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Quoting: EWGAnyway, maybe it's time to switch to BSD. 😉

If Linux distributions are required to comply, so are BSD variants. The law doesn't grant exceptions.

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In Other News today, Sony decided to lose on PC gamer income.

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Quoting: Carolly... handles US trade sanctions with, e.g., Russia.)

I listen to [RadCap](https://www.radcap.ru) Internet radio stations. They're based in Russia and cover dozens of genres including chiptunes! Doesn't matter what VPN server I'm connected to -- they'll broadcast to anyone and I haven't had a DNS server nor VPN provider prevent me from tuning in.

Also, LiveJournal is owned by a russian company. It's severely gone down hill, and I recommend [Dreamwidth](https://dreamwidth.org) but, LJ is still widely used by US citizens and I think there's a paid tier to remove adverts and gain extra features/allotments. Haven't tried that, obviously.

So, *shrug*.

Anyway, maybe it's time to switch to BSD. 😉

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I think this is a good thing. I’m in general not a fan of EA, but if I have the option i would probably buy some games in the future. If it’s really worth it and nice discount. IMHO Linux as gaming platform is good enough. And when you see the rumors about w12, I would prepare as EA for a mass migration to Linux….

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How about a maximum age for politicians instead?

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How is it cheaper to implement something once instead of implement something only in specific parts of one country? 😅

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Quoting: GoEsrApple were the ones fighting against it, as I said. The point is, per your original comment, that laws applied in important markets like the EU and the US do tend to just be applied globally because it's easier and cheaper.

No, you are misunderstanding: it's not "laws tend to be applied globally". They are not, in any way. It's corporations that adopt *globally* a standard/convention required by laws in one market if it's cheaper and easier than splitting their product lines/procedures.
Please tell me how it's easier and cheaper for, let's say Ubuntu, to implement age checks in the EU if those checks are required by US laws.
And btw those checks could actually be against EU privacy laws...

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Ya know, I used to want to live forever. Or, at least a century or three. Now, I have changed my mind. lol.

Restore to a previous save point and try again?

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After installing this, I happened to get the Steam survey on the next start of Steam. It says my video card is Mesa llvmpipe!?? Not sure that's a new problem, but I'm fairly certain it used to report the video card correctly.

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"He pulled the wrong tooth! (hahahaha!!!)"
"Only one man would pull the wrong tooth! (Heehehe!!)"
"It's Clouseau! (bwahahaha!!!)"
"KILL HIM!!! (Woohahahee!!!)"

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Microsoft is never seeing another dime from me.

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Well, they could just start to remove the AntiCheat for single player completely.

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Does is have a campaign? There are so many games I want to play this year, so I like games which have a clear ending so I can go on to the next one. ^^

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I've got a FEVAH, and the only thing that can cure it is MORE TRANSPORATION!

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Quoting: ScottCarammellI would love to see how California would try to go about banning Linux as a platform for non-compliance. Just...love to see how they would try.

This.

Most Linux distros don't have a bazillion-dollar company like Canonical behind them and even in cases where they do, suing said company can only do so much to stop the distribution of a non-compliant operating system... For example, if they sued Canonical, it wouldn't be all that difficult for somebody to strip the Canonical-protected stuff (e.g. logos and trademarks, proprietary code, etc) out of Ubuntu and offer it as a "Canonical-free" distro that is still "non-compliant".

I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like all these Linux distros are getting paranoid on something that can't really affect them in Real World terms.

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Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrheaThank God US laws don't apply to the rest of the world... yet!

The US disagrees - just look at the Julian Assange and the Kim Dotcom sagas... Many of their alleged activities either didn't breach local legislation or sat in a so-called "grey area"; yet the "World Police" (aka American law enforcement) insisted that US laws were broken and that these individuals should be held to account.

I'm sure I and others could come up with loads of alternative examples, too.

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Only played a couple of hours of the first one - I remember enjoying it, but (as usual) was distracted by other games of the time. In this case, from my Steam "last played", it was Rise of the Tomb Raider! Or it could have been MidBoss, Welcome to Basingstoke, or possibly... indeed likely... Gunpoint.

Goddam, in fact, straight after Gunpoint, there was Crysis 2 Maximum Edition, and then one of my favourite games of all time - Transistor. No wonder I never went back to this!

Anyway, it's an easy wishlist.

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Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrhea

Quoting: GoEsrEU laws don't apply in the US, yet every new iPhone has a USB-C port despite Apple yelling and spitting like a Visigoth against it.

And that's because the EU smartphone market is bigger than the USA, by a couple hundreds million users actually...
It only made sense for Apple to move away from their proprietary stuff in this case: splitting their product lines just for one tiny, in comparison, market was out of the question from an economical standpoint.

Apple were the ones fighting against it, as I said. The point is, per your original comment, that laws applied in important markets like the EU and the US do tend to just be applied globally because it's easier and cheaper.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games.

Strange to assume that this means the machine will open the ecosystem to Steam, Epic Games and such. M$ can achieve this statement simply by allowing owners of this new Xbox console to purchase the PC games through the Microsoft Store. No need to give competitors access to their closed market.

An Epic Games leader has said they're planning for EGS to be on the next Xbox "console" day one.

https://www.gamefile.news/p/epic-has-many-plans-for-its-game

“We definitely plan to be on the new hardware for Xbox, because, unless their policy or stance on it changes, they are telling us they’re going to welcome that. And we’re going be there, like, on day one. That will probably require us to build in whatever their requirements are, some sort of software to support that.”

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Updated with the statement Discord sent over.

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Absolutely wild trailer. That felt like an 80's fever dream.

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeYou don't really get console "generations" like we use to, when a new console offered a generational difference in terms of what games could do, it's more incremental increases, higher res, higher fps, better raytracing

The next generation of consoles will feature AI that plays games for you and they will advertise it as a replacement for twitch and youtube. Why watch some random dudes play games when you can have your best friend Cortana play the game before your very eyes, all the while unlocking accolades on your account.

Reading this reminds me of the xbox one launch lol

"TV"

"Streaming"

More TV, and then some more streaming

"Sports"

Yeah OK xbox, but where's the fun games to get excited about?!

To be fair, I liked the TV aspect of the Xbone and would've used it, but that was when I still had/wanted cable. (Though the USB antenna dongle was cool too if you didn't have cable.)

What pissed me off with the Xbone announcement was the whole software keys for physical games, but that was thankfully abandoned. The Xbone was never gonna be my main console that gen and when I did finally get my Xbox One X, it was for exclusives, Play Anywhere titles, and western 3rd party console games.

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Quoting: ArehandoroExactly. My question to @Geamandura was semi-rethorical, it probably wasn't clear enough, to make a point that OpenMW or Heroes would not fit the ScummVM ideology.

You cannot be rhetorical with that, since the whole world doesn't agree with you that 2D point and click is the same as 3D first person. Hence you would first need to present an argument why you consider a fully fledged advanced graphics 3D first person game (Penumbra) the same as a 2D point and click, and thus under this principle, fully congruous to be included in ScummVM.

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Quoting: pbWhy watch some random dudes play games when you can have your best friend Cortana play the game before your very eyes, all the while unlocking accolades on your account.

Not sure if Xbox Gaming Copilot support that at the moment, but when it does it would be ironic as heck, considering they had a feature called [Xbox Copilot](https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/account-profile/accessibility/copilot) that would let your human best friend do exactly that! 😄

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeYou don't really get console "generations" like we use to, when a new console offered a generational difference in terms of what games could do, it's more incremental increases, higher res, higher fps, better raytracing

The next generation of consoles will feature AI that plays games for you and they will advertise it as a replacement for twitch and youtube. Why watch some random dudes play games when you can have your best friend Cortana play the game before your very eyes, all the while unlocking accolades on your account.

Reading this reminds me of the xbox one launch lol

"TV"

"Streaming"

More TV, and then some more streaming

"Sports"

Yeah OK xbox, but where's the fun games to get excited about?!

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From what I heard, this is "compelled speech" which is illegal under the 1st ammendement of the constitution.

I could see it going up to the supreme court.

This is undoubtedly legal lawfare, they were going to impose these Totalitarian restrictions before 2030 anyways, it's just that now it serves a purpose to distract the public from "The Files", and "What's going on in the world" like Donkey Kong throwing barrels at Mario.

or, Zergling Rush strategy.

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Also, I wanted to add, I think now more than ever with Microsoft Github projects being axed regularly, that we should push Source Distros where users maintain a offline 1:1 copy all source code for the software installed on their computers.

Popular Distros should add this functionality, and users should Popularize distros which have local user-compiling. This will add additional legal protections in some places with "compelled speech" laws.

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Besides that, we're going to need to have access to some kind of hardware revolution similar to the NES 8086 and X86-64 where users can laser etch / print Circuit Boards and Assemble Modular silicon & common chips, even if it has a performance cost.

In W^2 2 the inexpensive modular equipment is what wins over fancy expensive stuff. A hardware revolution is going to come about one way or another as a result of this nonsense, either from the West or the East. Whichever one remains open will come out on top as developers choose the winner.

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The only other third element I could forsee would be the creation of a Git+Torrent where source code for software is distributed via P2P instead of centralized.

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This next few years are going to be very interesting to see. If the right plays are made Linux could stand to gain significant ground above and beyond the already billions of devices.

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You had right-wing assholes calling California dumb or whatever for the age verification bullshit. But I'm sure that the redneck states doing it is either okay, not a big deal, or cause "the liberals are doing it too." Always some sorta excuse, spin, or opportunism. Seriously, fuck American bullshit period and fuck imperialism forcing it on everyone else.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: BumadarThis is MS, where is the AI? It needs an AI agent and other AI stuff!!

See Xbox Gaming Copilot. It's already there on handhelds like the ROG Xbox Ally.

I'm not at all surprised, a lot of people want to bet spoon-fed every time they get stuck for more than 30 seconds, I say it will be quite popular. ([for reference](https://www.xbox.com/en-US/gaming-copilot))

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Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeYou don't really get console "generations" like we use to, when a new console offered a generational difference in terms of what games could do, it's more incremental increases, higher res, higher fps, better raytracing

The next generation of consoles will feature AI that plays games for you and they will advertise it as a replacement for twitch and youtube. Why watch some random dudes play games when you can have your best friend Cortana play the game before your very eyes, all the while unlocking accolades on your account.

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