You’re being naive. You’re probably not realising how common and well concealed depression is. Then when you see signs you’ve written it off as dark humour that can’t be legitimate feelings because their mask looks happy.

When a coworker was doing the same I had a chat with him, starting the conversation about another friend of mine who had recently attempted suicide and how it was hard for me getting up at 2am to his partner calling me driving to his house and talking him down getting him help and how tired I was. My coworker opened up and told me he had nearly been on the edge too. Completely invisible to everyone at work.

People try to normalise the thoughts that go through their head. Cope with humour and hide with acting normality and energy.

People struggle. Almost everyone goes through depression at some time in their life. You’ll work with people who contemplate suicide and walk by unknowingly everyday.

This study has nothing to do with that. It only surveyed mobile gaming.

I’m not an expert, but it sounds like if you finish a session of valorant, the anti cheat never unloads and continues to monitor memory and files.

Easy Anticheat though, according so some sources, only runs during game play.

Riots Anticheat has a bad history though. But both essentially are black boxes that send details both hash and samples back to their owners for them to approve what’s on it computer. Opened a medical record? It’s probably been hashed and sent back.

Opened your employers accounting files when working from home? details you probably sent riot a copy.

Both can be updated. There’s no guarantees that riot won’t do something nasty against a portion of high value targets. They know you from your payment details. They can identify, update the module and get anything they like, they have root.

Anticheat has a history of being a tool for hackers. https://www.vice.com/en/article/hackers-are-using-anti-cheat-in-genshin-impact-to-ransom-victims/

There’s no upside for the user. Mostly because they don’t work anyway.

Just compile your kernel with the anti cheat flags and telemetry enabled from source.

Stretched limousines exist by this very method. I’m Australian but the concept wasn’t started here. https://www.belle.net.au/building-a-stretch-limousine/

Edit:

We do know of limousines that have been shipped back to the USA for failing to meet Australian standards.

I’d say it’s easier in many American states.

Robotics OS, more like a subsystem to fit controlling sensors and motors

Snaps are awesome, I need to be on 20.04, or 18.04 for humble, for ROS noetic and so being able to install generic snaps which are fully up to date with modern software is awesome.

I use Ubuntu for ROS and work specific tasks, but I get the fuck out when I want to game. Ubuntu looks like a job to me. Just like Windows looks like a job to me.

But the thing is, that’s just me. Can’t imagine being mad at someone else for using it, but Ubuntu makes me irrationally mad because it’s associated to work.