maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

and like the OP i QRTed mentions, uninstalling the game is overkill. as long as you're not running a piece of software (and this means also background processes), it can't do any actions to your computer. if you simply don't run the game until something is confirmed, you're safe

but again, i don't want to say that there isn't an exploit. i just want to give my opinion as a professional software engineer that everything that's been massively shared around sounds like a lot of garbage

and the part about it "also working on console versions" really doesn't sit well with me, especially with how in modern consoles games are sandboxed to hell and back, and even then the worst i can imagine that could happen is your console could crash

if the explanation is supposed to mean a buffer overrun in RAM instead that's a little more plausible, but modern systems still have enough protections against that affecting the rest of your computer and i honestly doubt you could effectively put an RCE payload in an username

if you tell me that the many different ways (default setting by user, wrapper script, renice after launch) in which you can set a program's priority in linux are accessible to anything below a power user, you are lying.

on windows 10, i don't have that problem, because by default today the OS is pretty robust against user-space programs halting the entire system. so how do you solve that on linux? change the program's priority, or "niceness". i want you to look up how to do that right now

my girlfriend is trying to use a web-based generative art program written in javascript which freezes her entire computer every time a loop becomes too long (doesn't even need to be infinite). she loses control of the entire desktop and needs to reboot forcibly.

i'm going to try to elaborate: yes, anyone can pop a (modern) linux install cd and go through the steps to get it to work on most any desktop computers today. however, more often than not problems crop up that cannot be solved without deep dives into the system

if you feel like coming into my mentions to disprove me: don't. *I* have a computer engineering degree, i use linux daily both on servers and on desktops, and i don't think it's a good end-user desktop OS.

i have unkind opinions towards linux and how it purports to replace end-user OSes such as windows and mac os while containing integral parts to its functioning that are completely unaccessible to anyone short of a computer engineering degree

is there a way to make linux programs not hang the entire desktop when they hang or is that just how linux is? case in point is firefox hanging ubuntu on large JS loops forcing the computer to need to be restarted because desktop control cannot be regained

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