disingenuous for the developer to pretend this was a surprise
Given that the game is going to release on Epic Games Store, GOG, and Humble Store, I actually do find it surprising.
Steam / Valve seems to be the outlier here.
The description of the scene that got the game banned is not even remotely sexual, just a bit weird / uncomfortable which is the entire point they’re trying to make. And that scene is not even in the game anymore.
I seem to recall one of the early cross-platform competitive multiplayer games having full controller aim assist on PC, they had to dial it back because players were figuring out how to combine it with mouse input and ending up with such a massive advantage that console players were disabling crossplay.
My line of thinking is that games optimized for controllers will usually have sticky aim or aim assist, whereas those that maybe lack controller support won’t necessarily have those features.
Gyro adds that last little bit of precision that could potentially bridge the gap
I don’t see that very often in general, and it’s not that I don’t notice them because they do tend to stand out to me when they’re present.
I wouldn’t necessarily correlate that with a specific manufacturer, afaik the only laptop manufacturers that also make their own screen panels are Samsung and LG. Rest are using screens made by a small variety of other OEMs.
Between the three issues you mentioned, charge port are the most common I see with Acer whereas hinge issues are actually on the rarer side compared to other manufacturers.
With Acer, charge ports are pretty memorable since they’re soldered to the mainboard rather than being on an easy to replace daughterboard or cable.
Ultimately, charge ports issues are usually a user problem rather than a quality issue.
There should always be extra slack on the cable when charging, the systems should be on a flat level surface, and the device should never be transported with the charger connected to the port.
Someone who has had repeat problems related to their laptop’s charge port is going to have a real bad time if they switch to a system that uses Type C ports.
There is no way to ‘downgrade’ a fresh installation. Only an installation that was done as an upgrade from Windows 10 can be downgraded, it has to be done within 10 days of the upgrade and that is possible thanks to the Windows.old folder that gets retained for that period.
In your case, you’re looking at a clean install.
Once you’ve got your installation media ready, you can make your life substantially easier by using DISM to extract the drivers and integrate them into the WIM file. I’ve had a few laptops end up with no network drivers, no keyboard / touchpad drivers, and no USB drivers - leaving OOBE inoperable.
Effectively doing that server-side would substantially increase the bandwidth requirements though.
If we take wallhacks as an example, that takes place entirely in the local rendering pipeline. In a game like Battlefield or Counter Strike, smoke and foliage are used for tactical purposes.
Aimbots read player location data sent from the server and send input commands to the OS to automate headshots.
Preventing local memory from being read and modified outright prevents (well, substantially raises the skill ceiling) for performing these kinds of hacks.
I have a hard time envisioning a server-side solution to those.
security of the client against the owner of the device on which the client runs
Way I see it, there’s two ways to address the “cheating” issue in multiplayer online games.
First, let’s establish that game cheats typically involve using another application to modify the game’s running code while it is loaded in memory.
Historically, anti-cheat has largely taken a “reactive” approach. Try to detect the hook / modification taking place, ban the player if it is detected.
These systems and bans were often circumvented. There are entire games that I stopped playing because the experience was ruined for me - GTA Online and the late stages of Titanfall 2 are standouts in my mind.
With how the Windows device security landscape has changed In the 2020s (MacOS has had something similar for ages), there’s now the option of taking a “proactive” approach by preventing application memory from being tapped in the first place.
These technologies, notably Secure Boot and TPM, help mitigate rootkits and malware that might steal sensitive information from application memory, as well as paving the way for other protection measures like disk encryption.
And that’s the main part they’re interested in - by ensuring the entire process up through the kernel cannot be tampered with, the anti-cheat is going to be highly effective at pre-empting anyone from attempting the cheat to begin with.
It really sucks that, in the curent landscape, that means there are a handful of games that I can’t play on my Linux devices. But it also makes sense - Proton runs with many layers beneath it, which would make it trivial to tamper with memory and engage in cheating.
I’m hopeful that we’ll someday see a solution that opens up the opportunity for the same degree of integrity protection in Linux so that anyone can enjoy any game on the operating system of their choosing.
Regardless of what others have to say about EA or the franchise (and boy do they have their issues), Battlefield has always been a beloved series for me.
I’m having a blast in Battlefield 6 and I have yet to encounter any cheaters. Previous entries in the series would see me hopping to a new server whenever I encountered one or, on some occasions, ending my play session out of frustration. Anecdotally, the cheating felt much more prevalent before.
I have a lot less time to game than I used to, so that time is sacred to me. While I’d obviously prefer another way, maintaining a Windows system and enabling two BIOS settings (well, leaving them enabled - they’re on by default) has been worth it for me.
The power pins (VCC) on your phone’s USB-C port aren’t “live” at all times, the standard requires communication over CC1 and CC2 to negotiate which side is receiving power and at what voltage. Otherwise, a specific value of resistor needs to be in place between those pins and GND to get “dumb” charging at the original 5V usb standard.
The ideal tool is going to be thin and rigid so that you can get to the base of the port and free up impacted dust/lint. Small enough plastics are going to be to flexible to be effective, anything too thick is going to increase the working time and risk putting pressure against the center tab, potentially damaging it.
I fix consumer electronics for a living, my tool of choice is a pair of ultrasharp tweezers I use for microsoldering. Far as household items are concerned, a real small sewing needle is definitely it. The eye can even be used to catch and pull out fluff.
For quite some time now, Apple and Samsung have had the shutdown menu behind a multi-button press (Lock + Vol +/-). In Apple’s case, it’s always required more than just the lock button.
If anything, this is Google shifting to the ‘norm’, having multiple button presses be the default is ideal in preventing accidentally invoking the menu and shutting down the device.
Far as “anti consumer” is concerned:
ad delivering spyware
Relative to most consumers, this perspective has you in the minority. Your average consumer is going to engage with this feature, this change makes the feature as accessible as possible so that you can do something like send a text with a single hand / button press.
Windows’ installation assistant only runs on Windows
Well, yes, but all that is a GUI to simplify downloading and writing the Windows installation ISO to USB media.
You can download the ISO image to Linux and write it to USB yourself. The option to download the ISO is on the same page you’ve been getting Media Creation Tool.
You could get Bedrock edition from the Google Play store and run it via an Android emulator.
Otherwise, based on your other comments, it seems like you’re trying to trudge through manually trimming down a preexisting OEM install of Windows. For such a minimal use case, you would probably benefit from a clean reinstall and should consider exploring something like Tiny11, ReviOS, or AtlasOS
Given that the game is going to release on Epic Games Store, GOG, and Humble Store, I actually do find it surprising.
Steam / Valve seems to be the outlier here.
The description of the scene that got the game banned is not even remotely sexual, just a bit weird / uncomfortable which is the entire point they’re trying to make. And that scene is not even in the game anymore.