The feature is called “WiFi Tethering” and is available on most Android systems (sometimes OEMs or carriers disable it)

On iOS it should enable automatically if you’ve got a hotspot active and connect your device to your computer via USB

Resolve is not available as a flatpak so distrobox would be your only option to get it running on a atomic distro.

But in general flatpaks are more secure than distrobox containers. Flatpaks are sandboxed. Apps can request access to different parts outside the sandbox through so called portals. Portals are basically like the permission system on your phone. But not all portals are finished yet so apps can get way more permissions in the name of user friendliness. There are third party tools like flatseal, that manage permissions though.

Distrobox on the other hand doesn’t have any of that. Apps can access your entire home directory and a bunch of other stuff if they want

I’m not defending the praxis, but I will point out that this is a slightly different problem. The initiative is fine with publishers delisting a game, after all. It’s more concerned with what happens to a game after it has been sold.

That doesn’t excuse payment providers playing cop, but again: Slightly different problem.

And for resolve there is even a preconfigured container: https://github.com/zelikos/davincibox

Yes the European Commission is operating its own Mastodon instance

You could replicate this workflow by replacing iCloud with Nextcloud and Time Machine with Timeshift.

The iOS app for Nextcloud allows the automatic upload of photos, you just need an account with a Nextcloud provider (or just host your own instance).

Timeshift is preinstalled on a bunch of distros, including Linux Mint, and can be installed on all other major ones. See https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift for details.

That part of the argument is slightly different. If I understand the press statement correctly, what they are saying is: “Some servers can’t, on a technical level, be hosted by the community”. And that’s not a straw man (arguing against something never asked for), that’s just a lie. We have access to all the same stuff as the industry (AWS etc). Hosting these kinds of servers might be very expensive, but the initiative only asks for a way to keep games alive not for a cheap way (though I would prefer a cheap way of course)

That’s because it is corp. Videogames Europe is the lobbying organisation of the Euopean gaming indusry

It’s also a strawman argument. Because yes, developers have less to no control over the operation of private servers. Yes, that means they can’t moderate those servers.

But

This initiative only covers games, not supported anymore by the devs anyway. Meaning legally speaking everything happening to private servers would be literally not their concern anymore. And new legislation, should it come to that, would spell that out.

why this does not happen at the time of signing is beyond me but whatever

Data protection. The EU doesn’t do the validation, they don’t even have the data necessary for it. That job falls to the national governments. But why share the data if the initiative wasn’t successful in the first place.

Turns out people need villains with faces. And the gaming industry wasn’t personable enough to truly hate.

Stop playing games?

Thank you for your service

Not necessarily. Both have their drawbacks. It takes longer for new hardware to be supported on Debian and setting up a Nvidia grafics card is more complicated

You should try pangolin. It uses Traefik instead of Caddy under the hood but it automates approximately 80 % of setup. It’s what I use for my setup.

https://fossorial.io/

One thing you can do: In person organising. It’s something the campaign has been really bad at. Have some flyers printed up and start handing them out. I don’t know the Italian school schedule, but if universities are still in session they might be good targets.

I did it last year, first at Gamescom and then at a local uni and I think it helped spread the word.

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

Distro: short for distribution. Linux is not an operating system. It’s a piece of technology (specifically something called a kernel) you can use to create an OS. Those Linux based OSs are referred to as distros. We are usually not calling them “Versions” because the Linux Kernel is also frequently seeing updates and that would just cause confusion.

Debian and Ubuntu: Popular distros. Ubuntu tends to be a bit more user friendly than Debian and was the default recommendation for new user for a long time. In recent years its popularity among enthusiasts declined because of a series of unpopular decisions, mainly the adaptation of something called snaps which is not completely open source and takes a bit more time to launch apps than alternatives. Debian on the other hand really values stability. Updates arrive less frequently than on other distros but undergo really rigorose testing.

You are right. I’ve corrected my comment