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Not really, it still doesn't answer the question as the main thing is still unclear.

Is the first chicken egg the one the chicken hatched from or the first egg a chicken laid.

Both can be argued as correct.

Proton upheld their claim of privacy, no Emails were disclosed. But they never promised anonymity cause that's something they simply can't do under the Swiss law. If you willingly give them your other mail addresses or contact details, they have to comply. Sure they could have denied the Spanish authorities, but it takes less than a week to get a court order for things like this.

It's the implementation that will probably annoy me the most. If the ingame radio station in GTA tried to sell me coke or Pepsi I probably wouldn't even notice since it fits in with the world. But knowing EA they will probably put them in as additional loading screen that you can't skip.

I agree with the first part (not that it should mean they can just extract more money out of us), but the second part is something I simply don't believe.

Don't get me wrong, I know budgets have increased, but the dev cost definitely didn't by remotely the same amount. Devs wages are pretty stagnant since the initial silicon Valley boom and new tools at our disposal have made it a lot easier to create games, be it for indi devs or the corporate giants. Sure, graphics got fancier, but so did the readily aviable stock assets. High end work stations cost maybe a bit more, but they are a drop in the bucket in the 100+ million budgets of today.

What has increased on the other hand is the amount of executives/managers and their wages. In addition to that marketing has gone up a lot, probably over half of most budgets go there. The growing corporate overhead with its archaic structures also eats up a lot.

If we go purely by dev cost, prices should go down since the overall profit would increase with the greater amount of players. Everything else is corporate overlords throwing shitloads of money at a mediocre game to make it seem worth something.

I'd be somewhat ok with Kernel anticheat if they would work, but the simple truth is that they do nothing of value. COD has Kernel anticheat with Riccochet and is flooded with cheaters. Valorant has only slightly less cause riot updates Vanguard more often.

But guess what, it usually takes 1-2 days for new cheats to reach the relevant forums, maybe a few days more until they are more widely aviable. At most cheaters have to spend another 5€ every 6 months, but that's it. They don't care, the amount of money spent on accounts every other month is already way higher.

The only two things anticheat like vanguard protects you from is script kiddies that google "valorant cheat .exe" and Linux only players. And the former could just as well be filtered out without Kernel level.

Whoever developed the Gollum game?

It was Daedalic Entertainment and their older and more indi titles are fine. Since they closed down their dev team after gollum, I don't think you need to avoid them.

You can't, end of discussion.

The most that the city or the police can do is issuing them a small fine for the noise complaints. The only one with even an ounce of power here is their landlord, but then it depends heavily on your country/state.

Lemmy is a nice place if you share the same values, but once your opinion differs even somewhat, you won't have that good of a time.

This is not a ban and it was never meant to be. They just force tiktok to sell the US market to a US company. Said US company will continue the platform just like it is at the moment, just with a bit more of that sweet American propaganda mixed into it. Tiktok won't be gone, all that data will just go to the NSA instead of the CCP, that's all they wanted.

Ich schmeiß alles in den Trockner und nur Tshirts/Hemden sind danach etwas knittrig. Die häng ich direkt danach ne halbe Stunde übers Treppengeländer und alles ist gut. Man muss die Sachen aber wirklich sofort raus tun, sobald die mal 10 Minuten im Trockner liegen hat sichs erledigt.

Live service and always online are two entirely different things, and the former isn't inherently malicious, unlike the latter.

I'd, for example, consider all Paradox grand strategy games as live service with major updates dropping once or twice a year (followed by like twenty bugfix patches cause they fuck up every time, but that's besides the point). Sure, every major update comes with a new dlc that isn't exactly cheap, but you also get a lot of free content with each release. All their major titles are entirely different games now than they were at the 1.0 release.

What ubisoft does is just a tacked on battle pass that gets a few worthless items/skins so they can call it live service and have a justification for their always online verification model. That's purely an anti piracy measure that fucks legitimate players more than pirates.

No, it's not. You paying them money won't stop them from collecting data about you. It only stops them from selling it to show targeted ads.

Don't get me wrong, I despise meta for it and think they should be prosecuted for that immediately, but that has nothing to do with the article or what the EU is saying.

Mixing these two things just cause you hate meta will get us nowhere. Their data collection of non-users is straight up illegal, but the pay with money or data model is something that especially news sites have been using for a long time now.

Because Bethesda doesn't provide the legacy versions on steam, unlike other mod focused games, afaik. Once you've updated your game, you are stuck with whatever version you have.

Sure, you can always download the right version from somewhere else, but I wouldn't count piracy + the risks coming with it as a viable excuse for their fuckup.

That's just your bubble. Most VPN users just want to circumvent geo restrictions.

Besides that, the general VPN "propaganda" is that it encrypts your traffic and no-one can see it. The average user gets baited by that and doesn't care to look further into it.

Würde ich so nicht sagen. Meine Muttersprache und einzige Sprache die ich nutze ist Deutsch, trotzdem wechselt mein innerer Monolog zwischen Deutsch und Englisch hin und her. Englisch gesprochen hab ich eigentlich nur in der Schule, im englischen Ausland war ich noch nie.

You got Hyper-V approved on a work desktop? Man I wish I had that much luck.

If there is any benefit to it depends on how discord sells your data.

The baseline assumption is that they just collect and sell everything as is, considering how shitty their privacy policy is and the general track record of corps following gdpr guidelins. With that barely anything changes.

If we belive the claims in their policies, then things get a lot better. Only aggregated and anonymized information is shared for marketing. Apart from that only their direct partners get more personalised information. Sadly, Google will probably get a lot of it since they are one of Discords cloud service providers but it should still be less then them collecting it themselves.

Now if we also assume they are following all GDPR laws, than even Google should only get very restricted information about you needed for their services.

What they really do with your data is anyones guess. I assume its somewhere between 1 and 2, but there is no proof I know of. The only benefit I really see is that it's a lot easier to just block the one Discord API instead of 500 individual brokers.

"Hardmode" is just a fancy name for blocking all 3rd party scripts, which there aren't even any to block here in the first place. What does happen is that two of the three Discord domains get flagged and blocked:

One is Discord.gg which is the Websocket to get and sent events, so it's needed for functionality.

The other is Discordapp.net which is pretty much their media server.

If you block all 3rd party scripts, frames and connections, then yes, your number of blocked items will shoot up into the hundreds. But if you knew what you are doing and just took a look at what was actually blocked, you would realise that it all was just requests for media and profile pictures. Even with fully enabled hardmode, there wasn't a single request from a 3rd party advertiser or data broker, not even Google.

Your arrogance for using hardmode is completely unfounded if you don't even know what it really is blocking. All you are doing is looking at a number go up and are patting yourself on the back for it.

I'm not really sure what you did, but it certainly wasn't just opening discord.

I just tried it and there isn't a single third party script in the browser version according to Ublock and noscript, there are only three scripts activ in total, all from different Discord subdomains. Maybe a few more if there are media links in the chat.

If you look through the blocked connection requests they are also all made from the same source, namely the Discord science API, their internal data collector.

The Discord homepage has a Google integration and a few embedded YouTube videos, but it's hard to find a website that doesn't have some form of Google scripts.

Heck I don't even want to defend Discord here, but ia call bullshit on your story.

Another term for a non electric bike. Like electric guitar and acoustic guitar. No idea why you would call it that, but it's only used in a smal circle of enthusiasts.