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Well I guess that’s what I’m asking. It has to be stored as data in some format. It should be possible to get that data and not be able to do anything useful with it. Unless the storage on the cartridge itself has some additional hardware that needs to be bypassed (which would be the breaking DRM part). Or I guess the cartridge itself has something separate from the software data that isn’t easy to imitate with a cartridge of your own.

I haven’t paid attention to the details of how copy protection works since the PSX, which put some information in a physical area of the disk that couldn’t be read or written to by consumer hardware.

If anyone knows from a more technical perspective - where exactly would the DRM breaking come into play?

I think I understand correctly that to take (for example) a Switch cartridge and pull out the game on it in a way that it could be playable on an emulator involves breaking DRM somehow.

But if that requires cracking or decrypting, shouldn’t it also be possible to pull a copy of the protected software off the cartridge? And have an actual unmodified backup of the software that couldn’t be played in an emulator without modification, but could still be read by the original hardware?

Probably more of a “Do x, y, and z and we agree not to sue you about it”

I tend to avoid games that have that sort of anticheat already, but that looks very useful. Thanks for sharing!

“You only have Obesity I? Get on my level noob I have Obesity III”

Very relatable. Unfortunately we just don’t live in a world where that’s currently possible right now.

I’m planning to switch to some Linux or other at end of support for W10. I’m hoping Proton will take care of most of the games I want to play, and a single-purpose Windows VM will take care of the rest, if that’s not too big of a security risk to the host OS.

Maybe it would help you to read in an “at least” to those stats

Fuck WordPress, but also it kinda sounds like WordPress is more in the right here.

There has been quite some discussion over whether FUTO can/should be called open source.

If I were a conspiracy theorist I’d say they’re deliberately making it shittier to push voice-to-text for that sweet, sweet AI training data.

But I think it’s probably just incompetence. Keyboards from a decade ago were a lot better at learning your typing/swiping patterns, I feel.

DOJ is really going at it lately.

I can’t wait to hear about the outcome of this litigation in 20-25 years.

It’s not the scraping itself, but the purpose of the scraping, that can be problematic. There are good reasons for public sites to allow scraping.

Haven’t looked at their newer stuff so it’s possible they are enshittifying too, but Das Keyboard has been a reliable low-frills brand for me for years (get one with blank keys if you really want to hone your touch typing skills!)

Don’t have any suggestions on mice. I’m using a Razer

You don’t deserve down votes for this. Yes you’re being a touch rude, but they also clearly didn’t read more than the title! The OP was not an unreasonable amount of text. Your irritation is justified

edit: I guess a lot of folks are getting hung up on the wording of the title. It was not that hard to understand that OP meant “without using it as a modifier” or “what a non-power-user would think its function is”. Especially if you actually read the post.

Yeah I use it to open the start menu. I’m on windows 10 so I have my daily used programs pinned to the taskbar, my frequently used programs organized in sections of tiles on the start menu, and for everything else I either type to search for it in the start menu or just Win+R and use the run dialog if it’s a system component.

Likely moving to Linux when Windows 10 ends support. I’ve got enough experience with 11 to know I couldn’t stand using it regularly

Edit: and I didn’t really talk about using it as a hotkey because of your OP, but for the record I use it like that all the time too. Win arrow for window sizing, win shift arrow for moving things between monitors, win R, E, L, D, win semicolon for the emoji keyboard, win number row to quickly launch taskbar pins, win tab for the lulz sometimes, win shift S for snipping tool when I don’t need to use shareX instead for a local copy of the snip, etc.

They really decided to be annoying to the very end. Typical Kaspersky.

Well then, the egg is on my face!! Struck that out. Thanks.

I assume that was a snide remark and not meant to be serious. D’oh!

I’m just a person who has maintained a keto diet in the past and went down this rabbit hole before.

FFS my cholesterol would be sky high.

Cholesterol intake is not directly correlated with blood cholesterol. Eat all the eggs you want. The bigger problem is saturated and trans fat.

Further, in the specific circumstances where eggs are the source of dietary cholesterol, an improvement in dyslipidemias is observed due to the formation of less atherogenic lipoproteins and changes in HDL associated with a more efficient reverse cholesterol transport. However, if the cholesterol sources are consumed with saturated and trans fats, as happens in the Western diet pattern, increases in plasma cholesterol may be observed.

Good looking out