the new mod client from nexus will be great, but I’d wager it’d be another year before its in a non-test state.

Eeh… I’d respectfully disagree on the anti-cheat being the only real hurdle right now.

Modding is still a massive pita and janky compared to windows, as an example.

Don’t get me wrong, Linux gaming has advanced entire geologic eras compared to where it was 10 years ago, 5 years ago, hell… even last year. I dont even have to reference protondb anymore, I just expect things to work in general, and they usually do, outside of the minority of games with asshole anticheat (most of that can even be run on linux, they just refuse to enable the option)

Theres a reason I havent owned a nintendo console or branded item since the gamecube.

and its not because of money.

its because Nintendo, as a company, is an enormous cunt that I wish would fall into ruin.

Those commercial displays are nothing but heavily stripped down TVs with anything unnecessary to being a advertising display removed. and maybe a tiny, grossly overpriced and heavily cut down computer built into it to run the slideshows/menus/whatever.

also, TVs in a certain size range are generally cheap because manufacturing has gotten to the point that each mother can produce a ton of screens for it. and the reason that cheap range size has gone up over the years is because improvements in the printing technology and the size of the mother glass.

Those typically come at commercial pricing, which is insane.

dumb TVs

Only one company makes Dumb TVs anymore, Sceptre, and the quality is very hit or miss due to the way they acquire their screens.

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This is why theres an uptick in anti-firefox stuff.

Didnt hear about that one, but I do recall some stories of people playing hundreds of hours, dev making a major catastrophic change, and steam still giving the refund.

time for refunds.

Steam has refunded games that added anti-cheat that broke linux playability in the past iirc

I poked around dbzer0 and found a few streaming sites, Nothing which carried anything i was particularly interested in.

Navigating this stuff without my ISP getting pissy is another hurdle, too.

It was much easier 20+ years ago when you just searched KaZaA or Limewire, or back when piratebay was the site (and before it got drowned in virus traps)

I’m more and more inclined towards the idea of piracy myself as time goes on and media continues to shave itself down into more and more ridiculous, unrelated shards, that you have to subscribe to just to be able to SEE if they have what you want.

I don’t actively do it actively since I dont really know where to begin, and things I have found have been to sketch for me, or requiring memberships or even payments to join.

the problem is so many people are willing to say they’ll take a stand.

but when the time comes, the mindnumbingly overwhelming majority suck it up, because they must have their precious shiny and can not suffer even the mildest of inconvenience.

Its my biggest gripe in gaming, but its a enormous gripe just in general, with everything. because it doesnt matter if you are talking about appliances, creative software, video games, streaming services, stores, etc.

I hate having to be on the side of “Defending” google… but this is the app makers fault, They are the ones using whats provided and installing the artificial limitations.

Google just provided the capability to do it. The app makers are executing it.

Projecting a bit with that whole “Acting superior” claim, aintcha.

You are trying to put the onus on end users, while also simultainously pursuing some weird guilt based appeal to emotion.

And still refuse to address the core issue, which is the lack of moderation and policing of content creating the essential need for adblockers in the first place.

Ad companies don’t get create this toxic hellscape, then blame end users with wrung hands and empty “Won’t someone thing of the poor content creators” appeals to emotion to try and handwave the responsibility away.

Why won’t they think of the content creators? Why wont they do something to reduce the actual necessity for adblock in the interest of the poor, downtrodden content creators?

Especially in a world where far better alternatives (like merch and patreon type sites) exists to give them money, directly, without having to deal with advertising hellscapes.

I don’t voluntarily consume malware, malicious software, or hate speech/propaganda.

Its just forced upon me when I don’t protect myself.

Are you really happy with yourself, white knighting for the poor defenseless advertising companies? The ones who serve this shit, without policing or moderation? The lack of which is precisely why adblocking, the thing you are trying to blame users for with your disingenuous “You criticize society, yet you exist in society… interesting” type argument, exists in the first place.

All the ad companies have to do to get rid of adblocking is police and moderate their content that they serve. Something they actively refuse to do.

And yet you don’t have a single criticism for that. You have nothing but vigorous defense of it, and shifting of blame to the users, for it.

Your entire post is trying to frame end users for the responsibility of what the advertising companies have done (or more like failed to do) and caused as a result.

You’re trying to hold a fork up and demand everyone acknowledge as a spade, and ridicule anyone who doesnt agree with a very dismissive attitude.

Roms arent adblocking.

You’re bypassing payment (in the form of watching ads)

By this argument going to the bathroom during a commercial break is piracy.

This isnt “someone being offended when accused of piracy”

This is " People getting upset when an idiot tries to blame end users, instead of holding the people who created the problem accountable"

Cause adblock isnt a user problem.

Its an ad service problem. They created a hostile environment where people had to run adblockers to protect themselves against unmoderated and unpoliced content and malicious/infected advertising.

If you have issues, blame the people who caused it, not the end users trying to protect themselves.

you do realize that ads appear in more places than just youtube, right?