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Re:An Update on Heroku on Friday February 06, 2026 @04:35PM (#46918454)
slopification is the new enshittification

Show HN: Lutris Gamepad UI

https://github.com/andrew-ld/lutris-gamepad-ui

A simple, TV-friendly, gamepad-navigable frontend for the Lutris game launcher on Linux. This application provides a "10-foot UI" designed for couch gaming, allowing you to browse and launch your Lutris library entirely with a gamepad.Developed as a hobby project, this software allows for full system management for gaming via gamepad. It was created to streamline the couch gaming experience by...

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Re:A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates on Saturday March 23, 2024 @05:49PM (#39803320)
bue-rays can evaporate even faster, thanks to drm, you often find yourself with players that don't allow old blue-rays or computers with cpu's that no longer implement some protection mechanism
Re:Apple's Proposed Changes Reject the Goals of the DMA on Saturday January 27, 2024 @03:21PM (#39159435)
as long as computers have existed you have always been able to install an application from your preferred source, it is unconscionable and anticompetitive to impose a fee only if the application is installed from a third party source.

is like having a cookie wall where pressing accept all is a single click, instead to do reject all you have to uncheck 50 checkboxes one at a time.

apple is doing the same thing by saying it's okay I use app store vs. I want freedom, because for the first choice it's easy, for the second choice they put a big tax in front of you

the law is still in a state where it has not been implemented since the technical part is missing, the body that is dealing with it is agcom (an Italian state agency for telecommunications), the problem is that the platform is not developed by the state but the Italian Football league provided their platform to agcom for free and agcom accepted it without asking any questions.

the problem is that this platform is not neutral, the Football league delegated to an espect copyright protection company to develop it, they have the full power of this platform.

the creators of the platform were the same ones who lobbied the Italian state to convince them in making a law that allows them to be able to block any ip or domain within 30 minutes and without any verification

Copyright Holders in Italy Granted Power to Block IPs Without Judicial Oversight

in Italy after the unanimous approval of law 93/2023 (https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2023/07/24/23G00103/sg), copyright holders will be able to force all Italian internet providers to block access to a certain ip and/or internet domain, the penalty to those who refuse is a hefty fine, all internet providers within 30 minutes of the blocking request will have to confirm that they have...

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Re:It's MY Monitor on Sunday September 10, 2023 @03:55PM (#37459357)
I worked as an apprentice at the age of 15/16 in a store where they develop software but also provide hardware support for consumer devices (phones, computers, etc.), a customer asked me if it was possible for me to cut off his phone battery with a hacksaw because it wouldn't fit in the case

he was incredulous when I told him it couldn't be done and tried to explain that even trying is dangerous but he didn't want to give up, I hope he didn't try at home

Re:Intel is using DXVK for their Windows Arc GPU DX9 drivers on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:00AM (#33909334)
epic

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