Bobby

Still waiting for the day Steam bites the bullet and just publish titles DRM free by default

They already do. Steam DRM is explicitly opt-in and the Steamdwork documentation even underlines that Steam DRM is a very weak form of DRM. Denuvo isn’t by Valve/Steam and also opt-in.

It is, and I genuinely worry that Microsoft will bitch about it.

The software is called Meet. Visio is just the name of the name of the government platform Meet is running on which is internal use only.

Ubuntu is just tweaked Debian

All packages are recompiled for Ubuntu and Ubuntu has everything in its own repositories. They literally distribute the software. If you just change config files a bit and the software packages still come from Ubuntu, it’s not really your own distribution. It’s Ubuntu and repository accesses still count towards Ubuntu stats.

Microsoft doesn’t hold a copyright worldwide for product names.

Product names are trademarks, not copyrights. For someone shouting in another comment about garbage misinformation, you fail at basic stuff.

tech companies

The French government is not a tech company.

he seems to have changed his tune on that. And people did make it known to him.

Changing his tune is a very different thing from changing opinions. It clearly was just a reaction to public pressure, not inner reflection.

I disagree on his stance regarding blu-ray discs. A movie is not software.

Java technology is a critical part of the new high-definition video standard, the Blu-ray Disc standard. This is a great time to be Java developer.

its own Linux distribution

Tweaking Ubuntu a bit counts and own Linux distribution?

Trademarks don’t matter when it’s only for internal use.

It 100% is

an attempted form of LLM data poisoning.

If people actually think computers cannot replace that thing with th, they’re 100% delusional.

Edit:

Yeah, sometimes I go so far to buy a game on Steam that got given away for free by Epic. EGS has the tendency to log me out all the time (maybe too many login across a bunch of devices) which annoys the heck out of me.

Ignorant comment

Need to get tools like this hosted outside the US

Where to? Cracking copyrighted software is illegal everywhere except maybe North Korea.

Is there such software

There is an app but is also requires a dongle: https://chargie.org/

Almost always I find torrenting the most convenient method to download anything. When someone puts some file up for download and that person uses one of those stupid free file hosters, I usually get annoyed by “disable ad blocker”, slow dl speeds, etc.

A torrent makes things so much more convenient.

there is also Heroic, which is similiar to lutris but in my opinion a bit nicer to configure :)

Heroic defaults to an ancient version of Wine-GE. They are currently in the process to migrate to a new tech called umu-launcher which allows them to use Valve’s Proton and Proton-GE directly. It’s basically done, so should appear in Heroic 2.16 but if one tries Heroic today, the compatibility might be worse than Lutris or Bottles.

Then my memory must be wrong.

Maybe my memory is wrong or it was different in an older SteamOS version. I remember Valve changed something about mounting SD cards a couple of months ago.

I don’t think Steam lets you pick the location for Proton’s virtual environments which is where Steam installs non-Steam games. AFAIK they are always in the home directory and you can only pick a random location when it’s a portable game without setup.exe.