Warcraft 3 had helicopters and tanks, so cars aren’t all that crazy.

Sounds like a nothingburger, sovereign wealth funds investment in a diverse set of industries. And especially industries their own economy isn’t big in.

I don’t see PIF here though 🤔

> claims most steam games are drm free

> shown that most games that people play aren’t drm free

I missed the part where I cared about this conversation anymore. Enjoy your weekend!

Alright 🙄

Did you miss the part where I said I mostly excluded them?

The steam link should explain it, it’s the biggest games on steam in terms of revenue.

Out of the non-free games 2/6 platinum games have DRM. 8/9 gold games have drm. And that’s ignoring DRM via being live service game without support for self hosting server (a big portion if you also check the silver games).

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/BestOf2023?tab=1

Disclaimer, I used perplexity.ai to ask if each individual game included drm or not. Ignoring DRM that is one time verification and support offline play.

This new law should absolutely include every game store on the Internet.

If you buy a game on GOG, you can download the game and put it on 100 USB sticks and sell each one of them with a fully working copy for perpetuity. You buy the game on GOG. Just because the shop may go down doesn’t mean you lose your product.

GOG guarantees that every game is DRM free and can be offline. Steam makes no such guarantees, and most games there will ship with some form of DRM.

Yeah, it’s why I always choose GOG over Steam when I have a choice, even if it costs slightly more.

Hmm, I thought it was more recent, but it sounds about right!

There was a lot of noise surrounding GOG a few months back about something like that. GOG was going in that direction but had to pull back/remove the game(?) to due backlash.

This exaggeration gets tiresome, there are some great uses for LLM. The copilot autocomplete got to be one of the greatest QoL functions in a modern IDE.

It also generally work great for tech support, and lowers the skill requirement for installing and maintaining a Linux distro. Nowadays I will usually just redirect tech support questions from family members to an LLM.

Just because it won’t solve cancer in 10 years like the tech bros preach doesn’t mean the tech is without uses.

You got to take that up with the Microsoft executive who wrote it. It’s physical media, so Microsoft has less control over it, which they clearly don’t like.

“adorable all-digital” console as they called it in the internal email.

The iphone

Microsoft’s new phone were supposed to spell the end for it.

Thanks for clarifying

Skimming through it it wasn’t fully clear to me, is this just for their pdf editor?

What sort of protection are you after? Your VPN should encrypt your data to make it more difficult to snoop on your activity. I wouldn’t trust any random WiFi hot-spot just because you got a VPN encrypting your traffic though.

I’m aware, however it’s not as transparent and Steam does not provide the same guarantees that GOG do.

Gave Newell is 60+ years old and haven’t exactly taken the most care for his own health. We don’t know what will happen once he is gone.

With GOG there is nothing a change of leadership can do to your existing game library.

After digging into it, it seems like the 2 week limit was a bug that has been fixed by steam. So there is no Steam enforced limit, it’s up to each game’s DRM to enforce restrictions. Steam can function as DRM with a simple command during upload, but it’s rather basic and Valve recommends publishers to use additional DRM for more serious protection.

GOG on the other hand is DRM free as a core policy so you’re guaranteed no restrictions.