Chewy7324

I really wonder how you managed to uninstall nix. Editing configuration.nix shouldn't even allow for removing .nix...

Anyway, this post made me remember why I used btrfs for my new btrfs system.

That's one of the reasons I don't like buying games with Denuvo. Waiting a few years before buying games is something I usually do anyway, so at that point Denuvo DRM would've already been removed.

Good idea to write a function, I'll do that right now. Over the last few weeks I've been regularly doing the Ctrl+Z, bg, disown, which does get old pretty quickly. At least I now remember the terms and don't have to search for them each time I need it :D

I'm honestly fine with DRM, as long as it's removed within my definition of reasonable time. I'd say a year vor two.

Once the DRM is removed it allows for archiving and preserving the piece of media — as well as pirating copies.

Many games are fun, especially with friends, even if they are crappy on a deeper look (micro transactions etc.). Most mobile games are fun at first–the trick is stopping when they aren't anymore.

With games blocking Linux users, we can't even enjoy the beginning. And many more won't even try to use it.

Yeah it's sad to see more games fixing their bad net code with client side anti cheat. Remember, GTA Online is a game where a lobby is transparently hosted on someones PC, which allows them to cheat however they want.

If Rockstar used proper dedicated servers, this wouldn't be an issue. Just like with Fall Guys and many other games.

A few weeks ago I thought about getting back into GTA Online, now I can't.

No, this runtime only works if the developer enables it on their side.

I believe the advantage is that old drivers still work as they are all in the kernel. With them sharing much code it's not even that big of a disk space issue. Edit: A more dynamic approach would be great though, especially with this size issue popping up.

In a way it's great that I'm able to replace any part of my system and it just works without me having to make sure the old GPU driver doesn't leave some traces behind–altough while writing this the latter part shouldn't be an issue with Windows auto download and installation of drivers.

Really very similar to Lemmy, where the identity of each group is tied to a particular server, e.g. lemmy has !anime@ani.social but Matrix has #anime:matrix.org

So what happens if matrix.org goes away or decides the server admin wants to be hostile to #anime?

A matrix room can have multiple identities/adresses set by the room admin. E.g. the admin of !anime:matrix.org could add another adress for the same room on !anime:myanime.instance. Because the room is replicated on all other participating servers, this would let the room continue to exist on the network (besides all matrix.org users not being able to access it).

Matrix does have a single "room id" per room, which looks like it gives the original creating home server more rights, which it does not. E.g. !ehXvUhWNASUkSLvAGP:matrix.org

Any server admin does not have any more rights over a room than another server admin. They can ban the room for their local users, but this does not stop federation as a whole.

[1] https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/419
[2] https://app.element.io/#/room/#synapse:matrix.org/$htJmba92wLTP9AoFg4eEWi9IXpgwvXr6G9Sa-kBsNNs
[3] https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/admin_api/rooms.html#delete-room-api

It also appears that anything beyond text has to be hotlinked [...]

Matrix allows for media to be hotlinked, but it can also be replicated across servers.

I.e. if I send an image in a room and look at the source (available on many web clients), the image url looks like the following "url": "mxc://matrix.org/qGgUKuZuHcRsWAhSfqKnmtiX". The actual image (and preview) then gets fetched by your server from my server [4], and then gets send to your client.

It's important to note that a server isn't required to download all media. If a user does not read a room, it might not download the media from another server, until the user actually wants to view it (or rather that part of the room history). Or a server admin might clean up the media store to free up space.

[4] https://matrix.org/docs/spec-guides/authed-media-servers/

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They do basic checking for known malware.

It's one year cooldown after joining a family share. I.e. if you leave half a year after joining, you have to wait another half a year to join another family share.

Adults can leave a family at any time, however, they will need to wait 1 year from when they joined the previous family to create or join a new family.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/13005467

You're right. I've read somewhere that Apple plans to work with GSMA to add encryption to the official RCS standard, so this major issue hopefully gets fixed at some point.