A microwave can be classified as a signal jammer. Yes, there are microwaves for cars and camping.

E-inks with 30+ framerates (and durability of multiple years while doing so) will save us!

I thought onlyfans was the cheap and easy desire “fast-food”-like product for women. Or instagram or whatever social media gives people the impression of being center stage. Not robots.

Soo, the point is to not enable features that undermine security, like using an FQDN as a key (or source of a key) and to enable features that reduce DoS, like a connection timeout. Does not sound like bugs, just like missing default options.

It’s still important to not use the affecting options.

Get a bodyguard for the public. A social media manager for the critics. Or do the DNC thing of blocking any opposing views and being surprised when reality catches up. If you are a celebrity, you are the center of attention, good and bad.

The public doesn’t owe anything to celebrities.

Alovoa sounds nice, but I didn’t try it out myself.

Ability to export data to a relevant, open standard. If I can jump ship at the drop of a hat, then I’ll consider it. I won’t buy if I don’t have that power.

Oh, it’s an Xbox360 emulator. It doesn’t say so in the “releases” repository, so I was a bit confused.

This is nice!

Pretty sure humans are animals too

For the Xbox One Gamepad I had to update the firmware to use the Bluetooth, which was only possible with an Xbox or a Windows Computer, which I both don’t have. I had to use a friend’s computer for this.

And the responses will be good for the economy!

Not growing fast enough, I assume.

Don’t work around the limitations!

Science is influenced by academia. Still an important distinction.

Leaving the musky fields for where the sky is truly bluer.

I think the reason for this implementation is more the theft prevention. This sounds very mich like certificates to me

Well, the server acts mostly as a single source of truth. The clients are the ones registering the shot, the server confirms or denies it.

My approach would be prohibitedly expensive, as I suggested the registration would also happen on the server. It would also result in bigger lags

I’m with you on that.

For the individual saving is something very good. For the economy, however, a money hoarder is dead weight. It’s why inflation won’t ever completely go away, because it discourages hoarding (investing/bringing it to the bank can counteract this, that’s why I didn’t call it saving the second and third time)

It really depends who the issuer of the certificates (wallets) is. The funds get automatically transferred and won’t be lost, it’s “just” a privacy problem (plus the issuer will probably be able to interfere).

So the idea isn’t that dystopian, but it very much depends on the implementation.

Genuinely curious, because this isn’t my area of expertise, but how do you design a server to be “better” if it has to trust data from a remote client?

Check the data on the server (“oh no, incredibly expensive”). Don’t give any data to the client it doesn’t need, like enemies around the corner (“oh no, now my game is so very laggy because caching and future position assumption just became impossible”)

Example, if the client is compromised - because as they’ve said, they have no way to “attest” that the kernel is not compromised - how would the server know any better?

Now the server doesn’t need to care. There’s input? Validate and use it.

If my Apex client tells the server I got a perfect headshot, how would the server know I didn’t fake the data? Is there a real answer to this problem or are we just wishing they come up with an impossible solution?

Now the client can go pound sand. Server decides if it’s a headshot. Client only sends coordinates of origin and target. Lag? Sucks to be you, with or without cheat.

My general understanding is that EA is 100% correct. Now, on the other hand, maybe the should just limit plays between Linux <-> Linux so people can at least still enjoy the game

That would only create more work for the developers, all for the defacto expulsion of Linux users (Way less players at all times). The best course of action here would be the actual expulsion of Linux users. Also, EA is at most 25% correct. (Not a rational argument, I just very much dislike them)

(I’m moving to Linux soon so I’ll basically no longer be able to play the game, which is, as my primary gaming addiction, a huge loss I’m willing to take).

Damn, sorry to hear that. It’s always bad to leave something one knows because something’s become unbearable. I wish you best of luck on your journey! (I’m assuming a lot, but why else would you switch despite your choice of use of free time?)

There’s compromises EA could take, but I think the Linux market share is just too small for them to care to spend any resources - even though they’re raking in billions (~$3.4 Billion) and could spare a few resources to find a good middle ground. Capitalism at it’s finest.

On the other hand: I quite like it. It forces them to keep their grubby little hands from my kernel.

I do not like anything anti cheat. But I also don’t really like cheaters, especially in online games, so anti cheat could be tolerated. The only thing is: nothing trumps my systems integrity. Definitely not online player satisfaction.