Well yes, it’s not shocking given what the show is about. I wrote “awful” because their death was not necessary and more a result of an accident (guy hitting his head). But yeah, “awful” might be a bit strong of a word.

You could just as easily in the spirit of this community do it with the same name and code, same way they do it for cracked games.

You could, and unless you’re trying to profit off it the original devs likely won’t care.

And also [bank on] pirates to not outright rip them off, which seems to be working for some reason…

They already publish it under GPLv3, they want it to be free (as in freedom) software.

I don’t care about any security concerns. If someone does not want to build it themselves or download from a third party they can buy it for their convenience. Or they can take the risk or find another way to install it.

For example I looked up whether Strawberry is on Winget, the Microsoft package manager for Windows. And look at that, it’s completely free to download by the original developer [1]. @[email protected]

They only ask users who are too lazy and want to download through the Microsoft store for payment. I get why you don’t like there being no binaries on their site by them, but they do provide free ways to install it. They just don’t tell you about it.

[1] https://winget.run/pkg/StrawberryMusicPlayer/Strawberry

Edit: For anyone who does not want to click the link: winget install -e --id StrawberryMusicPlayer.Strawberry installs Strawberry on any Windows computer. Officially.

They create the world, but the player is the one controlling the action.

Yes, the streamer adds to the experience (i.e. how he plays, commentary, …), but a narrator put their own spin on a story. Intonation, the timing of pauses, etc. all requires skill and changes the end result.

Good point about fan fictions. I think fan fics are more like mods in the way that they expand on the world/media without distributing the original media itself.

But yeah I also think it’s dumb that playing a video game could be considered copyright infringement. The same goes for small clips from movies, which are the exact opposite of detrimental to the popularity of a movie.

GPLv3 is a copy left license. If you legally acquire the source code (it’s public already, so anyone does), GPLv3 does not put any restrictions on you when it comes to building, selling, distributing, modifying the code.

I pointed out the name because trademark law is seperate.

And yes, GPLv3 has some requirements like attribution (mention the original developer somewhere), and you have to point out where to get the source code (already public in this case). Also, if you make any changes to the source code you must provide those changes to anyone you distribute too under the same license.

These restrictions apply to eg. UNIT3D too. Some (most) torrent trackers seem to violate the requirement to provide their changes to their users and want to keep them private. But I never asked them whether they’d provide me their source.

Otherwise GPLv3 does not pose much restrictions on it’s users, especially not on distribution.

Really scummy on their part.

Anyone is free to build it themselves. Someone could even distribute their own build from the same source under a different name completely legally.

They bank on users being lazy and then pay for the convenience.

Well he already did do awful things like murdering those security personnel in S01E01 to not get caught. But yeah I also think we’ll see how much they sacrifice for the rebellion.

So what’s the crime here? Publishing something Ninty didn’t want to get out yet?

Theoretically any streamer could get sued for copyright infringement by the copyright holders. This is because they own the gameplay, irrespective of whether someone plays it themselves or watches someone else play it. That’s why Nintendo sues for copyright infringement. Usually game companies understand streamers correctly as free advertisement (sometimes even paid) and don’t sue.

Edit: I can imagine they look at broadcasting playing their game in a similar way to someone reading a book out loud publicly. Which is also copyright infringement.

I agree with you on most of your points. And just wanted to clarify this.

If they’ve already installed Arch I don’t think there’s much difference to EndeavourOS. Both use the official Arch repos, and the latter mainly makes installation simpler.

I really hate how circumventing protection measures on their own device is considered illegal. It’s my device, I should be allowed to do what I want.

Even the term “protection measures” annoys me, as it tries to protect their interests on my device.

Also, linking to an emulator should not be considered “trafficking circumvention devices”. Making circumvention devices illegal is bad enough.

But the streamer is an idiot too as he was publicly streaming cracked games pre release. Streaming any game can be considered copyright infringement, although it’s usually not enforced (it’s free advertisement).

NixOS in LXC works great, although I switched to bare metal NixOS a few months ago. I didn’t see the need for proxmox as it hindered my ability of declaring the whole system.

Creating NixOS LXC’s is a bit of a pita. Some links that helped me two years ago:

• https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Proxmox_Virtual_Environment#LXC
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230818134729/https://blog.xirion.net/posts/nixos-proxmox-lxc/

Regular btrfs scrubs is a good idea to detect data loss/drive failure early. I have a monthly sytemd timer run it automatically.

Btrfs balance can also free up space but I don’t run it regularly.

There’s “Die Biene Maja 1975” as a 10bit x265 BluRay encode from the well respected p2p group ABJ on the usenet indexer SceneNZBs and the german anime torrent tracker AnimeWorld.

ABJ makes large releases (74 GB per season), but they are basically indistinguishable from a BluRay remux.

Buying your way into TL via seedbox promo is a solid way to get started. This won’t help for other sites but TL is miles better than all other public sites still available.

I fail to see the problem with not being able to seed to 1:1. Most sites provide points for seeding over time which can either be used to increase upload or buy free leech tokens (which allow you to download anyway). It should be more than enough to download what you want once you have a large enough seeding size.

The BitTorrent protocol prioritizes fast seeds to achieve the best possible transfer speed. It’s goal is not for everyone to be seeding to the same ratio.

Also the best way to help the network is to keep content available. For this purpose the speed of it’s seeds is not as important.

Jellyfin isn’t available for Samsung TVs or Hisense TVs. Yes, this can be solved by any Android TV box but they likely don’t want to.

I’ve given someone a FireTV stick and they still used the built in OS until I gave it to someone else. (And then they wonder why I can’t do anything about ads for them, but that’s besides the point.)

“given the same source code, build environment and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-by-bit identical copies of all specified artifacts”

NixOS does not guarantee bit-by-bit identical results. NixOS hashes the inputs and provides a reproducible build environment but this does not necessarily mean the artifacts are identical.

E.g. if a build somehow includes a timestamp, each build will have a different checksum.

Hate the players not the game. Players being the rights holders.

• Usenet is particularly useful for media like movies and tv. I wouldn’t trust executables (games, other software).

• The ISP does not care what you do, except for selling your data to advertisers etc.
  If an ISP receives complaints from copyright owners about illegal things you do, they are required to tell you that you must stop doing those illegal things (or even pass on your personal information, depending on your jurisdiction. Looking at you, Germany).

• Given your only downloading from Usenet, not uploading like with torrents, you can’t get sued for distributing copyrighted materials.
  Thus the theoretical possible fine amounts to pretty much the price you’d pay to legally buy a BluRay. This price is so low it does not make financial sense for copyright owners to sue individuals who simply download.

• Usenet is legal, just like VPNs are legal and using the Internet is legal. Given your using transport encryption, only your Usenet provider and you know what you download. Just like a VPN provider and your ISP, they don’t care what you do, unless they get complaints from a copyright owner (which they won’t, because there’s no way for copyright owners to know what you do on Usenet).

• Yes, Omicron providers and others aren’t the most trustworthy when it comes to privacy. Legally it shouldn’t be a risk, but if you really care just pay with cryptocurrencies, use a private eMail provider and always use a VPN from a different company.

Steam on macOS is 64bit only. Valve had to, else they couldn’t run on recent macOS.

Yes, and Desktop Linux won’t ever be as big as Windows, so long as almost all pc’s sold ship with Windows or macOS.

But I feel like the excuses get less and less. Besides mixed DPI, HDR and VR I don’t think there’s much missing. Obviously there’ll always be apps that only run on Windows or Linux, but that’s fine.

But you’re right. In a few years there’ll be a new feature not (yet) supported on Linux. Let’s see how long it takes for FSR3 to work on Linux.