You say poor opsec, I say free advertising.

Would anyone in this thread have paid ANY attention to this movie otherwise?

No.

I pirate everything, but am very very reluctant to do so with software or games.

I only pirate in cases where the company involved is just too gross to support (looking at you, Adobe), or if there’s absolutely no other option.

But I consider pirated software and games absolutely suspect 100% of the time, because I’m old enough to remember when every keygen was also a keylogger, and every crack was also a rootkit and touching any pirated software was going to give you computer herpes without fail.

So maybe it’s not that bad anymore, but I mean, do you fully trust in the morals of someone who would spend the time helping you steal someone else’s shit to not add just one more little thing to it for themselves?

Yeah, no shit.

You present two choices: 65fps with DLSS, or 28 FPS without it, then yes, 80% of people will no-shit-sherlock pick the higher number.

Seriously. Id sub immediately.

They won’t, of course, because that’d cost them too much money.

But, still, it’s a nice thought.

As far as it matters for this, a hypervisor is a hypervisor.

I use qemu/kvm because it’s what I’m used to on the linux side, but I don’t think it has any particular feature that makes it more safe compared to like virtualbox or vmware or anything else.

One thing I ran into, though it was a while ago, was that disk caching being on would trash performance for writes on removable media for me.

The issue ended up being that the kernel would keep flushing the cache to disk, and while it was doing that none of your transfers are happening. So, it’d end up doubling or more the copy time because the write cache wasn’t actually helping removable drives.

It might be worth remounting without any caching, if it’s on, and seeing if that fixes the mess.

But, as I said, this has been a few years, so that may no longer be actively the case.

It’s such the best meme, and a thing that so many people need to see at every opportunity so keep posting it.

Yeah, I don’t let anything that has to be cracked out of an isolated VM until it’s VERY clear that nothing untoward is going on.

QEMU has proven perfectly lovely for a base to use for testing questionable software, and I’ve got quite a lot of VMs sitting around for various things that ah, have been acquired.

I’m not saying it is or is not a false positive, so please read the rest of my comment with that in mind.

But, that said, this is not new: AV has triggered on cracks and cheat software and similar stuff since forever.

The very simplified explanation is that the same things you do to install a rootkit, you do to cheat in a game with or crack software DRM.

Bigger but, though: cracks and game cheats have also been a major source of malicious software for just as long, so like, it’s also entirely likely that it’s a good catch, too.

Or maybe I don’t buy enough?

I dunno, I’ve just kinda changed what games I play to things that appear to also be the same kind of stuff that Epic is making deals to give away for free?

Also, in fairness, I do buy the occasional game for console even if it’s available on PC as sales permit, but we’re talking a game or two a year at most.

It’s almost stopped me buying ANY games, at all.

At some point within a year or few of a release the odds of anything I find interesting showing up for free on epic is damn near 100%.

It’s the ultimate patient gamers bit: wait 2 or 3 years and that game you want will be $0.

(It’s why my epic library is now bigger than my steam library, despite spending $0.)

I was excited until the article clearly outlined that it was a multiplayer, online-only game.

Alas.

Stuttering and texture pop-in makes me immediately wonder if your SSD shit itself.

Maybe see if there’s anything in the system logs and/or SMART data that indicates that might be a problem?

Cloudflare tunnels are the thing you’re looking for, if you’re not opposed to cloudflare.

You run the daemon on your local system, it connects to cloudflare, and presto, you’ve bypassed this entire mess.

I think the thing a LOT of people forget is that the majority of steam users aren’t hardcore do-nothing-but-gaming-on-their-pc types.

If you do things that aren’t gaming, your linux experience is still going to be mixed and maybe not good enough to justify the switch: wine is good, and most things have alternatives, but not every windows app runs, and not every app alternative is good enough.

Windows is going to be sticky for a lot longer because of things other than games for a lot of people.

I don’t have a specific place; just some of the private general-purpose trackers I’m on will occasionally have someone come by and dump a pile of STLs from various places on them.

(The private part, unfortunately, means I can’t actually share more, sorry - fight club rules and whatnot.)

There’s some cryptobro projects about sticking distributed file sharing on top of ~ THE BLOCKCHAIN ~.

I’m skeptical, but it might actually be a valid use of such a thing.

There’s a ton of commercial/locked-behind-patreon stuff, usually around things like RPG scenery or figures and such.

Like, an immense library of shit that’s not free.

What, you mean you don’t play games and go “Well that looked great! Well worth my time!” like an awful lot of the AAA game industry appears to think gamers do?

Huh.

Seriously though, I’m curious how we ended up in the make-shit-prettier race and not a make-the-writing-good, or make-the-game-actually-fun, or even things like make-more-than-two-dungeons (looking at you, Starfield) race.

Especially given the cost to me, personally, to keep upgrading my GPU has reached an untenable level: I’m sure as crap not paying $2000 for a new GPU just so we get a few extra frames of hair jiggle or slightly better lighting or whatever.

What platform would you perhaps be interested in?