Certainly you can't be safe from this, you can just try to minimize the possibility of it happening by reducing the data you share to a minimum.
Yeah I guess the analogy is not entirely fitting. Thinking about how corporations use my data still creeps me out though haha.
As someone who has used openSUSE Tumbleweed the experience was great and I really liked the OBS and easy BTRFS snapshots.
But I think BTRFS was what made gaming performance tank (but I didn't try openSUSE with ext4) and I also missed the AUR alot so back to Arch it was.
But Linux actually is easy and a lot of fun!
It's just that choosing a distro like Arch that requires you to decide what software you want to install might be a bad idea for someone who doesn't know yet what software they need.
Installing a distro like openSUSE is straight forward and easy through their graphical installer, albeit not exactly quick (at least not compared to Arch) and allows you to explore Linux at your own pace.
Using the SteamDeck was also very easy but maybe that was just because I daily drive Arch? At least getting EmuDeck to run is just point and click.
They don't need to sell that information to be untrustworthy, they just need to lose it.
This is how people steal your identity or buy stuff with your credit card even though you only gave that information to big corporations. It has happened a lot and is still happening.
As someone who has worked on large databases I can confidently say that every single piece of information the company had on all of it's customers was available at my fingertips in clear text except for the passwords which I could have cracked in the thousands per second if they had less than 9 characters, which a lot of passwords did because the requirement was at least 8.
The only way the company can prevent me from doing malicious things with your data is if they only hire people with a moral compass and paying them enough. And the first one isn't exactly easy.
There is not a lot you can do as a consumer to not get taken advantage of except minimizing the amount of data a company has on you because they don't care enough and you will care once the police comes knocking on your door because of a crime someone did with your identity.
I love everything about this!
Game playability depends on network bandwidth and latency and also on the type of game. I've played Hitman Blood Money over the net when Square Enix had a programme that let you play their games in a browser for 30 minutes or something for every ad you watched and that worked quite well on a 12mbit connection close to the servers. But I can't imagine something like Counter Strike working well.
But no matter what happens the desktop can't die as there are still Linux, BSDs and MacOS (maybe even Haiku but I don't know how viable that is, certainly not for gaming anytime soon).
I wholeheartedly agree that people massively oversell gaming on Linux.
If you're lucky though you might be in a position where most of the games you play not only run on Linux but actually run better than on Windows, even non natively through Proton, how ever that black magic works.
I still dual boot Windows though for those few outliers which is annoying, especially when it wants to update itself after you didn't use it in 4 months and everything runs very slow.
Busking is not begging though and they don't advertise or try to sell you cds. If you give them money they'll appreciate it but they won't harass you if you don't (well there is always bad eggs but they aren't the majority).
There was an old guy playing violin all year even when it was super cold and I walked past him everyday and gave him some money. Not because he asked but because I wanted to. He was always appreciative and we both had a pleasurable experience.
I believe you can separate your business and private contributions by having an onlyfans link in your bio but not directly advertising it in your posts.
Kind of like I get paid as a software developer professionally but I still contribute to open source in my free time. Of course potential employers could go through my free stuff and then decide that they want to pay me to work for them, but it's not directly marketing my career for people not interested in it.
I'm new to the whole fediverse thing, so how would you create a barrier to entry apart from individual instances not federating with instances they see as abusive?
It showed let's say 12 o'clock when they arrived at 11 o'clock meaning they must have been there for 23 hours.
The tickets are not written up by robots but by someone checking the time on the parking disc.
Sometimes people manually set their parking discs a bit forward so that they have a bit more time but if they get checked in that time frame the ticket is even more expensive than if they overstayed an hour.