scheeseman486

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by scheeseman486 4d ago
> Most of their criticisms are valid, but they seem to be absolutely unwilling to make any compromise at all. Making no compromise to security is the entire point of it's existence .
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by scheeseman486 12d ago
Now ya' talkin'
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by scheeseman486 13d ago
It's easy to get lost in arguments where analogies are used. They're almost always terrible and are the death of nuance and detail. Fuck car analogies, a car isn't a video game console. Sony host a massive, massive marketpl
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by scheeseman486 13d ago
Except for the software ecosystem which is the main driver of revenue for consoles and exists largely to support the sale and distribution of products from third parties, all of which is centrally controlled by the platform holder. Someone
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by scheeseman486 13d ago
Where can I buy an aftermarket optical drive and motherboard?
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by scheeseman486 13d ago
Valve pivoting away from MacOS is a consequence of choices Apple has made for their platform, many of which made it a more hostile place for Steam to exist. This is baked into the long standing Apple model of software distribution, where AP
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by scheeseman486 13d ago
Volkswagen cars aren't a platform that fosters a billion dollar marketplace of third party sellers that contribute the bulk of value delivered by the product.
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by scheeseman486 13d ago
Physical PC games weren't great in the 2000s. Online activated serial keys, optical disc based DRM that caused problems during both the 9x>NT and XP>Vista transitions, the only thing that made PC gaming tolerable for me was gamec
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by scheeseman486 14d ago
Their plan is to seemingly comprehensively test MTE on the Pixel 11 to see if it's usable for them. I'm not sure how that's "problematic", in fact it seems like it's exactly what they should be doing. Their rea
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by scheeseman486 2mo ago
All absorbed light gets turned into heat, infrared or otherwise (I'm not sure why you brought up IR?); solar panels catch some of that spectrum. I'm not sure what argument you're trying to make here, particularly given the se
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by scheeseman486 2mo ago
They don't generate heat in the sense that heat is generated from nothing. If the AC is being powered by solar, then the energy that is powering the heat pump has already hit the earth and has become part of that system. The energy tha
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by scheeseman486 2mo ago
> Only obscure titles get truly lost. They are obscure for a reason. They can be obscure for many reasons, only one of which are it's quality as a piece of art. There was an album, "Begin", released by a group of session m
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by scheeseman486 3mo ago
> This is arbitrarily narrowing the definition of market as far as possible No it isn't, it's literally a market. Dominos pizzas aren't created and sold by third parties. If you're going to make a comparison, try some
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by scheeseman486 3mo ago
Let's look at Merriam-Webster '1: exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action specifically : exclusive control of a particular market that is marked by the power to control prices and exclud
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by scheeseman486 3mo ago
For fair amount of time Giant Bomb was owned by CBS and during that time I saw plenty of emulators getting used.
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by scheeseman486 3mo ago
Yeah this is the thing. Everyone seems to be forgetting about economies of scale.
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by scheeseman486 3mo ago
A surprising amount of newer-ish DVD players will play H.264 off a DVD just fine and AVCHD is essentially Bluray formats and file structs on a DVD.
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by scheeseman486 3mo ago
It's interesting how attitudes towards this are so different across industries. Jeff Gerstmann is a fairly well known and well connected video game journalist and he straight up does streams where he plays emulators using romsets clear
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by scheeseman486 3mo ago
They were using the word correctly, "monopoly" doesn't only mean greatly dominant player in an open market. Current consoles are by definition vertical monopolies.
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by scheeseman486 4mo ago
> It makes parts of the CIA look incompetent to the public. This is rare. Iran–Contra? Their cyber espoinage tools getting swiped? The self-admission from the US administration that the CIA failed to properly recognize and prepare for th
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by scheeseman486 4mo ago
> glass-walled skyscrapers really aren't complicated either Until they become a focusing mirror that turns into a gigantic magnifying glass, see: the Walkie Talkie building. Evidently, glass buildings are hard enough that even with
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by scheeseman486 4mo ago
Understanding why pain happens is what allowed for anesthesia and modern medicine, which massively improved the quality of life of our species. Did we need to figure out how to do that? Sure, in the same way we needed to figure out how to
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by scheeseman486 4mo ago
A stylus is crafted, paper in manufacturered. I suppose you can rip off some bark and scribble onto it, but what are you writing? Words. Do you know every word ever? Do you have comprehension of the meaning of every word? Building a structu
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by scheeseman486 4mo ago
> You are making benchmarking WAAAY more complicated than it has to be. We're talking about some dude considering a switch to Linux, but isn't sure the performance is on par. Just load up your game and hit the benchmark button.
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by scheeseman486 4mo ago
Just like there's LLM-automated vulnerability fuzzing, there's LLM-automated decompilation. Compilation is no longer a meaningful way to obscure code.
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by scheeseman486 4mo ago
It's features work fine without Steam on Linux.
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by scheeseman486 5mo ago
I don't think I was and I think that you're focusing so strongly on a perceived strawman rather than the actual topic is an admission that you're just projecting.
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by scheeseman486 5mo ago
You were talking to an audience of tech nerds, as was the original blog post we're all discussing. All of your counter-arguments in you original post were appeals to that base and merely suggesting that Gmail users outside of the Hacke
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by scheeseman486 5mo ago
I'm grandfathered to get unlimited updates, though if they rugpull on that the drives are just formatted as XFS. It'd be a hassle to move to something like TrueNAS, but I could do it even if the OS stopped working. Even if Lime Te
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by scheeseman486 5mo ago
Funny you bring up Gmail as a positive example when they reneged on their promise of unlimited storage 5 years ago. Most of my media is backed up on my Unraid server, the most important stuff is backed up on an external drive and I also hav

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