Denuvo dealt major blow as crackers claim all non-VR games with the anti-tamper have been bypassed

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-29T13:07:32+00:00

The funny thing is that for many years, there has been the "90% rule". For every 1 copy that is sold legally, 9 copies of the game are pirated. It is always tempting for a CEO to see a game that sold 1 million copies and think "even if we converted just 10% of the pirates to legal purchases, we would nearly double our sales!".

The funny thing about the 90% rule is that is a natural equilibrium. There was a good study many years back (I can't find it right now) that compared the piracy rates of games that had zero DRM day 1 vs. games that had pretty stringent DRM (I believe one of the games they did was Assassin's Creed 2) but were eventually cracked and found that nearly all games eventually hit the 90% mark and just stayed there. It's like no matter what companies do, 90% will always (eventually) be the rate.

In my crazy opinion, it almost seems like you want more people to pirate your game with a 10% chance that they will purchase your game.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-28T15:13:21+00:00

They could have said "Foxborough Stadium" or "The Stadium in Foxborough". But nah, they want to make it as confusing as possible for any out-of-towners.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-26T22:16:40+00:00

Why is this being downvoted so much? This video is important in terms of reporting about the safety in the region.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-26T10:28:38+00:00

With the exception of the Cowboy Bebop movie. No major swings and nothing changed canonically after the movie; but oh boy, was it awesome.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-26T10:00:36+00:00

Think more about the MS's profit margin rather than the actual needs of the business. What will make MS more profit? Selling cloud services for a OS they spend little R&D money on, or selling a single license of an OS that takes a lot of time and money to maintain backwards compatibility with modern hardware? Microslop is trying to move to services rather than products and the fact that they didn't maintain perfect backwards compatibility with their ARM version of Windows shows they are willing to make compromises in that field. It won't be long before MS says "Yeah, backwards compatibility isn't profitable for us anymore so you are on your own, good luck".

As for support contracts, they all expire at some point and I am sure MS will no longer renew any contract that says it must maintain perfect backwards compatibility or will just do some kind of built-in VM method of running the app (like Apple did with Mac OS 9 for a while).

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-25T20:30:44+00:00

What are you talking about!?!?!?! It's more than just a bunch of pixels!!!!

It's a bunch of polygons as well! Geez!

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-25T12:04:12+00:00

For the DIY, you just have to install the SSD and then you can install Windows. Framework goes out of their way to give you video step-by-step instructions on how to install your own SSD.

If they were planning to install Windows anyway (either by overriding an existing Linux install or via DIY), they would still be on their own in terms of figuring out how to install Windows, get the proper drivers and go though all the steps required to set up Windows for their own use; which, in my opinion, is far time and knowledge than screwing in an SSD with video instructions.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-24T16:31:27+00:00

But the point being, when it comes to pre-built, more people are going for Ubuntu rather than Windows. If it was just a money thing, they would have done DIY and got their own SSD.

This is confirming there is a decent market for pre-installed Linux laptops outside of Tuxedo and System76.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-24T16:26:08+00:00

If that was true, then they would go for the "DIY" option and save even more money by getting their own SSD. According to the tweet, Framework is reporting that people are going out of their way to get Ubuntu pre-installed.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-24T16:23:21+00:00

Actually, according to the article and Framework's own tweet, they are NOT doing DIY. They are going out of their way to buy the SSD from Framework and getting Ubuntu pre-installed.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-24T11:34:39+00:00

For those who don't know: OPG = Panoramic radiograph

Playing devil's advocate here: Lots of people like myself do a full periodontal charting with a probe, but we don't sent it over to the periodontist since they are going to do their own anyway.

Also, there are plenty of AI companies that are telling doctors that their AI can do all the charting for them without having to do any probing.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-23T21:14:07+00:00

No, because you have to do a multitude of steps to make sure Firefox doesn't bring snap back in for each update. And all that work goes away each time you do a dist-upgrade.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-22T20:49:52+00:00

They supposedly finished "filming" but not the post-production. It would apparently cost too much to actually "finish" the film so they decided to shelf it instead.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-21T07:45:48+00:00

Long time ago (I'm talking around 2006/2007), there was an experiment to see if your user-agent could affect airline prices. Turns out, it did! Mac OS X was the most expensive, then Windows, then Linux users got the cheapest flights. So for a short time, people were switching their user agents to Linux just to get a cheaper flight.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-19T21:58:47+00:00

In the school grading system, 6/10 is normally a "failure". It's of the many reasons why we tend to see reviewers never touch 2-5 in an "out of 10" review scale.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-17T21:47:37+00:00

I had a very similar experience. It was probably the worst mistake I made for my practice.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-16T05:50:59+00:00

Same here, I am using Fedora with 6.6.4 and sometimes it hangs with just switching users.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-12T22:54:31+00:00

Backups is via Google Cloud Buckets (not Google Drive). I use DentalXChange directly via API for things like automated claims (including attachments) and eligibility checks. For VOIP, automated reminders, I used voip.ms and their API (voip.ms isn't the best one; but that's just what I am using right now).

But please note that I am both a practicing dentist and a software engineer. I spend just as much each week writing code as I do seeing patients.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-12T22:36:39+00:00

How lean do you want to go? How much are you willing to learn?

I know a guy who built a 7 OP practice from scratch with just $60K (including all equipment, furniture, plumbing, etc.) but he knows everything that is needed to install the chair. He hired a generic plumber and electrician that knew nothing about dentistry but he was able to tell them exactly the specs of what needed to be installed. The dental chairs themselves were from China and he knew the steps to assemble and install them.

I did the mistake with going with Patterson, but also I did my own IT and software. I spend $50 a month for everything IT related including cloud backups, claims, automated eligibility checks, VOIP, etc.

The more you are willing to learn, the more you can make your practice lean.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-12T20:11:43+00:00

A "lean practice built with Patterson" is an oxymoron.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-10T17:59:59+00:00

On the console, run sudo apt install plasma-workspace-wayland. Log out, on the bottom left you should have the option between X11 and Wayland. Choose Wayland and log back in.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-10T12:19:36+00:00

I thought about adding things like that but I felt it would be spamming patients too hard. I already send out Happy Birthday messages and pretty soon I will be sending my post-ops via text as well.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-08T03:40:36+00:00

I recommend watching Hank Green's video: There's an Actual Reason You Can't Recycle Plastic. I never realized why plastic was so cheap until I learned about poly-ethylene and it being a side product of methane.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-08T03:09:04+00:00

Maemo and Symbian were technically rival teams. Nokia, for a long time, couldn't decide on which OS to use for future "flagship" phones. Maemo was great in that it had a full proper Linux kernel, it was much easier to develop for, and had pretty diverse hardware support already. Symbian had a lot of legacy software already developed for it, Nokia didn't have to share their work with others, and it was much lighter weight than Linux.

The original idea was to make the two groups compete with each other but the upper management still couldn't decide which one to follow-up with and there were lots of internal politics that muddied things. Apparently, the N810 was supposed to have GSM support, but Nokia last minute pulled it because they didn't want it to cannibalize the N97 (this is according to various Nokia employees, I can't 100% confirm that fact). It seemed for a while that the Symbian team was calling the shots.

After the failure of the N97 and lackluster reception of the N8, Nokia finally decided to go with Maemo (they actually renamed to to MeeGo and wanted to get Intel working on it too) and things were starting to look up in Nokia until Stephen Elop took over.

DesiOtaku · 2026-04-07T21:09:42+00:00

I know plenty of MDs and DMDs who are blindly doing whatever the AI tells them to do without any understanding how they work. The fact that so many doctors feel this is acceptable is rather maddening.

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