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Trump is an investor, not a president.

Glad i left Facebook 10 years ago or so.

Most people don't care. Even if you tell them what it is about.

How many of them are indie developers and how many do AAA? (Edit: The article says "Something to remember here is that the majority of devs are indie developers rather than larger AAA studios.") I think one of the biggest contributors to this is that supporting Steam Deck is much easier thanks to Proton, especially if they already have a Windows version. And the extra exposure they get through the Steam store and various articles and forums by having a Steam Deck version.

RetroArch

I am a huge emulation fan and on my Steam Deck I often tend to play games I do not on my big PC. Off course RetroArch itself is not a game and it supports many systems and games, therefore its a bit unfair to list it here. But I played Game Boy Color, SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis games, such as Wario Land 3 and Crusader of Centy (or Soleil). I play RetroArch on my PC too, so even then the most played "game" on Deck is RetroArch. This shows how much I like emulation.

South Park Stick of Truth

I had this game in my back catalog for many years and always wanted to play it. Well I did a few hours and never finished it. The game is alright and its presentation is really good matching the quality of the TV show. But I don't know, at some point I got a little bit bored by its gameplay and was stuck and could not progress.

The End.

Edit after the end: I want to say that this year I started to play more other games on my Deck again. In example I started Stardew Valley to see what is all about. This is the kind of game I play on my bed instead on my big pc desk. Its not 2024, but just wanted to mention that my focus changed this year. Please ask me this question in a year again. :D

This only means programmers of Linux itself can use Rust to program the Kernel. In example if Rust programmers are good at it, they can use the language over something they are not good at it like C in example. You as the end user does not see any direct difference. Like with any other application if its written in Rust or in C, it does not matter much if you use the binary executable.

Type in the terminal firefox --help to see all options. You can open the manager with firefox --ProfileManager. I used to create a profile this way and then either with -P or -p was using that profile.

The game title is a little bit unfortunate.

The older the Kernel gets, the more Rust it will get.

@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone Me too. At least I used to have a separate profile for PDF viewing, which had its own plugins installed. It can be done by using commandline options to select what profile to use, like in --profile or -P (i forgot which of them I used actually). Just created a script for it (Bash script in Linux) and associated PDF files with it as if it was a separate program.

What they mean in the article is probably its not possible with the GUI only of Firefox. They totally ignored the commandline options.

It makes no sense to cite a little part of the US DMCA law if the discussion was based on Japanese laws. If you look at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 , its much more complicated than one sentence. As for the DMCA, this is the next paragraph after the cited above one:

(B) The prohibition contained in subparagraph (A) shall not apply to persons who are users of a copyrighted work which is in a particular class of works, if such persons are, or are likely to be in the succeeding 3-year period, adversely affected by virtue of such prohibition in their ability to make noninfringing uses of that particular class of works under this title, as determined under subparagraph (C).

I admit not really to understand, as the language is hard to read for me. It would even be hard in my native language. Does the Japanese law have such clauses and exceptions?

I assume its this one: https://flathub.org/apps/org.virt_manager.virt-manager but its unverified and not directly from the actual developers.

The standard session requires root, and for some reason this means that VMs couls harm your system more or something

VMs don't have access to the host, so even if the virtual machine emulator Qemu and libvirt require root access, the encapsulated guest virtual machine have no access to the host. They can't harm your system.

But this is still to be discussed, because if the emulator does not circumvent any copy protection and the games are dumped with the protection in place, and the copy protection is reverse engineered, then the games would play with the copy protection decrypting. It does not circumvent the protection, it actively "uses" it. So from that standpoint making backup copies is not illegal in theory. Now would this hold in court? I don't know. Nintendo does not know either and rather like to take things out of court. Because if Nintendo looses such a case, it would be devastating.

I'm in Germany too and the right to a private copy is exactly what I had in mind too. Not all copy protection measures were accepted for the right to not copy. What I mean is, there was some extremely simple protection mechanisms that were not accepted as a working and effective copy protections, and you were allowed to do a copy; even with the so called copy protection in place. Therefore it effectiveness was kind of important to the discussion too. I guess the Switch has a much more advanced one, so its probably not an exception.

It makes sense from argumentation standpoint, because Nintendo argues that there are protection mechanisms in the Switch that is illegal to ignore, in emulators. I don't know if this is true and you don't know either, because this was not tested in court. Nintendo never ever said that ALL emulation is illegal, which i stated in my initial reply. Otherwise Nintendo would go and take down ALL emulators. Not every kind of emulation is the same.

In example the Dolphin emulator ships with keys extracted from the console. Some say its illegal to distribute these keys, others argue keys are not copyrighted and its not illegal to share, but it was never tested in court either. If Nintendo had a case, they would definitely go against that emulator, as the keys are in the source code in the open public. Nintendo never said that Dolphin or Wii and Gamecube emulation is illegal. Or any other prior console and emulator of Nintendo systems. Nintendo console emulators exist in the public since the 90s.

Its much more nuanced than people are making or understanding. And lot of articles, like the one stated before, are plain and simple wrong and cite without context. And people who don't understand the situation take this and believe it.

Those articles are wrong. Nintendo says Switch emulation is illegal, not all emulation is illegal.

Tik Tok doesn't become better just because another one creates the same.

Nintendo never said that all emulation is illegal. Nintendo just does not like that their current gen is being emulated and lot of games are easily available on pirate sites for everyone. Otherwise Nintendo would have tried to shutdown emulators for previous systems too. They were especially worried about the Switch 2 being emulated easily with current emulators, as it doesn't seen too different. I think that's all to it.

However, there are still a number of ways that emulators can violate the law. For example, the Nintendo Switch has certain “technical restriction measures” that prevent it from playing pirated games. If a Switch emulator seeks to bypass those measures, it opens itself up to legal trouble.

Which law exactly? There are exceptions for making personal backup copies. So its not really court tested law and we don't know if it violates the law. As the article said, these cases never went to court and we don't have a decision by law. Nintendo did all of that out of court.

Seems to run for some. Here is a Steam Community for Assetto Corsa EVO search term "Linux": https://steamcommunity.com/app/3058630/discussions/search/?q=linux And for future reference I link to ProtonDB too, but right now there is no report there: https://www.protondb.com/app/3058630