The whole “systemd wars” has made me fall out of love with Linux. I used to run it everywhere. My phone, my computers, my router.
I used to be so, so very passionate. Now, not so much. I still have a few raspberry pis. But, overall, I’m done.
It’s not so much that I can’t be bothered to fight systemd anymore (I was one of those weirdos running void, and trying to keep thing going). It’s that I can’t be bothered to fight for Linux anymore.
When you EOL the game and release the server, just strip the licensed content. Remove the logos. Nobody gives a flying toss anyway.
People want the community and the GAME. They don’t care whether the actual logo is there.
Heck, if the game connects to a community server, have it hide all licensed content. you’ve satisfied your contractual obligations. Whether people mod the game or not to re-add things has no bearing on you.
No, even if the licensing agreement between the developer and the car maker ends, then according to first sale doctrine, the game buyers keep the licensed content. Removing it from user systems would be undue (but admittedly has happened such as with the in-game music in GTA).
The reason for that is that the game is continuing to be distributed and the nature of digital distribution is ephemeral so contents like music are removed from the distribution when the license expires. If you own the game on physical media or remove the connection to the digital distribution service (never patch it) then as a consumer you’re fine as you note with the first sale doctrine. It’s just legally the developer can no longer offer the content as part of future distributions. The same would be true for another physical media release.
That is not how it works. When car licenses expire then you can still download the racing games in your library from Steam etc., even after new sales are discontinued. You are already the owner of the licensed content and you get access to it anytime.
Steam even says that in the event of that they go out of business, measures are in place to ensure gamers' continued access to their games.
I don't think anyone is asking for developers to continue to distribute their games after they EOL them. They're just asking for a way to keep games that have already been distributed running.
With all due respect, and I’m particularly anti-LLM, you sound exactly like someone who has never tried the tech.
You can use LLMs without letting them run wild on the entire codebase. You have git, so you can see every minute change it makes. You can limit what files it’s allowed to change and how much context you give it.
You don’t have to give it root on your machine to make it useful. You don’t have to “Jesus, Take the Wheel”. It is possible to try it out at a smaller scale, even on critical code.
Just store the TOTPs you actually care about on a Yubikey. Leave a few “worthless” TOTP in whatever TOTP app you use. Remove the Yubico Authenticator app before crossing the border.
I have a significant amount of experience as a tech lead, team lead, VPoE, and CTO. I can easily integrate in teams, I can build teams, I can mentor juniors. I work well in both enterprise and startup environments, and anything in between.
15+ years of experience in pharma, security, database, telephony industries.
Zach Freedman, the creator of the original Gridfinity, is also an amazing writer and wordsmith. His videos are full of amazing tongue twisters, alliterations and incredible puns.
A Parquet file compactor. I have a client whose data lakes are partitioned by date, and obviously they end up with thousands of files all containing single/dozens/thousands of rows.
I’d estimate 30-40% of their S3 bill could be eliminated just by properly compacting and sorting the data. I took it as an opportunity to learn DuckDB, and decided to build a tool that does this. I’ll release it tomorrow or Tuesday as FOSS.
I used to be so, so very passionate. Now, not so much. I still have a few raspberry pis. But, overall, I’m done.
It’s not so much that I can’t be bothered to fight systemd anymore (I was one of those weirdos running void, and trying to keep thing going). It’s that I can’t be bothered to fight for Linux anymore.
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