The developers of Apex Legends have announced that they’re going to be blocking the game completely on Linux platforms including Steam Deck.

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Some day it will make it’s way to banking apps/sites being unusable on OSes other than approved “secure” ones.

That day was years ago. Many banking apps refuse to start if you even just have your bootloader unlocked, and some banking websites only support Chrome, some really crappy ones even only Chrome or Edge on Windows specifically.

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Chrome? You mean Internet Explorer.

“This website is only supported on Internet Explorer 6.”

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Spoof you UA to get on it.

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That is already the case on Android phones with unlocked bootloader. Banking apps (in my experience) will either completely not work or only with limited functionality when run on a unlocked phone.

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Unlocked bootloader should be fine. Now rooted android is a whole different beast…

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Trust me, it is not fine.

I have at least one app that disables major functions when Developer Mode is active in my stock android, even with a locked bootloader and without root.

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Why the F can’t I just use my Yubikey to log into my bank account.

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Time for FOSS banking

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Honestly I’ve been trying to figure out how to convince more people in my credit union why FOSS matters.

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Based

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Friendly reminder to give your fair and honest Steam review of Apex Legends after EA’s most recent changes. 😈

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God fucking damn it. Fuck off with the anticheat bullshit. Fucking plague is destroying gaming. If the whiny tryhards want “cOmP3Tit1v3 int3grIteE” or whatever dumb excuse the devs pulled out their ass this time then just make RANKED mode locked behind this malware-powered prison shit. Don’t ruin the game for everyone. The majority of the player base isn’t whining about cheaters, and this is true of pretty much every game. It’s the tryhard comp scene most affected, let them enable it to play comp. At least give us the option to play on non anticheat servers. I hate how every multiplayer game is ruining itself over this garbage.

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Or just keep that shit on consoles, where their only use is gaming.

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Apex was one of the titles that just worked, flawlessly. And I never faced anything that I could attribute to cheats over high skill.

Yes, there was some ALGS drama, but as a regular player, I never faced it.

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FUCK EA.

Hope this was a lesson to anybody still playing their garbage.

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Haven’t bought an EA title in years and no regrets. It’s like donating to the GOP at this point.

Edit: I mean if DJT started a gaming company that’s EA.

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They lost me at the release of Battlefield 3 with hundreds of bugs, many completely game breaking.

For example:

To this day, there are still times when you can fire a tank at a jet, and SEE the explosion happen and then the jet still keeps on flying even though you scored a direct hit on it with a TANK SHELL.

I say to this day because the bug was still in there when I stopped playing and they had certainly stopped working on it.

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I was addicted to that garbage that Apex is. I am happy they removed Linux support.

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Same, I can play it on my spare windows ssd but it’s fine.

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Block EA on your steam store page!

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