@hankgreen.bsky.social if you are interested in testing that theory, you can request an archive of your data from X. In it, you'll have an account-creation-ip.js file that will contain the IP you had when you created your account. You can then geolocate that on MaxMind's website.

Alternatively, it could be geolocating every single tweet and getting the most common result; but again, it is possible the ISP you were using for the majority of your tweets has since sold that IPv4 block to a Japanese ISP, which would result in a JP result.

What I think X has done, is use MaxMind's GeoIP DB to geolocate the IP you had when you registered your account in 2009.

MaxMind's DB is a snapshot of the current IPv4 address block assignments. It is possible that your ISP has sold that particular block to a Japanese ISP between 2009 and today.

It's also not due to Secure/Measured Boot. Both are available on Linux, and if demand is there, distros I'm sure will happily start signing their kernel releases.

The reality is that some game publishers simply don't want to deal with Linux. That's on them, and if the market shifts, so will they.

We can have a long discussion about why publishers are making the decisions they are making, but I have a hard time to believe the anti-cheat angle. Plenty of titles are available on Linux with anti-cheat and don't have rampant cheating (Embark Studios, BHVR, etc.).

Minecraft Java Ed. is well supported on Linux. It's native.

The Bedrock Edition requires workarounds, but the large majority of the Minecraft community will tell you that it is inferior anyway.

As for the other games, we are talking about deliberate choices by the developers of those titles.

It's still Monday in some parts of the world. You haven't missed it yet.

This is just one example of #Microsoft total disregard for consumer rights and privacy. #Windows is being enshitified with AI, and cloud features consumers do not want. I'm currently writing a blog post about it, and why I no longer recommend Windows to friends and family. Switch to macOS or Linux.

This is going to be a very unproductive call to my mobile provider's level 1 support person. I'm unable to find the contact info for routing issues at TPG.

I was a Kickstarter backer for the original. I played it multiple times and enjoyed it.

I'm having loads of fun with Replaylee. That is what matters.

The other major issue I see is that most students have no way to validate that the information that the AI is giving them is accurate.

You have very little prior knowledge at that age, and providing them with access to a tool that is known to hallucinate seems like a recipe for disaster.

Ughhh.

Because advertising and profiling is invading every single commercial offering. At the same time, user choice is being gradually removed in order to create inescapable conversion funnels to increase sales and boost shareholders value.

The only option we have as users is to control our own tech. 🐧

I'm changing the no to few. I've yet to see an ISP who is granting a static IP *by default* today in Australia, Canada or the US, but it seems that there are some ISPs elsewhere.

After research, there seems to be one in the UK which doesn't charge an additional fee, so fair enough.

The last platform where cheating is so rampant that most shooters are not fun?

And it won't be mandatory. You can choose to not play those titles. No one is forcing you to.

You can even only toggle them on when you play protected titles if you wish.

You as a user, have a choice to turn those features on or off. That's great. They have a choice to allow you onto their services or not **for security reasons**. That's okay as well.

When it comes to attesting that ads cannot be blocked, that's when it becomes problematic. This, however, isn't.

As a service provider, I can also refuse you access to my service if I judge you a risk to my users. Why would a business provide VPN access to an employee who's laptop is compromised by themselves or by an external actor? Why should a AC be forced to grant access to a player who's running cheats?

I did back in 2023 when that proposal came out. I also did a CTRL+F for "Secure Boot", "TPM", "Trusted Platform Module" and got no results.

Yes, some technologies are there to protect the user from external threats, and from the user themselves as well. But as a user, YOU CAN TURN THEM OFF.