It’s time to Escape From Reality! :3
Of course, and I’m not knocking the FEX project. I’m just pointing out that there is no native solution to running programs built for other hardware architectures (other than a port adapted from source).
The PS3’s CELL is just so egregiously unique that it has a massive emulation overhead compared to ARM or any other more common/simple hardware architecture - less understood overall, and less understood in how it can be translated to x86 compared to ARM->x86.
This is not apples to apples whatsoever. Following this logic I can run ARM programs natively on x86 hardware thanks to android using the Linux kernel in its development.
You will need a compatibility layer regardless for different hardware architectures from your own. This includes the PS3’s CELL based hardware (which is why RPCS3 needs so much power to emulate the system at good speeds). Now if you ran Linux on your PS3, there is a possibility to do this (but then you’d have to emulate x86 games on your PS3).
Sandpaper and reflashing solve the two ways that’s performed though.
Electronic component fencing has been a thing for a while (especially to regimes who aren’t supposed to have them)
Don’t let your memes be dreams
It’s not very viable compared to just generic handhelds and mini-PCs that can run emulators or pirated PC/android games.
It’s common for very low cost machines like famiclones tho.
DRM-Free files that the user can archive on their own media, in their own format, as they wish.
The ability to distribute media without shipping physical goods allows for much smaller productions to have wide releases and in some cases to make their games cheaper than otherwise required (cough, switch tax). The issue is the DRM preventing the user from making their own backups, rather than the physical product (although steam does allow you to make backups and copies of your library folder which is cool).
Cycling navigation might be a useful feature. I don’t have a phone mount for my bike and worry about the risks of damage if I did mount one.
Not to ridicule your prior decisions, but it’s been obvious since at least the xb360 days that gaming on a locked platform (console ecosystem) would always lead to the revocation of ownership and the inability to do what you wish with your own hardware and games (unless you modded them, and I recommend modding your old consoles if you still have them).
There is no future for true game ownership on a locked platform. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft understand this quite well, which is why you are lured in to a walled garden with the cheaper “cost of entry”, and have no true exit that lets you keep your stuff as they gouge you further and further.
I mean it might just shift to services like GOG. I use Bandcamp for music and don’t buy physical CDs anymore because the files are DRM-free and easy to archive. Same with GOG for games I own on it.
Now, Rockstar is definitely not doing a DRM-free release though. Hopefully a crackes version circulates eventually.
Veracrypt/LUKS encryption:
Might not be a bad idea to start learning on a separate device though, so you’ll be ready when 2032 hits.
(That’s my current setup)
Yet another reason that these platforms are just a circlejerk of insider trading that no rational actor should take part in.
A true RPCS4 Bloodbourne moment.
Plenty of highways to get outta there, man.
Ah, the wonders of FOSS gaming :)
Nice job, devs! :)
They kind of already went through the ringer with people accusing the pals of being AI generated pokemon (which was disproven by their lead artist).
More power to you - but you are a portion of Apple’s userbase that will not receive the same level of support or adoption as the mainstream userbase, and largely not emblematic of the “average MacOS customer”.
I do agree with your reasoning though (and I’d probably be much more cheerful in helping someone like you compared to the rest of my IT clientele who used Apple products as-is).
Isn’t that a Firefox fork, not a productivity suite?
Edit: realized you meant FOSS software that didn’t retain mainstream telemetry/ads
Gabe Newell famously participated in an interview about the same subject when porting The Orange Box, and as a result handed the port off to EA (which ended up running like dogshit compared to all other platforms).