I see. :neutral:

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Do they not realise that this software has a high enough level of access to do any number of activities on their computer, and hide it from the OS and the user? For example, hide a running process from "Task manager" on Windows, and continue running even after they close the game?

Can you really justify that level of access just for a game?

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I have to ask, how do people justify allowing a video game absolute total control over their computer at the kernel-level?

How does one justify that is a good thing to have? It is a rootkit.

Regardless if you use Windows, Linux or the other one it just sounds like a bad idea. I can't help but feel the reason these companies won't do this for Linux is simple: They know most Linux users would reject it, and refuse to use the game anyway.

But it still begs the question, why are some people accepting of this?

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It's a shame that mistakes happen, but I think we can all agree that patent and copyright protection is an important part of our legal system. We need to protect the works of our society with strict copyright and patent laws.

This stops undesirable peasants from using the work in an unauthorised manner or with bad intent starving the original authors from their rightful money.

If anything, we need to extend copyright law and make it stricter to protect peoples work. The recent example of Michael Mouse going public domain and the abuse it has since been subject to is a perfect example of why copyright law needs to be extended.

We should also extend and alter our patent laws to make protecting our ideas simpler. If we have an idea, we need to be able to protect that idea, whether or not we ourselves are able to execute our idea.

We need to extent patent law to be as long as, if not longer than copyright law.

In addition, we need to be able to backdate copyright and patent claims to make claims for cases of infringement that occurred during the time the patent or copyright was active, even if the breach is only discovered years later.

To help ensure people are correctly compensated, copyright/patent breaches need to be immediately liable for compensation, without the need of a court.

Overall, while the current system works to a point, it needs to become much stricter.

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In our commitment to enhancing the gaming experience for our users, we aim to address market pain points

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Operating System: Windows 11

Uhuh.

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and I have to go find a job flipping burgers or something.

Come on now, you're a techie! That means you probably have some qualifications or at least some background in some technical field such as development or systems management or other things like that. :grin:

So no worries! Besides, we don't need you meatbags flipping our burgers in the future, we have AI robots for that which can do a much better and more efficient job of it. :grin:

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: BlackBloodRumBut there is the "Advanced" tier which you can join. To do so, you must first install Arch Linux with i3 Window Manager. Set an anime based wallpaper and finally, post a screenshot titled "I did it!" with a terminal window open showing your neofetch. :grin:

I've grown too lazy to do that, but I did run Gentoo with Fluxbox as my daily driver for a couple of years back when it took two days of bootstrapping, compilation and self-flagellation to get it properly running on my Athlon Thunderbird system. :wink:

You haven't lived until you've installed Debian from a floppy drive, or do a net-install from a 19.2kbps modem.

Granted, those were early days when you had to recompile XFree86 to be able to use a newer graphics card...

Nerds. :tongue:

I'm glad I'm just a regular Linux user who is not geeky/nerdy at all. :grin:

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Marry bloody christmas 'spose. :grin:

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I'm just betting that when Liam was preparing this article, he knew exactly where this comment section was going! :grin:

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: BlackBloodRumBut there is the "Advanced" tier which you can join. To do so, you must first install Arch Linux with i3 Window Manager. Set an anime based wallpaper and finally, post a screenshot titled "I did it!" with a terminal window open showing your neofetch. :grin:

I've grown too lazy to do that, but I did run Gentoo with Fluxbox as my daily driver for a couple of years back when it took two days of bootstrapping, compilation and self-flagellation to get it properly running on my Athlon Thunderbird system. :wink:

Unfortunately the Gentoo one's aren't in that tier, they're just regular everyday joes, no pervy stuff with them. :whistle:

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