"I have never thought to myself that realism is fun" - Gabe Newell

Inkjet is quite difficult but dot matrix printers are easier to find DIY projects of.

ToS from a lot of tech companies say the wildest shit that doesn't hold up in court and they should get a penalty for putting that into these documents, as it is misleading and misrepresenting the agreement that the customer has with them.

Until some responsibility for illegal statements in the ToS happens I will read most comments from a ToS with a grain of salt and a lot of skepticism.

  The invention of photography had a major impact on painting. In the decades 
  after the first photograph was produced in 1829, photographic processes improved 
  and became more widely practiced, depriving painting of much of its historic 
  purpose to provide an accurate record of the observable world.

Additionally there is a huge historical precedence for capturing images, basically for money either through being a painter in someone's service, patronage or working for commission. These painters would work and follow the directions of the commissioner, even though they may not have agreed with it. This is one of the reasons for the English "rectangular livestock" paintings.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/rectangular-cows/

In dutch there is a word "broodschilder" (literally bread painter) witch means painter who paints for a living (commercial) / hack painter. In history these painters often where seen as doing a craft in the same way a carpenter works with requirements and requests for the picture, make it happen. Often the painters where not even not able to sign their work (for example religious commission).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_painter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_patronage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_(art)

Indeed that is one theory. He was also a master at his craft so this is exactly the transition period where the master of the old method is able to adapt a technology in a way later pupils likely can not, due to the experience without the tool at hand.

Sounds a lot like the AI transition we are making now.

What we understand as painting today is very different then what painting meant pre-camera. Now it is mostly a leisure activity and creative outlet. Where back in the day it was a serious occupation for capturing reality, and therefore creativity was taking second stage.

I hope that coding will go that way and even though I might lose my current occupation. I feel like that might be what is needed to get out of the stagnation of current day software development (compared to early computer history). Take the money out of coding, bring the creativity in, take out the investors and keep the enthusiasts. I think that might be good for the activity that we call programming.

Also "software engineering" involves vastly more then programming or coding, so I doubt software engineering will disappear.

Since always, it is often just not recognized. Perhaps the same way how a newspaper article has soul and a fingerprint of the author, though you may not recognize it while reading.

> You can do art with anything.

Sure and anything you do can be art.

I would argue that problem solving is actually what makes any art art. When making "traditional art" you are constantly solving problems. For example, how do I make this piece of rock look like a greek god, what parts to chip off, what tools to use etc.

Art is not always made for aesthetic value, most traditional art is probably created for profit. That doesn't make it not art.

I think you might have the (in my opinion wrong) notion that there is only one "correct" way to write code. This is not true, so much so that you can identify a programmer by their signature style. Similarly to how you may identify a writer by his writing style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_stylometry

Isn't this the case with all art?

There are many commercial artist that are putting some of their creative input to the side to make something that sells. That doesn't stop it from being art.

There are photographers that in their daily lives make school pictures or journalistic picutres while they may be more interested in making artistic pictures.

The same used to be for painters (a lot of the great painters actually) used to mostly make portraits or commission pieces to order, not to their taste.

Same goes for writers, videographers and other arts.

I see I was assuming EAC is EAC, but it seems there is a difference between the kernel mode version (windows) and the client mode version (linux). There are different assurances and therefore not the same security can be guaranteed.

In that case it can indeed be that the assurances on linux are not sufficient. However I think the EAC marketing or documentation is a bit unclear/misleading around this issue.

Still I think they should offer the game for the customers on linux, though maybe they are not allowed in the competitive lobbies?

Seems the self-hosting documentation is a bit... lacking. Both "self-hosting" buttons on the main page send me to "#".

It seems interesting, even though I'm more of the roll your own school of thought here because there could be some very sensitive data in this system.

https://docs-monicahq.vercel.app/docs/start/installation

From what I understand Easy Anti Cheat, makes it very easy for developers to run on Linux, basically it is a compile setting to support it. It is one of the anti-cheat providers that had decent Linux support since the beginning.

Back before Proton and when it was new developers often denied requests for turning on Linux support, however this is the first time I head a developer actively turning it off.

I think it speaks volumes of their intent that the game is to be "fully removed from the Linux platform", and they won't offer the single player experience or non competitive experience for Linux based customers.

On top of that it seems to me they tried sneaking this statement in an announcement titled "Ranked FAQ". This shows they have no respect for their customers.

https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/epic-online-services/platform...