You’ve been hearing about it because there’s been a lot of pushback at all stages of them doing it. That doesn’t mean it won’t happen, they’ve kept pushing for it and there’s no indication they won’t go through with it.

SteamOS is based on arch, but it has major differences. The steam deck’s update mechanism is completely different from normal arch Linux.

Arch normally immediately updates to the latest version of every program. This is usually fine, but when a big bug is missed by the developers, it can cause problems.

The steam deck updates a base image that includes all the programs installed by default, and by the time it releases a lot of them aren’t the absolute newest version. When valve updates SteamOS they definitely run a lot of tests on the base image to make sure it’s stable and won’t cause any issues.

SteamOS is also an immutible distro, meaning the important parts are read only. This also means updates are done to everything at once, and if something goes wrong, it can fall back to a known good version.

Not to say arch Linux is unstable (its been better for me than Ubuntu), but SteamOS is at a completely different level. It’s effectively a completely different distro if we’re talking about stability. I think what they’re hoping is this support would allow arch to build out testing infrastructure to catch more issues and prevent them from making it to users.

…They said waydroid

It could also have been a ghost listing, but yeah, I’m baffled they aren’t profitable

Probably didn’t see them, Epic’s already suing again because of their compliance plan.

The main gain would be losing any tracking youtube does on how you interact with their app. They could only track based off what videos your ip address watches.

I mean, it’s one thing to fan remake a single player game from a decade ago in a very different way, and a very different thing to remake a live Multi-player game made in basically the same engine.

Isn’t ubuntu pro free up to 5 devices

Do you remember what that extension is?

For android, I use https://revanced.app/

For desktop, I use https://freetubeapp.io/

Not concerning at all, pilots aren’t important to a plane.

open source definitely plays a role in Linux security, but it’s minor compared to stuff like market share, user privilege,

Is saying the role open source plays in Linux security is minor compared to the role other aspects play, not that the attacks are minor.

I like how you just ignored the comment you replied to which acknowledged linux makes up most servers and instead just argued against a guy you made up.

Oh yeah, definitely but those tend to be different attacks than would target random consumer computers.

Being open source definitely plays a role in Linux security, but it’s minor compared to stuff like market share, user privilege, package management vs just installing random exes, different distros using different packaging systems.

Not really, windows is most targeted because it’s most used. If Linux had comparable market share it would be attacked way more.

There’s the Intel management engine and the amd platform security processor. Both manage low level tasks like booting, and have access to network data. Amds psp is known to have unrestricted access to user memory.

There have been security vulnerabilities that would grant access to sensitive data exploiting both systems if not patched.

As for a backdoor, there’s no evidence but I wouldn’t be surprised. The NSA has programs to insert backdoors into consumer products and these seem like the perfect place to do it. But again, there’s no evidence either chip is part of these programs.

Guess you just needed to call in the ntsb to look for plane parts next time.

Exactly, med-palm 2 was specifically trained for being a medical chatbot, not general purpose like chatgpt

Why do people keep expecting a language model to be able to do literally everything. AI works best when it’s a model trained to solve a problem. You can’t just throw everything at a chatbot and expect it to have any sort of competence.