the problem is not usually install wine directly, but the other windows requirements, like directx, mono, codecs, etc
you also may need to override some dll or finetune some registry. It is not hard and usually there are tools that can help you do that automatically, but in proton it is included directly

hey, the site i manage have no ads, people pay money ... we actually pay money to cloudflare.
we want to protect from attacks and all the bots and AI browsers are using a huge amount of resources, that we have to pay, so it is cheaper for us to pay cloudflare than scale the infra and pay for it.

and if you disable javascript, most site will actually not work (i know, i tried, i used noscript for many years), better option is use umatrix where you choose what to load or not or using a curated list like adblock. I use umatrix and while i allow cloudflare javascript for captchas (i do block some other resources), i block ads server and javascripts, cookies, etc from many sites

it is the same, you press a random place in the area, not a exactly the center pixel.
when you type, you also have a distinct timing, not a constant speed
 

why? what is your problem with it?

yes, the captchas are annoying, but cloudflare already did their best to avoid showing them and make then as easy as click a box (instead of select 3 or 4 times images or try to read some distorted letters/numbers)
Yes, they are big and control many site traffic, that is a danger, but mostly to the sites, not the user... but they are also big because they work well and are much cheaper than most alternatives (that usually even perform worse)
Yes , a site without it would be better, but like email got unusable without spamfilters, sites owners are having huge problems with either attacks or bots, if you have a big enough site, you are a target and have huge amount of bot/ai traffic... that they have to pay for

you also have more and more sites using anubis (https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis), that is opensource, to try to block bots/AIs, so clearly is not a problem with a couple of sites

you know that these features already exist in javascript and are commonly used to monitor user behavior, either for ads or for study how you interact with sites?!

https://developer.mozilla.org/...

the only difference here is that this is being used to check for bots and cloudflare announced it... most other companies use this and do not announce it

cloudflare is not doing anything new actually, other that using this data to detect bots... you already have sites that mouse, keyboard and clicks, mostly to learn how you interact with the site and what features work/get used and do not work

If they could map your eyes, they would be happy to follow your eyes to guess to what you are looking at... to see if that ad is working or not

So don't blame cloudflare, while they are huge and that is already a problem, they are mostly good guys... the problem is all the others, specially the ads industry

yes, but humans aren't random... so linear speed is a bot, totally random is a bot. Add that info from multiple inputs like cloudflare is doing and probably can guess within a error margin if it is a bot or a human... hey, even if it fails to detect 50% of the bots, it is already 50% less traffic arriving to a site.
Sadly there is no way to detect 100% of the bots/humans, but every hint helps.
Of course, people using bots could be much nicer and use correct user-agents to identify thyself and allow sites to decide if they allow or not the access. Even better, read the robots.txt and obey to them!!

wine you have to install and setup, while there are tools to help. steam itself install the proton and do the setup, so:

- via steam, it is just click and play for most games, you don't even know that you are using proton - https://www.protondb.com/explo...
- a few rare games may need switch proton version or do some finetune (try without changes, if fails see the protondb above and check if you need some version or parameter/file)
- a several FPS run fine, but them fail to check the anti-cheat (some is kernel anti-cheak, that linux do not support, most is not compatibility problems but just was disabled by their studios - https://areweanticheatyet.com/... , complain to them... this is today the main problem, but do complain and go play a game that do allow linux, taking your friends with you, support games that support linux, stop playing games that refuse to do so)
- too new or too old games may still fail, but in every release, new bugs/features are added and games may start to work without warning... see this one as a example: https://www.protondb.com/app/3...

i totally agree, but what i'm saying that is highly probable that future consumers cpu will have the feature disabled, as it wasn't a official feature, so "safe" to remove based on that. if someone complains, the reply will be "testing feature was removed, only supported on PRO cpu"

you should check that TSME was never announced as supported on the disabled (now reenabled) CPU, it as never officially supported or announced... so you wouldn't buy based on that

What happen was that the silicon is basically the same as the PRO and that the featured was gated by the firmware. by mistake or to test if users used the feature, they end enabling the feature on consumer cpu too... they now tried to revert that. Probably future consumers will have that disabled already, so no one complains (correctly) that lost a feature.

the European Commission is not democracy sadly! It is actually a private elitist administrative body, mandate by country governments and simply vetted or not by the EU Parliament... if they care about the uses or the industry, will depend a lot of the person on charge of that area, we had good people, but also corrupt ones. The EU Parliament is a democracy and usually much easier to reach... and they can force the Commission actions if enough support is gather

sure, but those aren't cheap... the bigger they are, the more expensive they get

A Reaper vs a glide bomb, glide will be much cheaper, you lose precision, but you can use can still use more of them

Totally agree!

Many people think that winning a war is easy and with no cost... like Putin and friends... they are learning that it isn't...
Like Trump is learning that listening to Israel to engage war with Iran had a huge price... sadly in Israeli side they still didn't learn that lesson, mostly because is the USA paying most of the cost of all Israeli wars... maybe the cost will be that USA may not support Israel again and finally allow the 2 states solution!
I do really hope Hamas learn the cost lesson too

> First of all those countries didn't want to join NATO, but the European Union.

Sorry, but you are clearly American or at least with the same limited knowledge about the world... both were already in EU for many years. since 1995, the NATO is recent (2024) and only happen exactly because of Russia invasion of Ukraine. Sweden and Finland both were neutral by option, but Finland also was afraid that changing that could provoke Russia and for Russia, a neutral country between them and NATO was also a insurance.

Go check the NATO member:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

>As for south american countries, if they want to associate with Russia, good for them, they have every right. And they are far enough !!!

Sure, that is why Trump attacked Venezuela and is now (like many other presidents) treating Cuba. Cuba only have economical problems because of the USA embargo and threats to anyone doing trade with Cuba... that doesn't look like "they have every right."

a 200Kg bomb is more expensive than a drone with a 5kg bomb

one can destroy a building, the other can destroy a house/apartment
the first is only accurate if equipped to do so... a drone can't never carry high loads because it needs to grow bigger to cost way more