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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, Yuzu is still working fine on mine. Basically, if you had the emulator installed prior to the takedown, EmuDeck will continue to use it.

  Which is honestly a pretty good argument for just installing every single emulator (even if you never think you’ll use them!) because they don’t really take up that much space, and you could potentially lose access to them if you never bothered before a takedown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Families is here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now we just need a way to use that shelf with the same account so I don’t get booted from my steam deck games just because I left something running on my PC and vice versa.

  AFAIK, this is also a licensing issue. When Steam was launching, game publishers were concerned that people would simply share an account. So part of Steam’s licensing agreement is that the same account can’t have games (even different games) running on two machines at the same time. It’s specifically to prevent account sharing, because people would just share an account with their friends; Booting them out of their game every time their buddy boots something up is a pretty effective countermeasure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Families is here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The “same game at the same time” part is a licensing issue. It won’t ever be “solved” because it would get Steam into legal trouble to do so, just like the Internet Archive recently FAFO’ed. In order for two people to play the same game at the same time, you need to own two licenses for said game.

  But it does solve the issue of multiple people using the same library at the same time. Now your family members don’t get booted off of Skyrim just because you launched Persona. It basically combines your libraries, so any of you can choose any of the listed games to play at any time. Just like having a physical shelf full of CD cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I refuse to wrap my mind around “professional” video gamer sports athlete musician dancer sculptor ~painter~~ writer etc.

  People are called to create content. The fact that they have found ways to monetize that content is a net boon to society, because it means we’re truly in an age where art and entertainment can be consumed and appreciated, while the artists and creators are able to focus on their content creation full time. A key defining factor of the renaissance era was that artists were actually properly funded and could focus on their art without being bogged down by a day job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong, but there’s unfortunately other issues with trusting any company to be the middleman for your info. As the (numerous, massive, and repeated) data breaches have shown, it only takes one incompetent employee to turn “this one company acts as a middleman for all my ads, and ensures sites still get paid while I don’t get infected or tracked” into “this is the single largest and most invasive data breach I have ever been affected by, because all of my eggs were in a single basket.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You got downvoted by the hivemind because it’s unpopular, but you’re not wrong. IA flew in the face of existing copyright law by opening up their site to unlimited downloads. They knew the existing copyright law, because they had systems in place to comply. Then they intentionally disabled those systems, to blatantly violate existing copyright and licensing agreements. Pretty much everyone who understood copyright law went “uhh this is a horrible idea and you’re going to get sued so hard” but the IA forged ahead anyways.

  Their entire argument has basically been “but we’re a library” and completely misses the fact that even public libraries need to comply with existing copyright and licensing laws. They can’t just allow unlimited downloads for ebooks; They purchase a specific number of licenses, can only lend out as many ebooks as they have licenses for, and then have to use time-locked DRM to ensure those rentals get automatically revoked when the check-out time is expired. All of this is well established, and IA used to comply with it fully. But again, they intentionally disabled those systems, which put them in violation of copyright law and their licensing agreements.

  I love IA. I use it all the time. But they fucked around, and now they’re finding out that the large studded dildo of copyright violation lawsuits rarely arrives lubed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s not trademark infringement in the first place, because Delta is in a different trade than Adobe is. Any trademarks Adobe has would only apply to trades they’re active in. Since Adobe doesn’t make emulators, any trademark infringement claim is shaky at best.

  The whole point of trademarks is that they’re a mark of your trade. If you’re a plumber with a trademarked logo, you can’t sue a video game company for using your logo. Because it’s a totally different trade, and your trademark doesn’t apply.

  Delta just changed the logo because they don’t have a massive legal fund to go up against Adobe’s army of corporate lawyers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never occurred to me to use it this way until my brother came to visit.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you, a cop?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never occurred to me to use it this way until my brother came to visit.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never occurred to me to use it this way until my brother came to visit.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t matter; finished anyways /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never occurred to me to use it this way until my brother came to visit.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clean your camera lens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Steam Families⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also allows you to own multiple copies of the same game, which is another huge step in regards to parental controls. If you and both of your kids enjoy a game, you can buy three copies for your account and set restrictions on when/how long they can use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are already torrents of the complete Yuzu build (including dependencies) available. It includes everything you need for both Windows and Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They had a Patreon where you could get early access to the dev builds. It exploded in popularity when Tears of the Kingdom leaked like two weeks early. Because TOTK ran like ass on the stable build, but the early dev builds started patching in support for the game as soon as the leak happened. And since everybody wanted to play the game early, they all joined the Patreon.

  That early support was ironically a large part of what got them sued. Because they were tacitly endorsing piracy; They were blatantly working on fixes for a game that was only available due to a stolen game cartridge and widespread piracy. They couldn’t go “well we don’t support piracy,” because their actions proved otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max will start cracking down on password sharing this year⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When comedians joke about specific people and corporations, it’s usually wise to listen. Comedians don’t often have enough power to affect change in entrenched systems, so they fall back to what they’re good at; Making fun of the people who have entrenched themselves. It’s phrased as comedy, but it’s a veiled jab at whoever the comedian dislikes. The important point is that it’s a dog whistle, where only the comedian and the target know that it’s not really a joke.

  Seth MacFarlane was making “Harvey Weinstein is a predator” jokes on Family Guy, years before the allegations started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think until AI writes and debugs code better than the average programmer?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Every time I feed it my code, I find some new trick or method I hadn’t thought of before. Being self-taught, it really is a remarkable tool for seeing what efficient code looks like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think until AI writes and debugs code better than the average programmer?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually have used it to debug code before. Not an entire program (yet) but it’s great for snippets where you’re just missing a semicolon or bracket, or need advice on how to properly call a weird function. It also writes small things like batch files incredibly well. Just like with regular language, it’s great for a few paragraphs, then begins to drift as it struggles to parse longer conversations. So if you only need it for a few “paragraphs” of code, it’s great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch Will Shut Down Its Streaming Platform in South Korea⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC, South Korea charges an import tax for foreign media. It’s part of why Korea has become a sort of media powerhouse, with K-pop, K-dramas, K-comics, etc… Those things are much cheaper in SK because they’re all local and aren’t being charged that extra tax. So they’re naturally very popular in SK because they’re much cheaper. Sort of a positive feedback loop where the media is cheaper so people consume more of it, which makes the media popular enough to survive on its own outside of Korea as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local pop radio station is using its metadata to spread anti Biden propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just going to leave this here. Don’t mind me.