conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 112 points 8 months ago (7 children)

There are a bunch of free channels on the internet that some TVs can just stream without a dedicated app. These channels are supported by ads like cable/whatever channels, but not locked behind a subscription. VLC is supporting whatever formats they use to allow (or make it easier; IDK) people to watch them if they want.

The other part is that they're working on web assembly to allow sites to use VLC as their embedded video player.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's really not.

In poor countries sure, but not the US or Europe. You will get sued and you will pay if you do that at any scale.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

The other benefit with Costco is that they have an extremely generous return policy.

Some obvious stuff has different rules (electronics is 90 days, stuff like tires that have clear expected lifespans have their own rules), but it is extremely liberal. And my experience is that I pretty rarely have to use it, because while not everything is a premium product for a bargain price, they tend to ensure that the suppliers for products they sell have reasonable build quality and make stuff that isn't trash designed to fail.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The courts aren't. Nintendo is.

Emulation has already been litigated to hell and back. It's very clearly legal, including relying on users pulling a blob or two from their hardware for the whole thing to function.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

By existing. (Yes, that's the only argument they made. There is no assertion that anyone associated with Yuzu "cracked" (not necessary) or actively distributed TOTK.)

It's a distraction. It's literally impossible for it to be relevant unless the yuzu project page hosted TOTK files.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

No, it's not.

The case Sony lost also relied on the end user having a blob of Sony's code. A user using their own key and a blob of Nintendo's firmware, which is the official stance of Yuzu on the correct way to do so, is exactly the same thing. There's nothing new to be litigated. Every part of Yuzu is very clearly legal.

The fact that it was used to play a game before official release straight up cannot possibly be relevant. It's a distraction. The project isn't, and isn't capable of being, responsible for anything but its own code.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Emulation has also been litigated to hell and is also very clearly legal.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Black flag, more ships/weapon paths, maybe some fleet commands for bigger battles, expand the shipping jobs thing to feel like you're really commanding a fleet.

Or none of that and just call it a pirate game.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago

If it was actually like Black Flag I'd be all over it.

But it's live service shit.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago

The other dumb part is that when their manufacturing capability does significantly improve, AMD will happily sell similar chips to other people. And Valve won't care in the slightest. Because all they want is people on PC so they buy games, many of which are through steam.

Linux being relevant is a bigger benefit to them than any revenue from the deck, and they've already demonstrated that it's capable of pretty much any game that doesn't actively exclude it.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago

The problem is that "don't let people game you" is extremely difficult.

It's many, many orders of magnitude easier to provide a useful search of sites that tell you the truth about what they are than it is when 99% of sites lie to you.

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