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Quoting: rea987How about digital Steam Wallet codes distributed to 3rd party sites?

The article does note that digital wallet codes will continue to work and will remain available.

Quoting: VulpisFoxfireApologies for breaking into this (as I'm a Mint user, not an Arch one), but a friend pointed me at this thread, and I couldn't help but notice a glaring omission on the topic of newbies/people who don't know the nitty-gritty using Arch..
IIRC, SteamOS is Arch-based, isn't it? So right there, you have a load of people using Arch (or at least an Arch derivative) not particularly as an informed choice, or an educational one, but because that's what's installed on their gaming device.

Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrheaThat's like saying "people who can't swim can drown in the sea, so we should have every single access to the sea guarded and protected at all time".
That is insane...

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Quoting: pbOr just:

grep atomic ~/AUR/*/PKGBUILD

for yay users: grep atomic ~/.cache/yay/*/PKGBUILD :-)

Lol I thought I was being so clever - that's much cleaner, thank you! I didn't know grep could do multiple files at once without combining them in some way. Appreciate it

Quoting: hardpenguinI was told the first Thief was the best one so I definitely want to try this.

Quoting: seflasporinI don't see any problem with recommending Arch so long as it's an educational recommendation. That's the problem I had with the LTT linux challenge. Linus' excuse for using listicals and LLMs was that he was taking the "average Joe" approach, but then never bothered to educate those people on its pitfalls (likely because he didn't know himself).
Arch (and the AUR) are a fine place to learn linux and to operate the software on your own system, but they're entirely unsuited to people who want their software to operate their system for them, something frequently brought up by people who complain that things don't "just work".

Quoting: LoudTechieIn a simple case you might get away with.

 
gdb
set hp 47
running program

If I'm not mistaken
@syylk might have some deeper and better insight.

Quoting: MayeulCWell, in mt case I started using it because I was finding myself using the Arch wiki so often. It's a great resource. By the point I switched, I was already quite familiar with Linux internals, and the arch wiki. So I switched from Slackware, and don't regret it one bit. I think my next distro will be Guix (or maybe Nix), or an immutable like Kionite.

Anyway, that probably changed as it became a meme, but I had always seen (circa 2013 at least) "I use Arch by the way" in troubleshooting posts, where the distro was not necessarily immediately relevant, more of a late addition to a question, as it may be a relevant info for the person helping troubleshoot. You could find these on github issues (project not working/bug), linuxquestions (something like X11 woes), or SuperUser/stackoverflow (though less common).

I still do not recommend it to beginners, unless they are technically minded, and interested in having have a crash course. I learned so much when switching to Arch, I don't regret it one bit. And the AUR is so much ahead of its Slackware equivalent (I think it was one of the main motivations).

As for the install process, it's reportedly much easier now, there's even arch install. Though pacstrap isn't terribly complicated.

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Quoting: doragasubut IMO for most Linux users it's a bad choice.

I gotta point out that it's #12 on Distrowatch and one of the most used distros on the Steam charts, just behind Cachy. It's quite popular. I reckon it's that stupid meme got people to use it, but either way, lots of people are up for the challenge of learning. That "I use Arch btw" meme has to die at some point anyway. If you can follow instructions well enough to make a batch of brownies, you can install Arch.

Quoting: pbOr just:

grep atomic ~/AUR/*/PKGBUILD

for yay users: grep atomic ~/.cache/yay/*/PKGBUILD :-)

Quoting: doragasubut IMO for most Linux users it's a bad choice.

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Quoting: LoudTechiealso relevant to this discussion.
Valve will never accept monero, because it's anonymous and decentralized.
The scammers for which they sacrificed their own gift cards would exploit exactly this decentralization and anonymity to hide their activity.

Even though I can't imagine how that could happen, (just like how I cant believe peoole sfill fall for gift card scams), you're probably right. I wonder when this stops being about a problem with gift cards and currencies, and more about people not thinking clearly when falling for these scams.

People will always fall for scams. That's not a problem that'll ever go away. Which is why we need governments, laws and regulations to protect the vulnerable. Of course governments do that with varying success and enthusiasm, but that's a political and social problem that doesn't have a technical solution.

In my opinion, the reason scams work so well is because they are exploiting the individual's innate greed and, in some cases, the appeal of getting something for nothing (i.e., minimal effort or work). So, greed exploits greed, in the end, and, ironically, we look to government regulation to protect us from ourselves. I think the old phrase "and if you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you", says it all. Better to operate under the idiom that "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

I wouldn't go all in on victim blaming, unless you only count the "investment opportunity" scams and the "Nigerian princes". And sure, I want governments to protect their citizens from exploitation by criminals (or greedy corporations) even if they're too greedy or gullible for their own good.