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I don't see how "copyright infringement" applies if the cheat uses no shared code...other than calling it a "Destiny 2 Cheat".....like how stores have "Super Bowl" sales but are forced to call them "Big Game" sales.

The IGN article doesn't mention that there was a claim of violating the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions (17 U.S.C. § 1201(a) and (b)) which deals with Circumvention of copyright protection systems....unless the cheat includes a crack, it doesn't circumvent copyright protection.    Bungie claims that the cheats inject code into Destiny 2’s copyrighted code, creating an unlicensed derivative work.  Isn't that what game mods do?

I was wondering why my fans were so loud for the past couple of days.  I've been folding without realizing it.  So.....I've added some points to the team...even while playing Cyberpunk and having Clicker Heroes and Cookie Clicker running windowed.

Why is there a $99 yearly fee for Font Awesome when Font Awesome is open source?  I guess it's too late now with the additions that have been made, but using open source forum software would have saved a lot of money....probably would have eliminated everything in your "Yearly cost" list except maybe the marketplace.

There aren't many sites left that don't charge sales tax.

Pishop doesn't charge sales tax, so that's where I buy my Pi's.  It's in Delaware.  Delaware has no sales tax so I guess that's why they don't collect any.

And if anyone does any 3D Printing

Printed Solid - 3D Printers, Service, Training and Supplies

WWW.PRINTEDSOLID.COM

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Printed Solid, another Delaware company doesn't charge sales tax.

I also run an unsupported distro.  The CentOS packages work for me on Fedora.  For AMD, the best distro's to use are an Arch derivative, Fedora or even Gentoo if your willing to put in the work.  Each has regular Kernel and Mesa updates, which are crucial to get the most from an AMD GPU.

5 hours ago, Bones said:

You're probrably right about that but in my experience it seems that way.
Never had a problem with Nvidia cards but most distros woudn't work correctly with an AMD/ATI card.
When I tried Peppermint it just worked as you'd want it to, no luck with any others I tried. 

All distros will work with AMD display drivers since they're already built into the OS.  It's only OpenCL that's the problem.  AMD drivers that provide OpenCL are only officially supported on these distro's:

• CentOS 8.4
• CentOS 7.9
• RHEL 8.5
• RHEL 7.9
• SLES 15 SP3
• Ubuntu 20.04.4
• Ubuntu 18.04.5 [5.4 HWE kernel]

They still work on other distros after jumping through some hoops if your distro of choice hasn't made a package for them.

Nvidia's Cuda package is distro agnostic, it installs on any distro.

The problem with Nvidia, since the driver is out of the kernel tree, you can't update the kernel without recompiling Nvidia's kernel module.  Distro's do this for you, but it does create problems for people.   Nvidia has recently open sourced it's kernel module so that might be changing.

Also Nvidia isn't fully compatible with Wayland, which is a new display server that will eventually replace X server.

Actually you're not "forced" to buy bundles.  It all stops when people stop buying them.

Linux distro's are not "Nvidia-Centric".  AMD display drivers are built into the Linux Kernel, and are installed by default,  Nvidia's are not.   The problem is AMD's half-assed implementation of OpenCL on Linux. 

Here are instructions posted on the  rocm github to get OpenCL for folding@home.  I haven't tried this, since I use Fedora.

This will get ROCm OpenCL up on Ubuntu 22.04:

Add repo key:

wget -O '/tmp/rocm.gpg.key' 'https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key' && sudo mv '/tmp/rocm.gpg.key' '/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/rocm.asc' && sync

Add repo:

echo 'deb https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/latest/ ubuntu main' | sudo tee '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list' > '/dev/null' && cat '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list'

Install:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install rocm-opencl

Permissions (if $LOGNAME doesn't work for some reason, change it to your username; reference):

sudo usermod --append --groups 'render,video' $LOGNAME

And after a reboot, the OpenCL app I wanted to use works fine!

I don't see this happening.  Social media's success comes from narcissism. Also the goal of any business is to produce a product that people like so they can sell as much as they can.

3 hours ago, UltraMega said:

Maybe they should merge and someday we can have Tom Clancy's Battlefield for maximum monetization.

He's been dead for almost 10 years and Ubisoft is still slapping his name on everything.  Most gamers probably don't know who he was...they recognize the name only from it being in the title of so many games.

On 20/05/2022 at 00:44, bonami2 said:

Maybe the game: Detroit: Become Human is coming to life sooner than expected! 

Or this...

You take the best pictures.

Why would anyone buy one?  It's going to need a facebook account to use it.

On 02/05/2022 at 20:33, PCSarge said:

modem wise, the only thing that used to annoy every one of us, guranteed was when mom picked up the phone in the kitchen to kick you offline so youd come downstairs for dinner.

 

kids today will never know the pain of taking 4 hours to download 10 3 minute MP3 files.....

The "call waiting" feature would kick me off.  This is before the internet....I would be on a BBS that I probably redialed over and over again in what felt like an eternity until I didn't get a busy signal...Then I see 094321q5ujloikjsddfa;lhasdp98p790834hjl56kaslkjdfhasd980fjhol34.  I hear a click and then the phone would ring.

The mp3's...that's nothing.  At 2400 baud it would take 30 mins to download a 300k file.

On 29/04/2022 at 01:36, tictoc said:

Random aside, running PowerShell on Linux always feels like some whacky voodoo.

At least on Linux it's using the proper forward slash instead of the uncomfortable backslash.

Does it really matter?  The people that buy Dell's don't upgrade anyway, they're bought by people like my boss that asks me if he should delete old documents so they don't "fill up the memory".

That's crazy.  I've never broken blades off of a fan.  

Don't worry about fan curves, servers are supposed to sound like jet engines.

I had one of those in my first ever watercooled build.

Went to Microcenter today, walked out with these.

5900x - $369.99  $179 below MSRP

6900xt $1,049.99 $50 over MSRP

It's weird that I paid over $1000 for a GPU that's $50 over MSRP and I feel like I got a good deal.  But it's a hell of a deal for the CPU.

Your most energy efficient option would be the best.  Half the appliances that Netgate (Maintainers of pfsense) sells only use an Intel Atom processor.

I'm using an i3-6100T with 16gb of ram.  I don't think my CPU usage has ever gone over 10%.

On 07/04/2022 at 04:08, pioneerisloud said:

Bruh.....

 

Picture related, case is over 20 years old:

 

Or how about this one, that's over 25 years old?

 

Please, keep your weird gender "identities" to yourself.  K, thx.  This isn't the place for that kind of conversation.

I just filled out an EA Playtest survey, there were 6 options for gender.

I was hoping to buy some more Nixie tubes, but the place where I buy them is in Ukraine.  The store web site is still up

But I doubt big brown UPS trucks are swerving around destroyed tanks like it's a slalom course while still making pickups and deliveries.

You have to house break Mr. Waddles so he can stay in the house.

7 hours ago, Darkpriest667 said:

 

 

 

 

Yeah, and AMD's is still better.

 

That's radeon-profile, it's 3rd party, not AMD. CoreCtrl, another 3rd party, is more like the Windows app.   AMD is too lazy to make one for Linux, which is strange since their control panel on Windows is written in qt  Also they can't figure out how to get full OpenCL support working on all their GPU's for all distro's.  ROCm is only supported on a select few GPU's and it doesn't work with all OpenCL applications.

If we are counting 3rd party apps, there is GreenWithEnvy for Nvidia on Linux.