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Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil”

"Anti-piracy technologies is to the benefit of the game publishers, [but also] is of benefit to the players in that it protects the [publisher's] investment and it means the publishers can then invest in the next game"

The only entity benefiting in this scenario is Denuvo, while the client clutches their pearls to protect a misguided concept of the elusive lost sale. Denuvo rakes in cash in the name of copy protection, but the truth is most acts of piracy are driven by a lack of means to obtain the product or a desire to demo the product.

Sure it's their right to protect it but I don't think there's any accurate way to actually measure the impact of games with and without such aggressive copy protection.

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Don't delete your Reddit account

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You deleted your account yes, but they are rolling back comment deletions which is what this post is about. If you delete your account, you'll no longer be able to get eyes on what Reddit has restored of yours and they can quietly restore your content without your knowledge.

It's a game of cat and mouse currently in regards to protecting what you've previously submitted to reddit.

edit: it may be things you delete/edit don't affect subs in private mode, so take the above as you will. I've noticed that my "restored" comments tend to be from subs that were likely in private mode when I ran PDS the first time.

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Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes

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Whole-heartedly agree on the quote and it stuck out to me even before coming to the comments here. Redhat might not like that people are repacking "their" software, but the spirit of GPL software is that you can charge for it but folks can also go through the trouble of building it themselves should they not want to go that route and are able to support/debug/maintain the software themselves on their own hardware.

If they don't think the clauses of GPL are fair, then they should probably stop distributing Linux entirely because their entire business model is founded off of profiting off the work of other open source contributions.

Simply rebuilding code, without adding value or changing it in any way, represents a real threat to open source companies everywhere.

One could argue Redhat already does this on packages they have not improved or submitted contributions for.

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Man Who Was Arrested for Opening a Store Selling Heroin and Cocaine Has Died From an Overdose

The article seems to indicate he died of fentanyl but was more of a cocaine user that had maybe relapsed. It sounds like he suffered the exact fate he was trying to prevent others from, which is just depressing.

I do wonder what his business strategy was to ensure the drugs he was supplying was safe, but perhaps it was too costly or not convenient enough to abide in a moment of desperation.

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Vancouver landlord 'pleads for common sense' after being hit with a $69,000 empty homes tax bill

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Her adult sons are also two of her tenants. She only needed to provide proof of residency for a single tenant. I feel like that should have been a slam dunk in terms of acquiring what she needed to prove something is occupied.

She gave up

While I can commiserate with getting overwhelmed, she needed to get help before giving up. As someone who has had lots of brushes with the CRA and the IRS and being strongarmed for more money during tax time, giving up is a surefire way to end up paying the highest end of whatever fine whatever agency is trying to pin you with. Maybe she wasn't fully aware what would happen if she ignored this, but I don't think that's really any excuse either.

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Some trouble

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Install Lutris.

Use the battle net install helper for Lutris.

Launch battle net.

Profit.

It's like one extra step (install Lutris) compared to Windows. Using Linux doesn't have to be some archaic mystery and the proliferation of the steam deck is doing wonders at improving the ease of use of all this stuff.

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Steam Deck

I personally used Lutris:

Grab the battle.net installer from the lutris website, optionally extend it with the D4 installer (it just creates a second shortcut using the same battle.net install you just did).

Once bnet is installed, you can add Lutris games as shortcuts in steam (you may need to do it from desktop mode without steam running) by right clicking on games and clicking add to steam.

From there you just need to install D4 in the bnet client and away you go.