How many embedded DRM-controlled news article videos are you watching on your living room tv though?

Obviously it’s only a fraction of the overall DRMed content out there but it exists, most notably for live sports that TV stations stream for free on their website but require paid subscriptions when using streaming apps.

Then I won’t watch those, simple as.

Doesn’t change facts for millions of others.

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Random clips on the web are DRMed these days, like news articles with an embedded video. Many CMSes just DRM all clips. Totally BS but I’ve seen the video frame staying black on a bunch of sites now.

Oh, the ones who made the last steam machine

Valve made no Steam Machine before the upcoming one. Are you confused and meant the 3rd party devices that were branded Steam Machines? Those were not by Valve and not by the Half-Life development team in particular.

and controller and supported them for 10 minutes

Steam Controller 1 is still fully supported and got Bluetooth firmware several years after release: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/353370/view/3931035846865617357

My wife is aiming to get a Steam Machine when they become available. This steam deck is taking the place of it until then for me.

There is a decent chance the USB-connected charger/receiver for the Steam Controller 2 could wake a docked Steam Deck LCD, btw.

Which valve? The one that made half life? Lol

No, the SteamOS and hardware teams are actually different groups of people to the game developers.

People who connect TVs to the Internet only invite malware. They usually don’t receive big fixes after a few years and tend to spy on all watched content.

Pretty sure DRMed content refuses to play on those.

it’s for running x86 linux applications on android.

No, it’s not.

Luckily I could disable auto updates in time.

https://www.androidauthority.com/run-desktop-linux-apps-on-android-how-to-3586539/

https://waydro.id/ is the basis for Lepton.

it now requires a subscription.

I think that’s wrong. I only see a one-time payment on https://www.magicearth.com/pricing . 1 year fee of 6 Euro, then 15:

That said, they might shoot themselves in the foot with this. For those who don’t know: The company’s business model is or used to be to sell their services to car infotainment and similar industries. The free version for phones was their way to gather a big user base that contributes traffic and incident data.

Maybe their industry customer base collapsed. I don’t know but with this move there is serious risk they’re chasing away users and therefore the quality of the data decreases.

If meeting sales projections fails, heads roll. Literally.

Generative works cannot be copyrighted

While that is generally true, a derivative work of a copyrighted work is usually copyrighted by the original author (see remixes of music where the remixer only partially owns a copyright for the remix but the original artist does as well). That is what makes generative AI so risky. A court could order “This is a automated modification of work XY, thereby the full copyright lies with the author of work XY.”

Then use a free OFL-licensed font. Or cooperate to commission your own fonts to share among this consortium.

Really a non-issue if you’re not stupid.

Steamworks SDK supports Android now. Obviously, should there be an official full Steam client for Android, the preferred route is for game developers to release native Android games with Steam integration.

No, Fuchsia is a completely new OS, not using the Linux kernel at all.

damn, I was fine turning it down before finding out it had AI at the core.

“AI at its core” is a BS marketing phrase. Obviously there is no AI in the actual operating system core.

Yeah my Bazzite definitely doesn’t auto launch Steam. I think that might be an option during setup?

I installed it in a VM and after installation Steam launched. Didn’t check if that persists after several reboots. Why would I?

Then I tried Aurora and with the exception of a Terminal app in Plasma’s quick launch panel and no gaming launchers installed, it’s pretty much the same thing, so might just as well recommend Aurora instead of Bazzite if the person in question doesn’t care much about gaming. It’s the workstation variant of Universal Blue.