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Weslee, do games w Unity ...It Just Keeps Get Worse

Am I the only one that wishes these video posts had some text explaination for those of us at work and unable to watch videos in the middle of the office?

Candybar121, (edited )

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  • BlinkerFluid,
    @BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one avatar

    I don’t own any airpods. Is Apple discipleship so strong that we all just assume everyone has the newest tat?

    Quick, check your iPhone…

    Candybar121,

    Ok man youre fucking retarded. I use android.

    Candybar121, (edited )

    Airpods came out in 2016, that’s not exactly the newest “tat”

    You’re fucking stupid btw, I use android.

    Cylusthevirus,
    @Cylusthevirus@kbin.social avatar

    hipsters who hate everything Apple

    If anyone needed conclusive proof that the word "hipster" is now functionally meaningless, here it is.

    Candybar121,

    thats crazy, you’re telling me language evolves? does anyone else know this?

    Bipta,

    This is conclusive. Time of death 11:41, September 15.

    Doug,

    Have you considered that plenty of people probably find your advice stupid and condescending regardless of saying the word “airpod”?

    Or that the word airpod was also unnecessary since you already said headphones?

    Apple defaultism is pretty dumb on its own, but it’s hardly the biggest problem with your comment.

    Candybar121, (edited )

    How was the original comment condescending? If you take offense to “Have you considered wearing headphones? You can pop an airpod in and listen to the audio without even having the video on your monitor. Or enable captions and just read the video like an article.” then you’re a bigger snowflake than any liberal. Now I’m being condescending on purpose, because every reply I’ve gotten has been idiotic and a waste of my time to read. OP said I can’t watch the video because I’m at work so I offered 2 solutions. I’m so sorry I tried to help! I’ll make sure to ignore anyone asking for help for the rest of my life. Thanks Doug!

    TheMauveAvenger,

    Some of us here didn’t grow up in the YouTube generation, where what could be a one minute read has to be turned into a ten minute ad-riddled video with over the top voice acting, “artistic” shots, and useless transitions.

    ekZepp, (edited )
    @ekZepp@lemmy.world avatar

    Done 👌

    Weslee,

    Thank you!

    casmael,

    Excellent work srgnt

    executivechimp,
    @executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    I’ve found this useful: www.summarize.tech

    ekZepp,
    @ekZepp@lemmy.world avatar

    Nice tool

    lolcatnip,

    If it does what it sounds like, it really should be integrated directly into Lemmy or Lemmy clients.

    BigVault,
    @BigVault@kbin.social avatar

    That's one for the bookmarks. What an incredible site.

    variants,

    looks very useful but the description is pretty sus haha

    Get a summary of any long YouTube video, like a lecture, live event or a government meeting. Powered by ChatGPT.

    government meeting?

    Raxiel,

    Parliamentary debate or similar?

    JackGreenEarth, (edited )
    @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee avatar

    Doesn’t this? (Jerboa) image

    Weslee,

    Yeah it was added by op. (thank you op!) Very kind

    JackGreenEarth,
    @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee avatar

    Yes, they did, but I meant the link summary under the link, not the text body. Unless that is also made my OP.

    Weslee,

    Ah yeah but that summery inside the box doesn’t really give any info

    JokeDeity,

    I’ve had that thought about 6 separate times this morning sitting at a hospital. I miss RIF showing me the link before I go to it.

    sp3ctr4l, do games w Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0

    I am still baffled that anyone thinks that Kernel AC is any kind of effective at stopping hacks, people have been literally making a living off of defeating it, and selling those hacks / methods for almost a decade now…

    But nope, still got hordes of idiot gamers who think they work, think they’re necessary, think they can’t be spoofed.

    burgerpocalyse,

    i dont know if you know this, but generally the people buying and playing games arent the ones making the decisions about anticheat

    sp3ctr4l,

    Not sure how you could read this and come away with the idea that I do believe that…

    I am talking about the subset of gamers that go on internet forums and discord servers and make false, unsupported claims as to the effectiveness or necessity or Kernel AC over other forms of AC, tell people this just is how it is now, get with the program, eat the bugs, play the spyware game, its fine, everyone is doing it.

    Burninator05,

    Indirectly buyers are making a decision on anticheat. If someone buys a game with anticheat, they’ve made the decision to reward the developer for making the decision to include anticheat.

    Lucidlethargy,

    It’s crazy to me that people cheat in online games. You really have to be a huge fucking loser to do this.

    Small pp energy.

    rautapekoni,

    Small pp energy.

    I don’t know what energy this is, but not good either.

    Resonosity,

    Sadly, I think the financial incentive is too great these days. People make decent money off this shit

    aksdb,

    The cheat developers, yes. Because there is demand. The question though was, why there is demand.

    Resonosity,

    There’s demand because there’s supply.

    Build it and they will come.

    We have to ask the question if cheat developing wasn’t profitable, and even if developers actually operated at a loss, would there be as many cheats on the market as there are now?

    Lucidlethargy,

    Small pp energy, am I right? Sad little people who want to feel big…

    ampersandrew, do games w Do Not Buy NZXT | Predatory, Evil Rental Computer Scam Investigated - Gamers Nexus
    @ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

    tl;dw A debt trap that’s such a bad deal that you’d be better off financing it with a payday loan. They lie about their terms and their PC specs. They advertise no contracts but absolutely have contracts, and the terms are awful.

    Trainguyrom, (edited )

    A debt trap that’s such a bad deal that you’d be better off financing it with a payday loan

    Literally a lower monthly payment, lower total paid and you end up owning a computer if you finance your computer with a predatory payday loan than with this rental program (per GN’s math)

    Edit: at $259/mo that’s already $3108/year or 2-3x the cost of a good midrange DIY PC. Also at an incredible 36% interest rate because this hypothetical individual purchased a $3000 computer on a credit card and only pays a bit more than the minimum towards it, that’s only $177/mo on a 24 month loan. Or if you just got a $1500 computer (a pretty dang good computer!) on a 12% APR personal loan (pretty common from banks) you only pay $133/mo for 12 month, own the computer and only pay a total of $1600

    The only way to make this rental program look at all good is if you are literally using the computer to make money but have very littlemoney upfront for a decent enough computer to do the same job (basically the “rent it for 1 month and win a fortnite tournament” fantasy one paid promoter suggested) except, oh look, you can buy a laptop from Dell for $520 or less than two months rental cost if you really don’t have the budget and then use that to make your money to fuel your future baller PC purchase. And I can assure you, that business laptop can run Fortnite if that’s your concern, because Fortnite will run on any potato PC if you turn the prettiness down enough.

    https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/0892b406-49da-41b1-9baa-80ecd254a637.png

    Edit 2: Also I just found a similar laptop in 1 minute on ebay for $255 to further kill that “spend your allowance to rent a computer for a month to win a fortnite tournament” fantasy

    SuperSpruce,

    $259/mo??? I expected the price of a couple streaming services, but this is more like car payment territory.

    Trainguyrom,

    I glanced at their site earlier (but after posting this comment) and it starts at $59/mo for a budget system with a 10th gen i5 and an RTX3050 so probably a $500ish PC when DIYed. And they have about a half dozen tiers above that up to the top $259/mo which is probably a $3000 PC if the parts were current. It’s still a bad deal no matter how you slice it though

    TheFeatureCreature,
    @TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world avatar

    And they are using paid influencers to promote said debt trap to those that don’t know any better, particularly children.

    Probably the most insidious part of this to me. Seeing those clips of “influencers” pushing the idea of convincing your parents to get you a rental PC. Disgusting.

    Grimy, do games w [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga

    You can’t put the article link instead of the generic yahoo.jp? Are you trying to get views or something?

    …yahoo.co.jp/…/b68ac34e65ec99559eb024ed91df59b696…

    Administrative sanction on VISA for suspected violation of antitrust law The Public Commission applies the affirmative procedure

    On the 22nd, the Japan Fair Trade Commission applied the administrative and affirmative procedures of Visa, an international credit card brand, as a suspected violation of the Antitrust Act (unfair trading method) regarding the terms of business with its partners, with regard to the terms and conditions of transactions with partners. According to the commission, it is the first administrative disposition on a credit card international brand, including the largest in the industry and the largest share (market share) in the country.

    [Figure] In 2024, the Public Commission will inspect the VISA Japan corporation

    In July 2024, the Public Commission conducted an on-site inspection of a Japanese subsidiary of a visa on suspicion of violating the Antitrust Act. We were also investigating overseas related sites such as U.S. headquarters.

    The affirmation procedure is one of the administrative measures that aims to resolve the problem at an early stage by agreement between the Public Commission and the business operator. This month, the Visa submitted a voluntary improvement plan that “commits” the resolution of suspected illegality and reporting the status of its implementation under the supervision of a third party for five years, and the commission recognized it as effective in preventing recurrence.

    In line with this, the Public Commission did not recognize the violation of the Antitrust Act of the visa, and postponed more enforceable administrative measures such as exclusion measures orders and surcharge payment orders. Yutaka Yamada

    mspencer712,

    There’s no karma here. No automated mechanism gives the submitter any benefit for a popular submission.

    Right?

    Grimy, (edited )

    I’m talking about having us visit the youtube video just to get the article link, while having no information on what’s being discussed or new developments in the post body.

    A youtube link alone is essentially just click bait. This kind of comes off as a youtuber trying to bring up his views and not a lemming trying to start a discussion.

    mspencer712,

    Ok yeah that makes sense. Thanks.

    nialv7,

    Sounds like this has nothing to do with recent events?

    Grimy,

    The article is a bit confusing, only the first paragraph is relevant I think. It seems like 22nd refers to last Tuesday and then the article jumps to events that happened a year ago. It might be the translation, I’m just using the built in Firefox one.

    In any case, it is the link in the video description.

    OutlierBlue,

    Thanks. There’s no way I’m clicking a Youtube link to read an article.

    Appoxo,
    @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Know auto-play id disabled (as it should be)
    Open the link
    Open the links (OP said they are linked in the description)
    Be done.

    Quite easy to solve?

    OutlierBlue,

    See Youtube link
    Move on with my life

    Also easy to solve

    XTL,

    I would add “downvote posts with no useful content” to that. (Report if you know the community has had the sense to forbid that kind of posts.) That does seem to cause some people to flip out, though.

    Katana314,

    I only linked to the YouTuber summary because the article was in Japanese. Certainly it’s the better source if you can read it.

    Pregnenolone, (edited ) do games w 5 Games Made in Godot To UNIFY You

    WASarD

    ΔV: Rings of Saturn

    Sprout Valley

    Hauma - A Detective Noir Story

    Noreya: The Gold Project

    Those are the games

    histy,

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  • dom,

    And cassette beasts

    TheEntity,

    Cruelty Squad too.

    UnknownQuantity,

    You’re the real MVP.

    jack,

    I especially like Those are the games

    Kyrgizion, do games w Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0

    I love the Battlefield series but I’m not turning on Secure Boot for them. If it remains a hard requirement, I’ll simply be passing altogether.

    Katana314,

    I was able to get around secure boot by installing the beta on my PS5. From then, I had the pleasure of being unable to enter due to broken menus! Can’t complain for having spent nothing and having little trust in the franchise.

    DoucheBagMcSwag,

    You paid for Ps+ though

    Katana314,

    Actually, right now I’m not. Maybe that was the issue? The UI was a bad missed up so I can’t tell.

    PHLAK,
    @PHLAK@lemmy.world avatar

    There’s nothing wrong with Secure Boot and enabling it can prevent a small subset of attack vectors with no real downsides. That being said, the things Secure Boot does protect against aren’t likely to be an issue for most users but it’s nothing to be afraid of.

    pathief,
    @pathief@lemmy.world avatar

    If you want to install Linux, secure boot limits the distributions you can use. If you don’t then it’s whatever.

    taaz,

    I’ve tested the beta yesterday and only had to enable SB and leave it in custom mode - no need to sign & enroll the linux kernel(s) too

    turkalino,

    Zero issues on the mighty gecko distro. Not sure why’d you use anything else ^/s^

    async_amuro, do games w Mario Kart Should Cost More - YouTube
    @async_amuro@lemm.ee avatar

    Yeah, y’all need to watch the video before you downvote. It’s satire and speaking to exactly why you are downvoting it. Love me some Dunks!

    SatyrSack,
    @SatyrSack@feddit.org avatar

    It’s also just not funny. I get that it’s trying to be, but in my opinion, it doesn’t land.

    async_amuro,
    @async_amuro@lemm.ee avatar

    “Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.”

    inclementimmigrant,

    Okay.

    jacksilver,

    His videos have been pretty weak for a while. Happy that he’s been branching out into publishing games though.

    hitagi,

    You’re nitpicking and biased. I win. Bye bye.

    lobut,

    It’s got a little something for everyone

    edgemaster72,
    @edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

    This is the first Dunkey-type comment chain on Lemmy

    FartMaster69,

    Actually it is funny, I know this to be objectively true as I am the sole judge of comedy.

    Asetru,

    Maybe… Hear me out here…

    Maybe people just don’t like it and don’t think it’s particularly funny?

    Railcar8095,

    Humor is subjective, but just in case it’s good to clarify it’s a joke.

    With current international politics it’s hard to know the difference

    SatyrSack,
    @SatyrSack@feddit.org avatar

    From what I understand of the Lemmy userbase, this type of humor generally just does not play here as much as it would at somewhere like Reddit.

    Gradually_Adjusting,
    @Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

    The people who enjoyed the joke just upvote and move on. But yes, we do have a lot of folks who do not embrace obliquity.

    smeg,

    I think putting something like (Dunky) in the title would probably have helped

    _haha_oh_wow_, do games w ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY!
    @_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Gross, glad I bought a Steam Deck instead.

    So disappointing to hear all these stories about Asus pulling shady stuff, they used to be one of the best PC companies out there.

    Retrograde,
    @Retrograde@lemmy.world avatar

    but won’t somebody think of the shareholders?? Line must go up!!

    But for real though the steam deck was always going to be a better option for so many reasons

    ricdeh,
    @ricdeh@lemmy.world avatar

    Linux!

    pycorax,

    They’re still pretty good at least here in Asia. The horror stories I hear of Asus support in the US is a might and day difference from what I experienced. Their Taiwan HQ needs to smash some sense into the US office and clean house.

    Dagamant, do games w You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit

    yeah, dont buy digital. If its not available as a physical product steal it.

    ampersandrew,
    @ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

    I’d be happy with DRM-free video purchases, but they don’t exist like they do for video games, and even video games aren’t available DRM-free across the board.

    otacon239,

    It’s not necessarily cheap or convenient, but building a physical collection of Blu-Rays (or DVDs if quality isn’t priority) is something that can’t be taken away.

    Add on a compatible Blu-Ray drive to your computer and you can even rip the digital files yourself. It’s taken me a few years, but now I never have to worry if my favorite movie is available when I want to show a friend. It also makes them easy to loan.

    ampersandrew,
    @ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

    I’d very much prefer to not even have them take up shelf space, but it’s the only way that exists to actually own a copy of a movie or TV show. I have ripped a number of them, but if someone made the GOG for movies, I’d move all of my purchases over there.

    Flocklesscrow,

    The marginal cost of information goods is zero. Digital Capitalism is inherently a scam, even moreso than physical products.

    sartalon,

    Unskippable ads, required downloaded updates, region restrictions…

    Nah, I’m downloading that fucking car, I’m done giving movie studios chances to be reasonable.

    They were good for a bit, but they are a slave to stock value and their finance bros will take every opportunity to squeeze you for revenue, ruining every experience.

    scrubbles,
    !deleted6348 avatar

    Fun thing, even a DVD or Blu-ray is technically licensed by them, and they claim they have the right to revoke it whenever they want. In the case of Blu-ray they have tried to do this via “updates” to the Blu-ray players

    CosmicTurtle0,

    I remember complaining on Amazon about the price of digital books when they were still relatively new. They wanted me to pay the same price for a digital book as a physical book. Back then, Amazon still had pretty decent customer service and wrote me back saying that the price for the book wasn’t for literal pages but for the work in making the book, etc. etc.

    I told them I understood that but I don’t get the same rights with the digital book as I did with the physical, namely the right to sell the book.

    Books, board games, etc. any physical media is technically a license, yes. BUT the copyright holder cannot bar you from doing whatever you want with the physical copy, within the limits of copyright law. Those same rights simply do not exist with your digital copies and, in fact, is often codified within your terms of service that you don’t fucking own anything and they can pull your license at any time.

    DVD is next to impossible to revoke while Blu-ray is not. But you can’t revoke Blu-ray licenses to specific people but to regions. I haven’t heard of this happening but if it did, you could, in theory, still play your Blu-ray disks on players that aren’t connected to the internet to receive those updates. That said, I’m like 80% sure that Blu-ray keys have been leaked and you can rip them like DVDs today.

    scrubbles,
    !deleted6348 avatar

    I am not saying you can or you can’t, but if you could, and I’m not saying you can, I would have full DRM-free backups of every Blu-ray I own.

    Bookmeat,

    I’m not saying they would or they wouldn’t, but if they would, and I’m not saying they would, they would distribute the keys to the Blu-ray players online so other people could use their rightfully purchased discs in any way they pleased on their own hardware.

    BeardedGingerWonder,

    I’m not saying you you should or shouldn’t, but if you did, I’ve heard it’s possible to access a backup of the original even if you don’t have an original disc.

    _cryptagion,

    I am not saying you can or you can’t, but if you could, and I’m not saying you can, download basically any ebook or audiobook you want from “mouse torrent site”. It’s a private tracker, so you do have to apply for membership, but it’s the best place on the net for books.

    I grab audiobooks from there, then pipe them straight from qBittorrent into an Audiobookshelf server so me, my family, and my friends can stream them to any device.

    someguy3,

    Sony owns Blu Ray tech but not DVD. DVD was industry consortium to prevent a repeat of the VHS and betamax war. Only lasted a generation unfortunately.

    keyez,

    BRB I have a blu ray player from 2017 I’m disconnecting from the internet

    Arbiter,

    Even physical these days means nothing, just look at The Crew.

    stardust,

    Thankfully modders have made good progress of coming closer to emulating servers for it so people can play it offline.

    Bad part is Ubisoft actually removed The Crew from some people’s Ubisoft account. Steam versions were safe ironically to be able to download the game to make use of it when Crew community made fix is out.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Is it stealing though? Theft, as it is legally defined, requires depriving the original owner of the thing you are stealing. Stealing a car for example, means the owner cannot drive the car since you have it.

    If you could take someone else’s car, but they still have access to their car as if it was never taken, is that really stealing?

    Shapillon,

    Well, there’s also the concept of intellectual property though.

    _cryptagion,

    There shouldn’t be.

    Shapillon,

    I fully agree with you on that.

    Otoh our current law systems don’t.

    piecat,

    I think that’s called conversion. Or unjust enrichment.

    mightyfoolish,

    You speak of copyright infringement. Some people call it IP theft but in reality it has nothing to do with stealing in the traditional sense of the word (such as stealing a bicycle). You can’t actually steal something that’s still there after you “take it.”

    Trihilis, do games w [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga

    Im amazed it took this long. We should start banning companies like visa and MasterCard. They should be completely neutral and not try to push USA conservative christian bullshit.

    _cryptagion,
    @_cryptagion@quokk.au avatar

    In this case, it's Australian conservative Christian bullshit, but no doubt they have many supporters in the US as well, since this is every Evangelicals wet dream.

    Religion needs to fuck right off and stop harassing people.

    PalmTreeIsBestTree,

    The Australian one is associated with the American movement all the way down. Might as well had come from America.

    Adalast,

    Nah, we just both have the same parent.

    scratchee,

    And we’re equally disappointed in both of you for following our terrible example.

    reagansrottencorpse, do games w ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY!

    Why would anyone buy this instead of a steamdeck?

    Sneptaur,
    @Sneptaur@pawb.social avatar

    Because some gamers think windows would be better for this. And maybe a little bit of gamer brand loyalty

    TexasDrunk, (edited )

    Yeah, some folks don’t want to tinker and do like to play games with DRM that won’t work on Linux. It’s also a little more powerful than the Deck.

    I love my deck so much that I broke my tinkering with computers outside of work hours rule in order to set up some Steam remote play boxes (HoloISO based) on mini PCs scattered throughout the house so I don’t have to be next to my gaming rig to play. I don’t really play anything online that has the Windows only DRM so Linux is great for me. But I get it when people have things they want to do and don’t have the time, know how, or desire to fuck with their systems.

    ripcord,
    @ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

    What’s the advantage of the mini PCs over a relatively cheap Android TV with the Steam Link app or even an old Steam Link hardware?

    What’s the hardware you’re using?

    I have been doing local streaming from my gaming PC to devices around tbe house (using mostly Steam and Moonlight) for nearly a decade.

    I just find the steam stuff maddeningly buggy (setups that worked a month ago suddenly start having some new issue, usually Steam Input or otherwise controller-related). But when things work, it’s fantastic. Especially for living room gaming with friends (or my kid)

    TexasDrunk,

    I’ve had exactly one problem using the built in remote play with Steam, and that was a bad update that was put out just a few months ago. I’ve got a few Bee Links with the 680m iGPU (I’m not home to check the model right now) so they were a few hundred bucks apiece which is a huge con for some folks. But that also allows me to play a variety of emulated games and games that aren’t graphically intensive locally if someone is streaming from another room.

    So if I have a friend with kids over, we can play BG3 couch co-op in the bedroom or garage while the kids play Mario Kart or Hollow Knight in the living room. That’s worth it for me.

    However, cheap Android TV devices work for a lot of people and I’ll never knock them.

    Lesrid,

    Because they don’t need touchpads and like an asymmetrical layout

    iorale,

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  • ripcord,
    @ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

    OK, that’s true for a few places, but why is it true in the majority of casss where people are buying the ROG?

    _haha_oh_wow_,
    @_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

    It’s got better specs on paper but in practice, my Steam Deck just just about everything without issue, even new games and most games that are “unsupported” (at least as far as I’ve tried).

    Some people might also like the layout better or just be fond of Asus as a company from the good old days when they were actually decent.

    Woozythebear,

    Because it’s better?

    frezik,

    On paper. In practice, meh.

    OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe,

    Own both

    Ease of use - Ally Graphical capabilities - Ally Battery usage - Steam Deck (because less graphical capabilities) Gaming platforms/launcher availability - Ally Customization and layout - Steam Deck, and it ain’t even close.

    I love my Ally and my wife loves my Steam Deck. But the Ally is better in all the ways above. I will say the Steam deck is easier to open up for repairs, but not by much

    frezik,

    The Steam Deck also isn’t made by a shitty company with a shitty warranty. Which puts the Ally on the blacklist.

    There’s a lot of options in this space, and more coming out. I wouldn’t even glance in the Ally’s direction right now.

    OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe,

    I was just refuting the bit that it’s not better off the paper. By all the measures above, it’s not “meh” better. The steamdeck could drastically improve by taking some notes in what the Ally does well.

    I agree though that Asus isn’t a company I choose to do business with first, they just had the best product for what I was looking for.

    FonsNihilo,

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  • Fubarberry,
    @Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

    Cheaper

    Isn’t the Ally a lot more expensive than the Deck?

    easier to use

    I’d also question this, obviously everyone’s familiar with windows but the handheld experience is pretty rough when compared with SteamOS.

    Joelk111,

    Yeah, those two are debatable at best, but the other points sure make a lot of sense, and definitely have value. I say this as a SteamDeck user who never even considered the Ally for myself.

    xkforce,

    Walmart prices:

    512 GB Ally: $399

    512 GB Steam Deck: $499

    Fubarberry,
    @Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

    To be fair, that’s the low power Ally with a pretty significant 20% off sale.

    I’m not well educated on the power difference, but a quick google search shows the cheaper Ally gets about 60% the benchmarked performance of the more expensive Ally when plugged in. There’s also a significant drop when not plugged in, but less severe (only about a 20% drop in fps). Source

    I suppose the real question is how does it compare to a Steam Deck at that price, and if the drop in power is worth the price difference.

    Cort,

    iirc they’re all similar amd chips but the steam deck has the lowest performance by a small margin. But the steam deck uses less overhead with Linux.

    sebinspace,

    As a Steam Deck Expensive Edition owner, I will say the Ally is atleast prettier…

    Not that that would be a deciding factor for me, but some people care about that…

    hayz00z,

    I bought it because I was able to go to Best Buy and trade in my Mac Book for a gift card and walk out with one.

    brezel, do games w Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0

    beautiful. fuck secureboot.

    9tr6gyp3,

    Why?

    Kyrgizion,

    Needlessly intrusive. Can obviously be circumvented by cheaters anyway, so quite possibly superfluous. Apart from that it protects against the kinds of attacks that typically require physical access to the computer. If you have physical access you have full access anyway. Etc.

    9tr6gyp3,

    If you have physical access you have full access anyway. Etc.

    You know secure boot was specifically made to protect users for this exact use case. Any tampering of the system will prevent the system from booting.

    Eggymatrix,

    I get your pc, “tamper” it, then i install a fake bios that tells you all is well and that your tpm and secureboot and whatever else bullcrap they invent is still happy.

    See the problem?

    Corngood,

    It won’t boot though, because the keys to decrypt the system are stored in the TPM.

    Sure you could replace the whole OS, but that’s going to be very obvious and won’t allow you access to the data.

    atticus88th,

    Isnt it possible to have a recovery key? Isnt that technically a backdoor? Maybe the terms are not correct but there is a way in physically.

    jjjalljs,

    If you have physical access you could go into the bios and turn off secure boot

    PHLAK,
    @PHLAK@lemmy.world avatar

    If you enable Secure Boot you should also set a BIOS password for this very reason.

    jjjalljs,

    I think you can reset a bios password by taking the CMOS battery out or something?

    AlphaOmega,

    Not sure if this works these days, but on older systems there was a reset bios config jumper and pulling the cmos battery.

    Saleh,

    So, if you set a bios password either way, which benefit does secureboot give?

    Miaou,

    Can’t access the bios with secure boot on (at least I could not on an old laptop I was refurbishing, thank god the owner could login into windows)

    jjjalljs,

    That’s unusual, I think. Every computer I’ve had that had it on, I was able to turn it off when I went to install Linux.

    Limonene,

    A person with physical access can tamper with the OS, then tamper with the signing keys. Most secure boot systems allow you to install keys.

    Secure boot can’t detect a USB keylogger. Nothing can.

    9tr6gyp3,

    The signature checks will immediately fail if ANY tampering has occurred.

    Adding a USB keylogger that has not been signed will cause a signature verification failure during boot.

    Limonene,

    A USB keylogger is not detectable by the computer, not in firmware nor operating system. It passively sniffs the traffic between the USB keyboard and the computer, to be dumped out later.

    9tr6gyp3,

    If your keys are stored in the TPM for use during the secure boot phase, there will be nothing for it to log.

    Tanoh,

    If you have physical access you have full access anyway

    No, encrypt your drives.

    SoupBrick,

    It fucks with Linux. I literally just disabled it to resolve a driver install issue before this announcement was made.

    9tr6gyp3,

    Linux can run with secure boot just fine though. Use your distros documentation to set it up.

    troed,
    @troed@fedia.io avatar

    Secureboot doesn't "fuck with Linux". It does protect you from malware trying to install unsigned kernel modules.

    Apparently that driver is unsigned, which is not the normal case nowadays.

    SoupBrick,

    Good to know, thanks

    I was trying to install an Nvidia driver on Linux Mint, so I think I am safe.

    SkavarSharraddas,

    Is that a realistic attack scenario that end users need to be concerned about?

    troed,
    @troed@fedia.io avatar

    Yes. That's how you get undetectable rootkits.

    Oisteink,

    This happens to roughly 1/3rd of all pc’s. But if you put secureboot ON and the FBI cant touch your pc

    frongt,

    This type of attack has been seen in the wild for quite some time. Ultimately it’s a security vs convenience decision.

    brezel,
    • some people run more than 1 OS
    • some people actually program and need to load unsigned shit all the time
    • some people have legacy hardware that doesn't run with secureboot
    • it is my decision and my decision alone how i boot my operating systems. not EA's.
    9tr6gyp3,

    Im fairly certain any legacy hardware that doesn’t have secure boot as an option is going to struggle loading BF6 regardless.

    The first two points are not related to secure boot at all.

    brezel,

    you think loading my own kernel modules is not related to secure boot? i guess you don't work in IT then.

    9tr6gyp3,

    It doesn’t matter which kernel modules are used, as long as you have signed those changes before rebooting.

    Miaou,

    Most people who work IT don’t even know what a kernel is, tbf

    tpyo,

    I recently had an rfid scanner immediately rma-d back that had just been returned to us. The new issue was caused by a setting and not by a defect. I asked our IT/help desk if it WAS a setting that could be changed

    “I don’t know. I get the thing, I check these settings, I check those settings, that’s all I know”

    😑😑😑

    So me and another person are out of our equipment for another couple weeks while the scanner is sent back for “repairs” and the repair people will go “😑 tap tap tap idiots”

    (Edit: I know it’s a setting because I talked with the other person who uses it and I explained the issue and he let me know it is something he changes)

    pathief,
    @pathief@lemmy.world avatar

    You can’t install most linux distributions with secure boot enabled.

    troed,
    @troed@fedia.io avatar

    Really? Which would those be? So far I haven't come upon one.

    null,
    @null@lemmy.nullspace.lol avatar

    most Linux distributions

    troed,
    @troed@fedia.io avatar

    Yeah that simply isn't true. I use Secure Boot on all my Linux installs - both in the deb and rpm ecosystem system.

    null,
    @null@lemmy.nullspace.lol avatar

    Sorry, I read it backwards – we agree, most Linux distributions do support Secure Boot

    muusemuuse,
    @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works avatar

    This is outdated information. Linux has supported secure boot for quite a while now.

    _cryptagion,
    @_cryptagion@quokk.au avatar

    And Microsoft is shutting out most third parties in the near future because of Crowdstrike, so Linux likely won't be supporting Secure Boot in the future, even if someone did want to enable it for some odd reason.

    cole,
    @cole@lemdro.id avatar

    Microsoft can’t stop you from signing images with your own keys.

    That’s what I do, and it’s almost entirely automated on Linux these days.

    muusemuuse,
    @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Microsoft’s kicking third parties out of the kernel because of crowdstrike. Secure boot is a completely different thing Microsoft can’t kick people out of.

    Resonosity,

    Do you have any advice for someone that dual boots SteamOS and Windows 10 on a Steam Deck?

    I’ve heard online that since SteamOS manually signs keys or something, that if any changes happen to the kernel that later need to be updated by SteamOS, I’d need to re-sign the keys or whatever. Idk I’m not well versed in any of this

    I’ve heard it’s as easy as downloading the M$ keys to enable Secure Boot, but I also don’t want to brick my Deck.

    muusemuuse,
    @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Windows 10 support is ending soon so there’s no reason to have it on your steam deck. Steam will stop supporting it sooner after Microsoft does, just like steam does with Apples operating system.

    Resonosity,

    Windows 10 commercial is ending, not the LTSC versions. Those are good for another 2-7 years iirc

    muusemuuse,
    @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works avatar

    No, they are killing it unless you pay and extra $30 a month and use a Microsoft account and kill local accounts.

    Resonosity,

    Source?

    muusemuuse,
    @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works avatar
    Resonosity,

    That’s for commercial releases of Windows 10 dumbass. There are two other enterprise releases that will have free security updates for 2-7 more years.

    muusemuuse,
    @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Which is again proving my point. Steam is selling games to people with enterprise licenses.

    Resonosity,

    You never made that point. Stop moving the goal posts.

    Do we have any evidence that Steam will not supported anything Windows 10 related, given that commercial licenses are ending and many people are shifting to enterprise licenses?

    And it’s not like Steam hasn’t already been doing this. People have used enterprise licenses for legit and nefarious purposes for years. I doubt they’d change anything in October. They aren’t owned by M$

    muusemuuse,
    @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works avatar
    1. You can run more than one OS with secure boot enabled. It’s just a pain in the ass.
    2. you can run unsigned code on a secure boot enabled system.
    3. its 2025, what the fuck do you have that can’t secure boot by now?
    4. THIS is your winning argument.
    Truscape,

    (1) Yeah, well the secure boot keys needed for Linux distributions expire in September (tomshardware.com/…/microsoft-signing-key-required…), so that seems like a sustainable solution, sure buddy. (3) What’s your income? What region of the world do you live in and what hardware is available to you? I’m still using an am4 platform PC as my daily driver because I can’t burn money. One of my buddies has an AM3 PC. Many people use modified surplus office PCs (especially in developing nations like South America or SEA), which don’t have secure boot as an option. Check your privilege, and maybe donate some of your spare hardware to those who need it, if you want to make this “a non issue” for everyone. (4) Yeah. I own my hardware, I configure my software. I gut Windows like a fish and keep it on a leash for these games, and use Linux for my work and for the games that respect the ecosystem.

    muusemuuse,
    @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works avatar
    1. New keys have already been released and you can always just create and enroll your own damn keys. This is sensationalist nonsense.
    2. “Check my privilege” over secure boot? Calm down, Karen.
    3. I think gaming on PC is going to get interesting in the coming decade as Microsoft kicks third parties out of the kernel (thanks crowdstrike!) and more and more people just stop putting up with windows. Enterprise in the US is hooked but everyone else? Na, they are gonna drop it.

    Edit: these are listed as 1,3,and 4 in my post in voyager but lemmy shows 123. Interesting.

    Truscape,

    On the list thing, it seems that adding numbers with periods in a list seems to auto configure it to ascending numbers. That’s why I used (1) (3) (4). Weird, but I guess that’s the work around.

    Enrolling your keys doesn’t work btw, because battlefield checks which keys you enroll, only accepting the default MS keys. Also on the hardware front, it is a big problem for gamers on a sub-300 USD budget these days - the best deals are on legacy hardware or surplus office equipment, mainly AM3-AM4 era.

    filcuk,

    The number list is how markdown works. You can enter all 1’s and it will automatically create ordered list.
    Handy when you may need to edit list items, as you dont need to renumber even in plain text.
    Markdown spec should allow for explicit number by using a bracket ‘)’ instead of a dot, but it may not work everywhere.
    Let’s give it a go

    
    <span style="color:#323232;">3) start from 3  
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">1. Then  
    </span><span style="color:#323232;">1. Continue  
    </span>
    
    1. start from 3

    2. Then

    3. Continue

    filcuk,

    Hmm not quite what that should look like

    Alaik,

    I don’t think he needs a winning argument. I think EA needs to justify this kernel level AC, not the other way around.

    muusemuuse,
    @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works avatar

    I’m agreeing with point 4.

    Kazumara,

    You can run more than one OS with secure boot enabled. It’s just a pain in the ass.

    Weird, for me it was just flicking the switch in UEFI and now Grub and trough it Windows 10 and Fedora 43 boot in Secure Boot.

    capt_wolf, (edited ) do games w ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY!

    They’ve been a shit company for over a decade at least.

    I got a laptop for my wife back when we were in college. It developed a problem with the monitor where the screen would look all corrupt after using it for a little bit. My wife, while reciting the prayer of percussive maintenance, would whack it and the problem would go away for a while. So I figured the connection had come loose. No biggie, just reseat it or replace it. The warranty had expired, so I cracked it open to see what was wrong. I reseated the cables in it and it worked… for a bit. Then the problem came back. Eventually we got fed up and bought another one, same model, figuring it was a fluke… It developed the same issue. Come to find out, Asus cheaped out in the ribbon cable for the monitor and installed ones that were too short for the laptop. Looking online, there were a bunch of people complaining about the same thing.

    Around the same time as I had gotten her the new laptop, I’d also bought an Asus ZenPad for her to read on. We’ll, that suddenly developed a screen issue too! Almost exactly the same as the laptops! My wife, ever eager to apply kinetic reinforcement, found that twisting the tablet a little bit also fixed the issue. I went online and, sure enough, Asus used cheap cables again! They would last just long enough for the warranty to expire before they’d detach.

    I swore to myself I’ll never buy another Asus product as long as I live. If I ever have kids, I’ll disown them if they do too… Fuck these scammers.

    NocturnalMorning,

    I highly doubt they used those cables maliciously knowing they’d go out right when the warranty expired. It was probably a cost thing, and they later realized (too late to fix it) during production sometime that the cables were a warranty issue.

    Engineers don’t do thing maliciously with their designs. They pick things based on cost, and probably even raised the cable length as a risk/concern during the design and testing phase, and were overruled by the bean counters.

    It’s happened to me before.

    mosiacmango,

    Even in your defense, you point out that someone at the company made the explict choice to sell devices with defective cabling. At no point did he blame the engineers who designed it for that choice.

    That’s a shit company that doesnt deserve anyone’s support, regardless if it was “engineers” or “bean counters” that opted to continue to sell what they knew was a defective product.

    The fact that it happened over and over with multiple devices means it’s a culture issue with the company, not a one off mistake.

    NocturnalMorning,

    I’m just suggesting a probable scenario. I would be really surprised if this was malicious.

    mosiacmango,

    Intentionally selling a defective product without informing you customers beforehand is malicious, no matter the justification.

    NocturnalMorning,

    I’m fine not having this conversation anymore. I just gave a perspective from an engineer. No need to continue shitting on me. I’m not even defending the practice.

    mosiacmango,

    I haven’t shit on you at all. Re- read my comments and point out one negative thing I’e said about you or engineers.

    Ive only talked about buisness ethics, and the pervasive negatives that come from misleading customers. If you feel that’s a dig on you, some self reflection might be warranted.

    RGB3x3, do games w Batman: Arkham Shadow - Official Teaser Trailer

    “Releasing exclusively for Meta Quest 3”

    Great, they told us upfront why I don’t need to care about it.

    fsxylo,

    I was wondering why it has a stupid name.

    “Arkham shadow” surprised it isn’t “Arkham quest heroes”.

    Ep1cFac3pa1m,
    @Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world avatar

    Ah, thanks for saving me the trouble of watching it.

    Astroturfed, (edited ) do games w Starfield, is it getting review bombed?

    People like to claim any big ticket game that doesn’t get like 8/10 or higher is being review bombed. Seems as if people have legit criticisms of the game and it’s pretty fairly reviewed.

    daellat, (edited )

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  • ObiWanGurobi,

    Metacritic’s user rating system is just shit. You see the game rated higher than deserved and you can either

    • give it an honest rating resulting in the total score dropping by 0.01
    • give it a zero rating and have the score drop by 0.1

    Of course most people chose to rate it in a way that has more impact on the total score, so it’s no wonder we see 0/10 and 10/10 more than anything else.

    This phenomenon will be even more exaggerated if critics ratings are undeservedly high, as is the case with Starfield.

    daellat,

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  • ObiWanGurobi,

    The reason it’s lower on metacritic is mainly due to the fact that the critics rating is too high, imo. This leads to disappointed players leaving extra bad scores (i.e. 0/10) to offset the total score. In a way that’s review bombing, but only as a reaction to the inflated critics’ reviews (which I often suspect to be bought or bribed).

    Usually the Steam reviews are a lot more reliable. As I said, metacritic’s system is shit and encourages rating manipulation.

    daellat,

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  • ObiWanGurobi,

    Because my initial comment was about metacritic and my argument is that metacritic is a bad indicator of review bombing because it actually encourages it

    daellat,

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  • ObiWanGurobi,

    Check the usernames, that wasn’t me

    daellat,

    So my question repeats: why mention it as if I’m defending it when I merely correctly stated its a review bomb. Like why are you trying to make that a discussion when it’s not…

    ObiWanGurobi,

    I’m not even making it a discussion. You mentioned metacritic in your (now edited) comment and I explained why metacritic’s system actively encourages review bombing. So it’s no wonder you’ll see a decent amount of review bombing there.

    daellat,

    I did not mention it at all not even in my original comment, also yes its ME that said it was a review bomb lol. it’s like talking to a wall. cya.

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