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Try Veeam for Windows. It's free and it will not get more light weight that this. Tried Acronis last 15 years ago and they went from amazing to bloated and slow and terrible. I assume it still is.

Spent an hour trying to get Veeam to work and it can't connect to an agent installed on the same machine. Sigh. Thanks for the suggestion though.

You don't need anything besides the agent if you're just using it for a single computer. The agent can back up to a drive or network location without being connected to the backup repository.

Clonezilla is another alternative. I haven’t used it in years, but it used to be pretty good.

Having one determined cheater ist worth not having 1000 cheaters because they fear getting banned.

Or: Deterring some casual cheaters is not worth having my whole system pwned by employees of a game publisher and whomever else figures out how to exploit their code.

Obviously, our personal priorities differ. That's fine, but yours don't invalidate my earlier point.

By the way, it's never just one determined cheater. Once discovered, circumvention techniques get shared, just as with mod chips and exploit scripts. It's only a matter of time before anyone willing to do a little reading or buy a little hardware can use them. And they do. (Often on alt accounts, with no fear of getting banned.)

In other words, any relief from game cheaters is bound to be temporary, while harm from spyware or exploit is irreparable to anyone who values the privacy of their data.

This is why kernel-level anti-cheat systems are so widely criticized. They might make sense on dedicated gaming machines, where the risks are low, but the situation is very different on general-purpose computers.


The video showing one person cheating does not mean there aren't a 1000 others doing the same

Docs later is an okay approach, when you build something in a closed environment, where the only users know the code inside out.

But when working in open-source and your goal is to have people adopt your software, then it's a bad point and a lazy excuse.


Your argument implies that good documentation is not an improvement, which of course is wrong. It also belongs to the task of improving code. Why would you move away after half-assing the API, when you can add the docs and whole-ass it instead?

Take a deep breath

The Arch Linux community is one of the most toxic I know. First and foremost, there are members with tens of thousands of posts who become condescending and insulting when other members don’t dance to their tune. The Code of Conduct exists only on paper and is not enforced by the Arch leadership. This results in such behavior not only being tolerated but actively encouraged. Shame on them and shame on Debian for further encouraging this behaviour by inviting them to the DebConf.

> First and foremost, there are members with tens of thousands of posts who become condescending and insulting when other members don't dance to their tune.

Yes, there are some regulars on the forums that get might get snippy with you if you ask for troubleshooting help while refusing to read the forum rules, RTFM, or are incapable of following basic troubleshooting steps. I don't really see the issue.


>The Code of Conduct exists only on paper and is not enforced by the Arch leadership.

Based. The Arch Code of Conduct is also free from wokeisms. Never used Arch, but I may make the switch considering these things.


The Arch Linux community is one of the most toxic I know. First and foremost, there are members with tens of thousands of posts who become condescending and insulting when other members don’t dance to their tune. The Code of Conduct exists only on paper and is not enforced by the Arch leadership. This results in such behavior not only being tolerated but actively encouraged. Shame on them and shame on Debian for further encouraging this behaviour by inviting them to the DebConf.

> There was a time before "achievements" or badges and NARCISSISM.MD files on your profile page.

That's what annoys you? The profile pages of other people?


> If an email thread comes in that's longer than a few paragraphs, you're going straight to Copilot.

Not even that. Clearly someone was involved with an issue until I got involved. Whoever involved me need to explain the goal and the issue to me, then I can help. And that's the point. Someone wants MY help, so that SOMEONE needS to help me understand the history of it. And if that SOMEONE is unwilling to put in the time to do that, so why should I?


Llama are not conscious


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