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I just disabled SecureBoot on my end.

Also, what’s stopping Google from killing alt front-ends altogether by either completely login-walling YT, including for G-rated and PG-rated content and not just the age-gated stuff, implementing DRM platform-wide on YT and not just on paid commercial content ala movies or TV produced by one of the media conglomerates like they already implement DRM on, or both, at some point in the future?

Alt front-ends still work for now, but Google could kill them outright at any time, and I just mentioned two ways they could do that: hard login-walling or platform-wide DRM, or both.

It’s great if you’re not into online multiplayer, and I was already running Linux for years as a daily driver before it ‘got good.’

It’s fine right now still, but given it’s a centralized, corporate-run platform at the end of the day, I’m skeptical of its long-term prospects; what’s stopping the guys in charge of that platform from going turncoat and turning it fully into Twitter 2.0?

Mastodon by contrast of being an open, decentralized platform, has some immunity against the enshittification that will inevitably ruin any centralized platform.

Assuming he doesn’t find a way to stay in office indefinitely.

Cripple free press, then go after free speech and free expression on the whole next.

Force ISPs to block it or even go over the ISPs’ heads and block it at the national level? Hypothetically, if a fascist state wants any form of resistance wiped from the web, forcing ISPs to block it or blocking it at the national level would be a good way to go about that.

I just hope that doesn’t actually happen and it stays purely as a hypothetical in the US, but blocking at the ISP level or even at the national level is one way to take something out, that’s how dictatorships like North Korea censor their media, for example.

Why do I feel like the Elmo Twitter hack was orchestrated by the Trump dictatorship to further sow hatred against public media and give another reason to defund it?

How long before user-generated content and alternative forms of social media like this site or like Matrix, PeerSuite, Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and etc. are next in the crosshairs?

Google would probably cancel them there too if enough money exchanged hands between the right (err… wrong) people.

Speaking of ‘financial decisions,’ CBS isn’t entirely wrong there, money has to have exchanged hands somewhere for this to happen.

Good, now let the entire Heritage Foundation go down with him. I and tons of other people would welcome the death of that hate factory.

Given it’s supposed to lead directly into Rogue One, no they didn’t.

If you didn’t switch already, switching from Windows to Linux might be a good idea soon too, especially with Win10 going EOL, and Win11 not only basically forcing new hardware in a lot of cases, but also being really bad as an OS atm.

Nvidia recently started NVK for Turing and newer and even more recently it was made conformant going back to Maxwell, but that still doesn’t give me a lot of hope for everything between Maxwell 1 (so basically just the GTX 750/750Ti for desktop Maxwell 1 cards) and Turing after driver version 580.

Also, Nouveau works for Maxwell 1 and earlier but ymmv with that stack, and it’s still not like Mesa RADV and AMDGPU for Radeon cards going back to GCN1.

Plus physical media on consoles is effectively worthless now, even on the Switch 2 with most of its library set to be downloads with literal license dongles ala the Game-Key Card which is targeted at third parties as a cheaper option than putting the whole game on a cart.

That Game-Key Card format will effectively render most of the Switch 2 library impossible to emulate assuming they need online access to run.

And even on PC, there’s nothing stopping publishers from getting smart and using kernel-level anticheat as a DRM substitute for single-player games, EA already set a precedent internally within their operations for doing that with EAAC on the latest WRC installment, for example.

As for the Switch 2, I wouldn’t put it above Nintendo to completely axe the cart slot for the Switch 3, if there even is a Switch 3 and the games industry doesn’t collapse again before that has a chance to happen, and make it a digital-exclusive console.

I’ve been using the browser client.

And even if you do boycott Sony, that’ll discount entire market segments and almost entire content niches as I just mentioned.

Sure, but I’m not touching anything Sony with a 10 foot pole.

That’s going to discount most of the camera market if not the entire camera market then because Sony makes basically everyone’s imaging sensors, plus a large portion of the anime genre given that company bought out Funimation.

That rootkit thing failed miserably, thankfully, and audio CDs have been DRM-free ever since.

At least you can watch BDs without a web connection still. For now…

Also, LibreDrive is a thing for hacking BD drives with in order to bypass DRM, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that got blocked and/or taken down at some point.