I think that’s just more evidence that the goal isn’t for consumers to own it, but to pay to rent these services via GeForce Now or whatever, because nobody can afford a PC powerful enough for this.
Basically we’re not the target of this commercial, shareholders are.
And, importantly: the same applies to Windows. How many updates has Windows had that broke something essential with no user intervention?
Fact of the matter is any OS can break if you purposefully try to poke around without knowing what you’re doing.
What distros that are more “resilient” to breaking do is either prevent you from easily/accidentally poking around, prevent you from applying updates willy-nilly, or set up easy rollbacks in case something breaks (or a combination of these).
Imo, if you’re not a tinkerer and you have a distro with backups properly setup, you’re very likely gonna be fine no matter what distro you choose.
Though Mint is still awesome and if you don’t have any problems with it just keep using it.
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“Willy nilly” when it came from a valid warrant from the Swiss authorities is some crazy lopsided interpretation.
Privacy focused doesn’t mean “doesn’t obey the law.”
Every other privacy focused business will do this, unless they want to get shut down (and then be forced to hand over the data upon shutting down anyway).
Also, the entirety of the “data” was a credit card identifier, which companies are legally required to keep a record of if they handle credit card transactions. Everything else Proton doesn’t have access to and thus couldn’t hand over. They also let you pay by cash or crypto to avoid the necessity of handing over your credit card identifier, so this was just bad opsec on the user’s part.
Acting like you can’t be a privacy-respecting business unless you just break the law is pretty absurd.
In fact, knowing that the only thing Proton was able to hand over was the credit card identifier is pretty solid proof that they in fact cannot access (and thus provide access to) your email account and its contents.
If full anonimity is the goal then stick to crypto or cash payments, because credit card always leaves a trail and not a single email provider is above the law in that regard.
This case is entirely the fault of the user’s bad opsec.
It’s already implemented. Tons of users have already scanned their faces/IDs to prove their identity/age. This is just a global rollout.
If you don’t do problematic things you won’t be seen as the problem. The vast majority of tourists aren’t doing anything bad either.
The issue is that there are so, so many tourists coming to Japan that even if only 0.1% of them are bad, that’s still tens of thousands of people, which ends up leaving a dent in absolute numbers regardless.
It’s a hard problem to manage because there will always be a small amount of people misbehaving no matter where in the world you go.
I think it can be banned if you also don’t criminalize it and implement some kind of harm-reduction system.
This way being caught with a cigarette won’t land you in jail. At most you’ll be fined (though ideally confiscation should be enough). And if you want to quit there are resources.
Heavy penalties should only be for trafficking, which you can achieve by stipulating an amount that counts as trafficking.