Using Debian is the age verification! (cit.)

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Ehi, Sweeney, how's like when you piss off with your dismissive remarks and game strategy one of the few demographics still growing in this messed up industry?

-- Linux users

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Huge news. And bound to happen, eventually: 32bit had its (glorious) time, but that time is not now. All the major distro maintainers are celebrating.

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No AI mention? Wow! Almost unbelievable!

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File under "No Shit Sherlock".

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Quoting: elmapulI bet epic or microsoft are behind so many companies suing valve, especially ms, they mhave more to lose.

Considering how it was MS behind SCO suing Novell and IBM over Linux, I see a pattern of proxy-suits here...

[Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Novell,_Inc [External Link]. & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._International_Business_Machines_Corp [External Link]. ]

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Quoting: pbSteam also sells soundtracks and has a built-in music player, maybe that's what they're trying to exploit?

You have definitely a point (or two, actually).

But I guess the soundtracks *are* licensed, by the producer/publisher of the soundtrack itself. Or else, the producer/publisher could not sell it in the first place!

About the music player, yes, that's a possibility. It means that every digital music player ever (including Windows Media Player, VLC, WinAMP, etc.) should license every possible song in the remote possibility it could be used to play one?

What about other stores selling videogames - dunno, Amazon, EGS, GOG, the various app stores? They should license every song in every product they sell as well?

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But... That music, licensed by the game devs, is not played on Steam. It's only played in the game(s) - where it's already handsomely licensed!

Valve is not letting users listen to the music besides what's already licensed within the videogame, and the users are exposed to the IP only after purchasing the game - and its musical license(s) - and paying the due to the authors, directly or indirectly.

How that claim could have merit?

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyWhat we need is a solution to the component shortages and the most obvious solution is a new player.

I'm pretty positive that if it was that easy, it would've already been done - long ago.

I suspect kicking off a new fab (lithographic printers, clean rooms, heck PEOPLE barely knowing what they're doing...) even for relatively stupid components, like RAM, would have costs well beyond your or my wildest imagination.

And at that point, the only way to recover them is to sell the products to genAI d/c...

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If it'd burst yesterday, it'd be still too late.

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