Random Dent

AFAIK it’s not necessarily about Linux using Microsoft keys, it’s more about Microsoft shoe-horning their bullshit into everything they possibly can, including at the hardware/firmware level.

But if secure boot happens to brick your system forever because of this expiring key thing, is that worse than a boot chain attack?

That’s what I do. I never enabled it based on the assumption that because it’s a Microsoft thing, it would eventually fuck me over in some way. That attitude has served me well for may years lol.

I had an experience with Zomboid a while ago that I’ve never had with any other game. I’d had my character going for a while, had my base set up, all was going good and I was looting random houses. I came up to this one house that was completely ordinary but something in the back of my brain just went NOPE. There were no signs of anything sketchy from the outside but some sort of survival switch went off in my brain and was like “if you go in there you’re fucked” and I just walked away and left it.

Of course I’ll never know now if that was accurate or not, but I’ve never had that weird instinct go off from a game before lol.

Yeah that’s pretty much the vibe for Zomboid, the opening text crawl literally says “This is how you died.” It’s not a matter of whether you make it or not, just how long you last and what happens before they inevitably get you lol.

Also if you die from a zombie bite, you can respawn as a new person and track down the zombie of your previous character to loot your stuff back which is fun.

Not as far as I know. I haven’t played the latest update but I did a full playthrough on the last one and I finished it but it was such a slog. It’s like the opposite of the other Civ games, where you sit down for 5 minutes and lose an hour, with 7 you sit down and go “right, I’ll play for an hour” and then you check the time and it’s only been 10 minutes lol.

I did the same thing with Surviving Mars lol. Played it on Epic, liked it, bought the whole thing and all the DLC on Steam. Actually I did that with Dredge too now that I think about it.

I have had exactly one HP laptop in my life, which luckily was a hand-me-down so I didn’t spend any money on it, but it was enough to convince me to never get another HP product ever again.

20-odd years and the boycott is still going strong lol.