liara

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Anti-piracy technologies is to the benefit of the game publishers, [but also] is of benefit to the players in that it protects the [publisher's] investment and it means the publishers can then invest in the next game"

The only entity benefiting in this scenario is Denuvo, while the client clutches their pearls to protect a misguided concept of the elusive lost sale. Denuvo rakes in cash in the name of copy protection, but the truth is most acts of piracy are driven by a lack of means to obtain the product or a desire to demo the product.

Sure it's their right to protect it but I don't think there's any accurate way to actually measure the impact of games with and without such aggressive copy protection.

 

Google is testing this with some owners of the Pixel 6 and newer devices in the US. Tensor is clearly required and this suggests on-device AI is being leveraged. The goal is to “enhance our Call Screen capabilities and reduce robocalls, giving you time back and peace of mind.”

What devices can receive the beta?

Devices that may receive this beta will be the Pixel 6 and above, within the United States.

How can I check my Call Screen Settings to enable/disable the feature?

You can check out this helpful article for steps on checking your Call Screen settings.

When will this become available for everyone?

We’re looking forward to sharing more when the feature launches.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Only reason I installed it is for it's ability to use GitHub releases as a source and notify me if there are updates. As far as I'm aware you have to use f-droid repositories with f-droid -- but it's been a long time since I had f-droid installed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Install Lutris.

Use the battle net install helper for Lutris.

Launch battle net.

Profit.

It's like one extra step (install Lutris) compared to Windows. Using Linux doesn't have to be some archaic mystery and the proliferation of the steam deck is doing wonders at improving the ease of use of all this stuff.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Spoiler alert: your individual choices don't matter. Drastic and sweeping changes need to be made at the corporate/supply chain level if we have any hope of surviving this.

So... We're fucked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This really only affects legitimate users.

Legitimate users are usually the ones who suffer most for DRM

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Unregistered torrents (from upgrades to season packs or nuked releases) and the occasional upgrade paths that don't always work.

My own upgrade paths tend to pull in some versions which get made redundant so every so often, just ensuring there's no multiple copies as a result of said upgrades

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Diablo 3/4 is not split screen on PC

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah, take a look at my profile from the perspective of lemmy.world:

https://lemmy.world/u/liara

Then compare with the comment count compared to other instances:

https://lemmy.ca/u/[email protected]

https://lemm.ee/u/[email protected]

9 of my comments haven't federated and are visible only to lemmy.world

https://lemmy.ml/u/[email protected]

22 comments made it to .ml but that's still missing 6 comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You can use sonarr and radarr without indexers. There's even built-in support for major trackers without need for additional apps like Prowlarr.

That said, I use autobrr to handle the monitoring of releases and let the other apps filter out what they actually want

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's annoying that so much of my search results rely on community discussions from reddit. I've pretty much ditched the site entirely and am getting pretty comfy here, but a lot of historical discussions on reddit simply can't be replaced and likely never will be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One of the easier options would be something like a DNS-based load balancer with an extremely short TTL (<60 seconds). Cloudflare offers an option that is $5/mo to use.

You would need 2 haproxies to do this.

Otherwise, you're likely looking into something like keepalived with an elastic/additional/failover IP that can swap between instances if a failover situation is detected

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Her adult sons are also two of her tenants. She only needed to provide proof of residency for a single tenant. I feel like that should have been a slam dunk in terms of acquiring what she needed to prove something is occupied.

She gave up

While I can commiserate with getting overwhelmed, she needed to get help before giving up. As someone who has had lots of brushes with the CRA and the IRS and being strongarmed for more money during tax time, giving up is a surefire way to end up paying the highest end of whatever fine whatever agency is trying to pin you with. Maybe she wasn't fully aware what would happen if she ignored this, but I don't think that's really any excuse either.

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