And the guardrails possible on AI are laughably bad. For fun, look up some of the leaked system prompts for stuff like ChatGPT. They're just using the same sort of "ask it nicely to do what you want" as the end users are, they just re-send it before almost every command.
The other big option is keyword based filtering, and anyone who's played any MMO in the last 30 years can tell you how effective that is. People never find new ways around keyword filters.
The cause doesn't really matter to men experiencing these issues, as there's no path to a solution through that. At least not one that is personally attainable.
The men who want a solution to these problems want a solution that is theoretically attainable by their own efforts, rather than requiring something like a complete overhaul of the existing societal structures.
"Cool, we found the source. Now what's happening about that which will help me in my lifetime? What can I do against the patriarchy beside not perpetuate it myself, while my prospective partners are still living in a society controlled by it?"
You can't tell a lady her expectations are unfair because of the patriarchy and use that to get a girlfriend.
A lot of men see posts like yours and feel like they're being told that you think the problem's solved because you found the source. And some of them feel like just tossing it on the abstraction of "patriarchy" is an excuse to try and blame the problems they encounter on themselves. "We wouldn't hit you if you behaved right!" or "You men made this bed, now get fucked in it" sort of shit.
Or it just means that they have to become part of those powerful men, part of that patriarchy, in order for things to work out in their favor. Because it's too big for them to somehow slay and then reap the benefits of a patriarchy-less society. That's where some parts of the "alpha" bullshit comes from.
I get that's not what you're trying to do, but it's worth saying. I'm happily married for almost a decade now, but I spent far more time than is healthy on 4chan growing up, so I'm somewhat familiar with the mindset, and I've seen plenty of men heading down this path express these sorts of feelings when they see comments like yours.
Man, you're giving me Psycho Pass flashbacks, to the one killer who kidnapped folks and embalmed/platicized them alive, then used the preserved corpses to make "art".
Still one of the more disturbing ones for me from that show.
I won an airtag for free in a work raffle a few years back. Wife is the one into the apple ecosystem, and she uses it to help find her keys every once in while.
If we ever traveled by plane, I'd pick up some for our luggage, and we've joked about strapping one on our toddler.
Don't you know? Discord has a god awful, half implemented, and still practically unsearchable thread system now! You don't ever have to leave! You wouldn't want to leave. You're not allowed to leave.
I've seen more than a few crashouts in emulation and gaming related open source devs, and the best advice I have is:
Make an actual fucking wiki, or have someone make it for you. Having everyone funneled into discord where you inevitably end up answerimg the same basic ass questions over and over because search is impossible is soul crushing.
If handling the "social" side of it, as in responding to issues, pull requests, or running a discord server for it is startijng to get to you, fucking ignore them/close them. Or delegate it to someone else.
Try to keep your identity as an open source dev separate from your other identities unless you want to deal with drama related to your software every fucking moment online. Find a way to get some space.
Smooches and a snack!
Which makes me frustrated that all the manufacturers have gotten too cheap to toss a miniscule DAC and headphone jack in phones anymore.
I mean, there's levels to this. If I'm looking for information, having a summary rather than a highly technical primary source can be very useful. Wikipedia cites its sources, and (ideally) has summaries made by groups of people familiar with the subject and following consistent and detailed publicly available style guides. Wikipedia isn't running ads, and is not for profit.
When an AI summarizes these primary sources, or even summarizes Wikipedia, you get none of that. AI does not reliably cite sources (ones not made for it will just generate a convincing looking response, making up sources whole cloth. Ones made to cite sources will often not actually cite the ones they used, and still can make up sources more rarely). It can't reliably summarize things accurately, as it doesn't understand anything, especially not terms that have different meanings depending on the technical context. There's no group of people reviewing and revising. There's no incredibly detailed style guide. All these AI are explicitly for profit (the amount of self hosted out there is negligible and those are much less of a problem), and almost every one of the companies running them have openly spoken about future plans to try and seamlessly weave advertisements into them. Most importantly, there's no guarantee that what it gives you will even be true.
It's a few cosmetics and some "pre-order" style weapons that are references to Witcher. Nothing substantial. There have been mods to unlock them without Galaxy since forever, and despite all the improvements, CP2077 still benefits greatly from some mods. You're really shooting yourself in the foot playing vanilla.
I get your frustration, but Valve effectively prints money. They don't need to care that Linux makes up less than 3% of all users, and they aren't supporting it purely out of the goodness of their heart either, as they have direct incentive to do so through improving the Steam Deck.
Valve isn't spending money or time tracking down rights holders of games that can't legally be bought anymore. For all the good Valve does with Linux and Proton, there are games still being sold on Steam that simply do not work on modern machines. Steam leaves fixing that up to the devs.
We're also just going to ignore Valve's massive hand in popularizing the microtransaction laden lootbox hell? Team Fortress 2 has been an absolute money printer for them, and they've only brought that forward into all their other multiplayer games since, while doing nothing to curb all the gambling shit that has cropped up around things like CSGO skins. Or how about early access, never release "scams"?
I'm not convinced that any of that make Valve evil, but my point is that both of these companies aren't your friends.
GOG isn't just tossing stuff up on their storefront like Valve, they actively sort out how to get these games working on modern hardware and package it up in a way that is seamless for the average user. Unfortunately the average user is on Windows, and they don't have the microtransaction mountains of money to burn pursuing Linux right now. That sucks.
As far as deleting the wishlist items? They answered it already.
Most importantly, a public wishlist isn't a contract, and a company giving an answer you don't like doesn't make them evil.
I'm not happy about it, but this good vs evil, "this just shows the kind of company they are" shit is taking things pretty damn far.
Not to be rude, but that shouldn't be news, and it sure as hell isn't something new specifically under Trump or the Republicans. Talk to some old heads, or read what they've written. US cops have stalked people for less, and there's plenty of declassified (and leaked if you're not afraid of being put on a list) guides out there from US intelligence agencies and their numerous contracted training groups that also train cops on how to infiltrate grass roots movements, rallies, etc.
This is what a chunk of these people literally do for a living.