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SELinux can confine desktop applications perfectly fine.

> Your objection is he committed thoughtcrime by not taking certain gospel on a taboo subject at face value, has actually thought about it and discussed it with folks, and even changed his opinion on the subject in the end. Note that there is zero evidence he has shown any personal interest in having sex with children and this is some abstract analysis by a heterodox, and analytical mind, dare I say neurodivergent and on the spectrum, looking at it.

Thank you for stating this.

> I’ve had to remove it all twice but with every significant update, somehow my settings get reversed and we’re back at square one.

You're not removing it properly. After I setup my first install of W10 nothing has ever been changed or reverted after any update.

Utter trash like the Fast and the Furious movies are some of the biggest selling and most popular content.

This kind of content can absolutely be replaced by automation and IMO most people will be more than happy with generated content.

> a fixed number (from the pool) of Hereditary Peers, who have inherited this honour typically (but not always) from their father and so on, perhaps for centuries.

That's so incredibly embarrassing and anachronistic.

One needs to cite a source for a claim that a particular criticism is widespread.

> Myself I think Singapore has it right about gum

Singapore has it right about very little. Extravagant punishment for the sake of deterrence is not justice.

That makes me want to get as much cheap LV stuff as I can and modify it and resell it.

He seems fine, but I don't think he is saying anything an average HN reader wouldn't already be aware of.

I had a link I wanted to give you, one of the privacy distros had a whole guide on hiding the fact that programs were running in a vm from programs, but I can't find it right now. If I find it I'll post it again.

Otherwise this[0] link might be useful. Completely agree about it shouldn't being necessary and would be nice if it wasn't.

[0] https://forums.unraid.net/topic/90111-hide-os-vm-status/

Edit: Actually, I found some more links, these are what I have saved as soon I want to attempt making a Windows VM that doesn't know it's a VM. I hope these help:

How to Emulate a TPM 2.0 Module on LibVirt/QEMU - https://www.smoothnet.org/qemu-tpm/

How to Install virtio Drivers on KVM-QEMU Windows Virtual Machines - https://linuxhint.com/install_virtio_drivers_kvm_qemu_window...

Hiding Virtual machine status from guest operating system - https://superuser.com/a/1389159

The below are self-explanatory from the URL.

https://serverfault.com/questions/727347/solidworks-activati...

https://www.kicksecure.com/wiki/System_identity_camouflage

https://www.kicksecure.com/wiki/CPUID

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/VM_Fingerprinting

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Protocol-Leak-Protection_and_Fin...

I appreciate that I came on to see you say this, because I was about to reply quoting you saying I can take the win, saying I wasn't trying to compete and maybe that was an issue.

FWIW, I don't doubt at all that you could create a local account. I have yet to move to 11 from 10 for my VM setup and want to avoid doing so as long as possible, so I've been sort of tracking the issue, as that they may remove it permanently is a slight concern and interest to me.

I mean, you're answering a question here, so it doesn't really make sense to start your reply with 'Or'. I get you're trying to be snappy back, but it doesn't really work here.

That aside, the point is there are a ton of possibilities why it worked for you and not another user. Just because it worked for you and the other people reporting it did (and dare I point out some confirmation bias for you dismissing the other people saying it didn't) doesn't mean it still works universally or in newer/older or even different regional versions of an image.

I didn't say a preference for systemd makes $SYSTEMD-USING-DISTRO a bad recommendation.

It's still comparatively very simple compared to stuff like CoD. Qemu has made an advancement on being able to hide that you are in a vm. Byfron is likely only targeted at Parallels, hyperv and vmware. If you try it with qemu and follow the steps to make the vm undetectable as a vm it will probably work fine.

> but for me the alternative is to conclude that I'm having a multi-day hallucination.

Or that you didn't consider all relevant factors, like if you used the latest image like the other use did, as they asked?

> they tell me that about once a month.

So fix that.

Or until republicans ruin the earth and make things bad enough that even they agree to introduce legislation relegating what businesses can do to the extent other developed countries have.

> You are asserting that some people are lying but who?

Anyone making clearly false claims, for example.

I had a recent discussion with a Linux devotee, for example, claiming gaming on Linux was basically as good as Windows and that Linux had full DirectX equivalents. Both things are false, the user knows they are false, but that user lied to themselves due to loyalty to their preferred platform.

Apple users do it so often, the term reality distortion field was invented to describe their behavior. Sony and Zboz fans do it as well. Not to mention people do it with everything, i.e. political parties.

GhostBSD is like that second party in The Office that the party planning committee made.

> We're on a tech forum, where people probably need less handholding with tech gear than the general public does.

I'm not sure about that. I think the days of assuming people who can code or do another specialized tech sill are long over.

The amount of comments from people who prefer windows or mac or ubuntu and systemd because of convenience and abstraction (i.e. handholding) are plentiful.

VMs are easier than ever now and those simple games like won't be upset they are running in a VM. Bonus is you can have snapshots and always restore to a working state no matter what the kids do to it.

> Reading through bluescrn's comments, it seems like anything short of "I can easily replace the battery myself" is unacceptable.

Which is pretty reasonable. Giving up little bits of a control at a time is how we end up with no control at all.

It's always possible, just rarely preferred and almost never easy.

It's wrong and always a problem when people start lying, either to themselves, others or both.

I agree there is nothing wrong and people advocating for their preferences, opinions, arguments, solutions, whatever.

However, when you get so attached that you need to start lying to say it's better or that the alternatives are worse, that's no longer rational and makes the people doing so no longer trustworthy.

This is true for all types of tribalism across all areas of society.

> The 'piracy' element is running an activation script off of GitHub.

You're modifying software against the terms of service to have functionality only offered by an entirely different license that costs substantially more.

Yeah, you're not downloading ISOs or using cracks but it is absolutely no less piracy.

> However IMO that is Microsoft problem and not mine for not providing a legal way for a normal consumer to get LTSC.

Sure, but that's their business decision and right. If you want it you can pay for it, just like if you want an expensive sportscar you have to pony up for that as well.

> Given that there is no torrenting and it is just a script you are running, I am legitimately curious about any legal ramifications.

For you individually, I'm sure you know they won't care, just as they already don't care about all the gamers with all the watermarked pirated versions of Windows.

You're more than likely absolutely safe. But it's still just as much piracy as downloading an ISO and using a crack, and you would be just as legally culpable.

> For me once I hit "most" and not "all" I asked myself why I was bothering,

Honestly it's because Windows is still your enemy. You can tame it, but you have to fight with it. Sure, you can get it pretty good, and you eliminate a lot of problems using the ltsc version, but you still don't own the software and they could still fuck with it and by extension you and one day there might not be a script to fix it.

Personally, I think it makes significantly more sense to keep windows around only to run the few games that won't work on Linux, not as a main OS. At this point, even the LTSC versions, are basically untrusted, hostile software.

Everyone's has different views on this though, balancing conveience and other needs, so it's not like there's an objective answer.

It's just zealotry and tribalism. It's been a thing with Linux since I started using it back in 97 or whenever.

Funnily enough, I ran 2003 and then 2008 server versions as my desktop for a long time. No cruft and great performance. Very easy to enable desktop stuff and disable server stuff also.

LTSC is a fantastic solution if Windows is a need, but there is no getting around it that the only way you can use it, or most people, is via piracy.

You're ethically fine with it, but it's still a problem for many, even if purely due to legal concerns and not ethical ones.

I want to game as well, but thankfully most of what I want to run will run on Linux. GTA6 likely won't, and then I'll have to look at streaming with moonlight or something, or playing on a VM with GPU passthrough.

Qemu is making advances at allowing VMs to hide that they are VMs, so that might end up being a great solution.

> macOS does offer a nicer overall UX than Windows,

Eh, does it? I find it to be incredibly unintuitive, and so do many people I see try to use it with no prior PC experience.

Exactly this. I was having a silly argument recently with someone that was trying to say Proton was just as good as DirectX/Windows, and it's really not even close in terms of support and stability, not to mention it only works with Steam initially.