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New comment by khaelenmore in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

khaelenmore — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:57:27 +0000

That's all you need to know about DRM - when "pirates" bypass it, paying users are taking the hit.

And I'm not speaking about cost of implementing a technology to actively make the product worse.

New comment by khaelenmore in "A tax revolt is under way in America"

khaelenmore — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:30:31 +0000

Yes. This will make imaginary wealth not viable. And then real wealth can be taxed

New comment by khaelenmore in "Star Trek Removed from Amazon Prime [TNG and Voyager Refunded]"

khaelenmore — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:12:45 +0000

That's where my rule "don't pay for anything digital unless you get the DRM-free files" comes from.

New comment by khaelenmore in "Fairphone 6: cheaper, repairable and longer-lasting"

khaelenmore — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:40:55 +0000

And with this ugly hole in the screen again. They could have put it in the very center of the screen at least, to make it even more annoying

New comment by khaelenmore in "How Many Pixels Do You Need?"

khaelenmore — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:21:34 +0000

For me it's not pixels in total, but pixels per inch. Why? Because like on a larger desk I can put more stuff, on a larger screen I can do the same. And yes, 96 or maybe even 72 dpi is pretty much enough. And yes, I love large screens: a 43-inch 4k monitor displays lets me see a few pages of docs, three+ code files at the same time, and have a place for a chat with a colleague or friend at the same time. Would I buy a smaller 4k monitor? Nah, no way. Would I play games/watch movies in 4k? Nah, I most of the time play in a window, or on a second 19 inch 5:4 monitor because the screen is too large. And yes, I'm very sad because of lack of laptop options with reasonable screen resolution, yet high end hardware. And yes, for a small screen I pick lower resolution whenever I can.

New comment by khaelenmore in "86Box v5.3"

khaelenmore — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:53:53 +0000

For DOS, IMO, it's overkill. DOSBox-X does a very good job even for late and heavy dos games and is far more performant. A big advantage of DOSBox is not needing to setup a real OS inside the emulator - things just work.

For Windows things are the opposite, however. 86Box's better emulation of real hardware makes it far easier to setup the drivers and in general make the OS work well (on dosbox there are quite some quirks last time I checked, essentially requiring you to follow a specific guide, tweak some settings etc; on 86box it's just good old "install the os, put on the drivers and you're good to go"). Also, I notice that 86Box vms tend to be considerably faster than real hardware of the same level (likely will not be important for most games).

New comment by khaelenmore in "Microsoft to replace all C/C++ code with Rust"

khaelenmore — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:37:10 +0000

A sinking ship is becoming a sunken ship, I guess. With this rate of changes and "AI" in charge, I would be surprised if Windows will not finally turn into an unusable mess of bugs, memory leaks (no, Rust does not prevent them) and ruining the compatibility with all of the apps in process (the highlight of Windows, keeping people to still use it despite all MS effort to ruin the OS)

New comment by khaelenmore in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

khaelenmore — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:14:12 +0000

Precisely why we need a reliably working search engine without llm, ai and other nonsense

New comment by khaelenmore in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

khaelenmore — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:39:44 +0000

60FPS ought to be enough for anyone

*I'm joking. 30 is enough

New comment by khaelenmore in "AI: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, Or, yet Another Reason Not to Trust It"

khaelenmore — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:04:18 +0000

"AI" doesn't know anything. It just generates sequences of words vaguely resembling meaningful text.

New comment by khaelenmore in "KDE Plasma 6.8 Set to Drop X11 Support Completely"

khaelenmore — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:27:26 +0000

Are there any reasonable on screen keyboards for wayland already? Something on par with onboard i.e. all keys available. Without that wayland is no go for at least half of my active linux devices.