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I recently found out Nokia required Nokia phones. so we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.

They tell the platforms to implement it and fine them for not doing it

Stop calling it an under 16 ban

it’s age verification for fucking everyone

and the best part is Albo is losing preferred prime minister polls to a fucking potato because of this nonsense

Blizzard has QA? is this the Onion?

how much was all this audio equipment? literally nothing compared to the cost of the cables to hook it all up with.

I think 3d printers would be the best example.

patents where invented to protect trade secrets with the result of making them public being an unavoidable consequence. I didn’t mean to make it sound like I agree with intellectual property of any kind just to say there are good reasons and good outcomes. The internet doesn’t tend to be the place to discuss nuance however.

there can be a very good case made for putting private innovation into the public realm after a period of legal protections, (typically 20 years for most places)

but anything that is public by it’s very nature should never be subject to patents

wait for the room cleaning stream first

literally the only apology video I’ve ever believed was an apology.

All you need is a good story … so you can see why people are scrutinising everything else.

qq more

Feels like delaying this so long was a very bad financial decision considering how absurdly priced games are in Australia. Console players are far more likely to pony up the multiple hundo buckaroos for a launch game with all the day one dlc than people who can comprehend a computer as a gaming platform.

they’re in the Au constitution any time they feel like accepting nuclear subs in port …

I bounced hard off Lost Ark

me too brother

any sufficiently stupid action is indistinguishable from malice

Was this not already well known? I feel like this was very well known amongst anyone in any blizzard game community at the time.

IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER

multiple proton compatibility layers eat up system resources real quick and last time I attempted it they kept eating until everything was chugging at frames per minute.

Linux also does this thing called minimize on focus loss that is horrid for this (and the canned fix doesn’t work for me so don’t bother, maybe it’s a PopOS specific thing) also alt-tabing doesn’t see game clients anyway only the game launcher so that little piece of muscle memory from the past 2 decades can put you in a situation or two.

Also the preview/switching tool isn’t available, which wouldn’t be a deal breaker if alt-tabbing worked properly.

it’s a half truth. a compatibility layer will always be slower than bare metal but main systems tend to get bogged down with excess software and general use. A VM will be optimized for the 1 thing you need to run, and maybe even use a snapshot so it’s always the same system at max performance.

I wish I didn’t multibox. Linux is perfectly fine for essentially every other use case,