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Quoting: chuzzle44the fact that I'm willing to buy a remake of a game I already have for free says

...that software houses needs to make remakes to fight piracy?

No, that anti-piracy measures are pointless. They already said that. Why you trying to rewrite their comment?

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Quoting: hell0For the record -and as much as it pains me to admit it- Windows has had much better permission management than Linux for decades now. ACLs are actually usable on NTFS and non-root account has been the default since at least windows XP (you can do "root" actions from your normal account but that requires validation, just like sudo on linux).

Having had to administrate Windows systems for about 2 decades of my 3 decades in IT, I have to disagree. NTFS/AD permissions are an absolute car crash and since I now work in security, I can also state that an absolutely enormous part of my job is dealing with the fallout of how badly Microsoft failed at "identity" across those decades. Same mistakes over and over - domain admin is now global admin and the cycle of failure repeats.

As for AD vs a "cobbled together LDAP on Linux" - I think you look under the hood, you'll see that AD itself is a cobbled-together-LDAP. Indeed, the early days of AD, you could assume it was LDAP and just use LDAP strings to query it. Same port, even. Then Microsoft did their whole EEE thing, and now it's its own beast.

Everything has gone further to shit with Entra ID now - instead of juggling multiple ADs onsite, you now have connectors to Azure to handle too. It's a mess. It might feel more intuitive on an estate of 100 or less nodes, but at over 2000 you need IAM tools to manage it, or you're screwed.

God I hate Microsoft products so much. My entire professional life has been cursed to limit their awfulness.

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They should just put a Spotify-like limit on family size - like (pluck a number out the air) 6. Sure, there are families bigger than 6 out there, but the kind of family that can afford 6 household members the hardware and internet connection to take advantage of this feature are a) few and far between (I suspect) and b) probably quite rich and not the target audience of this kind of sharing.

EDIT: And... I should have googled before commenting. They've already done so, and it is indeed max 6 members in a Family Group.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/054C-3167-DD7F-49D4

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Absolutely bizarrely, while researching Scottish development studios, today, the same day as this article, but wholly unrelated... I came across EM Studios:
https://www.emstudios.co.uk/?page_id=212

...who worked on Broken Sword! What are the chances.

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Yeah, that's pretty distracting. I thought it was a new YT captioning thing and tried to turn it off!

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualVery interesting usage of LLM tooling. I wonder what the benefits are; it almost seems more costly and more work to do it the way they're doing it.

XKCD sums this up, I reckon. At least, this is my programming life...

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Looking at the top 100 games, it's dominated by multiplayer titles. A few single player games stand out, like Slay the Spire and a handful can be played single player, but there's a big focus on gaming together there.

I think that's all it is. There are so many games that encourage group gaming now, so we're seeing this rise in numbers, both from organic growth, but also from a desire to play with others, either against them (battle royal, or team games like DOTA, PUBG or CoD) or together (co-op focused games, like Helldivers).

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In this game's case, there might be the occasional asshole claiming the reboot is "too woke", but honestly, it's probably just because it's a reboot. Reboots are very rarely loved. Doesn't help this game ended up being a bit of a car crash, with poor writing, hit and miss humour, a host of bugs and a comic/hero art style which was a big shift away from the originals.

I'm not very invested in SR. Played SR4 the most and it was... okay.

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Quoting: jo3fisA blurb about each one would be nice also.

Probably not worth the effort for news about yet another bundle - there's blurb's on each one on the Humble page itself, just click through them!

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QuoteWarhammer 40k Darktide is playable with AMD GPUs.

I've got tens of hours in Darktide on my AMD 6900XT, so I'm a bit baffled that those release notes.

Presumably there was a Proton 9 regression that introduced an issue? I used Proton Experimental and played right up to Christmas last year, so all Proton 8-based.

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