Thats crazy you experience this. I have like 1500 hours in SoT, and it's Rare (pun intended) to even hear other crews use voice chat. I can't remember the last time someone was toxic. My only gripe is their servers suck sooooooooo much ass, I legit don't think they have a single employee that knows how fix it.
Do you do open crew?
Yea, Shroud helped a lot during early development.
Seconded. You subscribe to channels you like, and your feed is just the newest videos first. Plus built in sponser block.
Essentially, most cheats for games work because the program can access the RAM addresses that the game uses. Anticheat works by scanning the computer for these running programs/services that are known to be cheats.
Historically this has been done in userspace, ie. no elevated permissions. Nowadays, Kernel level AC let's the AC check for deeper cheating methods, like devices that are operating on a driver level.
Currently, the most difficult to detect method is cheating using a 2nd PC that connects via a cable to a special PCIe device in the gaming PC. It essentially analyzes everything going to RAM and plucks out game related info. It's currently a back and forth trying to hide that PCIe device from the anti-cheat.
If you buy from big store, you just have to risk it: If it's locked you just return it. I've bought a couple of refurbished Pixel phones from large online retailers, they all say unlocked in the listing, but they mean carrier, not bootloader. It's been about 50/50 if I get one unlocked, or locked.
If it's a Pixel from Verizon, the bootloader will be locked down, and no way around it.
It's advised to reboot after any kernel updates.
Get Unraid for your server OS. Its nuts how good it is at being beginner friendly, while being robust when needed. It has a docker app "store", as well as plugins, and a virtual machine manager as well. It also has a very, very nice Web GUI: you manage the server from another PC you use in your house.
I can not overstate how much I learned by starting with Unraid.
AMDs always get a wack, ultra safe, and high voltage. I undervolt all my AMD GPUs and CPUs. Makes quite the difference.
Trying to copy and paste the profile folder/s between Linux and Windows doesn't work for me, I tried it on 3/separate occasions. IIRC the folder structure is just different, things in different sub-folders, etc.
Unraid is the bee's knees, especially for being beginner friendly. You use the internet browser of another computer on the same network to access the web GUI of the server.
Most game servers, Palworld included, have ready to go templates in their "App Store," for running the servers as Docker containers.
I sincerely hope LoL never shuts down, because then all those players will have to go to some other game.