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  • Eurogamer asked Valve if there had been any progress in helping games requiring kernel-level anti-cheat, with Valve responding that the Steam Machine's expected focus on multiplayer gaming could encou

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  • I mean, the solution here is to stop being lazy and sending enemy position information when there's no possible way for you to see them, but again, that takes a tiny bit more processing power.

  • Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say

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  • I'm poking holes in his argument heehee!

    These are real fucking people. Get some empathy.

  • Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

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  • GOG has no DRM, but they also don't offer the same kind of services, like workshop, updates, cloud sync, etc.

    Not trying to say they're worse or anything, I love GOG, but it's really kind of comparing apples to oranges here.

  • Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

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  • I'm going to be honest, I have no idea how I forgot google. They also definitely take 30%.

  • Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

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  • I should note that 30% is incredibly standard in the industry, and Valve offers a LOT more for that 30% than literally any other digital publisher. Physical publishers take substantially more, and the only digital store that offers less is EGS, which is simultaneously absolute dogshite and also has been trying very, very hard to astroturd the '30%' thing for ages.

    Nintendo, Sony, and Apple all take 30%. I think MS does as well, but don't quote me on that one.

  • Phew! Close one

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  • It's because Schumer worked to get this to happen, then bowed out at the end so he could pretend he had nothing to do with it. He was the architect and the driving force behind this capitulation.

    So people are downvoting MiddleAgesModem for falling for a blatantly obvious attempt by Schumer to redirect blame.

  • Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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  • Recognition and thanks for what, though?

    Do you want me to congratulate them for not shitting themselves, too? I'll congratulate and thank them when they start actually representing me, instead of capitulating without gaining a single thing at all.

  • Steam Deck gets a new low-power screen-off downloads mode

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  • I actually seem to remember that back in ~wrath of the lich king (world of warcraft) Blizzard WASN'T doing this.

    While blizzard had enough capacity to handle 12+million people trying to download the update because they prepped for it, the internet itself did not, and I want to say Verizon basically got its backbone DDoS'd and taken down.

    Needless to say, Blizzard started breaking out it's updates, using CDNs and cache servers, etc etc because Verizon had some very choice words (possibly coming from their legal department.)

  • Most Americans say country is on the wrong track, blame Trump for inflation, disapprove of the president and say he is going too far to expand power of presidency

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  • Most Americans say country is on the wrong track, blame Trump for inflation, disapprove of the president and say he is going too far to expand power of presidency

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  • Most Americans say country is on the wrong track, blame Trump for inflation, disapprove of the president and say he is going too far to expand power of presidency

    Democrats: "Oh shit, this is actually working, quick, find 8 fall guys to let the budget pass!"

    (yes, that is really happening- 8 democrats have broken with the party and said they would be willing to vote for it.)

  • Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark

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  • There's something deeply ironic about how angry you are towards people because they disagree with your OS choice.

    Perhaps some introspection might be in order, hmm?

  • Sucks to suck!

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  • I'ts not supposed to make sense, it's supposed to convince people not to vote, because people exercising their rights are inconvenient to the republican leadership and their backers.

  • Microsoft killed Win 10 support to rob you of your rights. Fight back by installing Linux.

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  • If windows takes over the TPM module? Yes, because they change the stuff the bios references to boot.

    That said, if you self-built, you can probably keep it from taking over the TPM module (I think.)

  • Locked

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  • The only thing the tolerant cannot tolerate is intolerance.

  • Microsoft killed Win 10 support to rob you of your rights. Fight back by installing Linux.

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  • So basically, TPM is a secure bit of hardware on the mobo, that allow it to do data encryption, software signing, integrity checks, etc. All that is fine, good even, and Linux fully supports TPM modules, because there's a lot of good you can do with it, especially the fact that's in a hardware encrypted key store. Those 'secure enclaves' are HUGE for security.

    The problem is how windows controls it. Basically, TPM 2.0 can store a bunch of hash values of various parts of your system- bios, bootloader, kernel, etc. It can use this to ensure nothing has been tampered with. it can also enable 'secure boot' which is basically to ensure only signed, confirmed software is loaded as the bootloader. Finally, disk encryption can be run through TPM 2.0.

    Again, none of these things are bad... if YOU control the TPM module. But on Windows, you don't, windows or your OEM does. You don't get to boot your system without their permission. You don't get to unlock your hard drive without their permission. You don't get to change OSs without their permission. And finally, you don't even get to change hardware without their permission!

    You can see how it's a problem when your OEM or windows itself controls that kind of thing regarding your PC. For right now, these problems mainly seem to occur in enterprise or OEM pcs, not prebuilts or custom-builts... but Windows gets greedier by the day, and frankly so do OEMs.

    The goal is to turn away from decades of computer innovation and lock down and control your computer worse than your phone is now. You can already see the effects- Windows has started calling installing your own software 'sideloading,' for example, and making scary noises about how installing anything from outside the windows store inherently dangerous.

    tl;dr: Companies hate the idea of you actually owning your pc, and TPM 2.0 is just another thing they're using for stripping that control away from you, bit by bit, in the name of 'security.'

  • Microsoft killed Win 10 support to rob you of your rights. Fight back by installing Linux.

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  • TPM's entire point is basically to prevent you from using anything but windows on the computer. They want to make it so that you can't change to e.g. linux or anything else, because they know they're going to be bringing in unpopular changes that people want to swap from.

    In it's most basic form, it locks you out of modifying your computer how you want it to be, in favor of how microsoft or your OEM wants it to be.

    They talk a lot about how it prevents attackers from changing deep, mystical boot level things so it sounds scary, but honestly I can't even think of that last time that was a legitimate attack someone actually did, and frankly encryption at rest already solved that issue a long time ago.

    At the end of the day, it's a way to force you to buy a new computer, raising profits, buy a new version of windows, raising profits, and locking you into the ecosystem with your very system and data itself held hostage- again, for profits. Since you're a captive audience, they can also start doing things for profits- like mining all your data to sell.

  • Microsoft killed Win 10 support to rob you of your rights. Fight back by installing Linux.

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  • I still have daily issues with Wayland on Bazzite, so yikes.

    Also, that's my point- Cinnamon has one way to do it, and the doco all reflects that. GNOME/KDE each have 50, and the documentation tells you to use one app for this, another app for that, a third app for the other- it's all kind of a mess for a new user that just wants their OS to stop being a barrier for whatever they want to do.

  • Microsoft killed Win 10 support to rob you of your rights. Fight back by installing Linux.

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  • Exactly.

  • Microsoft killed Win 10 support to rob you of your rights. Fight back by installing Linux.

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    1. Very true
    2. Wayland still has a lot of problems to iron out, and that's not something that will fly with most people as a Windows replacement.
    3. KDE and Gnome are bloated messes that have 29394 ways of doing anything, but not everything, which causes frustration in new migrants. They don't want 12 different apps that each can do 70% of the possible options- they want one app that can do 100% (and isn't terminal). Familiarity with windows is also a plus to them, as a migrant.
    4. Again, familiarity is a good thing for a migrant.

    You're looking at it from the perspective of 'is this the distro that has things I want' which is, not to be rude, completely useless to the person actually migrating from windows.