elvith

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Steam controller] Anyone hear back after the May 8th reservation blitz?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was lucky and could order right on the release day. It arrived the day before yesterday. So it took quite a while, but… It got here, it feels nice, it works - too bad I haven’t had the time for a longer gaming session yet…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam's NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of "more descriptive" ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revamp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Streamers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Steam Controller screams if you drop or throw it⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  update incoming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you use Emudeck to play Wii U games, you may have malware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact:

  rm -rf / requires —no-preserve-root to work whereas rm -rf /* doesn’t.

  That’s because the /* gets expanded by the shell before the command runs and it only sees the request to delete /var, /dev, /home, /usr,… recursively but not / specifically.

  On another note: This line in the code doesn’t run through a shell and thus this won’t work and it just tries to delete the literal path of /* recursively - and thus fails to do any damage…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you use Emudeck to play Wii U games, you may have malware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whew, thankfully it didn’t work on my machine!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify puts the brakes on Developer Mode with stricter API rules⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After the fiasco with kids and managed accounts (especially on Germany) and many discussions in the community about how to migrate to other services, I don’t like reading this headline

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can disable UAC (thinking practical, not necessarily security minded - but for an auto login w/o password, what’s security?)

  Popups: yes. But then you’d need to actively use other software besides steam. Why would you do that, if using only a controller? Also that can happen in Linux, too. If you mean those desktop notifications - those should be silenced automagically when running games.

  For the logoff or shutdown: Set or createHKEY\_CURRENT\_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop\\AutoEndTasks to 1 to auto kill hanging/not ending processes automagically. Also you can use WaitToKillAppTimeout there to define how long windows should wait before killing the processes (in milliseconds).

  And regarding bitlocker after a bios update: why would you use bitlocker on such a machine (auto login on boot which would allow access to all files anyways)? Anyways, set or create HKEY\_LOCAL\_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\BitLocker\\PreventDeviceEncryption to 1 to prevent bitlocker from running after an upgrade. With Pro, you could also leverage GPOs for that.

  At least for the new Steam Gamepad they announced trackpads to be able to control the mouse with the gamepad, so clicking away a popup or sich shouldn’t be a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any other Distribution and even Windows would work fine, as long as you set up passwordless autologon as a default user and then put Steam in Big Picture Mode as autostart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For those who are interested, I also just watched that yesterday

  youtu.be/p-k5MPhBSjk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Universal Adds 'No AI Training' Warning to Movies⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You wouldn’t steal a car
  You wouldnt screenshot a NFT
  You wouldn’t train AI on to rented content

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “It’s common for people across the company to have questions for the CEO, but he doesn’t have time to answer them all,” Jean Yves Couput, senior advisor to footwear company Salomon CEO Guillaume Meyzenq, told The Information.

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