yes, it's quite similar.
They blocked some lawful services too such as google drive (yes, really) and a TON of sites behind cloudflare by blocking some of its IPs (it happened a while ago, it's not directly related to this).
I find extremely funny that I came across this spammy comment while sitting on a vulnerability in their code because my attempts of contacting them have been unsuccessful
And yet, not much has changed in that decade, right? Well, other than the Steam Deck, which is a well-defined set of hardware for a specific purpose, and which is the main driver for Linux game compatibility...
And that's great! But for a random owner of random hardware. the experience is, well... same as it ever was?
The experience on random hardware in 2025 is nowhere close to what is was in 2015. Have you tried it recently? In 2025 I can install pretty much any game from Steam on my Linux desktop with an nvidia gpu and it just works. The experience is identical to Windows.
The 2015 experience was nothing like this, you'd be lucky to get a game running crash-free after lots of manual setup and tweaking. Getting similar performance as Windows was just impossible.
> But for a random owner of random hardware. the experience is, well... same as it ever was?
Far from it... the only area you tend to see much issue with a current Linux distro is a few wifi/bt and ethernet chips that don't have good Linux support. Most hardware works just fine. I've installed Pop on a number of laptops and desktops this past year and only had a couple issues (wifi/bt, and ethernet) in those cases it's either installing a proprietary driver or swapping the card with one that works.
Steam has been pretty great this past year as well, especially since Kernel 6.16, it's just been solid AF. I know people with similar experience with Fedora variants.
I think the Steam Deck's success with Proton and what that means for Linux all around is probably responsible for at least half of those who have tried/converted to Linux the past couple years. By some metrics as much as 3-5% in some markets, which small is still a massive number of people. 3-5 Million regular users of Desktop Linux in the US alone. That's massive potential. And with the groundwork for Flatpak and Proton that has been taken, there's definitely some opportunity for early movers in more productivity software groups, not just open-source.
Gaming on linux in 2015 was a giant pita and most recent games didn't work properly or didn't work at all through wine.
In 2025 I just buy games on steam blindly because I know they'll work, except for a handful of multiplayer titles that use unsupported kernel level anticheat.
>And yet, not much has changed in that decade, right?
the performance difference between SteamOS and Windows did
>Well, other than the Steam Deck, which is a well-defined set of hardware for a specific purpose, and which is the main driver for Linux game compatibility...
>And that's great! But for a random owner of random hardware. the experience is, well... same as it ever was?
the 2025 ars technica benchmark was performed on a Legion Go S, not on a steam deck
Because spaces, tabs, CR and LF are invisible too yet perfectly normal to find within code. You could very easily implement a decode() function that uses only those characters.
But to get any meaningful result, you'd need to insert them in unusual ways or amounts, likely breaking formatting rules. Trailing whitespace or excessive line breaks should be caught by linting tools and/or code review.
>What about DDoSs that come from sideloaded, unofficial, buggy, or poorly written apps? That's what IoT manufacturers will point to, and where most attacks historically come from.
any source for this claim? Outside of very specific scenarios which differ significantly for the current botnet market (like manjaro sending too many requests to the aur or an android application embedding an url to a wikipedia image) I cannot remember one occourence of such a bug being versatile enough to create a new whole cybercrime market segment.
>They'll point to whether your Mac really needs more than 100mbps.
it does, because sometimes my computer bursts up to 1gbps for a sustained amount of time, unlike the average iot device that has a predictable communication pattern.
>Signed firmware and the sideloading ID requirements on Android also helps to prevent stalkerware, which is a growing threat far scarier than some occasional sideloaded virus or DDoS attack. Never assume sideloading is consensual.
if someone can unlock your phone, go into the settings, enable installation of apps for an application (ex. a browser), download an apk and install it then they can do quite literally anything, from enabling adb to exfiltrating all your files.
Historically, it was called Windows XP and Vista about 15 years ago (Blaster, Sasser, MyDoom, Stuxnet, Conficker?). Microsoft clamped down, hard, across the board, but everyone outside of Big Tech is still catching up.
Despite Microsoft's efforts, 911 S5 was roughly 19 million Windows PCs in 2024, in news that went mostly under the radar. It spread almost entirely through dangerous "free VPN" apps that people installed all over the place. (Why is sideloading under attack so much lately? 19 million people thought it would make them more secure, and instead it turned their home internet into criminal gateways with police visits. I strongly suspect this incident, and how it spread among well-meaning security-minded people, was the invisible turning point in Big Tech against software freedom lately.)
> if someone can unlock your phone, go into the settings, enable installation of apps for an application (ex. a browser), download an apk and install it then they can do quite literally anything, from enabling adb to exfiltrating all your files.
Which is more important, and a growing threat? Dump all her photos once; or install a disguised app that pretends to be a boring stock app nobody uses, that provides ongoing access for years, with everything in real-time up to the minute? Increasingly it's the latter. She'll never suspect the "Samsung Battery Optimizer" or even realize it came from an APK. No amount of sandboxing and permissions can detect an app with a deliberately false identity.
>most root-avoiding/ROM-block-avoiding features just aren't available on it
this isn't really an issue, I've been an happy GrapheneOS user for quite a while and I've found 0 apps that refuse to run on it, even several banking apps, paypal and other "sensitive" applications that usually block "tampered" devices.
Do note that I've relocked my bootloader and haven't installed magisk (but I'm confident in saying that hiding magisk is easy since before GrapheneOS I used LineageOS + microg + magisk without having trouble running banking apps)
Hmm, we must have very different sets of apps. I had a number of issues with common apps working properly on GrapheneOS, even with Google Apps installed. Also, Location Services never really worked, because there seemed to be no inserted alternative to the WiFi and Mobile Tower mapping database necessary for precise location (i.e. Mozilla Location, beacondb.net, position.xyz).
I still used it until recently, but it was a noticably degredation.
