Vencord is not an app by itself. It injects into Discord.

Vesktop is a client that comes with Vencord and is much easier to maintain, especially on Linux.

Price has become a big issue lately too.

Do you guys realize how much 40% actually is in a single year? That’s crazy. Don’t just look at the 5.1%.

I’m sure it’s heavily influenced by the Steam Deck, it being a great device for porn and all, but still.

Back when I used Windows I used PatchMyPC and made it add a daily task.

It updated most of my programs.

A single instance is not federated by itself. It requires multiple instances to be considered a federation.

Just a little nitpick.

Lmao.

What a joke.

I think that’s a very big stretch and I don’t think we’ll see that any time soon. Microsoft is already losing market share and they can’t do much more of this type of stuff because more and more people are getting annoyed. (Including ones with a following such as PewDiePie)

Anyways, Linux is great.

You realize this’ll occur at the expense of Microsoft treating the user as an untrustworthy enemy.

What do you mean? Take away your ability to create drivers? Because it’s already extremely limited and you need to get signed. I guess this “change” would just mean not signing any new antivirus drivers.

This means modding (even for offline play) will not be allowed. Heck, even modify ini files might be viewed as “hacking”.

That’s a completely wrong take. Whether or not an anticheat runs in the kernel or not does not mean people can just go and edit their files. Even with a kernel level anticheat people can already do that if the driver is not running. The correct way is to do purity checks during connection to an online server, and only allow serverside code to update the gamestate. Any texture file hacks and local purity bypasses for those would need to be caught by the userland anticheat, like it has been done for ages. Not the best solution, but far more privacy friendly.

I agree removing the need for anti-cheat in principal sounds nice, but this means archiving games or porting them to “unsupported platforms” will be relics of the past.

Another weird take. Are you talking about the anticheat not being installable anymore? Because even if a game comes with a kernel level anticheat it would need a valid certificate, so any dead game would eventually have this problem regardless of it being allowed to install the driver. Porting games would in almost all cases get rid of the anticheat or somehow null it, disable any custom servers from forcing a valid anticheat, stuff like that. And archiving would be much easier without any anticheat at all, again regardless of kernel anticheat or userland anticheat.

MUCH better solutions against hacker are to use all this amazing machine learning stuff on the server side, put more power back into the hands of admins and their selfhosted servers, and handle reports about hackers better and faster.

That is depressingly insightful. See also: the internal war on everyone who isn’t a middle-aged white cis het man (and even some of them, too). Just negativity all around.

Yes. Separating the people is an extremely strong tool in the authoritarian handbook. It is such a strong tool that the things it accomplishes are too much to list here. There are a lot of books on the matter. I think it’s even explained in some of the CIA books.

What really brings me down it’s the certainty that even if that is guy was suddenly not there anymore, there is a whole gaggle of like folk ready to continue that same rhetoric. How do you even dig yourselves out of that?

This is not completely correct. People fighting back against their oppressors sends an extremely strong message. And it even goes both way. For example, the attack on the USA Capitol of January 6th gave these Magazis a lot of power because they saw unity in their oppression.

The good thing is that there’s always more good people than bad.

That’s a bit too much capitalist kool-aid right there.

Just because you get more rights about your likeness doesn’t mean you can sell your soul. The proposed law would just better protect you where other people could already abuse your likeness.

That’s impossible. “Make America Great Again” is a slogan that he can only abuse as long as there are problems. If he wants to stay in power it’s in his best interest to create problems. It’s what fascists dictators have been doing since forever. Even if there are no problems they will point towards something and make you think it is a problem, so they can market themselves as the solution. If he would “win” he would lose his power, which is obviously the opposite of what somebody like Trump wants.

Some western European countries already do the same thing nowadays. It goes against constitutional laws where you can remain silent and where you can’t be forced to help with your own conviction.

BYD gets CCP funding to take over the global markets.

Not weird there’s backlash when China is literally destroying jobs on a global scale.

I thought it was because of Nazis. Or because of NATO. Or because of <insert bullshit here>.

Not because of <insert imperialism here>.

Nukes can be dropped from planes too.

Cooked al dente?

Aren’t you a tiny blob of typography and biomass yourself?

Like any proud parent would do.

Great. I always wanted a premium 911 subscription. If the lines are full it just disconnects somebody and connects me instead.

19.99/month for an operator with a decent microphone.

79.99/month for 2 operators at the same time.

Maybe the high-lift devices malfunctioned?