Quoting: ShmerlThe answer is - there isn't a way, unless there is a probable cause. To put it differently, searching through someone stuff becomes justified if someone is investigating a crime or something. But to do it preemptively - that's already a problem and overstepping of privacy. DRM oversteps it always, so that should give a hint that it's never valid.

Yeah, the comparison to the shop owners would be instead of just cameras looking for shoplifters, they actuvely search you from head to toe before you enter the store, and before you leave it.
Think of basically the TSA every time you enter a shop. Would you shop there?

The DRM choice from what I understand is usually one made by the lublishers, nit the developers. And I think most publisher / developers these days think of DRM as only an initial protection to try to make as money as they can before the pirates crack their stuff and distribute it for free. It is a cost / loss analysis. I think as soon as they realize they are making less money from new sales as they are for paying for their DRM, then drop the DRM, as Conan Exiles has done.

One thing that is weird to think of? Video games finally got to the point where companies make all of their money selling their Engines to other video game developers. DRM has done the same thing, where they are just paid for licensing!

Remember the days of Codewheels? Those were cool.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThere used to be a point in time when most gMes coming out had demos. Remember the days of magazines with cover disks full of the latest demos? How hard is it for developers to build a demo version that just ends with a nice "if you liked this... buy the full game!" Especially with a digital store front where when you buy the game it just unlocks the rest of the data.
Hell it could be a built in feature of Steam!

It is a builtin feature of Steam, however not many games have demos. I am one of the crowd who doesn't care about them. They take precious developer time off the main game, they have to be updated in sync with the game, and they do not give a good idea of long, deep games which are the ones I love. For some categories of games, it would be stupid, almost unfeasible -- imagine a Demo of the Witcher 3, which is open world? Also, we have good quality youtube videos which show off what a game can do much better than a demo.

Simple time limited demos work for any genre to give a taste. Yes, even something like Witcher 3. It isn't a 'feature' of Steam in as much as people can list a demo version for free. I am talking as part of their API. Hell, they could essentially just set a 2 hour play time limit and ask at the 2 hour mark if you would like to purchase or not, then not have a refund policy... ha, with my style of play, I would save tons of money, if I didn't load up a game for a week and it removed automatically from my system if I hadn't paid for it, I would have a lot more disk space too.

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Quoting: GuestAre they going to give us decent VR support? Because i want to buy the new 3000 series at the end of the year but not having async reprojection is terrible and induces motion sickness.

This! It is the thing that would make some games in VR playable theough Lroton, like Elite: Dangerous, which the last time I tried playing it, ran at a full 100fps slower than it did on Windows. Which is fine when you are in space and it is 150 vs 250. But in a station it was like 60 vs 160... and 60 in VR is terrible...

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I skipped a bunch of posts, just wanted to pop in and say Conan Exiles dropped Denuvo recently, so may have to try it again under Linux. I think it originally was supposed to have Linux support...

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There used to be a point in time when most gMes coming out had demos. Remember the days of magazines with cover disks full of the latest demos? How hard is it for developers to build a demo version that just ends with a nice "if you liked this... buy the full game!" Especially with a digital store front where when you buy the game it just unlocks the rest of the data.
Hell it could be a built in feature of Steam!

I always thought this nuts. Remember, Doom and Quake took off so fast because you could pick up the demo disks at grocery stores!

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: elmapul"Removal of the obsolete 32-bit PowerPC architecture."
lol, hard to believe that it was still there

Although I usually find the removal of whole architectures kind of sad, even I have to admit to wondering what it was doing in there in the first place. Apparently there was a release of NT 4.0 for PowerPC [External Link], but how many people ever used it? According to that article, “The number of software titles which will run in 32-bit PowerPC native is less than 5 from what I’m seeing online.”

(That said, I now have a desperate hankering for a PReP board. I've never actually wanted to run Windows before in my life. But PowerPC Windows... that's kind of cool. :grin:)

i think it reffers to run wine on powerpc, not po...
wait, there was an windows for power pc...
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC [External Link]

hell...

I have some PPC hardware, would be interesting to see it work there. Though something tells me it won't just work on say a Powerbook...

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Quoting: GuestCould one of the ladies of this charming community make a child with me right now ? We would sell it for organ harvest so i can buy a B550 motherboard.

Problem with that is you would have to wait at least 9 months, and by then something better will be out.

Oh wait, maybe that is a great idea! I too would like to find one!

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Quoting: omicron-b

Fractional scaling support, and each monitor can be scaled differently.

Wow, am I right that no other DE has this?

I thought Gnome-shell was supposed to get at least the first bit. But I haven't seen it in the options on Pop_OS.

I do wish Mint would support Gnome though I kind of see why they do not. But yes, maybe if all of the Ubuntu based systems refuse to play ball with forcing snap down our throats, Ubuntu will come to realize that much like other things they've tried to push an alternate system for, that they'll just back down.

While I'm not against alternatives at all (otherwise why would I be using Linux as a desktop system, right?), there are certain things we should try standardizing on, like the graphical display tech (xorg / wayland), system resource management and startup (though to be fair, it systemd started with just being an improved init, it really is growing into much more, and I can see reasons to hate it for that, but it has become the 'standard'). We already have flatpak that isn't terrible in performance like snap, is already well integrated into other distributions (though Debian is as they always are neutral and properly support both flatpak and snap, just not out of the box, which is the way it should be).

This does give us two good options now though, Pop_OS! for those who enjoy using Gnome Shell, plus they have an easy way to switch between hybrid, dedicated and iGPU settings, and Mint for the Xfce, Cinnamon and Mate DEs, without having things shoved into our faces!

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Quoting: LeonardKOpenFirmware was the Firmware that was used on Sun SPARC stations as their alternative to IBM BIOS. IIRC Apple used it as well on their PPC macs, other PPC systems sometimes used it as well.

OpenFirmware is controlled using a command prompt that also can be accessed remotely via serial, which makes it really nice to administrate. It's also usually more consistent and featureful than BIOS. Furthermore it was combined with a nice system where you didn't need to download/install drivers from some external media but the driver was shipped using FORTH code on the device.

Anyhow, rather old technology from the 90s that's still superior to anything we have in the PC world right now unfortunately.

I bought a Powerbook G4 to put MorphOS on it and I agree, Open Firmware is fantastic. Damn shame it never kept going on other devices.

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Quoting: dubigrasuIIRC we had the same type of arguments when Liam started posting Proton news, the same idea that we should keep Linux news "pure" as in native only news. Luckily we got past that, but I see we're starting all over again with Stadia.

From where I'm standing I think that if we're OK with news about games made for Windows > played locally through Wine, we might as well be OK with news about games made for Linux > played remotely through a browser.

Sure, it doesn't fit in the pure/native/etc category, but the Linux connection is there nevertheless, and is worth posting news about it.

I feel it's a bit different. Here's why.

We can directly benefit from Wine / Proton and they directly correspond to being able to take a game and play it through our Linux systems directly.

Stadia is like if we started getting articles on AWS and that we could host our servers there or something.
Granted mine is just an opinion, and if we took a poll to see if other users would like Stadia news, I'd be fine if that's what people voted on. But I'm an adult, and if I don't feel like reading about it, then I'll skip the article. So doesn't really make me angry or anything :)

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