don’t have high expectations of here] shot a hundred random civilians compared to if your government did, no?

Just check ProtonDB’s aggregates. Of all the Steam games with reports in the DB (~10% of the entire Steam catalogue), 30~60% (tier 1/platinum) are likely zero effort setups, 30~40% likely require some work (tier 2/gold), and the remainder will most probably do or not run at all.

Things have improved, are improving, and hopefully they’ll keep doing so. But we need to practice some degree of expectation management, especially given influx of new converts these days…

https://www.protondb.com/dashboard

I can understand if we were talking about helpdesk or something of the sort, but most computer use is via applications. It’s a deal breaker if one is exclusive to some OS, but if they aren’t, experience should be largely the same, no?

Gaming on linux is feasible, but it’s not hassle-free and we shouldn’t skip the fact that it still requires some effort. A cheap cost to free oneself from Microslop, but a cost nonetheless.