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Oh yeah I forgot to mention that. It's important when using wildcards or recursive permissions!

Oh, they'll try, but that just means trolling needs to get more creative, like certain Amazon reviews

Also, the fact that technology makes it easier to actually collect data on stuff like depression etc and people are more encouraged to speak about it, as opposed to previous "it's life, man up and take it" generations' attitude...

Yeah, I figure it does two ways

1. They get called out quickly and result in a bunch of shitposts or actively blasting the product

2. They block posting which makes it obvious they're ads and get little too no engagement anyhow

Tip: you can also use chmod u+rwx,g+rx,o+rx etc to add permissions

With the initial letters corresponding to "user", "group" and "other", and (r)was, (w)rite, e(x)ecute for the rest.

In the case of directories, x specifies access to files/etc within the directly (read just let's you see them)

You can also use i.e "o-rw" etc etc to remove existing permissions

I have similarly annoying issues when one of monitors is turned off. It collapses everything back onto the other display and doesn't reset when I turn it back on.

So maybe an issue with the display going to sleep?

Most people don't get that this is even possible until it bites them in the ass like this.

Certainly my own parents wouldn't think to try and find a "dumb" TV in this market or to not connect the damn thing to the internet like it tells you when you power it on. They bought a TV that lets them watch Netflix.

By the same token, I don't except my fucking microwave to suddenly require that I accept a ToS in order to nuke a potato, or to suddenly start showing me ads in increasing amounts a year or more after I bought and paid for it.

Users aren't the problem. Shitty companies and a lack of strong legislation against this (or legislators being for it) are the problem. Nobody should ever be presented with a 50 page ever-changing EULA for a product they've paid for to access common functionality.

They're not a problem. They're not even naive. They're just not savvy on all things about a given technology especially when it comes up aspects of legal arguments on such.

Before purchase seems to be the big thing. LG is also under fire for this regarding fridges as they put it on the box but typically that wasn't seen prior to purchase (the fridge models on the floor are unboxed) and many people use delivery companies that do the unboxing before the item gets to the consumer.

On Linux, you don't download random stuff from the internet, e.g. a new browser. You get it from a central source, usually package manager, where it is verified and secure

Devs tend to make strong use of packages on GitHub, PyPi etc which have been targeted quite a bit with malware. Malicious snaps and

Linux software is written to need only as many permissions as needed, but not much more.

Hooboi. Depends on who writes the software. There are plenty of dumb devs for either OS, and I've had to yell at many for requiring their commercial software (built in Java with an X11/web front-end and exposed listening ports) run as root, usually because they didn't want to figure out the permissions needed to access a device. There's a surprisingly narrow intersection of devs who understand OS security and networking.

Linux is usually always updated because of the central update mechanism, so that vulnerabilities are fixed very quick

For OS packages, sure, but are all your Docker containers, snaps, flatpaks, and appimages updated whenever one of the underlying libraries had a significant vulnerability? How about that PPA, or the stuff you compiled from source a year ago?

Because people are increasingly using those for software not available on the base repositories

Linux users often have a false sense of security that leads them towards insecure practices, often for the same reasons as Windows users (I just want it to do X and work). While traditional signature-based antivirus doesn't help much for either OS, there are plenty of other controls to fill the space that most people/organizations can - but don't - implement on either OS.

On Linux, that includes strict management/review of software+code sources, SElinux/AppArmor enforcement, remote logging+review, and much more. These often conflict with Linux devs idea of "freedom" and thus area a hard sell.

I see you noted how you're running gnome and what video card, but not how you're running Steam, so I'll ask:

How is Steam installed on your system? I know some people use a flatpak-based install but one of the potential issues with Flatpak (also Snap) is permissions to certain locations or devices can sometimes require extra config.

If you're currently running from Flatpak, perhaps try the direct install from .DEB instead

It's like the waivers at skihills etc. Lots of stuff not legal, but it gives then deleting to waste your time and money on and the can afford the lawyers better than you can

I'd likely put that in the category of "more than he cares about his users but less than he cares about his next joint"