So you think that some farmers protesting the loss of their livelihood is as unacceptable as a sanctioned autocracy that constantly fires missiles towards their neighbours?
It's true. Pragmatically speaking if you don't have access to the server software you can't play it if the servers go down, and besides reverse engineering or the goodwill of the developers I'm not aware of any games with online components that continue to be playable after their servers are taken down.
I just want to say that the term 'rootkit' has been twisted out of shape when referring to anti-cheat. Rootkits are malicious. Software using low level privileges that require the user's consent to a EULA, and which is designed to be uninstallable by the user I would not consider a rootkit, just invasive.
The premier sensors enabling Windows Hello fingerprint authentication are not as secure as manufacturers had hoped. Researchers have discovered security flaws in a number of fingerprint sensors used in several laptops that work with the Windows Hello authentication feature.
Some fighting games let you filter games by connection and even connection type (wifi warriors you should be ashamed), but the primary matchmaking is skill based, and that still seems to work.
Binance were trading derivatives illegally in the US. They knew what they were doing, went ahead with it, helped customers avoid regulations, and willfully ignored things like KYC. They were operating illegally and deceiving their customers. Sounds like a scam to me.
What is the patching process when running with Majisk, without OTA? It looked like quite a PITA to me, but I'm using Graphene for the same reason you are.
I believe microG still use Google's services, at very least it connects to
supl.google.com