Crozekiel

So are we committing fraud if we turn on Spotify and leave it playing in an empty, sound-proof room??

That contractual agreement has nothing to do with the user or artist, its between advertisers and the platform. That can't be what they got this guy for.

Speed of ram typically isn't a problem, but ram configuration absolutely can cause a bottleneck (that usually looks like a CPU bottleneck). The amount of companies selling a "gaming PC" with one god damned stick of ram drives me crazy. Single channel ram? In 2024 my dude?

Exactly. The average Joe sees he can't just download hacks and suddenly be good, assumes the anti-cheat works, and then when they still get owned complains about something else instead of cheaters and is happily giving shady game publishers the highest level access to their computer like its nothing.

Anti-cheat doesn't actually need to eliminate cheating, it just needs to make the masses think it works by slightly raising the bar for entry into cheating. Cheating is still rampant, players just feel better about it and complain about smurfs more because they dont think its possible to get around kernal level anti-cheats.

Honestly I'd be much happier if the industry moved away form terrible anti-cheat software in general.

Its very unlikely you would brick the computer in the sense of not being repairable. Most likely mistake would be accidentally wiping everything that's on the laptop currently. As always, backup your important files to an external device first just in case.

For now... But they like to just turn shit on willy nilly... They've done it with onedrive before (and promptly deleted the local copies of files). Even when they don't force it on during an update, they have a ton of ridiculous pop-ups telling you that you should turn it on and people click them by accident. I know I don't trust them to keep it turned off.

I feel like the text editors we get by default do all the things I ever wanted notepad++ for anyway.

Same. Parts designed in freecad take me about 10 times longer and have about 1/4 of the "polish" and nice finishing touches compared to the ones I've done in fusion.

Yea but I think part of the point is the corporate politics are not required to do the job, they are required to work at that company.

Also what the op finds simple may not be to average people, but if they have specialized skills and training, it becomes a 'simple' task.

3d printing and even designing my own basic parts/items. Seems daunting as all hell to get right but honestly it wasn't that bad to figure out. Fusion360 was a dream to learn. I've been trying to make the switch to freecad and struggling though. :(

Also, it sounds more like you're advocating for kernal level anti-cheat being created for Linux by game devs as opposed to being against the horrible and invasive practice regardless of OS.

I just don't agree. First, I don't think a monopoly is an inherent part of nature, and further I disagree that monopolies exist because some company just makes the absolute best product and people end up always choosing it. A monopoly's key feature is not giving the consumer a real choice through shady and unfair business practices.

Also, windows is not the better product. They don't make the best OS. Arguments could be made that they have a better OS for gaming, but for almost everything else they are worse than basically every alternative (not just Linux) but still dominate market share due to lack of consumer choice. At the retailer, hardware is tied to an OS - if you want macos you have to buy Mac hardware. If you want chromeos you have to by an underwhelming netbook.

IMO, keeping windows around just in case a company does some underhanded shit like kernal anti-cheat or invasive DRM so you can give your support to the company doing the underhanded shit is a detriment to progress.

I'd rather struggle to learn freecad than keep windows around even though fusion360 is easier (for me) to understand, because I don't want to reward bad behavior. If those of us that can switch don't, then things don't get better. I couldn't have made the switch if thousands of people more knowledgeable and talented before me hadn't taken the first steps. It's soapboxy, I know, but I also feel it's important.