IANAL, but I believe in some places you have to go after any and all forms of it, otherwise you risk losing the whole thing. I think US is one of those places.

There are lots of companies selling data, just one of them is a list of known VPN IP addresses. Updated every X days. Just plug that into your service and it gets a lot harder, but still not impossible, to use with a VPN.

It will just be a few approved sites that you are allowed to visit, and just by chance those sites are the ones that pay the goverment the most! Those sites will have records in the approved DNS, that you can not change. Other DNS requests are blocked, along with everything else that isn’t approved.

Well, maybe. But if it goes tjrough without some “bugs” or simply good features missing, we will see how good the e2e really is

I am kinda turned off by how awful and hacky it is, but sadly it is used everywhere. And the Facebook ties is another big minus.

End to end is just a buzzword when you control both ends.

Left: start/stop playing music via xmms2

Right: open a zenity file selector to load music into xmms2

Yes, but 1000ms latency is super bad. No service has anything even close to that high.

It is rejected, for now. But that could change, only really takes one massive game to do it to open the floodgates.

U don’t think it will happen, but what if GTA6 did it? They would be big enough to be able to pull it off, and most of their revenue will probably come from online anyway, so adding a base game subscription could make sense for them.

Very much depends on the game though. A bit of lag in strategy/city builder/etc is not really an issue. But in a competive shooter it is a huge deal.

Levitate? Do I look like some priest? I just blink away!

Or more likely, hit blink, it bugs out and you go half a meter backwards instead… But then you can always ice block or slow fall to save the day!

I liked the DLCs as well. I know why they don’t do them anymore, as online is a money printing machine. But I really liked them and wished they had done more.

The world exists, so just add a story with a bunch of missions => nice DLC. But since they make such an obscene amount of money from online it makes no sense for them to do any more.

other warlock

It is always the warlocks that are the problem.

Signed, a mage

Getting a replacement SIM from the phone company is often shockingly easy, just a tiny bit of social engineering. And then you have access to the number and everything that 2FA “protects”

No, but it is a far more complex problem than what the other comment made it sound like. That it is only because they cheap out on server hardware and it could be perfect if they just wasn’t cheap.

Not always, latency is a huge problem especially in action games.

mplayer handles filesystem wildcards beautifully.

Well no, your shell does. And there are limits to how many matches, for a more robust way use find.

As for the post topic. I use xmms2 with a small script bound to the windows-keys, left for play/pause and the right opens a file selector to load new files.

I used (g)Vim on windows back when I used that

That is good advice, however sadly a lot of install scripts are basically: download this script from us, and pipe it to a root shell.

Imagine if it did get that kind of funding