Most extremely wealthy people seem to be higher in measures of narcissistic traits, self-entitlement, and egocentrism.

Literally what capitalism rewards the most as they’re the most willing to exploit.

This is the real answer. Community.

Notice you’ve completely abandoned the web serving argument. Can’t defend it so you’ve moved on. We’ll add that to the list, another goalpost flying by at mach speed. Wonder if they’ll add it to Forza?

Show me a AAA FOSS game

AAA FOSS games is a deliberately narrow target designed to sound convincing. The gaming industry’s core infrastructure is heavily FOSS. The Linux kernel that Steam Deck runs on. Mesa graphics drivers. Vulkan. SDL. OpenAL. The entire graphics stack underneath every game including your precious AAA titles runs on “commie garbage.” It’s not whether the marketing budget and cutscenes of a AAA title are open source. It’s whether the industry could function without FOSS infrastructure. It couldn’t.

Even the FOSS games that come close had their engines donated

Once again, you do half the work for me. If FOSS is garbage why do commercial studios donate their engines to it? id Software open sourced Quake’s engine. Epic contributes to open standards. Donations flow toward FOSS precisely because the commercial ecosystem benefits from shared infrastructure. You’ve just described companies recognizing the value of what you call “garbage.”

Professional production software like Adobe, Office, CAD - The industry runs on proprietary

Adobe and Office dominate through network effects and proprietary lock-in, not purely technical superiority. Quality? That’s just an argument for switching costs. LibreOffice handles the vast majority of office tasks. DaVinci Resolve has a free tier that professional editors use for Oscar-nominated titles. The tools exist. The dominance is structural, not meritocratic. Capitalists do love to believe in their myths.

Blender is probably the best thing you have, and it was practically donated too.

Blender is your worst example. Blender is in active production use at major studios, such as in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and is maintained by a foundation funded by Epic, Adobe, and Meta who pay for its development because building proprietary alternatives costs more. “Practically donated” is you accidentally describing why FOSS works. Companies fund it because the output is worth more than the cost of maintaining it. You make this SO easy.

You keep moving to new ground every time the current ground collapses. ECC. Abandonment. Web serving. Now games and Adobe. How many more before you answer the question of why you hate “FOSS commie garbage” so much but continue to avidly use and moderate on it?

Oohh, it’s fun when technicially illiterate people think they’re smart.

You just answered your own question and didn’t notice.

Web serving is one of the simplest jobs a computer can have. -Why wouldn’t they choose the cheapest option?

You’re right! The cheapest option is Linux. The reason Linux is cheap, reliable, and dominant across web infrastructure, cloud computing, and enterprise servers is because of the FOSS ecosystem you called “commie garbage.” The Linux kernel, Apache, Nginx, OpenSSL, and basically every critical piece of web serving infrastructure are all FOSS projects maintained by the exact community you’re attempting to insult.

You’re using the output of FOSS to argue against FOSS. Every website you visit, every web service you use, the Lemmy instance you moderate your Linux-hating community on, all of it runs on “commie garbage.”

The most disgusting part of it to me is not that you’re failing to argue against FOSS. You’re attempting to remove credit from the passionate and driven devs who built the infrastructure we use today. That’s despicable, and entirely on brand for capitalist bootlickers. Capitalism builds nothing and simply repurposes and repackages the passion and labor of others by adding a new pricetag, subscription, or storefront. Maybe some DLC or microtransactions if we’re feeling really greedy.

Sounds like a boon for other projects like Graphene, Postmarket, Lineage, Ubuntu Touch, etc

Make sure to donate and I hope the devs switch gears and leave Google behind.

I think it was a play on words

…or pay for that matter.

Thanks, I appreciate that! As part of my degree I worked on designing/building and addressing RAM and ROM so it’s a particular area of interest of mine. I enjoyed building address hashes all the way up from NAND gates, to JK/D flip-flops, to eventually said RAM and ROM.

SearXNG also helps with searching and getting relevant articles and results, especially in comparison to Google these days haha.

Which I feel this person may read and believe articles like this thanks to AI 🙃

https://myshoesreview.com/flip-flops/is-ram-made-of-flip-flops/

If you’re interested in what JK flip flops actually are:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/digital-logic/what-is-jk-flip-flop/

Data integrity is a hardware problem, not an OS problem.

ECC protects the OS. The OS cannot protect itself.

ECC is the only one to detect single‑bit errors, correct single‑bit errors, detect multi‑bit errors, and prevent silent corruption from propagating.

Good, we’ve made progress. You now correctly describe what ECC does, which is accurate. Notice though that you’ve abandoned your original claim that “Linux is intended to be run on ECC memory” and replaced it with “servers need ECC.” Those are completely different statements. The first one was wrong, like I refuted. You’ve just admitted it without saying so.

Windows has the most aggressive consumer‑grade fault‑tolerance stack with WHEA, bad‑page retirement, PCIe AER recovery, GPU/driver subsystem restart, VBS integrity enforcement, core offlining, and memory poisoning.

These features dramatically reduce crashes on unreliable hardware.

These are real but irrelevant to your original argument. Those features handle hardware errors after they occur. ECC prevents corruption before it propagates. They’re not comparable. On non-ECC consumer hardware, Windows and Linux, and any other OS for that matter, are equally exposed to silent bit-flip corruption. Windows just surfaces the errors more visibly. That’s better logging, not better physics.

Linux doesn’t even try to deliver that because they don’t have to

Easily the most provably false thing you’ve said. Linux runs 100% of the top 500 supercomputers in the world. It runs the majority of financial infrastructure, safety-critical systems, and enterprise servers globally. Correctness is literally the reason it dominates those environments. The idea that it doesn’t try for correctness is not a technical position, it’s just wrong. At this rate, are you applying for a position in the Trump admin? You’d fit right in for how confidently incorrect you are.

Also still waiting on that Lemmy answer. For someone so against “FOSS commie garbage” you seem pretty active on it, enough to make your own community and moderate it.

Damn, that’s wild haha thanks. Their response sounds like some kind of conspiracy driven nonsense. I assume Linux must run the bird drones spying for everyone too, since birds aren’t real. They must not be using ECC memory either. Damned commie government.

Your anecdotes are funny because they lack all technical merit (typical Linux propaganda).

While calling Linux commie garbage. Dafuq?

You want technical? Let’s go.

You do realize that Linux is intended to be run on ECC memory

This is technically confused. ECC memory is error-correcting memory used in servers and workstations to detect and correct bit-flip errors. It’s not a Linux requirement and Linux runs fine on non-ECC consumer hardware, the same hardware Windows runs on. It sounds like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what ECC is and/or what Linux is. Having worked at the architectural level in RAM addressing utilizing Hamming code to protect against sais bit flips, I’ve experience in this area. Linux runs on everything from Raspberry Pis to supercomputers to Android phones. Windows also supports ECC memory on compatible hardware. This isn’t a Windows vs Linux distinction at all.

Windows has been built with many features to compensate and is therefore more resilient for almost all home users

This is vague enough to be unfalsifiable. Features to compensate for what exactly? It certainly isn’t memory usage or performance, that’s for sure. Memory errors on non-ECC hardware affect both operating systems equally since that’s a hardware limitation, not an OS one.

Even Linus Torvalds would shake his head at the nonsense LiGNUts put out there.

This is an appeal to authority but backfires. Linus Torvalds famously uses Linux exclusively (he prefers Fedora and is happy not being at the bleeding edge), advocates for it constantly, and has been publicly critical of proprietary software and Nvidia drivers. Invoking him as someone who would disapprove of Linux advocacy is an interesting choice, or an entirely uninformed one.

FOSS is commie garbage

Someone who opens with that framing and then produces technically confused claims about ECC memory is not making a good faith technical argument. Linux, as a technology, is not political. You’re working backwards from your own ideology using mental gymnastics to make uninformed claims in an attempt to support said ideology.

Here’s a question for you, now that we’ve exposed your lack of technical knowledge. Why are you on Lemmy, “FOSS commie garbage” software, same as Linux?

Dude, I hope GoatSynagogue gets paid to be a kernel level anti cheat shill. They’re ALL over this comment section defending it and windows and toxic community slop multiplayer games. Maybe they work on anti-cheat software and drink the koolaid?

I say leave those toxic users on windows. If that’s the community they want to foster, be my guest. We’ll be here building and providing simply because we’re passionate and want to help.

I’ve done exactly that recently and it’s been fun honestly. I’ve learned about so many projects and so many passionate people who just want to build things to help people. I’ve yet to have any crashes too, unlike windows, and I’ve seen a performance uplift of about 10-15%, mostly from all the background services no longer running and hogging resources. I’m even setting up a homelab to self host/provide my community with a way to replace other corporatized spyware like google’s suite, discord, etc.

But yeah man, enjoy your capitalist slop, innovating the best ways to create problems and sell you solutions. Pay that subscription fee, buy another skin. I feel like I own my hardware again.

Woah, careful there, you might overload their brain. Extending your thinking and following logic to its endpoint?

Nooo, most popular game fortnite me play fortnite, me need unlock skins with credit card.

I still remember the internet glazing this new CEO a couple months ago cause they lowered prices.

Like, cmon people. It’s a CEO. They’re all delusional. That’s how they got the job.

Price locking people out not being a valid argument doesn’t follow from developers needing to charge X to break even. Both things can be true simultaneously. A developer can need that price to survive and that price can still lock people out who then pirate it. Thus is exactly why I played many free to play mmos because I simply didn’t have money to afford monthly subscriptions. Price can absolutely be a barrier to entry.The behavior under constraint isn’t invalidated by the price being justified.

GOG exists, it’s viable, and its entire model was built on DRM-free releases. If DRM-free were commercially impossible it wouldn’t exist at all. The fact that some publishers now include DRM on GOG is a publisher choice, not a market requirement. GOG itself doesn’t mandate it and has historically pushed back against it. If there was no market for it, GOG wouldn’t be in a position to push against anything.

Health codes still apply to restaurants even though nobody compels you to eat out. That’s also a luxury. Consumer protection frameworks apply to discretionary purchases all the time. (Though in the US that’s actively being rolled back and people are ending up sick more often.) Luxury status doesn’t make restrictive or deceptive practices acceptable, it just means you can opt out of the product entirely, which is exactly what people are doing when they pirate or stop buying.

DRM absolutely follows authroritarian logic. I’m using the term to mean unilateral control exercised over something you’ve purchased without your meaningful consent or recourse. The mechanism is the same regardless of what you call it. You paid for access, the terms of that access get changed without your input, and you have no meaningful remedy. That dynamic doesn’t become acceptable because the product is a game rather than something essential.

I disagree with the last points. If true, indie games would make next to nothing, but that hasn’t been the case. In most cases, those of us who choose to pirate, it’s often because price locks us out or we eant control of our owm single player experience. Many in the pirating community will buy a game that they believe to be worth the cost.

Games that include free demos are often much less pirated.

If you build something from passion and heart it gets pirated much less than something looking to solely make a profit. Pirating is a policy problem more than a theft problem.

Perhaps chasing profit isn’t the path forward. And if DRM free didn’t work, I’d imagine GOG wouldn’t be viable as a business at all. One person could purchase a game and host it for free for anyone. People choose to instead support developers anyway when they beleive the game is worth it.

Basically, don’t choose authoritarianism and profit. Choose passion and vision and giving back.

For now. The problem is the mechanism exists to pull it back without your consent. If the download isn’t hosted anymore, or they start binding keycodes to accounts, you’re SOL.

Don’t build in the mechanism at all. Give us the full drm free files on physical media. The community will do the rest because we can’t trust corporations to preserve their history or respect their devs time and efforts when they could sell it to you again after they pull it from your library or remove the download hosts/store servers.

Benn Jordan released a video where he calls it Leveragism.

He essentially does his owm material analysis and arrives at the same conclusions Marx did. Because yes, it makes more sense for someone with wealth that rivals cities, states, and countries, to instead of increasing their own profit, to instead remove wealth from those beneath them to make them more pliable, more willing to hand over control or to do what they want. It’s control. It’s authoritarianism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy1lBNykA