It’s necessary because people develop software with Macs.

macOS just makes you jump through a hoop every time you run an application that’s not notarized.

In practice that means cross platform open source projects don’t want to pay money to join apple’s developer program and set up code singing and deal with certificates.

So after download an unsigned app, macOS refuses to start it until you go to system settings > security > and allow.

You have to do this again after every update.

It’s very annoying and does very little for security.

Not if you’re doing it while traveling.

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Hitchhiking and couch surfing is a thing.

I recommend studying Crowley and Osho.

Jesus never asked for wars in his name though. It’s not part of his teachings.

Christianity changed a lot once it became the dominant religion of the Roman Empire.

However Christianity also brought a lot of positive social changes with the focus on forgiveness and helping the unfortunate for example.

It was spread by conquest, but also peaceful friendly missionaries. These missionaries often invented a writing system for the illiterate people they visited.

There are blond people in the Levant.

Germany has had several chancellors in office for 16 years.

I don’t like fiddling with configuring a controller. On consoles it typically just works.

By the US? Do you mean IS, Assad, and Hezbollah?

Scripts and aliases make this easy to set up.

What do you mean by natural? Do you want stateful APIs?

Leather can last for many decades if treated well. Vegan leather aka plastic lasts a few years tops.

I have lost like two dozen DRM free games because the hard drive they were archived on died. There are also some DVDs filled with DRM free games, that are somewhere in my closet. I don’t even have a DVD drive anymore.

When Steam started getting popular, I resisted it for years. Instead getting DRM free Indie games and lots of Humble Bundles. At some point there was one game I could get on Steam, so I started using it.

My old Steam games are easy and fast to access, install, and play again. Far easier than rummaging through my own archive. I don’t need to configure or install Proton to play games on Linux either.

The lack of DRM on my older games hasn’t provided me any actual real life benefit. The fears pandered about by opponents of Steam haven’t materialized in more than a decade. If anything, the advantages of Steam have become more apparent.

In practice having a game on Steam is even superior to having a DRM free copy. My DRM free copies of games are on some old hard drive in a drawer. My steam library is right there. Removing and installing games is super straightforward.