I don't really count special surveillance courts with closed door sessions and secret rulings as Judicial oversight - that shit is a theater of justice meant to disguise authoritarianism as Democracy, not real Justice with all the requirements of it.
So, does this one have real Judicial oversight or is it something that operates without court oversight or under the "oversight" of special courts setup for the purpose of whitewashing bulk surveillance that don't actually operate like real ones?
Want to make tons of lines of code from pretty normal code?
Just unroll your fixed size for loops (i.e. convert them into multiple copies of their contents, one after the other as many times as that loop would loop).
You can actually automate it and in fact some compilers will do that when generating assembly for some microprocessor architectures (if the loops aren't crazy big) because it increases performance in those (because the JMP instruction at the end of the loop is quite expensive).
As long as they can only do it with a court order and for just that specific instance (no dragnet bulk surveillance shit like in the UK and US) just like they would any other wiretap, then I don't see the problem.
The scary authoritarian shit is the bulk surveillance without Court oversight such as in Chat Control.
And found out filmset scenarios are filled with tricks that make it seem one thing to viewers whilst being something else, just like 3D worlds in games.
Thanks for providing the seller point of view.
By "better option" I meant it for buyers, not sellers.
In some distros Linux is already at the "just works" stage for gaming at home, at least for desktop PCs.
I would say that investment in Proton and general Linux support was already driven by the strategical consideration that Microsoft might try to lock-down the PC gaming market.
In that light, the Steam Machine is another part of the same strategy.
The general point is that a closed proprietary system is seldom a better option than an open non-proprietary one.
Yeah, sure, "It's Steam" and "Gary is a good guy" (so supposedly was "Elon" about a decade ago, by the way), but Gary might have a heart attack and die tomorrow (nothing personal, Gary, I can happen to any of us) and then those with the closed proprietary system are way more likely to end up shafted by Steam's new "enshittification is the future" MBA management than those with the open non-proprietary one.
Ultimatelly it all depends on just how easy it is to wipeout the OS in a Steam Box and get a new one in.
It's actually a "The end justifies the means" situation - Marxism-Leninism tries to achieve Communism (the Perfect Equality utopia) via the Dictatorship Of The Proletariat stage, a form of Autocracy, and all tries so far in the so-called "Communist" countries got stuck in that stage.
So whilst the end objective is not authoritarian, it's used to justify means to supposedly get there which are most definitelly authoritarian though they're are supposed to be used only temporarily
Whilst I'm pretty sure in the very beginning of the Communist Revolutions most people in it were guided by leftwing principles and trully saw the authoritarianism as merelly a distasteful temporary need, nowadays in those countries the genuinelly leftwing grand objective seems to be just an excuse to be used in justifing the continued use of authocratic power by those who hold it, rather than something those in power genuine want and expect to one day reach.
I do believe these "" have fallen from around the word centrists
The mouse driver is already part of the OS in Window and Linux.
That shit you complain about is the Adverts Delivery & Private Data Capture application.
I think the biggest difference here is that the people who "got scammed" didn't just made a choice for themselves, they also made a choice for others.
Morally somebody who got conned out of their own life savings is one thing, somebody who got lots of people (including themselves) conned out of their life savings (and in some cases, their actual lives) is something very different.
As I see it, it boils down to people going with "I feel like", "Random post on the Internet told me" or equivalent non-info to chose the person to be in charge of running a whole damn country for the next 4 years.
Absolutely, if you're choosing something for yourself alone, go crazy, do stupid shit, whatever.
However if you're also choosing for others, if you can't make an informed choice, at least make no choice at all.