I have the original DRM-free game one of my old hard drives somewhere. I think it's perfectly fine for a game like this, as long as it doesn't have anything that would prevent it from working in the future if the developer disappears.

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Quoting: LinasThis time-limited licensing is such bullshit. Basically building a self-destruct timer into the product.

Copyright, patents, etc. are generally misused nowadays. They were intended for individual creators to get compensation and credit for their work, not for corporations to hoard, exploit and fatten their portfolios.

While I agree that should describe the world, I'm not sure it actually does. Whatever nice sounding rhetoric has been said, either now or at the time the laws were first being defined, benefits for publishers were a big, and perhaps the biggest, part of the mix from the very beginning.

You can take a quick look at the history of publishing and see what you're saying is wrong. Most copyright was held by authors and artists for much of the early history of the law. As far as patents go, we know who early inventors were because their names were on the patents, not the names of corporations. The idea of corporations as "persons" is a relatively new concept.

Companies like Disney had to fight to get copyright extended for their own benefit, but the law didn't begin the way it is now. Furthermore, a lot of people don't realize how many rights they lost when the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) went into effect. That was a law designed primarily to benefit corporate, capitalist interests, but it's only 25 years old.

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Quoting: LinasThis time-limited licensing is such bullshit. Basically building a self-destruct timer into the product.

Copyright, patents, etc. are generally misused nowadays. They were intended for individual creators to get compensation and credit for their work, not for corporations to hoard, exploit and fatten their portfolios.

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It seems like everyone's getting "Embraced" these days.

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Quoting: damarrinIt does? I'd say the backlash Ayaneo received from "Windows fans" explains the Ayaneo stuff. I'm sure an immutable system would have been more beneficial for them.

I wonder if there was really a backlash from many people or just a few loud people on Ex-Twitter.

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Quoting: fenglengshunAt that point just use Universal Blue's Bazzite. The devs has much clearer track records and works together with various other project. Plus, you can easily clone a repo where you can layer in your own packages and user files to pack into a custom image of your own.

I literally just installed Bazzite yesterday. I'm done with HoloISO and won't be going back.

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Quoting: TactikalKittyCan anyone explain what this means or does:
Enable VA-API DRM hardware decoding on Linux

While the Remote Play client has supported VA-API video acceleration for a good while, this is about making use of it in DRM mode (Direct Rendering Manager, not Digital Rights Management) instead of relying on the older X11 interface. Seems like a necessary step towards better native Wayland support.

Aside from future Wayland support, does it provide any visual or performance improvements?

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Quoting: DrNickHonestly, it's not worth getting involved with most of the chinese handhelds. Ayaneo especially have terrible customer service.

So, Asus and Lenovo are both Chinese as well. Is their customer service also bad, or is it only worth mentioning it's Chinese if it's bad?

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Honestly, I don't know that companies would even verify patches on every console if the consoles didn't require them to. You'd be surprised how often IT companies are willing to cut corners. As much as I hate to praise Microsoft, I think Bethesda is actually doing their Starfield patches the right way, releasing them as opt-in Beta first.

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It amazes me that executives keep falling for this. The marketing for these DRM companies must be brilliant. They prey on fear, and the craziest part is, it doesn't even benefit the game companies.

Inevitably, the "pirates" crack the DRM, so the only people DRM ends up hurting are the paying customers.

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