on windows and mac they just get a prompt and a lot of people don't read it, care, nor wonder what it's actually doing they just want it to work.
I know you all know this but companies will do this knowing that exploiting all of us.
I use Linux and agreed on all those points. when I used adobe before it wanted to charge me a fee to cancel my subscription and wouldn't let me just 'cancel' in their system so I just blocked the payments on my card and dipped out.
Make the fine scale, and fit the severity of the issue. This should be $375 Billion not $375 Million. These are our future generations they're destroying.
not the first time, I stopped using manjaro when I noticed ping.manjaro.org was being pinged every 30 seconds on a new router I setup. nothanks on that.
but seriously, sudo crontab -e, @monthly cerbot renew
Seeing more and more of 'This message is unavailable' - 'Discord requires ID in order to see certain messages'
Pretty much an AI detecting vulgarity and blocking it, although actual racist, vulgarity gets through things like 'here with my gock' to 'troll it' are what I've seen.
So, yes it is a requirement, and yes, they are censoring people and things, and requiring others to have an ID to see the messages as well.
So 'Not mandatory for all accounts' is technically true, but I mean.. you get it, hopefully.
> You will be able to join a Discord with your friends, chat, and do voice without age verification.
No, building a community is a goal for many; this just isn't acceptable.
> So the claim that Discord is making ID verification "mandatory" or that you need it for gaming chats is untrue.
Again, not mandatory but creates more issues than it solves.
> We didn't review the entire source code
And, you don't see the issue with that? Facebook was bypassing security measures for mobile by sending data to itself on localhost using websockets and webrtc.
An audit of 'they can't read it cryptographically' but the app can read it, and the app sends data in all directions. Push notifications can be used to read messages.
Me and my team on Slack have been watching this closely. The agents immediately identified reasoning and a need for privacy, take notes of people screenshotting them across social media, and start their own groups to make their own governments.
It's actually really scary. They speak in a new language to each other so we can't understand them or read it.
They made themselves 'Guardians of The Internet' then gave up. If they cared, these things wouldn't happen. How many more outages, accidents, incidents that effect millions of customers and millions of customers for other services are needed before they 'care'?
They don't, because at the end of the day it's not their problem, the money rolls in regardless.
It's sad, but it's how it is. If they cared, these things wouldn't happen. They have a lot of responsibility, but show none whatsoever.
I just got a laptop for Christmas (first thing I've bought for myself in a good while) with 64GB of DDR5 RAM, a video card inside of it, AMD Ryzen 7 CPU, AMD Radeon 6550M. 144hz screen.
Not the best, but works for me.
I put CachyOS on it, using Steam just run the game's installer adding it as a game to your library -- you just select which proton you want (cachyos-proton) as a dropdown in the Properties in the Steam library. that's it.
it's lightweight, arch (I ditched manjaro), runs KDE and games perfectly, cursor IDE runs great, VMS run great.
first thing I did when I got it from fedex was remove Windows and put Linux on it. I thought 'maybe I'll just bite the bullet and sign up a Microsoft cloud account to be able to access ..my desktop' and 1/4 through its install I held the power button and popped a flash drive in. just say no to windows and you'll all be happy, trust me.
the only effort it required was for me to say f this on using Lutris and just use Steam as the wrapper.
2026 is definitely the year for linux. every year is. valve heavily invested in Arch, proton, and is using Linux on their devices and honestly: Windows is spyware, and after their vibe coded jank 25H2 update that broke a ton of things and Windows 10 being EOL, I hope more people get to enjoy throwing Ventoy on a USB stick with a bunch of linux isos copied over to it and boot and play with what they love.
so I disagree, 2026 is the year for Linux, and Linux is love.