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by ewzimm 13y ago
The only long-term way to hide data is not to use public networks for communication. Eventually, quantum computers should be able to eat though any of today's crypto. It will be interesting to see what happens when everyone running for
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by ewzimm 13y ago
What I got out of this is that their plans are even worse that I thought. Family sharing was limited to 15-45 minute demos, and only for those your family members choose to share? There's no reason not to enable that for every game. Th
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by ewzimm 13y ago
I'm no fanboy; I'm just telling you what I see. I'm not the one in charge fixing all this stuff at my office, but our Windows printer setups end up being redone every few weeks when things inevitably stop working. System rest
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by ewzimm 13y ago
Sounds like politics. I'm sure we're not hearing the whole discussion. There's nothing stopping a Steam-like DRM option to link a game key to your account or a Steam-like offline mode once you've authenticated once. Thes
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by ewzimm 13y ago
Printing on Windows is so bad that people are employed just to fix it. Office crashes a lot and has compatibility issues with certain formats, and I often just direct people to LibreOffice, which in every case has fixed the problem and run
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by ewzimm 13y ago
I am one of those people who needed both Yellow Dog and PSN with games and Netflix. This was far before Wine was hacked to support Netflix. I used my PS3 as my primary desktop for a long time, and liked the ability to reboot for games. I ev
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by ewzimm 13y ago
Some games even more recent than that don't run well on modern versions of Windows. Wine functions better than Windows in these cases, just like ports of old games are often done with DOSBox. It's very easy to emulate the hardware
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by ewzimm 13y ago
There's no way any of this will reasonably apply if we stick to this seven year cycle. By 2020, this will all be so obsolete, nobody will care about backward compatibility. Do you care that your PS4 is backward compatible with an abacu