Sir Arthur V Quackington @ ocassionallyaduck @lemmy.world

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The same applies for Epic as well regarding piracy. Again it's just a matter of diversifying.

If I had to rebuy 100% of my games, Id never adopt Epic at all. Atleast this way the library has something of value as an alternative without costing me a fortune.

I'm thinking even farther back to their wretched Windows Live and then Games for Windows Live platform (now dead). MS is one of the biggest companies on earth and couldn't find a cohesive way to migrate that game ownership forward.

I just like to own the things I own. And I'm more worried about someone hijacking my account because they want some bullshit inventory item or something than getting banned for something toxic. Account theft is sadly still pretty common.

Absolutely. But if someone got you in one of those steam inventory scams or stole your access token, it sucks if you lose your entire game library and have all your eggs in one basket.

So having a bunch "backed up" so to speak with Epic gives some peace of mind. VAC bans aren't common for most users, but they do make mistakes sometimes.

This is the point though. They have beefed up my Epic Games library to the point where if I got banned from Steam, I would have a viable fallback.

That cannot be understated. It has a network effect and makes adopting it as a new platform versus a legacy one with two decades behind it, far easier to adjust to.

I love that at least someone is really trying other than MS with their poorly supported windows games store attempts.

Too, bad. He won the election he bought, and so now he's (no joke) being proposed as speaker of the house (3rd in line to presidency) which is an unelected position.

Then if/when Trump dies and JD Vance gets killed/abdictates, you have Elon President.

Dunno then my friend. It's not been an issue for me on either OS. But I believe you of course. Good luck figuring it out

You might want to check if Windows is the culprit.

Or your "time clock earth sounds" app from the not so well policed appstore takes silent background screenshots, grayscales them and sends them to their host for OCR.

I agree this permission is annoying. But I differ in I feel it should be system controlled and can be invoked by apps that identify specific fields to be blocked, instead ofnjusy disabling it outright.

If this is the case for you (I have both in my house), I recommend putting your RokuTV behind a Pi Hole DNS. It will block the TV ad requests at a DNS level while letting content and video go through.

TBH, on ancient insecure systems that might work.

Not very exciting though

ITT: Ill will towards corporate America.

Like I want someone to goto some of these CEO retreats and really drive home with them, plainly, how much we wish they all just fucking died. Don't care how, but the average citizen actually would rejoice.

And we have the receipts to prove it.

And you are missing my point.

You don't trade one for the other. You add this in the options menu, in a smaller font.

Then when The Crew, X-Defiant, Lawbreakers, or any of the 30 other games that AAA publishers end server support for this year go down, the people who bought it aren't left unable to play at all. Theres a fallback. And it does not affect matchmaking because it's down the menu out of the way, and not the default matchmaking method. L

Sorry man, but the fundamental backend of IP based matchmaking is a prerequisite to skill based matchmaking. At a high level, the skill rankings make an ELO value or similar ranking and feed that alobg woth player status into the active player pool for the region. The active player pool then feeds the game client the ip sets for the current match.

Literally all these games are peer hosted, and require this. Once the match is setup they literally drop you into a lobby (this part is visible to you) and fill it with IPs (invisible). That is as old as DOOM.

So again, everything costs something as people aren't free, but this is a function must exist to power the skill based matchmaking, and needs only be exposed in the shell.

Also, its not just valve, its literally every PC game ever made before the mid 2000s. Jedi Knight II? Unreal Tournament? Quake 3? Hell emulated PS3 and Switch titles have shown this off as well. All of these are still playable today thanks to not exclusively using skill based matchmaking.

Great wall of text, defeated by the simple idea of adding a fucking optional LAN or Lobby based matchmaking based on IP can be for unranked and takes near 0 effort to add.

You want the main game mode with matchmaking? Official ranked server.

Wanna play 2 vs 30 AK-47 vs knives only? Private lobby.

Also, the latter was how the original devs accidentally invented Left 4 Dead by figuring out that was a ton of fun.

I could use more pink pubes.

Fuck Google chrome.

Nice.

Yea I don't trust any AI models for facts, period. They all just lie. Confidently. The smol model there at least tried and got it right at first... Before confusing the sentence context.

Qwen is a good model too. But if you wanted something to run home automation or do text summaroes, smol is solid enough. I'm using CPU so it's good enough.

Here you go: Review of SmolVLM https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/11/26/hugging-face-releases-smolvlm-a-2b-parameter-vision-language-model-for-on-device-inference/

Model itself: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM

And you can use Ollama to run it locally, and Open WebUI to access it in browser.

Try again. Simplified models take the large ones and pare them down in terms of memory requirements, and can be run off the CPU even. The "smol" model I mentioned is real, and hyperfast.

Llama 3.2 is pretty solid as well.