If Epic spent half as much money as they are suing organisations and instead funded developing their shop into a gaming community platform like Steam, they’d probably have caught up by now.

Most corporate owned devices are managed with some kind of tool (for restricting what users can do, pushing out software and updates, etc). These tools are called Mobile Device Management (MDM).

The developer is detecting the presence of MDM tools and using that to present a splash page to the user about the licensing requirements etc.

Some educational institutes use MDM to manage students, even so far as to require it be installed on personal owned devices. The developer has been working with edu users to except them.

And don’t drink spirits. Keep your drinks to lower alcohol percentages (e.g. beer) so you can control your intake and moderate how quickly you get drunk and how drunk you get.

And if you start to notice you’re struggling with basic motor skills (using your hands, walking, standing, etc) it’s time to stop and switch to water. And maybe eat some carbohydrates and fats.

Half-Life was the same. The game doesn’t spoon feed you a narrative, the same way real life doesn’t have a narrator (at least one outside of your head).

You need to pay attention to your surroundings, listen in to NPCs talking, read posters on the wall, etc to piece together the story.

It was and is one of the cooler ways to do storytelling in my opinion. Cutscenes etc are fine but for a first person game, I love the immersion of the story happening around you rather then being loredumped on you while your agency is taken away from you.

Bad for Meta. They wasted a lot of time, money, manpower etc.

Edit: I’m just answering the person’s question. I hate Meta - I don’t have Facebook and I don’t have a Quest.

Pretty sure it’s My Name Is All En.

Dr En En En.

Newell talked openly about this entire topic at LinuxCon years ago. It’s been 12 years and they’ve been true to their word.

The amount they’ve contributed upstream is insane, and the money they’ve provided to Linux-ecosystem contractors is also insane.

They’re profit motivated, 100%, but at least they’ve done so while being a good citizen in the FOSS movement (bar the Steam Client itself). SUSE, Canonical etc are all for-profit orgs that help push FOSS forward.

Profitability and Free and Open Source Software aren’t mutually exclusive.

Mozilla are still using Phabricator?! That stopped being maintained in 2021…

Apple’s entire history as an org has been as a fast follower, not a first mover.

The Apple Newton is a great example of why they avoid being a first mover.

I’m always confused why the energy isn’t just put on pressuring Firefox publicly rather than just sitting in comments being negative and suggesting forks that critically depend on Firefox and can no way continue development without upstream.

I woodn’t know

Like wooden knife with a wooden wood

Edit:

We’ve got four different sized honey spoons in our house!

Next they’re going to say they don’t own any wooden butter knives…

Steamdb lets you filter out games with less than x reviews which I’ve made liberal use of over the years.

I’d just take a look at the Steam Deck Verified pages as that’ll give you a good idea about a game (at least though Proton).

It comes from here: Thinking, Fast and Slow

If you have studied or work with numbers, components shift from system 2 to 1 depending on your experience.

I, too, just had to glance at 550 to know it was 250+ since 500/2=250 and that fact is just baked in there somewhere without me needed to think about division. And since it’s the same thing again with the 50, it doesn’t take more than a fraction of a second to do 250+25…

But my system 1 never thought 225.

Apple already has the Game Porting Toolkit which is made by CodeWeavers - D3DMetal can run a lot of Windows games like Proton’s DXVK/VKD3D. MoltenVK is a little behind to fully empower VKD3D on macOS; it’s not as smooth sailing as Proton.

The biggest issue is that Apple are still hoping developers spend the time to work on converting shaders to Metal, implement Game Center, UI and Accessibility features etc so the game feels like a native app.

Which is dumb. As was Metal (they should have just made Metal as a Vulkan abstraction layer).

Valve took the smart route and while they love developers using the Steam SDK, at least with the Steam Overlay they can still offer a native-like feeling experience.

Here’s hoping Steam Machine etc is incredibly disruptive as if it’s a decent workstation too, there’s a dwindling number of reasons to not use Linux (Adobe / Affinity / Office / AutoCAD / MinecraftBE / Fortnite).

CVEs don’t get issued “resolved” statuses… They are either reserved, published, or rejected (technically NVD have a few extra for published). That’s just junk data in that tool you’re using. Use authoritative sources like cve.org or nvd.nist.gov.

You can see the CPEs on NVD and they’re old versions of Plex (and were old when the vulns were published).

You’re aware those CVEs are only relevant for ancient versions of Plex and were fixed long ago?