Maybe the problem is, that you try to learn and use everything at once. Rust is not easy and it has lot of stuff to learn and get good at. And compared to many languages, Rust has a few set of core features that makes it more complicated to understand and also you need to learn the basics before getting started. So just doing the exercises is not enough. My advice is to write simple programs with a focus of specific set of language features and what you want to accomplish, before doing the more advanced stuff.

The difference to languages like C++ is, that Rust forces you to do the homework before running the program, not after. That is the reason why it looks to be “harder”, but I think this is one of the reasons why its so misunderstood. In example if you MUST think about all possible states, variables and errors in a program before it runs, then you have to put so much work for this. In the end, you did all the work and the program should theoretically better than if you did not have. Compare this to other languages, where you can run the program simply by ignoring errors, all states a program can be in and be done in short amount of time. That looks easy. But in reality you didn’t do all the work.

I don’t understand your point.

Edit: Just to be clear, I’m not being rude here. And I actually understand what you are saying, but I’m not sure how to understand it in context as a reply to my statement.

Lol, love that.

Buying Steam games and hardware without involving credit cards or bank accounts is only possible by buying gift cards with cash in a local shop. What do you mean the only winner is the company? This is a real value for me, so am I not a winner in that sense too?

I was describing how it works right now. After they get rid off physical Gift Cards, there will be no alternative to this.

I’m okay giving my data and trail to purchase on Steam. That is not the issue. All I care is buying Steam Wallet without any need for credit cards or bank accounts, directly in a shop paying for physical Steam Gift Cards with cash from my hand.

Germany here. Direct bank transfer is not a replacement for Steam Gift Cards I could buy in local stores. I would want to avoid bank transfer, credit cards or a third party service such as PayPal. My preferred way to buy games on Steam is going into a local shop, buy physical Steam Gift Card with cash from my hand and then rub the number, enter it in Steam to get money on my account. And there is nothing that can replace this workflow. Paysafe Cards were a thing in the past I used too, but I think they are no longer available as physical cards in Germany.

I know and that’s the point i’m making; it won’t work without a credit or debit card. The cool think about digital (Edit: I meant physical) gift cards was, one could go into a shop and buy anonymously without any card requirement. That option is no longer possible and therefore doesn’t work fine in my opinion. It’s a big deal to me.

email makes sense, if she does not have Steam. I don’t think it would make sense to get her a code and then gift you the code, that would defeat the whole process. Thanks for confirmation.

I didn’t ask where to buy. My question was implying that you need to use a card or bank account to buy digital gift cards. It’s not a replacement for local physical Gift Cards.

Since I don’t have PayPal anymore for many years, the only way to purchase games on Steam was local Steam Gift Cards for me. In fact, that is one of the major reasons why I don’t even by on any other shop at all and focus on Steam.

And how do you buy digital ones?

Digital Steam Cards are still be able to gifted to another account. But that requires the person to have a Steam account and be friends with you too, so no more Steam cards from your mom I guess (or mine). Edit: I just learned one does not need to have a Steam account to buy and gift Digital Gift Cards? Is that correct?

Back when the original Steam Deck came out, I was purchasing Gift Cards for 500 Euros in my local shops. They all had a limit to how much I could purchase in one shop, so I had to wander around to get more in smaller chunks. To my surprise they told me because of scams, and I looked at them with a side eye not believing and not understanding.

2. In practice, how well does sudo steamos-readonly disable and installing things from pacman work out for you? In particular, I want to use PWAs For Firefox and it requires this package in order to work. Do packages actually get wiped with SteamOS updates, as the FAQ warns?

As far as I know, a new update of SteamOS will revert these changes back. However Steam has builtin support for Nix package system, where you don’t need to disable readonly filesystem and changes to this directory / package system stays intact even after an update. Two articles explaining how to do this at https://sadatdaniel.dev/2023/11/install-nix-package-manager-on-your-steam-deck/ (2023) and https://chrastecky.dev/gaming/persistent-packages-on-steam-deck-using-nix (2025). Check if a certain package is available under https://search.nixos.org/packages . Now, I never did that, as I never had a need for. I can’t say if this helps you with the specific package, but it might be useful for you to look into this.

I need to test this with multiple distributions in a virtual machine, out of curiosity. Then test executing common tasks. Could be an idea for a blog post or YouTube video…

Depending on what he means by “serious”. I don’t know what hat means in context of languages. So, depending on his personal definition what “serious” means, Go might not be serious at all.

Python is designed as an easy language. Yet it is a fundemental important language in the IT, backbone of many Linux operating systems and servers. One could even say… a serious language.

I personally wouldn’t care if a language is called “easy” or not. You should also look at what it is capable at its peak and where it is used most often, if it works for you. Pick the language that you think fits you the best. I wouldn’t call Zig as an easy language to get into, its still low level language.

There is an extension called DeArrow, that replaces video titles from the community. It can also replace thumbnails. Another method is a setting in FreeTube app to set Thumbail Preference to automatically replace with in video screenshot. Maybe those applications does one of those things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_license

In short, the Open Source license means the work you created can be used by anyone, for any purpose, read, modify and share the original source and your modifications. There are variations of Open Source licenses and debates to what even Open Source means.