• @lordnikon
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    854 days ago

    This is huge the fact the had to apologize shows the the we are getting to that point where Linux gaming can’t be ignored anymore.

    • @Caboose12000
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      I disagree and I think you’re undermining how cool it is of the marvel rival Devs specifically for caring about linux players. lots of other games are ignoring linux just fine (I miss gta Online so damn much), ultimately we are still at (last time I checked) like 4% max of the gaming share

  • FubarberryOPM
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    644 days ago

    Just saw the Ars Technica article on this, and it included this lovely section:

    As detailed in the r/macgaming subreddit and at r/SteamDeck, many players who successfully got Marvel Rivals working would receive a “Penalty Issued” notice, with a violation “detected” and bans issued until 2124. Should such a ban stand, players risked entirely missing the much- prophesied Year of the Linux Desktop or Mainstream Mac Gaming, almost certain to happen at some point in that span.

    • SavvyWolf
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      464 days ago

      I can’t believe they can ban people from the Year of the Linux Desktop.

      • massive_bereavement
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        As the glow of civilization fades to the last ember, a single player still stands, still plays, and he uses a linux distribution which name has been forgotten to time.

        It is the year of the linux desktop.

    • @[email protected]
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      Should such a (100 year) ban stand, players risked entirely missing the much- prophesied Year of the Linux Desktop or Mainstream Mac Gaming, almost certain to happen at some point in that span.

      Lol. Harsh, but fair.

    • Echo Dot
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      74 days ago

      Like Fusion the year of Linux is always next year. It will be next year forever.

  • metaStatic
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    404 days ago

    I still don’t know what type of game Rivals is

    NetEase

    Turns out I also don’t care

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m not the person you replied to.

        Netease is a Chinese company and some people don’t like that. They have also been known to make scummy, cash grab, micro transaction riddled games and are disliked for this.

        • @Maalus
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          It’s not that they are “a Chineese” company, it is that they have issues that are repeated in every game they have and it turns into a privacy / morality nightmare.

          I.e. chat is censored, so cannot type “free Taiwan”. Also the game is catered to casual players. This led them to add bots to PvP matches - where every 2 losses you get put into an unskippable bot match, where you stomp the other team. This is to make you keep playing and not get discouraged. But once you know about it, it’s just a 15 min pity waste of time you could spend actually playing the game.

        • Echo Dot
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          It’s not that they’re a Chinese company in and of itself it’s simply that every Chinese company that has ever been involved in technology, see Eufy, always turns out to be a scam / privacy invasion nightmare.

          • TJA!
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            Isn’t eufy part of Anker? The battery and cable company?

          • @SauceFlexr
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            Damn it. What happened with Eufy? I like my doorbell.

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              You know all those IP cameras that no one ever encrypts, and you can easily find with a Google search, akso sometimes you can even control them. Well, that’s what your doorbell is.

              Given the fact that some people put cameras up in their bedrooms this is a major problem and almost certainly has led to blackmail, but we won’t find out about that obviously because you don’t admit that you’ve been blackmailed otherwise it defeats the purpose of paying them off.

            • @[email protected]
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              74 days ago

              Some found out that the camera feed isn’t e2e encrypted (eufy claimed they were) so you could see other people cameras

              • @SauceFlexr
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                Tbh, I thought that was resolved. From what I can tell, it was. While a vulnerability like that is damning, it seems that they patched their web portal where the bug was and it was the end of it.

                • @[email protected]
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                  23 days ago

                  AFTER it went viral, not when they got notified that there was a problem. Fuckups are to be expected, we’re all human… it’s how they’re handled that matters.

                • Echo Dot
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                  That was their claim yeah, but think about it, If it was end-to-end encrypted they shouldn’t even have the unencrypted video to expose on the web. Where did they get that from? The whole thing should sit encrypted on their servers until you decide to watch it, they shouldn’t have any access to it.

      • metaStatic
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        134 days ago

        they are everything that is wrong with mobile games turned up to 11

  • THCDenton
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    254 days ago

    Cool now let us type free hong kong in chat