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TheEntity@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Mod Team a Copy of Oblivion RemasteredEnglish99·2 months agoFor all intents and purposes it seems to be a remake. It’s just stupidly named, so it makes the confusing stuff even more confusing.
EDIT: Apparently it’s far closer to a remake than a remaster after all.
Yes, that’s how syndromes work. Having one or two of these things is expected. Having half of them isn’t.
A cheap Chinese bluetooth speaker. I bought it due to its great price without any specific idea how to utilize it. Years later I ended up in relatively cramped conditions without the hi-fi equipment I used previously, using this bluetooth speaker as my main audio device for long months.
TheEntity@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 1m sales in just one dayEnglish28·5 months agoFor what it’s worth, Eurogamer itself called the first game bigoted and refused to rate it. It’s really a strange case.
TheEntity@lemmy.worldto No Man's Sky@lemmy.world•As it turns out, the mods in the Reddit community are supporting bigots by shutting down posts that are trans positive:4·5 months agoIf that’s an option, agreed. It’s been a while since I’ve been active over there so it didn’t occur to me.
TheEntity@lemmy.worldto No Man's Sky@lemmy.world•As it turns out, the mods in the Reddit community are supporting bigots by shutting down posts that are trans positive:394·5 months agoIf the “discussion” was getting too heated for the mods to handle, locking (but not deleting!) the thread sounds like the right call. What’s the alternative? Ban one bigot, five more will appear. Ban them and lock the thread to prevent more bigotry.
TheEntity@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”English11·6 months agoIf you insist upon saying one store is more virtuous than the other… okay? I personally don’t like defending companies but you do you.
Could you please not put words into my mouth? Neither is “virtuous” and I am not defending them. Let’s stick to the facts instead. It’s clear that EGS is being actively hostile towards Linux, while GOG is merely negligent. EGS actively removed Linux support from previously supported games on at least one occasion (Rocket League).
TheEntity@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”English231·6 months agoNot nearly the same degree. GOG sells actual Linux games with no 3rd party software necessary to play them. The same cannot be said about EGS, one simply cannot launch an EGS game in an officially supported way.
TheEntity@lemmy.worldto Games@sh.itjust.works•Riot Games to issue penalties for "off-platform conduct"English16·7 months agoThey have full legal rights to ban you for farting when the minute hand and hour hand aligned. This changes nothing in terms of what they “can” do. It’s rather their public announcement about what they “will” do. If they really wanted to ban you for silly reasons, they don’t even need these silly reasons, they can just ban you and are fully within their legal rights to do so.
TheEntity@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a PurchaseEnglish15·9 months agoJust like any game ever sold on a CD.
TheEntity@lemmy.worldto Games@sh.itjust.works•GOG: When we said we let you ‘own’ your games, we meant that no matter what happens you’ll still be able to play them thanks to our offline installers.English7·9 months agoHow does an offline installer from GOG differ from the offline installer provided on a CD/DVD?
TheEntity@lemmy.worldto Games@sh.itjust.works•GOG: When we said we let you ‘own’ your games, we meant that no matter what happens you’ll still be able to play them thanks to our offline installers.English342·9 months agoThis is equally true for almost any game ever sold, including physical ones. You only ever own a license that specifies what you can and cannot do with the game. The difference is in what this license is tied to, for example either a physical copy of a given game or an account that can be remotely deactivated taking away all your games. In GOG’s case once you grab the installer, the game license cannot be easily forcibly revoked, just as with the physical copy.
TheEntity@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Everything wrong with DroidCam and how to solve it6·1 year agoWhich features do you mean? Not disagreeing with you, I’m just curious.
TheEntity@lemmy.worldto Privacy Guides@lemmy.one•Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintextEnglish5·1 year agoEither multiple different keychains or even you can have no keychain-like application in your system at all.
The WiFi passwords are usually stored in
/etc/NetworkManager
as plain files. Granted, they are not accessible directly by non-root users as they are being managed by the NetworkManager daemon, but there is nothing generic for such a thing. Signal rolling a similar daemon for itself would be an overkill. The big desktop environments (GNOME, KDE…) usually have their own keychain-like programs that the programs provided by these environments use, but that only solves this problem for the users of these specific environments.To me it’s perfectly expected the Signal encryption keys are readable by my user account.
TheEntity@lemmy.worldto Privacy Guides@lemmy.one•Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintextEnglish7·1 year agoThere is no single keychain on Linux, and supposedly on Windows too. Signal would need to either support a few dozens of password managers or require a specific one, both options terrible in their own way. This isn’t something that can be done without making broad assumptions about the user’s system.
An
int&
reference is just as much of a variable asint* const
would be (a const pointer to a non-const int). “Variable” might be a misnomer here, but it takes just as much memory as any other pointer.
never mind, I looked it up. It’s a “reference” instead of a pointer. Similar, but unlike a pointer it doesn’t create a distinct variable in memory of its own.
I’m almost sure it does create a distinct variable in memory. Internally it’s still a pointer, specifically a const pointer (not to be confused with a pointer to a const value; it’s the address that does not change). Think about it as a pointer that is only ever dereferenced and never used as a pointer. So yes, like the other commenter said, like an alias.
If anything, I’m glad you didn’t have to experience it yourself.