I don’t like how we have 2 games called CS2 in the same year. Since Cities has worse performance, I say we all agree to abbreviate it some other way, like 2 Cities 2 Skylines.

I wouldn’t be opposed to 128GB if the price made sense for it. I’m only using 64GB on my current phone, and it also had 128GB.

Thinking about trading in my P4a for a P8, was offered $200 off if I did. Should I pull the trigger or do you all think Black Friday will have a better deal?

Then I thought of a crazy scheme: trade in my 4a so the P8 is $500 instead of $700, then accept the free Pixel Buds Pro offer and resell them so it’s ~$300 instead.

Nope, missed out on the September 2023 security update, no phone older than the 4a 5G got it.

Wish I could, but my college’s NFC id cards need Google Pay, which doesn’t run perfectly on custom ROMs, not to mention several other apps.

Someone actually emailed Valve about this back in 2013. Here’s their response: https://i.imgur.com/4sa1Ln6.jpg

Thank you for contacting Steam Support. In the unlikely event of the discontinuation of the Steam network, measures are in place to ensure that all users will continue to have access to their Steam games.

It seems like Valve wants us to think they have an EoL plan. With the goodwill they’ve built over the years, I want to believe them.

I’d say in your case piracy was 1000% justified. You bought it, you should be able to play it.

I think piracy is acceptable if one of these two conditions are met:

• You already own a copy of the game
• The game is no longer sold as new, such that any legitimate copy would have to be secondhand.

identifying legitimate problems with the best available option

Being closed source and using DRM aren’t necessarily problems. In Valve’s case, they aren’t at all. Valve’s DRM doesn’t hurt performance, and doesn’t stop you from playing their games offline.

So?

Closed source isn’t necessarily evil, neither is DRM. It’s all in how you implement it.

Valve’s launcher/drm are so much less intrusive than their competitors. They’ve demonstrated more openness to user customization and modding over the years than just about anyone else. If we didn’t have Valve, we would have more EA and Epic Games, do you really want that?

What if they only indifferently throw puppies into a wood chipper?

That did happen with Elden Ring. Valve found an issue with it and patched it for Vulkan, so it ran better on Steam Deck than Windows.

The end of the article seems to say as much. However, it seems the Vkd3d developers are trying to improve what they can.

Two things I notice

would eliminate stick drift almost entirely

I thought Hall effect sensors didn’t drift at all?

Second, I’m wondering what exactly Nintendo is patenting here, since Hall effect sensors are nothing new.

Obligatory I am not a lawyer, this is just my opinion.

A let’s play is a derivative work. You can claim fair use, but that’s hard to do. Fair use often boils down to a question of ‘does the derivative work compete with the original enough to cause a loss in sales?’ Think of when people film themselves watching a movie for YouTube, without cutting anything out and barely commentating over anything, meaning that someone could watch their video instead of the movie and get almost the same content.

In this case, he filmed himself playing the entirety of a visual novel. I think it’s fair to say that for a lot of people, his let’s play could absolutely substitute for playing the game, thus losing sales for the developer.

I like the implication that someone put the Sega Dreamcast into their contacts list.

Speaking of, how are regulators / governments going to deal with Lemmy? Virtually all existing legislation is intended to deal with centralized stuff run by companies, not federalized. By some regards, there may be actual legal issues with the current setup.

Lemmy by its nature is unlikely to ever face the scrutiny that corporate-owned platforms do, but that doesn’t mean we should be unprepared.

Edit: …virtually all existing legislation…