carpelbridgesyndrome

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[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 19 points 1 year ago

"Crisis pregnancy centers" are a huge problem in the US. Please don't export them.

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So what I am hearing is that Greg Abbot is preventing the border patrol from detaining migrants.

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy discovers presidents are not dictators

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anti virtualization is sometimes used in copy protection. Altering virtualization to avoid those checks might be circumvention under DMCA.

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 1 points 1 year ago

In new games sure. I was referring to old titles

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 8 points 1 year ago

As somone who has been on a broken escaltor that was not safe, the breaks can fail and then you have a big problem. Granted I'm not dead and didn't lose any limbs but degloving is still not something I'd like to risk.

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Getting anti-cheat that technically already works enabled on Linux has been a lot of work and Epic still won't enable it. Piracy protection systems will also be an issue. Most EA games inspect your CPU to see if they like it on startup (I think this is using vmprotect and some non-OS x86 calls but don't quote me on that). These kinds on anti virtualization checks are really common (not just in games ProctorU and lock down browser do them too). I don't think valve running an open virtualization layer will be well received by companies and they will probably ban it from running games. MMOs (due to botting) and anything with anticheat will look particularly askance at this. I also suspect Valve won't want to try hiding the VM signatures as it borders on violating DMCA.

Newer games will probably get ported if a large part of the market buys into ARM. Unity stuff might get re-released as it is .net if the publishers can be bothered. Minecraft java edition will also always love you (the launcher might not though).

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The main advantage of ARM right now is that there are low power cores available. The actual instruction set is unrelated to this advantage. If Intel or AMD put more serious effort into power efficiency most of the advantages go out the window.

As for instruction set changes impacting what software you can run I think that is still a big issue. Yes porting to ARM is straitforward in more modern programming environments but most software actively developed at the moment has a lot of old cruft that won't easily port if the engineers can even be convinced to touch it. Most businesses are dependent on old software not all of which is still maintained. Most gamers are even more tied to old software that is not going to get ported and often has annoying anti-virtualization checks (see games breaking on systems with enabled intel e-cores).

I am not sure how large the modern non gaming personal pc market is (tablets, phones, works computers, and chromebooks probably took a chunk out of it) but that could be in play.

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 2 points 1 year ago

Trilium is great. It has a copy of excalidraw with history which is nice. You can also automate things inside of it with scripting

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What exactly is it raining at 56°C?

I'm scared what your weather is like

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's slightly colder right now in the SF Bay Area where it doesn't snow

It's always disconcerting when I go somewhere it's supposed to snow in the winter and it's warmer.

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 2 points 1 year ago

There was an old cartoon where they did this. I can't find it anymore

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