but that will drive down engagement! what will happen with the engagement numbers without mass produced addictive videos!?

Steam updating those system requirements for newer hardware makes those games MORE accessible,

I think they mean modifying the minimum requirements, because their electron based abomination of a client does not support older systems

so unless you know to use the goldberg emu, it will possibly make those games different, or at worst unplayable. I know of games that glitch with modern hardware, in one instance because it is so old the dev never thought about graphics hardware with 2 GB VRAM or more, and it was never patched either.

its suprising that such a high profile person does not know about goldberg emu (or various other solutions), so they rather recommend subscription services that are multiple orxers of magnitude worse.

Enter Monthly Subscription Game Libraries and DRM-free → Exit Steam

In lieu of even the simplest commitment by Valve to keep their DRM client free of system requirement creep, business models like Ubisoft+, EA Access and Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers. The claim is often made that you “do not own the game” with these services, but you do not own them on Steam either; Valve stops pretending to care if their store’s software breaks your game after you have played it for two hours.

I would rather pay a fraction of the price to play a game for one month than pretend digitally distributed games have the lifespan of a boxed physical product. You can consume the entirety of a game within one month and pay an appropriate amount of money for the ephemeral service offered.

this person is extremely misguided. the a copy if the game files, drop in the goldberg emu dll, and done. works forever, in as many copies as you feel like. DRMs can stand in the way, but that’s exactly what makes it even worse on subscription platforms. and online only, or strictly multiplayer games? these won’t work whatever you do, but that’s not valve’s fault.

valve is careless but today other than GOG, it’s still the best (read: least bad) popular storefront, and subscription based systems are simply just the worst.

which model? it says gpt 4o mini can do web search

I use duckduckgo for searches and proton for emails for 4+ years, and I have been less frustrated than with google services

oh, I see. well, lessons learned hopefully! :)

not bad faith, but overriding your selected search engine is just plainly very fucked up for firefox to do.

and this it not only on mobile. I had the same experience on desktop some time ago.

what garbage cleanup tool gets rid of dotfiles, especially .git? if you let us know we can learn to avoid it

well, it’s in the settings. “Include anti features” menu.

my 750 ti works. nouveau can’t increase the clock speed to the operating clock on boot, on boot the display on that card shows random data with colorful pixels, and nvtop does not see it either, but it works.

banned users:

• The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world
• The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website

lol, what did they do?

wait, are they really using it?

IT basically constructs several virus exe files during runtime FROM THE BYTECODE SECTION !!

what kind of viruses? what do they do? did you notice anything objectively bad that they do? or something fishy other than creating executables?

These exe files are what does the activation. It also installs backdoors, and potential malware !!

could you provide a little more details on what kind of backdoors does it install? and what malware?

this could be a big deal, but you didn’t provide anything that could be verified.

another person here also highlighted that mullvad can already do btc + monero + traditional money, so I guess maybe it could just work that way.

interesting though, that mullvad had that for many years now, didn’t it? and this podcast is not old. why did Andy say what he said?

tbh I didn’t read the petition page until now because I didn’t expect an official source, but this is going to be interesting

I don’t think it’s that easy. the CEO Andy Yen talked about this briefly in this podcast, it boils down to financial auditors not liking cryptocurrencies. he said even just by accepting bitcoin most of the auditors won’t agree to audit their company, all the while they are legally required to have regular audits

https://optoutpod.com/episodes/protonwallet-andy-yen/

I would say they’re a bot,

not a bad guess probably. just a week or two ago was when I noticed them posting frequently very suddenly, and before that I haven’t seen their name anywhere.

CalyxOS also supports it

I think I know what you are talking about, I have trays like that and they came back in the days with that old freezer that still works good enough. that plastic is really more sturdy than anything today.

Unfortunately they started cracking so we were looking for new ones, but all of them are made of some kinf of cheap plastic or silicon, which I don’t want to use, because just by looking at them I feel they probably “leak” lots of microplastic over time. also the cube holes are not trapezoid so its often hard to get out the cubes without damaging the tray, and adding even more microplastic to my drink

unexpected lesson, but that umask in a subshell is very clever!