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I mean, even if just installing a different OS were an option, you’d need to install and setup that OS on a few hundred computers or more. I used to work for a place that would essentially do the enterprise enrollment in bulk before shipping off the computers to schools. I could only setup a bit under 100 over an 8 hour workday, assuming no major issues (like captchas on the login step, or the wifi going out). Keep in mind that we also had specialized little microcontroller* USBs specifically for doing all the enrollment keypresses, and enough of those for someone to setup multiple computers at once.
I am actually curious as to how you would make a locked down managed linux OS akin to ChromeOS. Maybe there would be a way to do something like that that’s also faster to setup, but idk.
*centipedes are the name for the ones we used.
I’m working through some of the older Ace Combat games after playing Ace Combat 7 and really enjoying it. Finished Ace Combat 4, and I’m moving on to 5 next and then zero after that.
Honestly the pasta sounds pretty good from how it’s described.
I can only speak for the first 3 paid dlc, since I still haven’t played the castlevania one. The first 3 essentially add an alternate route to the game, so about 6ish levels and 5 bosses between them. With the exception of the queen and the sea*, the DLC content isn’t that much harder than base game stuff, and it’s all accessible in the games easiest difficulty (generally they’re easier than stuff from the free updates lol). They’re pretty good at adding a bit of extra variety in what routes you can take through the game, and add some extra items. Compared to some other games I play (stellaris), the DLC do feel pretty optional which is nice to see, and to the best of my knowledge they were also partially intended to support the creation of the free content as well.
*the bosses in that dlc are rough ngl. Queen boss fight is really fun though.
I use Ubuntu currently. I was considering daily driving Debian 12 now that it works on my desktop, but I couldn’t think of any significant reason to use Debian 12 instead of Ubuntu (I’m mostly just indifferent towards a certain packaging format that a vocal contingent of the linux community hates). I’d say any distro is “good for gaming” as long as it has good drivers for your GPU of choice. I’ve kind of just lost interest in the “latest and greatest” tech in the Linux ecosystem so LTS distros like Ubuntu (and stuff based on it) and Debian stable are what I gravitate towards now.
Yes it should exist, or at least it should exist in some form as long as we exist in a capitalist economic system. Without it, if you invest your time and money into a novel new creative work, it becomes possible for a third party to undercut you by just republishing your work at a lower price, since they don’t need to earn back the cost of creating that novel new thing.
Current state of copyright is overkill though, and mostly just benefits massive companies. Personally I think the length of protections should be 50 years max (at least I could see that being passed as legislation in the near future), and ideally something like 20-30 years, which should be more than enough time to get nearly all of the potential profits for your creation, while allowing people to start adapting that creation within their lifetimes.
I mean, free software is somewhat political by nature. Of course there’s those who refuse to use anything nonfree, but I can’t imagine any movement in general that doesn’t end up with some vocal extremists. I do find some of the attempts at stuff like fully foss hardware neat though.
I do think GPL makes it a bit more feasible to dual license your project as commercial and open source though, which makes a bit more sense to me for anything you still want to make money off of (especially considering some of the horror stories of popular open source libraries that get next to nothing in funding). I don’t really care what other people license their stuff as though.