Why not trade the illusion of digital control for actual peace, get a dumb phone, a CD player, and check out books, movies, music, and games from the library as my entertainment?

You can do this, while also choosing to use some self-hosted services or internet-services that work for you.

$20 is not a lot of money but there are people who can’t afford it anyway

Then they can’t afford a phone or monthly service plan or really any communication devices at all.

Unless you live in an overpopulated area it will be pretty hard to find someone else using that kind of device

Literally designed for rural areas with poor cell service.

it don’t have a real application

Wait the real application that I use to communicate with and manage my node doesn’t exist?

supposing someone make a business and start deploying the system for money

Yeah except this tech is already used with all kinds of smart and IoT devices.

Meshtatic radios are very cheap, about $20. It’s one of their main drivers of their popularity.

To use these kind of devices you need at least two people using it.

🤣🤣🤣 A communications device that requires a receiver and a sender??? Oh, how useless!

There’s over 300 meshtastic radios in my area.

More like heaven

So… just like… KDE?

Not that it is designed for it but it is a similar workflow and should be familiar to Windows users

Ha, my system is exactly identical! I really have no reason to upgrade, besides maybe 5950X/5900XT for more cores for compiling software (I run Gentoo on it). Can’t justify that though because it’s more of a sidegrade, and they’re all out of stock now that AM4 is back in style.

My 6900XT is a slightly-cheaper-than-6950XT frankenstein with the 6950XT full chip but 6900XT clocked VRAM. It’s so efficient. The fans don’t even spin for some games. There’s nothing it can’t play at max settings, but I’m also rendering at 1600x1200 (or less for specific older titles) on a CRT.

Yeah this is just a flat out lie

Will believe when I see it. Until then this is a total crock of shit.

I think I must have got it on sale or a very low point. Definitely was a nice upgrade! I had been non-seriously looking at 5950X or 5900XT as a sidegrade but I can’t really justify that cost for something that is not a substantial upgrade, and now they seem to be totally out of stock anywhere I look. Oh well!

True, however TLS does not encrypt the hostname/IP address of the servers that you are connecting to, so your ISP can monitor the servers you visit. A VPN provides an encrypted tunnel for your traffic, so your ISP can only see that you are communicating with the VPN server. However, the VPN provider can see the hostname/IP of the servers in order to forward the traffic to its destination.

Ideally the VPN provider does not monitor or keep logs of the connections, but this is not always the case. A VPN offers privacy from the ISP or from other clients connected to the local network when using public WiFi.

It can also provide some level of anonymity, because the server that you are connecting to will only be able to see the VPN IP address connecting to them, instead of your home IP address. It is possible to still be identified by other means besides your IP address, like using cookies or browser fingerpinting.

😍 god I love open source ❤️

• From my R7 240

Way too late

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I imagine there would be regulations preventing one single individual billionaire from pre-purchasing 40% of the global supply of RAM.

Lol what?? 5800X3D was like $250 when I bought mine. I wouldn’t say it was cheap but its defintely not a “money is no issue” kind of number.

Edit: alright rereading your comment, you were probably talking about people who want to buy a 5800X3D right now with today’s price, and not just anyone who was ever in the market for 5800X3D-level CPUs

how do you think COULD anti cheat catch such a contraption?

Server-side analysis of player behavior. It’s difficult and a mostly losing battle, but that’s really the only option that could be effective.

“why dont these games work on linux?”

The games do work on Linux. Many of the games the author described were working with Linux perfectly until the companies arbitrarily made a policy decision to block Linux players from the games. The anti-cheat is what does not work on Linux, for the reasons the author described, however the anti-cheat also does not actually work on Windows either, because it does not lessen cheating in these games. It doesn’t even prevent cheats that use traditional methods that kernel-level anti-cheat was designed to stop, for example there are many videos of cheaters showing off wallhacks and on-device aimbots in Battlefield 6 on launch day. The anti-cheat was defeated in less than 24 hours.

how is such a contraption relevant to a kernel driver on another machine?

Such a “contraption” is relevant because it is what people actually use for cheats in 2025, and because it defeats the anti-cheat described by the author, which they falsely claim is effective at stopping cheaters.

I’m responding to the article you posted.

instead of staying on topic, you diverge the reader to some contraption that as you say doesnt even run code on the machine we are hypothetically talking about

This is simply the current state of video game cheats. It’s not “as I say”; it is. To not even mention it while making claims like “anti-cheat is effective in games like Valorant (one of the most popular games for cheats)” is completely disingenous. Go ahead and search “valorant colorbot” in your choice of search engine.

Wow, what a bad article. “Companies can spy on you anyway so just give them kernel access” is interesting logic… They tout the effectiveness of kernel-level anti-cheat by claiming they’ve never encountered a cheater in Valorant. This is either a lie or ignorance that demonstrates the author isn’t qualified to write on the topic. A websearch will return pages of results and examples of working cheats for Valorant. Valorant is actually one of the easier games to write cheats for.

The majority of cheats used today are not impacted or detected in any way by kernel-level anti-cheat. At all. This is because most cheats are not even run on the machine that is used to run the game. Its wild that the author just doesn’t address this reality.

Cheaters use a 2nd computer, outside the reach of anti-cheat, that receives and processes the video-output of the game. The kernel-level anti-cheat can only monitor the system that the game actually runs on, which is completely clean. The 2nd computer runs either a colorbot (especially trivial and effective for games like Valorant that outline enemies in a solid color) or an AI object-recognition model (a quick search will return loads of specialized models trained for various online shooters) to identify the location of enemies on screen. It then generates mouse movements and inputs that are sent back to the 1st computer running the game, while the kernel-level anti-cheat is completely unaware.

These cheats are so efficient that they are commonly run on cheap hardware like an arduino or raspberry pi, and the code is often very simple, sometimes just ~100 lines of python. They can also be subtle and hard to notice by other players (probably why the author may believe they don’t play with cheaters in Valorant), providing aim-assist or click-assist that works with the cheater’s authentic mouse movements, and sometimes only kicks in when an enemy is already close to the cheater’s crosshair.

The author also cherry-picks examples to lead the reader into believing that all multiplayer games require Windows anti-cheat to be successful, while conveniently not mentioning the many competitive multiplayer games that do support Linux and are a perfectly normal online experience, eg Marvel Rivals, Overwatch, Halo Infinite, or Dota 2. Can the author explain why these games are completely fine without Windows anti-cheat?

They don’t challenge, and misrepresent, the invalid reasoning given by some of these game companies for why they arbitrarily chose to block access from Linux, for example Apex Legends claimed the majority of their cheaters use Linux. But wait, how could they know that if cheaters cannot be detected on Linux? So they must be successfully detecting Linux cheaters. Apex Legends’ actual reasoning for disallowing Linux directly contradicts the claims that the author is trying to make. It’s not true that the majority of their cheaters run Linux, of course. The majority of cheaters fly under the radar by running Windows and allowing the anti-cheat to verify a clean system, while just running the cheat software on a 2nd computer.

Paid $1.42/GB for 256GB DDR4 at the beginning of the year. 1 64GB kit of the same spec RAM now costs more than what I paid for all 256GB.

I think the feeling is the same, but the cause is a bit different. It is more similar to the dot-com bubble, where investors (for some reason?) are hyped to throw their money into AI. So if you can market yourself as AI, you can get big investments. Now that you have all that investor cash, you need to justify it somehow by using AI somewhere, anywhere.