Quoting: GuestBuy from Valve, support Valve! They are the ones that deserve our support!

Off-topic and flamebait I'd say.

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Couldn't Wine use ffmpeg for that? It could handle WMA and WMV for a long time already.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyDid I say something about feeling bad for them?
I want lots of Steam Deck sales.

I don't think sales at the cost of perpetuating poor security is a good idea. That's my take on it at least. Those who sell stuff that causes damage becasue there is demand are doing a very questionable thing.

If information security sounds too abstract, you can use some more tangible example. Let's take transport. Imagine someone will say it's good to sell more but risky vehicles, because someone hyped that it's "cool" and clueless masses want that.

I'd argue those who sell that will bear responsibility for the harm that will cause.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm unhappy they will have to have, because it makes the Steam Deck less attractive to them. And if any of those people cared about the arguments people here are making about the dangers of kernel level access for foreign software, they wouldn't be playing Fortnite in the first place.

I don't think it's a reason to feel bad for them. I don't.

Imagine something is harmful and clueless crowds don't mind it becasue they are clueless enough about it. And then something actually does come out with security in mind and these crowds don't like it. I think it's good to have alternatives that do the right thing rather then use "cater to the clueless crowd" approach every time.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPYou have to let them if you want to use their software. That's the situation.

Not really, Windows doesn't give userspace access to everything without you somehow letting it by keeping things open. If games like this fail to install if they don't get ACL like for the whole system - it's already extremely fishy. And I'd say always should be a suspect by default (i.e. never trusted).

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPAt least that is the situation on Windows.

Normally - shouldn't be. Windows has its own ACL. If someone gives full access to their own data - well, too bad. But no, they can't already do it, unless you let them. So this logic is garbage, becasue they imply that you should let them.

And let's assume they could do it in some way. Their argument basically goes - so give us even more. My point is - it's a slippery slope. The push should be in the opposite direction, not in the direction of some dystopian nightmare.

Also the argument of "too late" is fake as it has always been. It's never too late for them to claim they need higher level of access? So it's never too late for users to push back against that trash either.

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Quoting: RCLSo no, unfortunately there is no easy way around "client-side anticheat" problem. This is not about the laziness

It totally is about laziness, or more exactly about greed. You can develop AI to detect "cheating" by analyzing user's behavior on the server side and continue improving it to maintain a level that's "good enough". The elephant in the room is that there is no need for "perfect" anti-cheat. And their client one isn't perfect anyway. They simply don't want to spend on AI. It's much cheaper to force spyware on the user and pretend it's the right way to solve the problem.

Also, attitude of developers who push this trash is simply disgusting. Check this for example:

https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-null-anti-cheat-kernel-driver/ [External Link]

This isn’t giving us any surveillance capability we didn’t already have. If we cared about grandma’s secret recipe for the perfect Christmas casserole, we’d find no issue in obtaining it strictly from user-mode and then selling it to The Food Network. The purpose of this upgrade is to monitor system state for integrity (so we can trust our data) and to make it harder for cheaters to tamper with our games (so you can’t blame aimbots for personal failure).

Hear that? These idiots are claiming that their increasing spying on your is OK because they already could spy on you. With this kind of garbage logic, there is no end to it.

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Quoting: STiATAnd that's probably not hard on Steam Deck, but it may be hard getting distros to support it.

I doubt any distro will willingly offer support for malware level kernel module.

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Kernel level "anti-cheats" are spyware garbage that mask companies unwillingness to invest in server side AI solutions for the problem (which are expensive obviously). It's much easier to require users to install spyware and monitor their system instead. Tim Sweeny and his kernel anti-cheats can get lost.

Anyone who cares about security of their systems shouldn't come anywhere close to stuff like that.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusCan we just settle on a smaller number of standard refresh rates, please, preferably in larger increments than 5 Hz? I don't care whether it's multiples of 24 (144 Hz, 240 Hz), 30 (60 Hz, 120 Hz) or 5 (165 Hz), just pick one standard and stick with it.

With adaptive sync there is no need to make some standard increments. It's basically, whatever the panel can handle :)

Congrats on the new monitor!

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