Ho-lee shit.

I remember when they were like $90 and I got mine discounted at $45.

You know, just like Trump clearly doesn’t respect our laws, if we ever regain power, we should just simply treat things like this the way he wipes his ass with the constitution. Just fucking ignore it and scream at and berate anyone who complains.

I don’t know, I haven’t been following because I don’t trust that style of denuvo cracking just yet personally. Anyway, that’s why I was asking.

True, but that’s not what causes them to run slow and shitty.

Ah yes because the bloat from Windows 11 won’t make these struggle to do even basic tasks. So much background shit going on from the get-go that you still have to wait seconds for a single click to register or open the start menu.

Say what you want about Apple, there’s a good deal to say, but at least their OS isn’t a corporate bloatware/spyware/adware/malware infested mess that runs badly for the sake of the bloatware.

Is this an actual hack or is this another hypervisor workaround like has been going around?

Yes men, LLMs, they’re the same picture

This movie was so fucking good.

I cannot stress how important it is that Matt and Jay play at the Rivoli.

What a terrible day to have eyes and be able to read.

…I’d buy it though.

It really says a lot about where Hollywood is when the only way to pack theaters is to not even reboot but just run old fucking movies.

RIP Professor Utonium, one of the best dads in cartoon history.

Windows 10 is the cow they keep milking. They have a whole program aimed at enterprise (corporate) customers customers to keep paying for exclusive Windows 10 security updates for years. They won’t make as money from the consumer-level Windows 10 so they only offered a year of security updates for consumers, and even a lot of consumers still had to pay for it, while others got it free if they agreed to Microsofts terms of using fucking Microsoft account and OneDrive to get it.

I suspect with Windows 11 continuing to go bad that we’ll see them offer paid security updates for consumers again next years to stop the bleeding out to Linux and Mac

I’m sure this is a helpful video someone… although I literally cannot imagine who. Maybe someone who is being required to use Windows-only corporate software and doesn’t have a good enough computer to run a VM?

Honestly when this kind of activity is becoming mainstream it means more people are aware of how fucked it is, which is arguably a good thing that people are waking up to the disaster of modern surveillance capitalism.

And yet old people claim autistic people didn’t exist when they were growing up.

I would suspect the market slowdown in VR purchases might be pushing some publishers to spend less money on it than when the Oculus Rift and Valve Index were fresh and new. Meta’s relative dominance of the arena and it’s tightly closed systems are also impacted by people who don’t want to give money to Meta. If the Steam Frame is successful, we might see a turnaround on that, but currently I think the VR market has been stagnating a little under Meta’s dominance. Zuckerberg abandoning the Metaverse entirely also is evidence of a market that exists but isn’t large enough for most publishers to justify the extra costs to include VR support when they won’t sell enough copies to offset those costs.

lmao God I can feel the frustration rising in me just thinking about it. I know these are digital rather than physical objects… but do these people fail to have object permanence?

Definitely, but sadly it’s his lawyers job to argue things like this to protect their client. It also means a jury has to buy it, which they probably won’t if this is actually allowed to be used as evidence.

I would hope publicly crippling them would be enough, but I’d rather they get actual justice.

Wow, usually people lose their shit and complain that Element is too complex and that me and the devs are being assholes asking them to use it… You know kind of like all the people here on the Fediverse who think we need to make it bigger and bring in everyone from everywhere and that the devs and users who defend them are awful for not focusing on user interface first and making it less confusing to choose a server…

Anyway, thanks for being on team reasonable, because I’m with you on this 100%, but I can’t change how little people want to learn anything sadly so I make compromises with people who cant or wont learn how to do things. It sucks, people really don’t seem to understand that security and convenience are a balance, and every time people argue for shit to be easier they’re actually arguing for everything to be less secure. You sacrifice security for convenience, every time, and the opposite happens because you can sacrifice convenience for increased security measures. Security has to be complex by nature to be effective, and the core of Matrix is being a secure, encrypted protocol, which they have already actually put a ton of work into making easier for fucking normies. Yet, it’s never enough for people. Always screams of “It’s too complex! I hate thinking!”