Four of the top five and five of the top ten games on Are We Anti-Cheat Yet's list are marked "Denied", which it defines as "Games where the developers have explicitly stated that they will not enable the anti-cheat solution to work on Linux or have denied the possibility of Linux support".
A proof-of-work puzzle would disadvantage phone and tablet users. One targeted specifically toward GPUs would disadvantage users of older off-lease ThinkPad laptops with an Intel IGP.
I can think of a few things leading to Voight-Kampff-style polygraph tests being phased out in this timeline
1. Several U.S. states have banned reliance on polygraph test results by employers. "Polygraph" on Wikipedia lists Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Delaware and Iowa. In addition, the federal Employee Polygraph Protection Act 1998 generally bans polygraphing by employers outside the rent-a-cop industry.
2. Autism advocacy organizations raised a stink about false positive results on autistic or otherwise neurodivergent human beings.
3. The LLM training set probably picked up answers from someone's cheat sheet, such as "The turtle was dragging its hind leg, and I was waiting for it to stop squirming so I could see if it needed to go to the vet."
If the developer has ever published the application on Google Play Store, this means the developer is verified, and the unmodified APKs still work on devices that haven't gone through this 24-hour process.
you have your itinerary saved in a note taking app that isn't on the appstore
If an app meets F-Droid's licensing policy then it is more likely to follow the principle that protocols are better than platforms. This means there are probably other apps, probably including apps on Google Play Store, that can reach the document repository where you saved your itinerary.
insane market (started by Apple) of personal devices that you buy that you literally don't have admin access on
That was 1985 with the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Atari 7800 ProSystem, the first popular home computing devices to use cryptography to lock out unauthorized software. Between that and the iPhone was the TiVo DVR, the first popular home computing device to use cryptography to lock out unauthorized derivatives of copylefted software.
It'd still be nice if some MacBook had an SODIMM or CAMM slot to act as a RAM disk for a swap file, so that swap doesn't have to sit on the SSD's SLC intake buffer and wear it out.
In 2005, Mac computers used Intel Core Duo x86 processors. From 2006 through 2020, Mac computers used Intel x86-64 processors. starting with Core 2 Duo. macOS on x86-64 could still run x86 applications until macOS 10.15 "Catalina Wine Killer", released in June 2019.
What CPU architecture were you using on the desktop from 2008 through 2020, if not x86 or x86-64?
Having only 8 GB of RAM means you can't have a bunch of big Electron-based clients for chat platforms, such as Slack and Discord, running at once. You have to pick one and make yourself uncontactable through others.
A MacBook Neo can run Xcode, as Sam Henri Gold reminds us in "This Is Not the Computer for You". What can a Chromebook run that's remotely similar?
The author of an article about ditching Discord claims that XMPP has "lots of very mediocre clients out there." What would be high-quality XMPP clients for Windows, GNU/Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android?
Why the focus on games?
The FAQ does not address why scope was limited to video games within the broader market for downloadable software. If I had to guess: Limiting the petition's scope to video games takes advantage of existing consumer protection laws and norms that address the power imbalance between large corporate merchants and individuals. Because home users have far less power to negotiate terms of sale than businesses have, some countries' legal systems apply more restrictions on the sale of products and services for home use.
you're breaking the clause in the Sale of Goods act about the buyer enjoying quiet possession of the goods
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought buying a license to download and use a proprietary computer program was a service, not a good. This differs from buying a physical copy of the same program, such as a CD or DVD. What does the "Sale of Goods Act" have to say about services?
But if you install Linux, it will cut disk usage in half and RAM use by perhaps 25%.
True, for workloads that don't involve a lot of web browsing. For web browsing, I've seen a single article on Ars Technica open 40 or more Firefox content processes: one for each origin that is running its scripts in the document.
How is one supposed to build and test a program for macOS on Apple silicon and a program for Windows or Linux on x86-64 without owning a Mac with Apple silicon and a Windows or Linux PC?
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