Anti virtualization is sometimes used in copy protection. Altering virtualization to avoid those checks might be circumvention under DMCA.

In new games sure. I was referring to old titles

As somone who has been on a broken escaltor that was not safe, the breaks can fail and then you have a big problem. Granted I’m not dead and didn’t lose any limbs but degloving is still not something I’d like to risk.

Getting anti-cheat that technically already works enabled on Linux has been a lot of work and Epic still won’t enable it. Piracy protection systems will also be an issue. Most EA games inspect your CPU to see if they like it on startup (I think this is using vmprotect and some non-OS x86 calls but don’t quote me on that). These kinds on anti virtualization checks are really common (not just in games ProctorU and lock down browser do them too). I don’t think valve running an open virtualization layer will be well received by companies and they will probably ban it from running games. MMOs (due to botting) and anything with anticheat will look particularly askance at this. I also suspect Valve won’t want to try hiding the VM signatures as it borders on violating DMCA.

Newer games will probably get ported if a large part of the market buys into ARM. Unity stuff might get re-released as it is .net if the publishers can be bothered. Minecraft java edition will also always love you (the launcher might not though).

The main advantage of ARM right now is that there are low power cores available. The actual instruction set is unrelated to this advantage. If Intel or AMD put more serious effort into power efficiency most of the advantages go out the window.

As for instruction set changes impacting what software you can run I think that is still a big issue. Yes porting to ARM is straitforward in more modern programming environments but most software actively developed at the moment has a lot of old cruft that won’t easily port if the engineers can even be convinced to touch it. Most businesses are dependent on old software not all of which is still maintained. Most gamers are even more tied to old software that is not going to get ported and often has annoying anti-virtualization checks (see games breaking on systems with enabled intel e-cores).

I am not sure how large the modern non gaming personal pc market is (tablets, phones, works computers, and chromebooks probably took a chunk out of it) but that could be in play.

Trilium is great. It has a copy of excalidraw with history which is nice. You can also automate things inside of it with scripting

What exactly is it raining at 56°C?

I’m scared what your weather is like

It’s slightly colder right now in the SF Bay Area where it doesn’t snow

It’s always disconcerting when I go somewhere it’s supposed to snow in the winter and it’s warmer.

Decades from now I will have to explain what the “3D Objects” folder is to some kid

Probably the wheels falling off their cars. But I don’t know I actually read the article

Yes but actually no

Those are Mayan numerals for those curious

Not really seeing anonymous sources cited here. This looks like good old fashioned speculation.

I’m not holding my breath here. People seem far too willing to put up with stuff they wouldn’t otherwise because it’s Twitter. Far too many news orgs still point people to Twitter accounts.

Apple wrote bugged TLS code that broke using unbraced ifs with a goto, hence the name “goto fail”. You don’t need a goto to break this code though. All you need is a second indented line under the if

#2 is also the most insideous to update. Add another indented line to one of the conditions and the cotrol flow completely breaks while visually appearing fine.

C and a number of other languages have annoying pair of parallel syntax systems that makes it easy for people to read code one way and computers to compile it another. People read the indentation and newlines while compilers count braces and semicolons. #2 gets rid of the braces and makes control flow driven by semicolons making human visual inspection more likely to fail

Please don’t use #2. It is how you get the goto fail bug

Something about making their own version of every app and than naming it k-something makes me think it’s a cult.

I will not stand slander of the arch wiki.

Also start with Linux Mint XFCE (unless they’ve fixed the stability problems with cinnamon)

From what I have seen so far it doesn’t really matter if it was arranged. There just isn’t much evidence of a command center. Sure there may have been a few AKs and a tunnel but that’s hardly a command center.