> supposedly most cheaters were connecting via Linux clients

I always find this so hard to believe, mainly because the majority of players are on Windows, which means that the market for cheats is there and statistically most likely to happen there.

I just don’t play games by devs that snub Linux. There are many to choose from.

The thing with Linux cheats is that they were significantly easier to make(you didn't have to think about bypassing the anticheat at all, you could just read the game's memory or LD_PRELOAD your cheat in), and a lot more were publicly available(in true FOSS fashion, a lot of Linux cheats were open-source). A cheat that could cost $30-$60 a month on Windows could be free as in freedom(and free beer) on Linux.

But the anti-cheat technology on Windows is more through, so it's harder to cheat on Windows.

If the number of cheaters hasn't changed, but Linux users are now blocked, then your premise is flawed.

I'm sure the number probably changed a bit, but I can tell you for a fact it isn't like cheaters disappeared overnight just because they banned Linux clients.

I think the democracy you want is not the same as the invaders want

Which VPN provider doesn’t have their addresses flagged? I know a few offer “residential” IP addresses (for quite the premium), but as I understand it, these are a bit of a grey area and are also usually shared, so usually just a matter of time until they’re banned or flagged as proxy/shared/anonymiser.

The financial incentives for VPNs as they get bigger cause them to both put as many subscribers on the same IP as possible and to share IPs over the entire subscriber base. It's possible for a VPN to sacrifice profit to avoid being detected as easily.

Tbh between that and cgnat I'm kinda hoping that the entire ipv4 space gets sufficiently tainted that sites stop blocking by ip

For now

Ah yes, eugenics, that’ll make everything better.

"Competency tests" is not eugenics. It's not about heritable characteristics.

It's similar to requiring an eye test before one can get a driver's licence.

Driving is privilege, not a right.

The outcome of what’s being suggested comes with all the same issues and evils of genetic eugenics. Think of how fucked up things would have to get to even police and enforce such a nightmarish system. It’s absurd.

For the record, I'm not backing the idea. Just pointing out that it's not eugenics.

By the way, everything is a privilege in a modern society governed by laws. The state has the power to take children away from abusive parents. Do we think that's also a violation of a basic human right? Why not?

This has been a thing since 26.1 I believe.

I believe so, too. I’ve updated to 26.2 today and haven’t seen any changes on the interface front.

Yeah, it most certainly does. Very noticeable on iOS. I don’t know if this is an Apple specific thing, or if it’s a similar story on Android.

It’s WireGuard underneath, which is designed to not be very chatty when idle, so I’d put this down to regular back and forth with Tailscale’s control plane, relays, etc.

It’s a shame really, because a huge value prop of TS is that it’s a VPN you just leave on and forget about. I hate having to toggle it when I inevitably forget to and wonder why I’m getting connection errors to private resources.

Lookup the Tailnet Lock feature.

A feature in the client software they control, that you run as root, that auto-updates regularly?

You didn’t look it up, did you?

It’s probably that they’re near impossible to break or end up with an unusable system.

Your comments read like you aren’t actually familiar or have any experience with using what you’re criticising.