That’s just providing better service than piracy, not any change in what is legal. Physical media is unrelated (or barely related)

Legally this option died 2 decades ago thanks to steam. So I just wondered why the big consoles still allow this.

Huh? I don’t think Valve wrote any laws about this, or even lobbied for them.

It’s been edited, bud. Originally it said that 2fa in general is insecure.

That’s all sms though, not 2fa in general.

All valid points and good information within that scope.

Okay that makes sense. Yes sms is insecure, not 2fa.

[citation needed] on the second half

But they made a great, impactful movie!

If it helps to explain it, Red Hat is owned by IBM.

Saving a click: broken legs, caused by relatively heavy e-bikes.

As someone who uses Windows for work and Linux for pleasure: one of the cons of Linux is the lack of integrated ubiquitous file sharing via SMB and UNC paths. Being able to “cd \\server\c$” and expect that to work with 99% of programs made in the last two decades, is pretty great.

“Hardcode a few pre-selected paths and their credentials in /etc/fstab” just doesn’t cut it. Neither does autofs.

You could have done that, but here we are.

Print it out and scan it. Use a barcode reader. Use another mobile. Upload it to a barcode decoder website.

What exactly is “improper use”?

It can be done if the 1% would stop being greedy selfish assholes. So it won’t happen.

However long it takes for the funding to run out and the bubble to burst.

I absolutely do, but Linux-or-not has nothing to do with that.

Android is Linux. Not all Linux systems are Android, but all Android systems are Linux.

It’s not necessarily helpful to those on desktop Linux, but it is Linux if someone wants to be a purist about which operating systems run on their hardware.

Seems a little round-about. But if you want, I guess you could do that for some reason.

No; they said you can use Android.

In general:

• I would rather not wait. This mostly benefits everyone: user gets to see what is coming, developer gets feedback, and depending on software maybe user can start getting the benefits sooner
• on the other hand, it has some risks: maybe devs spend time fixing problems instead of bigger “building the system” tasks. Maybe users get attached to the “pre-release way of doing things” even if the final release is better. (Early access game mods can be very vulnerable to this)

Complete vs simple software, it depends on what the job is. Some complexity is fine, and some bugs are fine, as long as there is a plan to get to where you want the software to be.