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- Comment on The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there 1 week ago:
But why can’t you just remove it? It being mounted into the studs isn’t any different than any other spot, it’s just more secure.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yes because they were licensed resellers.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Under many licenses no, you did not. Resale was certainly in the realm of things that license agreements could and often did prohibit. I was probably too blanket in my statement earlier, it was certainly not ubiquitous, but in many cases physically selling the CD did not transfer the license and the purchaser would have been in violation of the terms by using it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You’re conflating DRM with software licensing. DRM is digital enforcement of license terms. Steam was by no means the first form of DRM, but it is a DRM platform (though there are some DRM-free titles).
I am not too young to remember Steam being a highly controversial topic because it was basically launched as the DRM for Half-Life 2. The backlash against the normalization of DRM led to the creation of Good Old Games, still the premiere DRM-free vendor on the market.
However, software licenses have been in use since the 70s. The practice of selling actual copies of code as opposed to licenses to use the code was already rare by the 90s. If you bought a CD or floppy disks in a store, you were buying a license to use the code on the disks, but you were explicitly denied the rights to resell or copy it. Most people just never read the very long terms of usage.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Again that is a separate issue from the no undercutting clause. Prohibition of resale is ubiquitous in the software world because for decades the ploy has been to sell you a license, not an actual product.
Of course I’d love that to change but it’s a core precept of how digital ownership works and has worked for most of it’s existence. Steam is not the main force behind that.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s not what they’re preventing. It’s to stop someone with rights to generate keys, i.e. the developer, from generating a lot of Steam keys and then selling them on their own site at a discount, which is basically leeching off of the Steam infrastructure & ecosystem while sidestepping the storefront. Which is fine as long as they don’t undercut.
The EULA for any software you’ve ever paid for is what forbids resale.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
2 is false. It only applies to steam keys.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 1 month ago:
Yeah I fuckin love eating a whole stick of butter straight
- Comment on What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads? 2 months ago:
The browsers implement the DRM protections. It will be black if you try to record.
- Comment on how to dust properly 2 months ago:
Hahaha okay great I was just feeling sorry for your back!
- Comment on how to dust properly 2 months ago:
Tap it off on your ankle or a chair leg.
- Comment on how to dust properly 2 months ago:
The floor? Have you heard of brooms and mops?
- Comment on how to dust properly 2 months ago:
Use a decent quality duster, cheaper options retain way less dust.
Dust from high to low in a room or area.
After a few strokes, tap out the duster at ground level, on your ankle or a hard surface. This minimizes dust getting in the air.
Finally, vacuum.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 7 months ago:
I think so – gamers these days complain about having 50 ping or less than 120fps. There’s certainly a point at which it seriously impacts your gameplay, but I find it laughable when they can’t even deal with better performance than even existed 15 years ago.
- Comment on What does 🥀 mean? I've seen it used online a lot recently. 7 months ago:
It’s a flower
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 8 months ago:
SteamOS works great for the steam deck, there really aren’t any extra features that I can think of that are useful from bazzite. Updates happen often enough… There’s just not really any reason to go through the effort of changing to bazzite and reinstalling everything, but I guess it shouldn’t hurt either.
It’s not always preferable to be constantly updating to the most bleeding edge available… On the contrary, for something like a handheld gaming device I think stability is a bigger priority. Most of the updates that might, for example, make a game start working better, will be from Proton anyway, and your choice of OS makes no difference to how fast you get those, they’re either from Steam or the ProtonUp app, which will get you the latest custom versions from GloriousEggroll.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 8 months ago:
In my experience it either works or it doesn’t. The only extra step I’ve needed to do for anti-cheay on Steam games is installing a Proton runtime for the given anti-cheat, which are just in the tools section.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 8 months ago:
Hmmm okay I understand. There might well be a dedicated program for this, but I’m also sure it’s technically possible, just maybe far from trivial.
A bit of searching turned up this, I haven’t tried it myself but it claims to offer the functionality you want: sourceforge.net/projects/linuxjoymap/
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 8 months ago:
My understanding is that actual kernel-level software would have to at least have a Linux-specific driver included. Otherwise if it really is running entirely through Proton, it’s somehow faking the ring 0 access. I’m not entirely sure, but I do think that anti-cheat must work differently from the big ones like FACEIT and Valorant.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 8 months ago:
Ahh okay no I’m pretty sure that isn’t being explicitly enabled.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 8 months ago:
Hmm, I haven’t had this issue with Peak and I’m running Wayland…
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 8 months ago:
Denuvo is not a blocker for Linux, anti-cheat is the main one.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 8 months ago:
BattleEye and EAC have both worked on Linux since 2021. Any games that use those at this point but don’t support Linux are choosing to block the platform (e.g. Fortnite).
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 8 months ago:
I wouldn’t recommend replacing your steam deck os with bazzite… What’s the expected benefit?
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 8 months ago:
I think that’s pretty specific to Elden Ring – it’s had that stuttering bug since launch on Windows and while they made it better it still happens, but for whatever quirk of Proton it never happened on Linux.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 8 months ago:
Without context this is pretty useless for OP. It sounds like you have some exotic non-gaming-related workflows and without knowing what those are it’s impossible to say if they’re anything OP would ever need to deal with.
For gaming the only non-starter at this point is games that the devs have chosen to make not work on Linux, i.e. ring 0 anti-cheats and a few other games made by assholes like Fortnite. VR is also hit and miss, for some people/systems it works nearly out of the box, for others it might be a big pain.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 8 months ago:
They won’t run on proton. “Kernel-level” means it’s well below the level that Proton runs at.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 8 months ago:
I don’t understand what you mean, how do you do this in Windows?
- Comment on Drinks shouldn’t be chewed 8 months ago:
Not autistic but yeah I hate them. If they weren’t so sticky it’d be better…
- Comment on It's just loss. 9 months ago:
Factory farming has never been done sustainably. Give an example if you disagree. Or are you one of those homesteader guys who thinks he can raise two cows and four sheep on an acre alongside your field of corn and miniature orchard?