I think that Victor may not have English as his primary/first language, I am trying to use a simple comparison that is more likely to convey the general, fundamental concepts.

No.

Secure Boot is basically a ‘lock’, on the UEFI.

UEFI - Shim is basically a ‘lockpick’.

UEFI is the first step in your computer booting, turning on.

So, if Secure Boot is supposed to be a ‘lock’, that limits who can access the UEFI … but it turns out that there are many, old, UEFI - Shims, that defeat that ‘lock’… then Secure Boot is not a good ‘lock’.

I don’t mean to be rude but it seems like there might be a bit of language confusion going on here… In English, a ‘shim’ is a kind of crude/simple tool that can be used to break or bypass some actual physical locks.

So ‘UEFI-Shim’ basically means ‘a thing that breaks into your UEFI’.

Secure boot is supposed to be a lock.

Turns out there are 10 year old tricks that bypass that lock.

A lock that cannot deny access to people without proper key… is a bad lock.

I know Bazzite is the deck build for HTPC, and is in testing right now for the next updates.

Eh… not quite sure what exactly you are trying to say, but:

Bazzite has multiple variants, and they have a webpage that points you at the correct one.

https://bazzite.gg/#image-picker

There is also the FAQ:

https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/FAQ/

What Bazzite image do I use?

Bazzite’s website offers a streamlined way of selecting the correct image which will be chosen based on hardware, desktop environment, and to include Steam Gaming Mode if the hardware supports it.

Bazzite offers multiple images, but most images will be following one of these three variants:

Variant 1: Bazzite images that do not have Steam Gaming Mode and receive automatic updates daily with gaming packages pre-installed.

Variant 2: Bazzite images that automatically boot into Steam Gaming Mode (like SteamOS) and are intended for controller-oriented setups.

Variant 3: Bazzite images that are intended for software development.

… anyway, as others have said, there are actually a lot of differences between Bazzite and SteamOS.

Honestly just read all of the FAQ page.

So I skimmed the actual article, not sure if the author said this, but my guess as to why Wayland has a … worse reputation generally in the latency department, than seems to be deserved?

At least for myself, there was a significant period of time where … XWayland was the only way to actually run whatever game, on my system, with/via Wayland.

If this kind of thing was not just myself, and was generally common… well then XWayland = Wayland -> Wayland sucks.

Ah, so they’re losing marketing talent.

I mean sure, but…

What kind of ‘key talents and skills’ are we talking about?

The ability to make the same game, 20 times?

Those ‘talents’ and ‘skills’?

Hello, my name is Marc Parella and I am laughably ignorant of the entirety of human history since roughly 1880.

Yes, I’m trying to be hyperbolically facetious, to illustrate that.

Well holy shit I didn’t know that existed!

Presumably they… don’t have it GUI exposed because they don’t want to give the average user the ability to potentially fully lock up their CPU and totally crash their PC?

I don’t have much to say in detail, other than ‘thank you for the very well worded and thought out response!’

I will have have to chew on this for a while, I think, to fully grasp all of it, hah!

Even worse!

Admitting that I was not always doing the most sensible thing, at all times! That I was actually doing really stupid things, for a long time!

I … I can’t make mistakes… no … reality is wrong!

And you misspelled ‘The’ ;)

In other news, SpaceX stock is currently at…

$136.78, as of time of this comment, after hours trading.

Yep.

Yeah. ‘Flash Crashed’ about $1 Trillion of market cap out of existence today.

…I’m sure that’ll buff right on out, no problem.

Genuine question:

Would you have a reccomendation for a comparable alternative?

Like, I have experience with a good deal of scripting languages, sql variants… am currently trying to do Morton coding/interleaving for octrees in Godot.

I have the framework working in GDScript… theoretically, if its not performant enough, i could either attempt to transition it to C++ / GDExtension… or, potentially, I could do a ‘Rustdot’ type thing, apparently its possible to… do that.

So, while I am only really aware of Rust as a potential alternative to C++, in my specific context… would you have a broader opinion of lower level languages? I just actually don’t know much about them.

Yeah… ‘punk’ is an actual lifestyle, maybe you could say an ideology, or parts of an ideology, or a framework for ideology.

When you just wear it as a costume, you’re not only missing the point, you’re disposing of the meaning the style is supposed to signify… you’re gentrifying a concept, and very likely commodifying it.

Now of course I don’t expect every young person, young adult to … grasp all of that… would be very stupid to ‘well ackshually’ some kid just trying to express themselves as unique, in some way.

But maybe, hopefully, some of em will read this, and it’ll spur them to look into the actual history, the actual ideas… realize that how you live is incredibly more important than what you look like, while doing so.

ITT:

Win 10 user not realizing they are self-reporting how unenthusiastic / unimpressed they are by their OS, to the extent that they literally cannot even imagine being excited by any OS.

I’d say fuzzball there has some pretty lips, but… nah, not really.

She got confused and misspelled ‘poser’.

Or, or… hear me out:

Every big box shopping center?

Just put an axe throwing / darts / cornhole ‘store’ on one side, and a VR arcade on the other side.

The whole ‘male daycare/playpen zone’ thing? For dudes who just don’t wanna be shopping any more?

Give them an actual male daycare zone, that is actually enjoyable.

Ancillary bonus: wtf, does that kinda seem like a ‘third place’ where social interactions with randos can happen?

Yeah its still capitalistic, but presuming we’re talking about America/Americans… baby steps, baby steps.