[-] liara@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

"Anti-piracy technologies is to the benefit of the game publishers, [but also] is of benefit to the players in that it protects the [publisher's] investment and it means the publishers can then invest in the next game"

The only entity benefiting in this scenario is Denuvo, while the client clutches their pearls to protect a misguided concept of the elusive lost sale. Denuvo rakes in cash in the name of copy protection, but the truth is most acts of piracy are driven by a lack of means to obtain the product or a desire to demo the product.

Sure it's their right to protect it but I don't think there's any accurate way to actually measure the impact of games with and without such aggressive copy protection.

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Google is testing this with some owners of the Pixel 6 and newer devices in the US. Tensor is clearly required and this suggests on-device AI is being leveraged. The goal is to “enhance our Call Screen capabilities and reduce robocalls, giving you time back and peace of mind.”

What devices can receive the beta?

Devices that may receive this beta will be the Pixel 6 and above, within the United States.

How can I check my Call Screen Settings to enable/disable the feature?

You can check out this helpful article for steps on checking your Call Screen settings.

When will this become available for everyone?

We’re looking forward to sharing more when the feature launches.

[-] liara@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Install Lutris.

Use the battle net install helper for Lutris.

Launch battle net.

Profit.

It's like one extra step (install Lutris) compared to Windows. Using Linux doesn't have to be some archaic mystery and the proliferation of the steam deck is doing wonders at improving the ease of use of all this stuff.

[-] liara@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spoiler alert: your individual choices don't matter. Drastic and sweeping changes need to be made at the corporate/supply chain level if we have any hope of surviving this.

So... We're fucked.

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[-] liara@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The article seems to indicate he died of fentanyl but was more of a cocaine user that had maybe relapsed. It sounds like he suffered the exact fate he was trying to prevent others from, which is just depressing.

I do wonder what his business strategy was to ensure the drugs he was supplying was safe, but perhaps it was too costly or not convenient enough to abide in a moment of desperation.

[-] liara@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whole-heartedly agree on the quote and it stuck out to me even before coming to the comments here. Redhat might not like that people are repacking "their" software, but the spirit of GPL software is that you can charge for it but folks can also go through the trouble of building it themselves should they not want to go that route and are able to support/debug/maintain the software themselves on their own hardware.

If they don't think the clauses of GPL are fair, then they should probably stop distributing Linux entirely because their entire business model is founded off of profiting off the work of other open source contributions.

Simply rebuilding code, without adding value or changing it in any way, represents a real threat to open source companies everywhere.

One could argue Redhat already does this on packages they have not improved or submitted contributions for.

[-] liara@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, it's not hard to make a browser screenshot say whatever you want it to say.

foo

I had more difficulty remembering the markdown image syntax than I did spoofing your comment

[-] liara@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Moonlight on the deck (via flatpak), Sunshine on the PC

I had that issue with the built-in streaming recently too. Sunshine has been flawless for me (though I did have to patch my nvidia video driver to overcome the nvFbc limitations in consumer cards)

[-] liara@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Her adult sons are also two of her tenants. She only needed to provide proof of residency for a single tenant. I feel like that should have been a slam dunk in terms of acquiring what she needed to prove something is occupied.

She gave up

While I can commiserate with getting overwhelmed, she needed to get help before giving up. As someone who has had lots of brushes with the CRA and the IRS and being strongarmed for more money during tax time, giving up is a surefire way to end up paying the highest end of whatever fine whatever agency is trying to pin you with. Maybe she wasn't fully aware what would happen if she ignored this, but I don't think that's really any excuse either.

[-] liara@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

That's fine. Sync is all Android really needs anyway ;)

[-] liara@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They may as well just remove the "Private" feature from Reddit since it's against the CoC to use it at this point.

[-] liara@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It should have been enough to just say "We allow profanity which is why the sub is marked NSFW" and would've given them much better legs to stand on with Reddit.

This alternative is arguably less bad than getting some surprise porn in your feed and the reddit ToS still says that profanity is considered NSFW

[-] liara@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

You deleted your account yes, but they are rolling back comment deletions which is what this post is about. If you delete your account, you'll no longer be able to get eyes on what Reddit has restored of yours and they can quietly restore your content without your knowledge.

It's a game of cat and mouse currently in regards to protecting what you've previously submitted to reddit.

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