Literally what is the point of this besides inducing users into expanding their future userbase? This is like the Simpsons spoof where the army gets elementary school kids to pre-enlist.

My first ever email is my first name that I lucked out on a very big domain and aside from the showoff of looking cool, it has been utterly destroyed by spam and people with the same name putting in a dummy email for whatever form they fill out.

So unless you want your kid to have some oddly specific and famous email address, there is zero difference in just making one when you need to.

Also:

Stronger legal protection

Your data is safeguarded under Switzerland’s strict privacy laws, some of the strongest in the world.

What a joke bruh. Piratebay had better OPSEC than these fed sucking morons, and they had their servers constantly seized after the USA got involved.

Proton folds under zero pressure when they so much as so get a hint of a warrant. Don’t even jump in here with a “Privacy is not Anonymity” and “muh Swiss laws” response. They specifically advertised such capability until the government came after them, and then only changed their policy after assisting them in providing access logs and fingerprint data for that french climate activist.

They know their marketing material makes it sound much better than it really is, and they know that no one reads the fine print. Metadata not being protected is a critical difference, and it’s how a solid chunk of the NSA’s data collection schemes function.

Imagine for a moment that you started an Anti-Google campaign and happened to have a protonmail account. They could just lobby the US government to go smack Switzerland’s face, and next thing you know you’re being detained in a 5 eyes country for exercising free speech, despite them claiming to only provide such metadata to police under “criminal activity”.

Right? I was like dang you’re already half way there lol.

The reason though is that they probably don’t want to discourage payments because I have seen businesses refuse to use Monero in ransomware attacks because their insurance agreement complicates payout on a fundamentally untraceable currency. Even if Bitcoin is technically decentralized, they can report the transaction and specific currency blocks to whatever federal agency is responsible for fraud.

Still, why not offer both and put a 5% discount on Monero.

Hah I actually remembered this too, and people were still hyping Elon Musk at the time as well.

TBF the researchers knew what they had could be scaled into something gamebreaking which is how we got ChatGPT-3, but OpenAI made it sound like they already had it nailed down several years before it actually blew up. I think their unreleased examples they gave were a newspaper and short story written by AI which they said was indistinguishable from human material.

I’m pretty sure its shopped because I’ve never seen a machine with actual displays in it for each flavor lol. They all use paper cut outs.

The first person I met who used Mint was asking me how to fix his Nvidia output stutter lol.

The answer was updated kernel shenanigans which is probably Mint’s only weakness.

Anyways, that’s usually why I recommend Fedora since I think it properly fits the same spot where Ubuntu was like 15 years ago. Cutting edge stable, large community, and much easier support than something more downstream.

That being said, a good chunk of users have been quite happy with stuff like Bazzite and CachyOS because they’re mostly here to play games.

But yeah I agree, the popular recommendations of the week really need to be ignored for first time users. I still remember when they were pretty much all just Ubuntu downstreams that never fixed any of the upstream issues that Canonical created, which led to a ton of youtubers thinking Linux stability was behind.

On a similar note, it’s also why I recommend literally any DE except GNOME. It looks and functions like a knockoff ChromeOS tablet, despite the fact that it used to be the home of Compiz 15+ years ago, which is the peak of desktop UX lol.

Honestly they’d probably throw you on a list for not using the internet lol.

Man I can’t wait to upgrade my device/GPU with AV1 hardware support

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I think Denuvo technically does a little bit of this.

I forgot the exact details, but one of the keys that’s used to unscramble the bytecode has to be downloaded from their registry server on first launch.

But after that, it’s not required.

That one scooby doo meme where they uncover the sheet to discover it’s utilitarianism.

Now we just need to make Warthunder not work on linux…

Gaijin devs have us all by the crotch lol.

I would kill for a competitor game. I’d even be happy with a proper DCS arcade mod that let’s you do the same stuff as WT realistic battles.

Hey fatty! I got a movie for ya: A Fridge Too Far!

Ahaha jokes on you, I haven’t updated my dependencies in years so I only have to deal with debilitating CVEs

They don’t have any lunar module in their package. Best bet would be to just burn back into LEO and dock with a competently designed spacecraft to rescue the crew.

Except NASA has a sore history of being in this exact scenario and they opted to go with “screw it” which led to the second shuttle disaster.

Netanyahu literally a couple of weeks ago, and I still think people believe he’s dead was injured

Fedora

OpenSUSE if you want something non American and not directly related to RedHat

Sometimes I forget one of Trump’s first agendas was nuking research funding and using a keyword filter against grant submissions that had words like “trans” without conntext.

Seems like so long ago compared to an active war with Iran.

You couldn’t pay me to attempt space travel in a Lockheed tincan.

Would not be surprised at all if NASA delays this to next year.

Yeah I know about them, and they were actually the inspiration for Dedsec in Watchdogs, but they shuttered after the FBI caught one and flipped him real quick lol.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think we ever really saw a group like LulzSec again with the same level of notoriety and success.

For the consumer tech yeah that makes sense, but I actually meant for infrastructure and workstations where you would otherwise be using linux.

I really hate that the exaggerated future of Watchdogs is becoming reality but not the exaggerated group of highly experienced black hat hackers doing crazy post compromise shenanigans that would make national news.

The problem is the same reason why a Robin Hood type of character already doesn’t really exist in modern history. There will always be thousands of highly skilled people in defense of the very system you wish to see dissolved.

You would need the resources of at least a highly advanced APT, which often means you’re funded by a nation state which has very specific compromise goals.

Everyone else falls into cybercrime, which is much less sophisticated and is almost always after money.

Hence why most highly publicized attacks end in bitcoin ransoms.

EDIT:

Also at the risk of giving too much info about my career, big banks are absolutely notorious for having extremely tight security. Even if you managed to jump over the custom EDR, pivot your way through a massive amount of proprietary systems, and land in a suitable position to carry out the motherload of a supply chain attack, the bank could just halt their infrastructure and manually nullify whatever transactions they want with full backing from the government.

The closest I ever hypothetically witnessed was being able to manipulate the loan data for a small credit union. And emphasis on hypothetical, a real attacker would have needed some hard internal access to a heavily restricted subnet.

The only way I can see this successfully happening is like if the Chief Network Architect of say Chase also happened to be a highly competent hacker who uses his decades of experience to formulate a plan with an APT over the course of several years.