cinnamon is moving to wayland, finally. you can actually try their experimental build right now from the login screen.
they're supposedly moving away from the GNOME stack (mutter) for this which is interesting, as it opens up mint to become even more independent in the future
Physical access is the one thing you can't shield a device from permanently. Eventually you have to relinquish some security to let users play on their consoles, or allow your service teams the ability to debug and repair it.
Those will always be the way in for anyone with the will and means to reverse engineer your system.
Modern systems being built on open hardware (compared to their predecessors) is a big thing too. ARM and x86 are easier to debug and emulate than Cell, for example.
Nintendo knows this, but it was an easy $2.3 million and now Yuzu development is essentially halted for the time being, meaning slower progress with switch updates, releases, and new hardware (eg switch 2).
Any victory for the FOSS/emulation community is a pyrrhic one.
basic news is: Yuzu and citra agreed to shut down with immediate effect incl. discords.
At least with an open platform youd have a chance to backup discussions or rehost. You'd probably still be dead in the water but it would beat the info being wiped.
Yeah, it's really not the same case for sure. I'm gonna see what happens to Ryujinx because that's the real test of whether Nintendo will let Switch emulation survive or not.
Yup, the work of Yuzu isnt lost at all. It's just going to take time to see how that work will be advanced -- will Ryujinx absorb the developers and their knowledge or will Yuzu continue?
Hopefully, it wasn't the success of Yuzu but the fact it was being developed by an established company which was accepting over $30,000/mo in donations for "internal" builds.
It's a lot easier to pressure a company that you know has a bunch of income, is firmly established in a country that recognises US copyright law, and makes a lot of money particularly on a legally contested technology.
They've gone after Dolphin before, but that's still up and going. If Ryujinx or some other Yuzu rewrite (a soft fork would be v easy to take down imo) goes down then I'll be proven wrong here
True, but pretty sure you still need to license the Nintendo SDK to make a game that Nintendo will accept officially, so they'll still get money off you.
You can use unofficial/open source SDKs for homebrew, though
cinnamon is moving to wayland, finally. you can actually try their experimental build right now from the login screen.
they're supposedly moving away from the GNOME stack (mutter) for this which is interesting, as it opens up mint to become even more independent in the future