Everyone*
All***

*On some versions of Android**
*Mostly Indian apps
**Workarounds exist***
***Workaround only works for checking a hardcoded list of apps, and can’t check all your apps

Informative article, but damn the clickbait

You are driven by hate. Rowling is not going to get any more “enabled” than she already is with her bottomless pit of money. If you are truly an ally, suggest better media to support, rather than being combative and alienating everyone in the proces.

Again, she is not the creator and has nothing to do with the game other than the creators purchased the rights to the setting.

I am aware the motives behind it are profit driven. But that doesn’t make the message less valuable. People seeing themselves represented is helpful to them, and it normalizes them for other people.

Rowling having slightly more money makes no difference to her spewing her views, she is set for life anyway. Yes I’d like to avoid giving her money, but a much stronger signal I’d like to send is that a game with trans characters sells well.

It would be ridiculous to pretend so. Giving money to trans-supportive games absolutely does though.

Seeing how the game prominently features trans characters and that Rowling wasn’t involved in making it, it probably doesn’t bother many people.

I want to support media that show and empathize with trans people, and Hogwarts is one of them. But yes, even though she was not involved, she surely is receiving some royalties due to the setting.

Yeah, I was thinking of a new repo with no existing code.

In your case you’d want to uncheck the creation of a readme so the hosted repo is empty and can be pushed to without having to overwrite (force) anything.

You don’t if you just clone the repo you created.

It works nicely, and I use it for VR games, but it doesn’t really solve the anti-cheat problem, because these anti-cheats tends to not allow VMs anyway.

Never had an issue with Nvidia. But then I’m using an Ubuntu distro because I just want my computer to work and I don’t care about bleeding edge / rolling distros.

And I will move to Wayland in a few years when all the issues are sorted out, which I suspect is part of people’s problems.

Nobody is talking about piracy.

To play games they own on other systems? To make official rereleases of old games, which now happens pretty often?

One could think so, but no cybersecurity experts share such opinion to my knowledge.

If it provided a feature to automatically block incoming dick pics, which Google claims it’s for, was fully local, and only scanned incoming messages, not my own gallery, which is what Google claims, I would likely find it useful. There is nothing wrong with the idea in general.

At the very least it wastes your battery

Again, if it’s an optional feature that you can choose to turn on or off, there is nothing wrong with that.

But your words confuse me. Either it’s not true at all or it happens.

The idea is pretty simple, so it would be surprising if it wasn’t happening at all. But there is a huge difference between “there probably exist some examples that do that” and a sweeping statement about all of them in general.

They removed don’t be evil long time ago

See, this is why I like proof. If you go to Google’s Code of Conduct today, or any other archived version, you can see yourself that it was never removed. Yet everyone believed the clickbait articles claiming so. What happened is they moved it from the header to the footer, clickbait media reported that as “removed” and everyone ran with it, even though anyone can easily see it’s not true, and it takes 30 seconds to verify, not even 5 hours.

Years later you are still repeating something that was made up just because you heard it a lot.

Of course Google is absolutely evil and the phrase was always meaningless whether it’s there or not, but we can’t just make up facts just because it fits our world view. And we have to be aware of confirmation bias. Yeah Google removing “don’t be evil” sounds about right for them, right? It makes perfect sense. But it just plain didn’t happen.

Why suspicious? I have genuinely never read a news story about a virus sending different versions of itself to different OSs. I’m sure it happens, but it doesn’t seem common at all, and you are claiming it very matter-of-factly so I am interested to know more.

Do you have any data to back up that claim? I don’t think that’s true at all, it would be very rare.

Do we have any proof of it doing anything bad?

Taking Google’s description of what it is it seems like a good thing. Of course we should absolutely assume Google is lying and it actually does something nefarious, but we should get some proof before picking up the pitchforks.