

i’d just go to a local fast food resturant and bring my portable piracy machine
i’d just go to a local fast food resturant and bring my portable piracy machine
What will they do when entire College campuses lose internet access because half their students are pirating text books
You might have a point if those people had no choice
Yes exactly and I may haved leaned on that a bit to make my point here. I worked at an MSP where 90% of their clients had the exact setup I mentioned, so workers had no choice but to run TeamViewer. The company would refuse any other recommendations specifically because it had already paid for a number of perpetual licenses and (at least at the time) free alternatives were limited. It was really awful even back then (~2015ish).
And for what it’s worth, I also agree that TeamViewer is an awful company and the software itself is awful, and of course if you can help it don’t fucking use it today lol.
The argument is that anyone still using TeamViewer deserves this, and anyone who isn’t isn’t actually impacted bym this change so it’s irrelevant.
That’s your argument, and I disagree with it. I’ve already shared why.
and anyone who isn’t isn’t actually impacted by this change so it’s irrelevant.
This is also wrong. Having the license revoked means the people who had one can’t use it at all whether they were using it or not. Let’s set aside that you shouldn’t advocate or endorse a company selling a product, shitting the bed, then revoking the product from those that already paid for it.
You’d be surprised, but there’s tons of small companies and organizations that rely solely on viewing software, some ancient version of Windows Server, and a remote toaster for administration still to this day. Those people are directly impacted by this.
I don’t think they deserve a license revocation because I don’t think any company should be able to take back a product that a user has purchased for no cited reason. Which is the case here.
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It doesn’t matter when they purchased the license because the fact they’re still using it means they deserve it
Sure it does. I have a Jetbrains perpetual license that I use daily. If they suddenly started enshittifying, and then decided to revoke my fallback licenses in 10 years, they’d be up for a number of lawsuits because that’s illegal.
End users don’t deserve to have their licenses revoked because a company went to shit over time. They’re in no control of that. And I made 0 arguments about people using Teamviewer today because that was never part of my point.
Anyone that isn’t deeply investigating the company or individual making a remote access product prior to using it does deserve what they get in the same way someone handing the keys to their house to a complete stranger they know nothing about would deserve whatever happened to the
I’ve already agreed with this opinion:
I’d agree if this post was about Teamviewer being breached once again. In that case, yes the end users who have stuck with them throughout numerous data breaches have very little room to complain when it happens again.
But it feels like you may have missed my actual point. Again, this post is about a change to perpetual licensing. People that purchased their license back when TeamViewer was a proprietary alternative to VNC, long before it became obvious that TeamViewer wasn’t a great company, (think 2008), don’t suddenly deserve licensing changes. Hard stop. These are the users that are affected the most by this change because they’ve held their perpetual licenses the longest. In addition, TeamViewer stopped selling perpetual licenses years ago, so the bulk of users with one today are likely to be older users. Why do they suddenly deserve this?
negligence doesn’t mean they deserve it
This is why I asked in the first place; negligence == they deserve it seems to be the basis of everyone who has replied to me lol.
It’s also weird to me because everyone is citing awful data protection (numerous data breaches, and even your link to easily compromised credentials) as the reason end users deserves their Licenses being revoked.
I’d agree if this post was about Teamviewer being breached once again. In that case, yes the end users who have stuck with them throughout numerous data breaches have very little room to complain when it happens again. But this is a Licensing change. It has nothing to do with their shitty data protection practices.
Further, these are perpetual licenses. It’s very likely that many of them were purchased years ago when Teamviewer was a lot more popular. To say that people deserve their perpetual licenses getting revoked because a company enshittified over time is silly buddy.
With you. These are people who didn’t “accidentally fall for the propaganda trap”. No they voted for this, not once, not twice, but 3 times.
Ghost of Tsushima
There’s never been a better time than right now to be a patient gamer lol. Most of my friends have huge backlogs of games to play and that will do wonders keeping you occupied when new $80 titles start dropping.
don’t consume it, leave a bad review,
If you didn’t consume it, why leave a review let alone a bad one?
Am I right in thinking that I could play on the Deck’s screen almost every game which could run on a Playstation 4?
Sure, assuming the game is released on a supported platform like Steam, or any of the platforms Heroic or Lutris support. Though I guess if you really wanted specific PlayStation games running on your deck you could setup PS Now to stream it.
Am I right in thinking that I could play on the big screen games until the middle of the Playstation 4 era?
Same as above really, with the only caveat being that changing the resolution will obviously diminish performance. Eg. If you dock the deck on a 4k TV and set the game’s resolution to 4K you shouldn’t be surprised if the game runs like ass.
Since I’d be buying a used LCD deck, I fear that the battery would be in poor health. Is there a way to know its health? If I replace the battery, could I get a better one?
I don’t know of any tools to measure or monitor the health of the deck’s battery.
You can replace the battery if you’re up to it. I don’t believe there are any higher capacity internal batteries available without some significant modifications to the unit.
Most other deck users that are concerned with battery life opt for power banks. You can always explore that route if it becomes a concern.
My PC screen can charge devices through USB-C and has 4 usb ports. It delivers enough power to charge my Surface Go 1 while using it. In my mind, it could clearly replace a dock, but would I have any advantages in getting one? Could the official dock be used for another handheld like my kid’s Switch?
I can only speak for myself, but I like using my dock because it has an Ethernet port so I don’t have to rely on my wireless connection when I’m on the couch and a Display Port so that it could be docked at my desk and plugged into one of my monitors. When I’m doing game development, this comes in pretty handy; I can build the game directly on the deck or transfer to it, then test it out in game mode very quickly. I’ll admit, this is a sort of a niche usecase, though.
If I end up using a Dual Schock 4 or a Dual Sense when my Steam Deck is docked, will I have to pair them again with my consoles every time after using them with the Deck?
I don’t own a Dual Sense (or a PS5), so I cant speak to that. Every bluetooth controller I’ve used behaves the same though. When I turn off the deck or undock it, the controller enters pairing mode and if I turn on my PS4 the controller is automatically paired to it. I don’t have to do anything extra.
Since I’d be buying a used Steam Deck, is there anything I should be particularly careful about?
As with any used product, if it comes with a warranty of any kind pay very close attention to the wording so you’re aware of the avenues available should anything bad happen to the product.
Other than that, good luck! And congratulations on your wedding!
For you and anyone else curious to find something similar to Foobar2k on Linux, there’s DeaDBeeF. I used to use it way back before I switched to ncmpcpp
That’s slightly more reassuring. The store page sure makes it seem that way. Glad they clarified.
I was going to give it a try, but there’s no way I’m making an Epic Games account just to play this game with friends. I’ll pass on this one.
It’s based on mpv. VLC isn’t.
Ultimately, the real comparison is here is just ffmpeg
vs ffmpeg
, but some people prefer mpv defaults over VLC. Search and you’ll find many many comparisons of the two.
I mean yeah. Games are getting more expensive and we’re not making more money to be able to afford them. Compound that with inflation of other more crucial goods (groceries, hygiene products, gas, etc.). It feels like anyone could’ve seen this coming lol.