icedterminal

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[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Except it's not perfect for gaming. If you happen to have titles purchased through the Xbox/MS storefronts, you won't be able to play them. The version of windows you speak of lacks three critical system packages that allow UWP based games to work. Xbox Identity Provider, TCUI, and speech to text (some games rely on that for accessibility). If you file any bug report or ask for support from the development, they'll discard your ticket when they look at logs (unsupported OS). You also gimp yourself on feature sets.

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If the occupant is unconscious, dragging one out of the window can make things significantly worse if there are injuries from a crash. The door handle should always be available. Even if the door won't open on one side because of an impact there, use the other side. There are much better alternatives than dragging someone over shattered glass out of a window.

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago

Steam uses the Chromium embedded framework in case anyone doesn't know. This renders the web pages in the Steam client. As mentioned, there's no point in Valve maintaining the code base themselves when upstream Chromium drops support for 7.

This is similar to when browsers dropped support for Flash. Adobe stopped developing it and the major browser vendors removed their in-house flash plugins.

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This reference will never get old tbh.

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interestingly, that site is owned by ESPN and at some point in time it was archived by ABC. Why it was put to use for this is strange.

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

Yes. But you can best believe they will find something else to fire you for. If you have nothing, then it's an easy case win for you.

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Very easy for a majority of people.

As an alternative, for those who want to dive in or have more control: Self host PiHole or AdGuard Home DNS. Either use WireGuard VPN and set the DNS manually, or setup a DoT/DoH service. Either way works.

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Most IT positions are salary so this makes sense and is reasonable for critical systems. If you're not salary, yikes.

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

https://knockout.chat/thread/49305

Test Drive Unlimited 2 in particular is one I use on occasion. https://www.tduworld.com/

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The Crew server side is being reverse engineered so you can eventually play it in the future.

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I was under the impression that Tahoe translates to "big water" which is funny.

But "Tar pit Tar pit", "Way Way" and "Desert Desert" are indeed infuriating.

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Adobe used to house all the licensing mechanisms in a single file named amtlib.dll. The people who cracked it just nulled out the function. And since it was the same for every piece of software, just repeat the null process for each one. Bam, the entire suite for free.

When Adobe switched from CS to CC subscription, it was cracked in 24 hours. Largely because they didn't change much.

Adobe then axed the crippling DLL file and baked the mechanism right into the executable. A patcher tool was released that could crack each one. The upside is you could install and keep them updated from the CC Desktop and just run the patcher each time. Sometimes you had to wait for an update to the patcher. So before you clicked "update" you had to double check to make sure it worked.

To stop the free trial abuse (which is how people installed anyway) Adobe started requiring billing information during setup before you even get to downloads.

Later on, Adobe prevented users from updating apps if there wasn't an active subscription.

The patcher eventually stopped working because it was abandoned (this around 2019 when I gave up using it because Resolve and Affinity were more affordable and met my needs.) Months later someone else picked up the patcher development. There's also pre-cracked versions you can download and install.

I've not touched Adobe since and find Resolve to be significantly more stable and at $300, much more affordable. The Affinity Photo and Designer apps are great and affordable too at $170 for the bundle.

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