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Good news, though - ironically - it was cracked about a month ago 😄

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Good, they should remove it from the Dino Crisis games as well that they released on Steam. They're the GOG version but with Enigma lazily slapped on top 🤮

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Quoting: LinasMost likely they realized that it did not protect anything either.

It protected a lot of people's wallets, which are now exposed to impulse buying. ;-)

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Quoting: Eocene84As someone who doesn't have kids (thank God) and never will, I'm really tired of being punished because other people can't or won't parent their children, which makes the government feel the need to step in. Hopefully the state I live in, Colorado, doesn't do something like this.

I am sorry to inform you that the term "protect the children" is actually used everywhere where a law would otherwise be hard to enact. All these laws popping up everywhere recently are not about children, never were and nowhere will be.

I think most politician had bad childhood, so they do everything to protect children :-D .

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Most likely they realized that it did not protect anything either.

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I didn't care for Bazaar at first, but it's fine now. I would still prefer Discover to maintain..."Konsistency", but Bazaar is fine.

I am glad to see Konsole replace Ptyxis though. Nothing "wrong" with Ptyxis, but again, I use Plasma+KDE and prefer to use Qt apps.

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Now all they have to do is release it on GOG so I can finally buy and play it.

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Quoting: Eocene84As someone who doesn't have kids (thank God) and never will, I'm really tired of being punished because other people can't or won't parent their children, which makes the government feel the need to step in. Hopefully the state I live in, Colorado, doesn't do something like this.

I am sorry to inform you that the term "protect the children" is actually used everywhere where a law would otherwise be hard to enact. All these laws popping up everywhere recently are not about children, never were and nowhere will be.

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I appreciate that I'm in a minority here, but DRM has never been about performance for me. It's been about respecting your customers and not treating them like criminals. It's about giving your customers a better experience than the pirates. It's about acknowledging that even when DRM works... the pirates wouldn't be buying your game anyway. It's not a lost sale. Or at least not meaningful lost sales. Certainly not lost sales to the tune of a one-off £250K fee, and £25K a month.

So this is a maybe for me now. I've ignored all the RE games of late, because they've been encumbered. Might have to bring myself up to date and play catch up.

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I really must get round to playing this at some point. It's been in my library for a while.

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Thank you so much for this series :) I love reading these posts!

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I helped with this one 🥳

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Quoting: Stellathe only reason they used Ptyxis in the first place was because of Konsole's seriously lacking container support, which are very important for the immutable distro workflow.
I personally dislike Discover as it feels slow and bloated due to the many different backends it supports and despite being called Discover, the discoverability of apps feels lacking in comparison to Bazaar. I even started using Bazaar on my Steam Deck.

re, Discover: agreed however it seems to have improved in Plasma 6.6
re, konsole: I switched to konsole from ptyxis months ago, not being able to split tabs was more critical than having a button to enter a container instead of typing distrobox enter. Does ptyxis have any other enhancements?

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Quoting: fenglengshunHuh. Can't believe they'd actually restore Konsole and uses Kontainer. I've been using Kontainer myself and has been quite happy with it. Hopefully Discover could return - it's quite useful for keeping applets, themes, and other KNewStuff things updated.

Still, good to see that Bazzite getting good new updates even if there was a bit of an issue. It no longer fits my usecase and I don't think I could trust it, but it is good to see it improving.

the only reason they used Ptyxis in the first place was because of Konsole's seriously lacking container support, which are very important for the immutable distro workflow.
I personally dislike Discover as it feels slow and bloated due to the many different backends it supports and despite being called Discover, the discoverability of apps feels lacking in comparison to Bazaar. I even started using Bazaar on my Steam Deck.

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The other half doesn't game much, but Megaquarium really clicked with her. She loves it.

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Quoting: eddie-fossSorry for that but for me it seems that US is turning itself a kind of rich new North Korea, government surveillance, no freedom, imposed religion, beliefs and who is against will have their heads chopped off, very dystopian...
I hope you guys get back your power and put off the f..ing lobbyists out of government they're cancer to your country.
😤

To be fair, we're still far behind Europe where you can and will be arrested for posting "offensive" messages on social media. At least we still have our freedom of speech, although it seems the Democrat party wants to do something about that.

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Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
[https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part51.html](https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part51.html)

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere has never been capitalism that didn't involve government action to privatize profits and socialize loss, so if we're going to say that kind of thing disqualifies a system as capitalism then there has never been any such thing as capitalism and we should never bother using the word again. Capitalism involved major government intervention from its very beginnings in England

I think we probably agree more than disagree, but it feels like it is getting lost in translation.

I actually agree that there has never been any "pure" capitalism (or socialism) ever enacted. When you talk about Enclosure (and the other countless examples of gov intervention on behalf of the fat cats), I don't see that as an outgrowth of capitalism. I see it as corruption. Which is why I'm generally in favor of as small a government as possible. There will always be some people that want a free lunch and they will exploit whatever (economic) system they are in. I'm sure there was tons of corruption in the USSR or even a little corruption in some uncontacted tribe in the middle of nowhere.

The small tribe, given a tight "everyone knows everyone" community, would have an easier time outcasting would-be cheaters. When you get to the scale of nation states, there are simply too many people and the corrupt can hide in the crowd. And a single defector can create a cascade of spoilage. Once someone gets the free lunch, they now have more resources to snowball into more corruption and more resources. I think this is obvious when we see Robber Barons like Rhodes (dead for over 100 years) still affecting the world today. Sure, he made his fortune under the banner of capitalism, but how many times did he bribe and lie and worse to get there?

I'm willing to bet ANY economic system would work if you could eliminate/minimize corruption. While I think capitalism (unfettered by corruption) would be superior to socialism (also uncorrupted), I would be more than happy to try socialism sans corruption.

So when I hear people (not pointing at you) saying things like "tax the rich" I am sympathetic, but I'm more inclined to advocate for "hang the corrupt". It just so happens that the venn diagram of corrupt and ultra rich is actually very close to a circle.

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That Nvidia white splash brings back sweet memories, the first "serious" card that I used for gaming on Linux was a Geforce4 MX, and it was the card I used to play Doom 3 with.
Surprisingly it ran the game better than Windows and I even had surround sound thanks to nforce drivers. Granted, all that at 640x480 resolution, since I didn't had a monitor at the time and I used my TV, which was quite fine for me coming directly from PS1 games.

The AMD side on Linux was quite iffy at the time, even though the cards were superior in Windows, the best one was (I think) Radeon 9000...something and I borrowed one from a friend, only to get something like half of performance with serious graphical bugs, when it worked. Which was somewhat a relief considering they were crazy, crazy expensive, while the geforce was quite affordable.

Anyway, I remember fondly the times when I came back from work, start my Linux computer (he he) see the welcoming Nvidia splash, then the blue glow on my amp confirming I have surround sound and getting immersed in one awesome game. Ah...

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Huh. Can't believe they'd actually restore Konsole and uses Kontainer. I've been using Kontainer myself and has been quite happy with it. Hopefully Discover could return - it's quite useful for keeping applets, themes, and other KNewStuff things updated.

Still, good to see that Bazzite getting good new updates even if there was a bit of an issue. It no longer fits my usecase and I don't think I could trust it, but it is good to see it improving.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy...none of the politicians care if it works or ever will work. They just care that nobody can claim they voted against protecting children; whether the measure would actually do that, or have any effect whatsoever, is irrelevant--the only thing that matters is how their political opponents could frame it.

It's funny that you say this, because I watched a thing a couple of weeks ago comparing politicians and businessmen... Then general gist was that most politicians ask "What needs to be done", followed-up by "And how will this affect me in the polls". Businessmen on the other hand, usually ask "What needs to be done", followed-up by a command to "Get it done" (regardless of how it makes them look). The argument was that Trump falls into the latter camp, which I think is pretty accurate when you consider how he approaches some of America's problems.

Quoting: eddie-fossSorry for that but for me it seems that US is turning itself a kind of rich new North Korea, government surveillance, no freedom, imposed religion, beliefs and who is against will have their heads chopped off, very dystopian...
I hope you guys get back your power and put off the f..ing lobbyists out of government they're cancer to your country.
😤

Nah, America has been like this for a long time... I grew up obsessed with all things America; but now that I'm in my 40s, I realize that behind all the glitz and glamour, America is actually one of the most horrible countries out there when it comes to a number of "key" areas.

As an adult, it's also become apparent just how little "freedom" Americans actually have, and how hypocritical America is when it comes to basically everything.

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Quoting: elmapulwhat about legacy software? what about legacy operating systems or software that only run properly on legacy operating systems?
what about live-cds? will secure boot be forced uppon us?
and what about content that have a different age rating depending on your region?
there is a reason why we have CERO, ESBR, PEGI, etc.

the definitons of what an certain age group can or cant see vary from country to country, some countries are more liberal with sexually sugesitve content targeted at an younger age, but not for violence, others are the opposite, how the hell they will enforce that?

Clearly the people that wrote up this law don't even understand what an operating system is. Otherwise they would have realised that operating systems aren't actually tied to a single person. So my guess is that they never thought of anything beyond their phone.

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I wonder if GOG has tried to payroll the devs like these that are already doing this work...? Is it too obvious? Or, are they using all different tools and thus would not be a good fit? Or, is GOG embarassed about the current state of the code? 🫤

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Quoting: F.UltraDoesn't change the fact the the roadmap was designed before Spotity was involved and thus again shows that you are wrong in your assumption that the DMA was instigated by Spotify.

a) Please provide as source for said roadmap. b) I said like Spotify. c) Again: Stop inventing statements! I never claimed the DMA was instigated by Spotify.

Quoting: F.UltraThere are no payment procession regulation and "they" are not the legislators ("they" are the Apple customers who decides to distribute their apps on the Apple Appstore but use a different payment option for in-app purchases even if that payment processor takes a higher cut than Apple).

I'm perfectly aware that "they" are Apple's business "partners". Any other reading you imagined.

Quoting: F.Ultraedit: FYI here is the text of Article 5(7) of the DMA that covers app store payment options:

7. The gatekeeper shall not require end users to use, or business users to use, to offer, or to interoperate with, an identification service, a web browser engine or a payment service, or technical services that support the provision of payment services, such as payment systems for in-app purchases, of that gatekeeper in the context of services provided by the business users using that gatekeeper’s core platform services.

Note the complete absence of any mentioning of a cut or even a definition of what a cut should or should not be.

[Article 5, Obligations for gatekeepers](https://www.eu-digital-markets-act.com/Digital_Markets_Act_Article_5.html#:~:text=7.%20The%20gatekeeper%20shall%20not%20require%20end,users%20using%20that%20gatekeeper's%20core%20platform%20services.)

Because it's not necessary & would've been stupid - as I have said. The effect is still the same: Businesses are allowed to use their payment processors & avoid Apple fees, i.e. would work as intended. Except it's not - because Apple still wants their fees & as such the process is still ongoing. Again: How can that be? (Emphasised so that you stop ignoring it)

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Quoting: nullzeroI've actually sent them an email since I was also interested in the official answer for it

Thanks for getting those details!

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Nice! But I'm not spending almost 400 bucks to have an enjoyable game (and no, mods cannot bypass this, because they need certain DLCs to work)...

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Clearly the Chinese always disrupt the metrics, there's no way Linux losing almost half of its users overnight (also because it didn't double overnight as well, even with the Win10 EOL noise).

And China, even with their push for Linux, still doesn't seem to make a dent with the consumers, maybe because multiplayer games with kernel anticheats...

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I stand corrected. Duh moment

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what about legacy software? what about legacy operating systems or software that only run properly on legacy operating systems?
what about live-cds? will secure boot be forced uppon us?
and what about content that have a different age rating depending on your region?
there is a reason why we have CERO, ESBR, PEGI, etc.

the definitons of what an certain age group can or cant see vary from country to country, some countries are more liberal with sexually sugesitve content targeted at an younger age, but not for violence, others are the opposite, how the hell they will enforce that?

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I saw the Steam Controller 2 graphic and got excited thinking it was a release announcement. 😞

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