For what it’s worth, it’s the first result in a lemmyverse search:

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=steam+machine

Spoiler the actual copy protection removal is kept secret by people who do it.

Indeed. My point is that the PlayStation situation is not comparable to what we can do with Steam games, where it’s all out in the open, with multiple independent implementations, at least one of which is open-source and multi-platform.

(I’m glad there are people working on PS5 hacks, though.)

Where are the instructions for doing this?

This isn’t a good point, how many people do you think remove the steam dependency from their games?

Not many, because Steam hasn’t given them a reason to. That’s not the point.

The point is that if Steam ever does shut down or start revoking games, people can keep playing them without it.

There’s no information in this post. Just a photo without context.

I wonder how long it will be until Steam Machine owners start selling their original sticks to other Steam Machine owners, and then buying a matched pair for themselves.

US District Court - Northern District of California - filing:
https://cand.uscourts.gov/cases-e-filing/cases/326-cv-06345/garciaguirre-et-al-v-samsung-electronics-co-ltd-et-al

law360 screenshot in a reddit comment:
https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1uhinjc/a_california_federal_lawsuit_was_allegedly_filed/ou88r58/

Another article:
https://kotaku.com/class-action-lawsuit-accuses-the-three-largest-ram-manufacturers-of-colluding-to-drive-up-prices-2000711373

RAM manufacturers have done this before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal

As far as I know, it has always been specifically for Direct3D 12, which makes sense because of that version’s design similarities to Vulkan.

DXVK does the same thing for earlier Direct3D versions.

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/vkd3d/-/raw/master/README

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/refs/heads/master/README.md

The beauty of the setting is that we can choose a different FPS limit for each game, regardless of which API it uses, even if the game doesn’t offer a limiter of its own. 90 is more than enough for a lot of isometric-view games. 180 is helpful in competitive first-person shooters, where every frame is an advantage. 50 or 60 in graphics-intensive turn-based games like Baldur’s Gate 3* lets the art shine while keeping my GPU cool and my power bill relatively tame.

*BG3 has its own limiter, so in its case, the same can be done without the dxvk setting.

Also, lower frame rates are generally less noticeable on smaller displays (at any given distance). We can take advantage of this to save money and extend hardware life when not gaming on an IMAX screen.

Variable refresh rate displays are pretty common these days. :)

Looks like the new dxvk.maxFrameRate is a convenience setting that applies its value to both dxgi.maxFrameRate and d3d9.maxFrameRate. That’s nice for those of us who use it to save power and reduce heat, rather than to work around API-specific renderer bugs.

Example: export DXVK_CONFIG="dxvk.maxFrameRate=90"

“Saying that you don’t care about privacy because you don’t have anything to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.”

Edward Snowden, May 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxKLpArDrC8&t=4309s

A bit ironic to see a community on this open platform shilling for the closed, invasive platform known as Discord.

I wish they hadn’t put a close-up shot of the antagonist on the store page. It kind of undermines the suspense.

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I don’t see any such comment. I guess federation could be lagging.

Rampage (1986) comes to mind, but (minor) enemies are present and I don’t think it applies damage in layers.

https://archive.org/details/arcade_rampage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampage_(game)

A You Should Know post is generally expected to offer little-known information, mainly the kind that can significantly improve many people’s quality of life. What you have posted here is widely known and trivial, and therefore fails both criteria.

It would be a better fit in Today I learned. (But not much better, because pointing out the existence of an old, well-documented, basic software feature is not the least bit interesting.)

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a lot of the rule changes on the road to 5e (especially to magic) are tied to in-universe events that wouldn’t have happened yet.

Feel like sharing some examples?

• He described new C “guards” and scoped locks inspired by Rust

In other words, the improved safety will sometimes come from Rust code, and sometimes from C code. The important point being that safer practices are becoming more common now that Rust has called attention to them.

Are you implying that Spice Hoarder is a camel?