Have we confirmed they’re not Nazis?

If you’re offline only, they can’t afaik. In the case of online I’m lead to believe each individual cart is signed with a unique certificate so they can tell if that cart has been used in more than one console. If there’s two instances of the same thing online at the same time it must be pirated.

In terms of reversal - I’ll work from the premise we agree that it’s unacceptable a customer loses access to a device they purchased and own because the company doesn’t like it. But let’s say it happens, how much hassle is it going to be to undo it? The console is bricked so it’s presumably not running/able to go online? Do I need access to a PC to fix it? Do I need to send it off to Nintendo? Go to a game store?

Fwiw I like tinkering with consoles and devices - not necessarily because of piracy, I just like running weird software on them or making them do things they weren’t meant to. It’s not a common use case, but it’s valid enough. Why should Nintendo control that.

Which is fine until the piracy detection system has a false positive and you lose your Switch. Or you buy a second hand copy of a game the original owner made a copy of and continues to use and your switch gets bricked. I understand you’re in the EU, but this kind of nonsense would definitely put me off a system that’s already inordinately expensive.

Well it’s fucked now, I thought we all agreed not to say it and see if it made any difference

Like “I need to get home to see my dying child” and they think “oh yes, what a perfect opportunity to demonstrate our ability to extract as much money as possible”

I wonder about these fuckers, like what is wrong with them. I totally understand theorising about this crap, it wouldn’t be the first time I’d been down a line of thought purely thinking about “how could I maximise this” or “how could I solve this problem” but at some point I take a step back and “wait no, this is a horrendous idea” occurs to me. And then there’s this twat who thinks “oh yeah, we should extract as much money from paying customers as possible and then we’ll do it in other industries” and says it like they think everyone is going to think it’s a good idea.

Risc v is an instruction set architecture not a chip design, the actual hardware implementation of any given risc v processor won’t necessarily be open source and available to all, it’s just a guarantee that if the spec is implemented then code compiled for risc v will run on a RISC V processor.

China has had access to x86 for years, they’ve not been able to implement a chip on par with current gen AMD or Intel chips.

In what way does it pose a big security flaw? And what are you basing the thought that the USA are slowing down development?

It would, we’d also have more projects like freecad that are objectively great all things considered, but that gets absolutely slaughtered because they’re not up to the standard of a professional program even though they’ve been in development for 15 years. Also why do you expect people to work for free?

If we’re giving them all claymores and letting them have at it it seems okay to me.

Upstart was perfect!

Genuinely curious, is it just as a side effect of appearing to come from an EU server that means you trigger automated privacy systems? Or is there a legal basis by which you can say “I routed this through an EU server therefore I’m subject to EU privacy law” (maybe there isn’t even a difference)

I’ve no real preference so long as my PC starts stuff. The reason I avoid flatpaks is because I have at some point acquired the habit of anything I install that’s not an appimage I pretty much launch from the terminal and I remember trying flatpaks and them having names like package.package.nameofapp-somethingelse and I can’t keep that in my head.

UK petition has less than 5k to go!

Typically a brick can control who can enter the building. Security man the doors for a few days until the new system is in.

I’m sure there’s a good reason (or at least a believable reason) but I’m curious now, why can’t copies be made of the binary/data and start trying to get it running on a VM or another box?

Why does he have rights to use sudo in the first place?

Thanks! Definitely want an umbilical. I’ve been slowly talking myself into a 2.4 over the last couple of years and it never ceases to amaze me how much the meta moves. For ACM - like aluminium honeycomb? Eddy probe looks pretty exciting too.

I doubt it’s a recent thought, knowing civil engineers, they’re absolute perverts when it comes to concrete.

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