I know that finding this answer is insanely difficult (or, at least, I imagine it is) but I really am left wondering what exactly the DRM is doing while the game is active to have such a process/resource overhead.

Like, async tasks that are holding a thread hostage until it’s sync point? Trying to run huge hash tasks to ensure local storage of game files are “intact”? And seriously, 1.5 - 2GB of RAM utilization? I have to imagine that’s not actually memory in use, but is just holding a giant block of gobbledegook so its harder to reverse?

I’m not a software engineer, so I must be way off the mark, but from my small experience in the dev world as a QA person, the performance uplifts from removing DRM should not be this palpable… Right? I feel sorry for the actual devs who essentially just “find out” that their work is getting quite literally crippled by something that is universally hated by the consumer AND got cracked in 40 days of release.

I played a fair amount of SupCom Forged Alliance with a community patch/mod called FaF. It’s amazing the work that team put forth to make the game run well, but this must’ve been the problem they couldn’t really fix entirely. Played amazingly when I played solo against AI, but once I played with friends online, the in-game speed would start to slow to a crawl by the mid to late game, seemingly driven by unit counts/activity. Game was tons of fun to play, but it was hard to play with my group when the endgame was basically playing in slow motion.

I"m a few steps in. I have the hardware. I know what hypervisor I want to use, and I know some of the things I want it to run with plenty of fun sounding projects to get it to host things. Its nearly put together (just an extra cache disk to hook up with cables already ran for it so it’ll take 10 minutes to do). But it’s sat on my desk since March of this year. Unconfigured. Just there.

Thanks for sharing! That’s a sub from me!

“Unmodified 20? Yeah, you just know your 2FA without even checking somehow”

I thank you for your service. Memes get me through to the next day sometimes.

Another one is how most 2g and 3g services (some SMS and voice connections) have known vulnerabilities. Unfortunately not just software security vulnerabilities, but also bad actors that can lease access within that system. That combination can allow for attacks within the underlying systems that make the target completely unaware for periods of time that their messages and voice calls are being intercepted, including 2 factor authentication content over SMS.

Veritasium has a cool video about it. https://youtu.be/wVyu7NB7W6Y

If possible, it is best to not rely on SMS authentication for privacy.

I hadn’t seen anything about DDIMMs before, so here’s a link to one product/company that uses it if anyone else is in the same boat as me.

https://www.smartm.com/product/advanced-memory/opencapi-ddr4-differential-dimm-ddimm

I know I’m literally saying this to the Satisfactory community, but I’m curious if anyone else feels the same - this is a game I’ve come back to time and time again for a couple of years now. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I always start a new save every time, and get though most of the tech teirs before slowly playing it less and less (around aluminum production seems to be where it happens).

So, in other words, I guess I’m reinstalling this again. I’m sure my next factory will be perfect on the first try this time. Updates to splitter and merger snaps for belts and elevators might be the next linear conveyor-level QoL I needed.

If I recall correctly it sorta changes over the course of the games. I think DS1 was primarily focused on character level, or souls spent on levels, while DS2 had a separate tracking system based on how many souls you have collected in total. Can’t speak too much on DS3 though.

For DS1 and DS2 at least, you definitely can climb those ranks to the point it’s difficult to find someone else that’s online and in your bracket, yeah.

My last 6 speed was a combo of 1 and 4 sorta. All the way right and down position, but only accessible by pulling the collar on the shifter up. Maybe that’s the same as the knob pull you’re mentioning though.

I liked it though. Kept 1-6 in places that made sense, and never had an “oh fuck” moment going from 5-6 since reverse required the collar pull. It was a 2006 Tiburon Tuscani trim (US if that matters). RIP good buddy.

And they’d be right

Bassist here. This is already more attention than usual.

Really cool to see “mainline” titles getting this prior to release. Had a friend get pulled into Marvel Rivals who mainlines Linux at home, and he had actually 0 issues getting it running at the time. Literally just download and play. Civ also seems like the perfect game to play on a Deck, so this is a no brainer, but cool to see this stuff is getting more popular to support out-the-box.

Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but I’ve been playing Gloomhaven Co-op recently. Dungeon delver, turn based strategy with RPG elements and an interesting mechanic for managing your attacks and movement through an encounter.

That’s a handprint on one of the many parts of a jet engine that get hot. Extremely hot

This image to me, is the definition of bemused.

A short electronic instrumental that really isn’t all that complex or terribly interesting, but holds a true wealth of emotional context for me. It feels like the awkward first steps in a relationship until something clicks, and ends with a touch of melancholy to my ear.

https://youtu.be/N3_KOWG-b5E?si=v3FnEDIF6UeRKT5L

singing, rhythmic, headbanging DUH-DUN, DUH-DUN, DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH-DUN

Hell yeah, fixed it in one