If you didn’t switch already, switching from Windows to Linux might be a good idea soon too, especially with Win10 going EOL, and Win11 not only basically forcing new hardware in a lot of cases, but also being really bad as an OS atm.

Last time I thought you could install Asahi on current Macs unless Apple started blocking that and I didn’t know.

peertube.wtf and lemmy.wtf are both down right now.

Nvidia recently started NVK for Turing and newer and even more recently it was made conformant going back to Maxwell, but that still doesn’t give me a lot of hope for everything between Maxwell 1 (so basically just the GTX 750/750Ti for desktop Maxwell 1 cards) and Turing after driver version 580.

Also, Nouveau works for Maxwell 1 and earlier but ymmv with that stack, and it’s still not like Mesa RADV and AMDGPU for Radeon cards going back to GCN1.

I can’t sign it because I’m in the US… unfortunately… but it’s in Overdrive right now.

Given the US is ran by the New Fuhrer? I could see this being used against criticism of leadership or anything else resembling free will and not just piracy. I also find it sad that the day the US will probably die as a free country and turn into a dictatorship, is the same day it gained its independence in the first place.

If it’s upheld, that’s the precursor to full-blown info blackouts, just cut off internet to anyone ‘accused’ of wrongspeak against the powers that be, which is basically everyone.

This also sounds like SOPA reborn.

And how long before that applies to citizens too? If Free Speech and Free Expression on the whole aren’t dead yet, they’ve got a foot in the grave

That’s exactly what Google is trying to do on YT with Veo 3 and the ‘AI slop’ button.

Good luck breaking down people’s doors for scanning their own physical books for their personal use when analog media has no DRM and can’t phone home, and paper books are an analog medium.

That would be like kicking down people’s doors for needle-dropping their LPs to FLAC for their own use and to preserve the physical records as vinyl wears down every time it’s played back.

Plus physical media on consoles is effectively worthless now, even on the Switch 2 with most of its library set to be downloads with literal license dongles ala the Game-Key Card which is targeted at third parties as a cheaper option than putting the whole game on a cart.

That Game-Key Card format will effectively render most of the Switch 2 library impossible to emulate assuming they need online access to run.

And even on PC, there’s nothing stopping publishers from getting smart and using kernel-level anticheat as a DRM substitute for single-player games, EA already set a precedent internally within their operations for doing that with EAAC on the latest WRC installment, for example.

Too bad this probably still won’t drive people to other platforms.

Mine ain’t, I’m using an ancient dumb TV.

If you haven’t ditched Reddit already, do it!

They don’t host anything, they’re just an alternate front-end that lets you download stuff.

Workaround got released, that same issue just updated itself to indicate that. Still shitty of Google to be going full Reddit like this though.

YT’s blocked on it. Fuck you, Google.

https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android/issues/2351

If Google’s going to be further tightening YT to the degree where they might roll out DRM platform-wide as opposed to just limiting it to movies on the platform, I’m about to seriously start looking for stuff to watch on PeerTube because YT is not long for the world and will probably start pushing away anything that isn’t AI slop at some point in terms of content.

UPDATE: A workaround has been released for this issue.

Liberapay is looking pretty good right now.

One more reason to be glad I ditched that hellpit.

No, but Plex can. I’d migrate to Jellyfin if you can as Plex started paywalling some of their services.