Well, you do you. The Hypervisor releases are not Linux-compatible, since they depend on some Powershell-scripts for installation - which understandably fails under Linux. I also wouldn’t touch this stuff even with a stick because of the severe risk of bad actors getting low level access on my PC - a cracked game is one thing, but this actually awful from a security perspective. (Although i read that the newest iteration does not even requi

I simply set up Syncthing to synchronize the directory which contains the Wine-Prefixes for games, making the synchronization of Saves something I do not have to think about; this works for any game regardless of source, including itch.io, GoG and other games. I do like Steams Cloud saves, but my solution works even without internet connection. Btrfs deduplication keeps the storage requirements low.

I keep “Backups” of a lot of Games I own legally, just to make sure I am not dependent on some external service if I want to play them. And if push comes to shove, I have about 20 TB highly compressed game installers and Console Isos, which will last me until the day i die.

I also ditched google a while ago, switching to Metager - I do not miss Google at all, i can understand you completely in that regard.

Funny thing is that the Hypervisor workarounds do NOT work under Linux lol

Regarding finding cracked games, just google “free media heck yeah” to find trusted sources.

And making them run under Linux is - for the most part - as easy as clicking “Run installer” when adding them manually in Heroic Launcher.

That’s why i won’t touch any of those Hypervisor workarounds. Cracked games are fine - those don’t have my admin password and are running inside of Wine - but giving some unknown rando low level access to my PC is a big no-no, in addition to me having to install windows again, which will probably never happen for the rest of my life.

Well the Video - if authentic - definitely shows more than 1GB VRAM usage less during the same scenes with the same settings. Obfuscation techniques can increase RAM usage, but why the VRAM usage went up too i can’t really explain - except for bad implementation by Capcom, because it is NOT in their interest reducing video performance. System Ram i can understand, VRam can only be explained by the people who integrated Denuvo at Capcom.

Empress was a reason to buy games instead of pirating them lol

Many are better, but there are even worse outliers in the indie scene, for example Chucklefish, who fucked over everyone during development of Starbound.

Yeah, how bad Denuvo is performancewise definitely depends on the specific integration - there have been titles where Denuvo just tanks the performance because it checks a ton of values per second, and others where it really doesn’t matter - I would say Hogwarts Legacy falls in the second category, where checks have been intelligently stuffed into loading sequences and scene transitions. Capcom normally falls into the first category.

But at the same time Polymarket seems a bit like a self fulfilling prophecy - because Polymarket says something, it by itself increases the odds of that event happening; and in the cases where it isn’t this way, look for the large amount of bets 2 hours before the event in questing, a.k.a the “GOP spike”.

At this point it would be smart to simply hook up any old pc to your tv and watch in the browser.

These crimes are always about power and control, not about sex. I think a part of it comes from feeling powerless (or having felt powerless long ago) in other areas of life. This is obviously no excuse and absolutely abhorrent behavior, but as we can read in the article these men will walk the streets again after a few years, so psychotherapy for them should be mandatory, with their sentences extended if the therapist thinks it’s necessary to prevent further victims.

Yes. it was. Funnily enough, of all the Marvel crap they produced, the Captain America movies really held up well, and actually were expressing that automating a kill chain is something only evil people would do. Sadly, that was very true, although the kill potential isn’t there yet.

I can only recommend this article - it goes through what happened in history towards everything that happened to the targeting of that school - mainly speeding up the process from target identification to strike, and the cutting out of humans of the decisionmaking process, powered by Peter Thiel’s Palantir, and the replacement of the question if this was a war crime by the discussion of the completely unrelated Claude LLM.

It has also occluded something deeper: the human decisions that led to the killing of between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12. Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide.

Doesn’t change the fact that Irans fucking war propaganda is more credible than the tweets of the President of the United States of America.

No shit french Sherlock

Probably was more robust than an actual SCART cable too!

It still sets your phone in a state that marks it as security compromised. This could lead i.e. to banking apps not working. I’m not so sure about the “acceptable” state of things here.

probably something weaker than my GPU here can run lol

I know that they are fine - but i haven’t had the need for color prints for ages now outside of 2 occasions where i needed like 5 copies each. For myself i prefer digital only either way. Just in case i really need something like return tickets a b&w printer is enough.

The B&W one costs under 100€, the cheapest brother color laser 300€; the 200€ difference should last decades in the print shop, and the toner cartridges are a lot cheaper for b&w only.

But it would make a good law outlawing corporate assholery as a whole and might make a difference. Imagine a world in which corpos are not allowed to fuck over anyone, not their supplier, their partners or the customer… the world would be different.

Me too - the print shop can deal with the issues, i have no problem paying a little extra for not having the headache of troubleshooting printer crap. Although I might get myself a B/W Brother printer for the everyday stuff - my ex sadly got my old one.