Anything special you needed to do? I have the HTC Vive, and I’ve tried a few times over the years, without any success. Last time was about 2-3 years ago.

SteamVR works on Linux? What headset, if I may ask?

But… have you considered having control of 0-ring software that runs on hundreds of millions of computers, that can perform targetted updates to change behaviour on just a select few computers, even interact with the network adapters unbeknownst to the OS.

I’m not talking about zero days popping up for this. But rather, this being part of the design?

A less nefarious application: The root kit anti cheats already continuously monitor processes. Say it finds a crypto mining one. It can request the instructions needed to search for a wallet and snatch that off.

A more nefarious one: RK is known to be in the device owned by the kid of a military contractor. Etc.

Trusting the client is a fools errand. So we are in complete agreement. I never understood why the effort isn’t placed on server side. People are very good at knowing when others have cheated. They know this from information that exists on the server side, so with the correct classifier, the server should also be able to know this.

What makes you think they are referring to Wine in that particular case, and not the emulation of the kernel level anticheat on userland? It’s also arguably not an entirely correct use of the word there either, but it’s fine.

Aha. Yes. It has room for improvement for sure. You should just say that instead.

Is your argument that as long as you cannot fix everything, then it’s shit? Or… not worth praise. Help yourself out here.

Sure? No. It was silly of me to suggest it was a question of motivation. I don’t know enough about it to make any such assumptions.

I did however give it another go earlier this year, with no success. I could try again if there is reason to think it should work. Valve is the company I respect the most when it comes to caring about Linux. Which is why it always surprised me that I couldn’t use the Vive there. Still one of the very few reasons left for dual booting.

When not even Valve can muster enough motivation, I wouldn’t hold my breath on Microsoft.

Why do I get the feeling you might be younger than the average age here? Maybe missing an /s?

What is it you want to know? “why do you use Linux” seems like it assumes something about what you might want to know.

Like, why Linux and not MacOS/Windows? Or, what are the Linux specific stuff you use it for? And when you say “Linux”, I’m sure you don’t mean the kernel, but likely Linux kernel + some package manager + some window manager?

The answer to a lot of these things are true statements for me, but will come across as incredulous. They are:

• Gnome is a more consistent user experience over both MacOS and Windows. Gnome 9/10, MacOS 4/10, W11 3/10.
• It is the actual “just works”. (the list is looong)
• It’s much more usable for power users.

Are the main ones. I cannot think of a single thing either MacOS or W11 does better, that isn’t “well, you can run X software on it”, which is a fair argument and likely a valid deal breaker for many use cases/professions. But also not really the fault of the OS. And there are many, many reasons why MacOS and W11 are a pain to use.

I get what you’re saying. But, do you get what I’m saying? If someone asks “why is X Y to you”, the answer “because it is Y to me”, doesn’t add much. Now, the OP asked for a reasoning for why it was ethical. You have pretty much said “fuck ethics, I do what I want”. And, as you very much point out, you do not care what anyone thinks. Which… I find weird to point out in a discussion forum. FYI, ethics tries to be a little bit more general than “anything I want is by definition ethical to me”. I’m sure we’re both happy to leave it at that.

You are awfully reductive in your reasoning.

• Most content is corporate generated consumerist garbage anyway so it doesn’t matter
• Our right to access content is more important than a creator’s right to restrict access to it for profit
• It’s information and ideas, and we are entitled to all information simply because I say so

I find none of these statements to be particularly accurate, and as such also your reasoning. I’m sure there are good arguments for it, but the solution and approach you’ve presented is flawed. I had hoped for something more enlightening. Now, I don’t disagree with your ultimate goal or conclusion, it just needs different circumstances than reality currently allows. You either shoot yourself in the foot where creative work dies out, or we manage to create a society where such pursuits are motivated by the art itself and not the gain. But to me, you have not argued that piracy is “ethical”, you just make a point of not really caring about the ethical component of it, because the end goal of you getting access to it without making an effort towards the contribution and the sustainability of creating it, is what matters to you.

I don’t think it can be that black and white. You probably have some kind of framework in mind where that makes sense. Otherwise you would be arguing that the very thing you wish to obtain a copy of, should not be rewarded in a way that allows that work to exist. So, is the framework you have in mind some kind of egalitarian world that unfortunately doesn’t exist?