Even if I were ever in the market for an ultrabookalike, that white blob would be bothering me to no end. Whoever thought that was a good idea, and how did it live on past the concept stage?

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There's a time and place for everything.

Being a clown when leading a major company is not one of them.

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The website in question protonge.com, which I am intentionally not making a clickable link, makes it seem like it's all official but the only official place is the GitHub.

Nowadays one should even be wary of github pages; there's been a recent spate of malicious forks of open source projects on github pretending to be the original. I.e.: verify whether one is visiting the genuine github page.

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When the developer views you as an adversary, it is a good time move on to alternatives that don't.

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Hmm, I'm thinking the ui could do with some cleanup. Is there a way to:

Hide (visible on hover) that mass of play, settings, download and store icons at each game cover?

Hide the sidebar?

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Quoting: LoftyThat said, i think a creator has the right to stipulate where they sell their wares and how. That too is a fundamental right, although i could see how some people might disagree with that, it is what it is.

I am perfectly fine with that. My beef is with corporations claiming the right to determine where and how consumers play/view the purchased media (or license or whatever).

This is a vast broadening of corporate power over our culture which should never have been granted through the dmca backdoor.

I distinctly recall people who were warning about this sort of thing (otherwise legal activities getting blocked by the dmca's anti drm-circumvention provision) being framed as panic mongers, turns out that even they did not realise the full scope of power granted by this piece of legislation.

We have arrived at the point of coffee-pads and ink-cart replacements being drm-ed and repairs getting blocked by drm's legal powers now.

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Does anyone know a good, preferably easy, way to get crt-shaders on proton?

I know that for integer scaling one simply can add a launch option, ideally one would want something similar for adding shaders.

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: EhvisThe interesting thing will be what they do next. The code to both has been preserved and deleting all mirrors is something even Nintendo money can accomplish. So it's only a matter of time until builds will pop up somewhere (possibly under a different name). Will Emudeck pull those in?

I think the EmuDeck developers would be pretty stupid if they did pull in some fork, they would be opening themselves up to lawsuits for facilitating what has already been basically declared illegal.

The case was settled. Nothing was declared illegal.

They didn't have to declare anything illegal. Under the DMCA, it was already illegal.

That was nintendo's claim, but they didn't even issue a dmca take-down notice to github, giving a strong indication that even their legal team had doubts as to some of their claims about the legality of the emulation itself.

From what I understand, yuzu's main legal problems were that their devs didn't strictly adhere to a "we can't tell you how/where to get the games"-policy.

Regardless, emudeck does not have the deep pockets required for an effective legal defence against a billion-dollar company in full extortion mode, so I suspect they'll pass up on the opportunity to paint a bullseye on their backs by supporting emulation of a device whose ecosystem is still being commercially exploited.

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Quoting: legluondunetIf Yuzu was able to pay $2.4 million, is it because their Patreon brought in that much?
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Either that or some of the devs also added a bit from other sources of income, extra mortgages and/or other loans.

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My gaming library is too big and time too short to put up with nintendo's cultural piracy.

I.e.: why even bother copying the games in question when there's decades worth of competition that won't give you manure for playing on a device of your choice?

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