if you have a garage, design a method to basically ensure your garage door is closed without you needing to go back to check.

of course if you trust yourself with never making that mistake.

last thing you want to feel is if you remembered to close the door or not and youre already far off

Mehrunes Dagon will never know what hit him

all for the power of selling the device at profit and not at a loss.

when currently last gen pc handheld like the lenovo legion go is being sold at 500$ and has both a higher fresh rate resolution and 20ms pixel response time conpared to the switch 2s 33ms.

i reckon steam is lacking on this because steams basically the only client that natively has a steam client on all platforms officially. it doesnt see it as a problem because of that.

Nintendo hasn’t really C&D any of the previous decomps. they can for people who upload the whole precompiled executable, but none of them that requires actually ripping the original assets yourself to create the required game.

Animal Crossing is next, as 6 days ago, the gamecube version of the game was decompiled to completion. It’s a extremely big prime candidate for modding IMO.

then you gain the extra potential illegal action due to forgery. so its a game of risk management for the drivers.

confidential cpus are typically engineering samples, usually given to motherboard companies to work on bioses for the cpu generation and meant to be returned to the company after done. engeering sample cpus can be missing features, lower clocks and such that the retail varient may have.

as for geneeation of cpu, its easier to find out via what motherboard socket it is

on thecontext of finding second hand, i wouldnt say its common, but can happen. some chinese companies sell dirt cheap ES cpus for basic computing.

the ilm says lga 115x, so its either 1156(1st gen), 1155(2nd or 3rd gen), 1150(4th and 5th gen) or 1151(6th to 8th gen)

its more or less the pro/con of strong labor laws vs at will.

strong labor laws guarantees both sides will have some body to work a position, but theyre almost handcuffed together forever, so its extremely imperative to find the correct candidate.

at will has poor job security, but you have the freedom to get out of the contract with the other party as long as its not a protected reason. at will lets people jump jobs more often which is better for increasing your pay. but it has a shit saftey net, so the people at the bottom struggle.

not all companies, but companies trying to fire an employee till they willigly quit will force them to do remidial stuff. due to strong labor laws in japan, its required that BOTH the company and employee agree to quit/get laid off to actually be an official transaction. its part of the reason why an employee might feel like theyre stuck in a company their entire life.

emphasis again, this does NOT apply to all companies

i think the funniest part is ontop of bad acquisitions, Microsoft was only able to buy blizzard activision partially because sony had a history of making non PlayStation versions of games inferior to the PlayStation version.

had Sony actually played fair ball, none of this would have probably happened.

and even while open source, its implementation on various DE is still spotty, which is kinda the point.

not going to be a steam OS user, but its less what you can’t, and more that any changes that valve patches in via their efforts on AMD drivers, users would get it first and without any fuss.

One example is HDR support. various distros and DEs kinda sat on HDR for the longest time, with mixed results on implementation. Valve just walks in and implements it.

less that there was a time limit, but it was a project that was worked on for a long time, and had on and off discussions throughout the development cycle of the game

Someone “hacking” files or systems doesn’t always mean what you think it does. Naughty Dog “hacked” PS1 to create crash bandicoot. Just means they gained knowledge in how the hardware works. Not that their game only works on “hacked” hardware.

they point out theirselves in August 2021, that they were using a solutionthat breaks Valves TOS before later replacing it later in 2022. Its evidence that there was on and off times where what theyre doing was skirting what valve says was okay.

So until I hear anything from valve. I’m inclined to believe the mod team. Based on valves previous interactions with their community.

you believe the mod team despite there are other games who have successfully worked with valve and actually have fully recreated the entire game they made and actively sell on their storefront for actual money?

again im not saying valve are in the clear, but the devs clearly says it so themselves they have throughout the process, broke the TOS and you’re still inclined to believe that theyre not hiding anything else? I don’t see it as a black and white issue, rather a situation that I can’t trust anyone because only one side of the story has been said, by a side that doesn’t necessarily have the cleanest history.

it was less illegal and more the dev took money to quit it.

i mean im not saying. im pro Sikh either, but Indias response and justification for the Assassination of Singh Nijjar was pretty fucked up, even if he didnt have the cleanest of histories.

why didn’t they shut it down in January then. there’s WAY more to the story than this. They gave the dev 8 years to develop this. and Valve already has a historical track record of letting other devs work on their IP (Nvidia making RTX remasters of valve games, Valve LITERALLY letting the Black Mesa devs basically sell half life 1 remastered on THEIR STOREFRONT.). You cannot absolutely trust the devs words either entirely. the fact that there are other users who believe the story of the hacky work around even when the announcements in other pages can only exist if theres a shred of truth in it, or you think valve is legitmately having a disinformation campaign, because these users have nothing to gain from for a free mod being canceled.

I’m not remotely saying valve is a good person in this situation, but you’re giving the devs way more leniency than they currently deserve. Reminder back in 2022, the devs were given essentially access to the source engine code, and already had the decision back then knowing that their only two options for their project (at least in the way they were designing the mod) was to either do a hacky method, or cancel the game(their own words). the game wasnt canceled till 2024, so you can put 2 and 2 together to know what they ended up deciding in 2022

i dont think amd or nvidia wont do it as explicitly. its already known that at the moment, some locations in the EU are aleady seeing msrp 5070 sitting on shelves because its not a highly desireable product, while they get bought up in the US faster at a higher price because the stock of everything else is non-existent

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1hywi0y/counterstrike_classic_offensive_app_has_been/m6l6q3i/

is an example

a source twitter for some info

https://twitter.com/ZooL_Smith/status/1878385881649725760

its hard to get a whole story, because valve hasnt really had full public discussion on their side, and of course the developers side story would be biased, especially hard to trust after public meltdown

is it a lame decision? valve was okay with the project, until the devs used a method in the closed source part of source to do something. Valve then asked them to not do that, so the dev then implemented an even worse method than the first, which Valve than C&D altogether.

valve had 0 problems with the project, other than a very specific implementation they did with source engine, was asked to fix it, but chose not to do it.

pia is terrible for privacies for government (five eyes country host), but its a fine budget option for privacy against business (piracy).

its an okay vpn as long as you are fully aware on what youre paying for