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Opting out would mean you would be barred from making use of any public roads. Or having 24/7 access to emergency services. I don't see how either being subject to that or the enforcement of it would be feasible in any measure.

Interesting, I seem to have missed this change from 2021. That's far more reasonable.

> Apple protects consumers from shitty companies like Epic abusing consumers (in this case, children) and for that I thank them.

Last time I checked the App Store was filled to the brink with worthless pay to win and gambling (sorry I meant surprise mechanics) garbage. Doesn't seem very protective of the children to me. And an opt-in authentification system for microtransactions doesn't make it okay either.

> Whose job would it be to maintain all of the compatibility layers for the custom hardware that consoles generally contain?.

The community's? I don't think anyone expects the vendor to officially support anything other than the OS it ships with. We just want the option to use our own software on the hardware we purchased.

> Who pays for all the work to allow you to do whatever you want on your device?.

Surely it's more work to go the extra mile to restrict access?

> Of course, even taking the nostalgia market alone, I don't know that having owned a game once creates a permanent right to play it free going forward, even in just a moral sense. How many of those people who had previously "experienced" a game sold their copies, or never owned one in the first place?

If a game can not be purchased from the developer anymore I have absolutely no moral objection to pirating it. Why would I go out and buy a second hand copy - in some case for extravagant prices - when the developer sees exactly 0% of that money?

The issue is that there is a lot of literal trash in form of autogenerated content from bots to search through. You need a ranking of some kind if you want to find anything of relevance which will always be subject to exploitation by others. I don't know how much of a problem this used to be back then.

I don't support piracy of currently sold games. I do however support piracy once a developer stops selling their game and obtaining a ROM (and bypassing any implemented DRM) becomes the only feasible way to preserve a game.

Yes emulators are unfortunately often used for pirating games. But they will also be the only way you get to enjoy your purchased games in 10-20 years when the vendor stops producing the hardware, cuts off online services and your device becomes a fancy paperweight either as a consequence of that or naturally.

Agreed. Especially today where games are often bound to digital stores which are essentially a ticking time bomb. What happens to all your bought games once the owner loses interest and shuts down the store + online services? Unless you are able to emulate them they will most likely be gone forever, lost to history.

I don't think anyone mentioned giving up though. It could very well just be a temporary measure until they find a real partner. Or maybe they never will find one (which could very well be an unfortunate reality for some) in which case they will at least die having experienced some kind of satisfaction.

There is no official modding API for the Java edition unless that changed some time ago. I remember there being plans for it almost a decade ago now but nothing coming out of it for the Java edition - Bedrock however got modpack support.

The commonly used licenses like GPL and MIT don't put any restrictions on commercial use granted you don't break any of the conditions and limitations.

Theoretically you could even just take any software using any of those licenses, optionally package it up and then commercially redistribute it as is and it would not breach the license. Needless to say people probably wouldn't look at you favorably in that case though.

The client seems to be very suseptible to I/O stalls and even randomly just locks up for a few seconds by itself every once in a while on my end for some reason. That in itself would be fine if it wouldn't also directly affect games launched through Steam.

If you decide to dive into it depending on your filesystem of choice I can recommend either Sanoid [0] and httm [1] for ZFS or Snapper [2] for BTRFS as automatic snapshot solutions. Good luck with your endeavors!

[0] https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid

[1] https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm

[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snapper

I've lost track of the amount of times I accidentally deleted a file I shouldn't have or messed up a git project in a way it'd have taken ages to untangle, said oops, remembered I have hourly snapper snapshots set up and just copied the previous state over. It's been a massive time- and occasionally lifesaver for me.

You are free to not browse the website just as I am free to not purchase an iPhone.

So I have a choice between a walled garden (for my best interests of course) and straight up spyware - unless of course I'm willing to play a game of "where's waldo" where I find the perfect combination of android phone with a model number which does not have a locked bootloader, good prolonged community support, custom ROMs with a good reputation and not just a bunch of modifications thrown together by some random XDA user, no weird hardware attestation shenanigans and then participating in the eternal cat and mouse game of SafetyNet breaking my apps because I am not running on a supported configuration (again for my best interests). How flattering.

I know your reply was meant to be satire but I've heard that argument used legit for this case many times. I just don't know how it can be taken seriously in a duopoly like this - unless they are seriously considering GNU/Linux phones to be ready as a primary daily driver or want me to carry around a dumb phone instead?

I mean you can accept it and still be on the hunt for a better job offer, no? You wouldn't lose any opportunities from accepting the offer.

> zfs is way simpler to manage than btrfs

Not sure I agree. On ZFS I have to worry about an out of tree kernel module and all the implications of that, extra things like setting the correct ashift, making sure the recordsize is tuned individually in datasets to not destroy performance for specific worksets, ensuring ARC doesn't cause OOM behavior with applications which allocate a lot of memory at once (since it doesn't use the page cache), etc etc.

With BTRFS however off the top of my head the only thing I remember doing was making sure nodatacow was set for subvolumes containing databases and VM disks.

You are absolutely correct about the ZFS ecosystem containing superior tooling however.

I'll take both. I like fun games and I also like seeing how far developers and artists can push graphics given cutting edge hardware, budget and time. It doesn't have to be an "either or" situation (nor are they mutually exclusive necessarily).

Exactly that. I already went down that spiral many times and the result is nothing but sadness about the many injustices of the world. But ultimately it's out of my hand. It's out of your hand. The ball is in no one's court.

Focus on the better aspects of life. Take care of your loved ones. Do your best to improve your local community. Contribute to a better state of the world, no matter how small the contribution may be. Pray to a higher being if you believe in one. That's ultimately all you can do.

Yes, life isn't fair and I don't think anyone argues otherwise. That's just human nature. People have to live with it.

That only works if they are using blatant instant snap-on aimhacks - which I fully agree should be checked for since that's one obvious target. If the aimbot is a bit more sophisticated where it mimics mouse movement though I don't see how that would work.

Didn't CSGO have something like that with their Prime account status? From what I've seen it wasn't very effective, people will gladly spend obscene amounts of money for an unfair advantage and/or to ruin other players' fun. It might cut down on people using blatant hacks in place of more subtle ones though.

I think people feel forced to get the value they put in back out of every single one of them asap as to not feel like they wasted their money which is what is causing that stress to begin with, even though there really isn't any reason for that urge if you look at it. The backlog is going to be there practically forever, just waiting - granted it's not tied to a service which might shut down at any moment.

You can disable intel-pstate (using either intel_pstate=passive or intel_pstate=disable) and revert back to the acpi_cpufreq scaling driver to fall back to userspace governors.

Personally I like Flashpoint [0] which is a webgame preservation project with a very sizable catalogue of archived Flash games from all over the web + a FOSS launcher app with support for all 3 major desktop OSs in one. It doesn't use Ruffle by default but there is an extension [1] implementing support for it.

[0] https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint

[1] https://github.com/colin969/FPL-Ruffle

Agreed. I'm unsure whether this is the right approach, it should be the parents' duty to monitor what their children are doing and limit access appropriately but it's been clear that many of them simply can't be bothered to do so. Someone has to step in eventually.

Did they also have a similar incident before?

I assume it's going to be running on their Twitch and Floatplane channels as usual

Aren't lock-ins into their own respective ecosystem what every tech giant is striving for? Don't see how that behavior is Microsoft-exclusive necessarily.