but really we need to stop these laws from happening in the first place. I will grant that the poster does not attribute foot nor bad to the situation.

What I think everyone is trying to tell you is that nobody is disagreeing with this sentiment. These laws are bad, I doubt the poster of the article would disagree. What is trying to be said here is if these laws go into affect (which is bad), and they exempt Linux (which seems good), they will quite possibly condemn Linux to an even smaller niche of tech nerds than it already belongs to and that is bad for Linux being a desktop platform, and it may be better for Linux to comply for its survival as a desktop platform. That is all that's being said here, nobody is arguing the merits of the laws.

Mumble is great for VC tbh, doesn't really do anything else well though but I use it for VC

Have they fixed the networking stack? Last I tried it outright crashed the whole system when I enabled IPv6 which makes it useless for me even just in a VM for testing

The very silly argument the FSF is trying to make is that device A is not programmable because the firmware is baked into the HW effectively making it part of the HW rather than a separate entity. Therefore it's a HW limitation and not proprietary software. Device B on the other hand has proprietary software uploaded to it which is not to be allowed under any circumstances and therefore must be neutered. I call it silly because as you so rightfully point out, the firmware blob could be literally the same exact blob, just stored differently

Is the new official VPN project any different from Orbot? I don't know much about it. I would assume not as anything more elaborate would require changes to the tor protocol. Either way you aren't wrong. You can pretty much get by on the modern internet with TCP alone, it does mean no HTTP/3 but that's not a big deal and outside of games very few other things in the wild use UDP. Never mind the other even less used L4 protos like SCTP.

Personally I hate fighting with CSS and JS is...a language? No further comment. So having something that lets me avoid them for the most part sounds very appealing

Haven't used it, didn't know it existed, but I want to check it out now

I feel like malbolge is a much better fit for chaotic evil than brain fuck is but I agree with the rest

I'm still not convinced it's possible to have a cheat proof environment. Kernel anti-cheat is not fool proof, it's just more annoying to deal with than user space anti-cheat. Yes, pairing it with server side stuff will make it even more difficult but if one of the anti-cheats can be successfully bypassed then some amount of cheating is possible and anything running on a user's machine is susceptible to being bypassed because the user controls the environment. Additionally I'm in favor in general of kernel AC being outright banned by OSes. It's honestly far too invasive and it's a race to the bottom the game devs won't win if a cheater is determined enough. You say you're a fan of it only running as needed but it's in your kernel, it's got God access, 1 micro second is too long to allow every game developer on the planet unrestricted access to my computer. Ultimately though client side AC is like DRM, when you expect the software on the user's computer to enforce your rules you will be sorely disappointed. It will raise the bar, it will make some people give up, but it won't prevent it.

You can snapshot them independently and if you want you can set quotas to size restrict them. Although that latter point defeats one of the advantages of subvolumes over partitions. So really just the ability to snapshot them independently

Not sure what proxmox has to do with this? All this is doing is allowing VMware workstation to run without out of tree modules, it means nothing for anyone else

Yes I do lol, not very often I get recognized in the wild. Hello.