WASM and WebGL(/WebGPU when it gets widely supported) are absolute magic. These days, you hardly have to choose between web and other options.

Take your slop machines elsewhere.

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Yeah, I went ahead and did so. Maybe on a forgiveness-rather-than-permission basis. We’ll see what, if anything, comes of it.

Is there anything that shouldn’t be free?

Pirates might have to get more creative, but it’s possible.

Proxies that scrape and save server-side data while you play, going through as many areas as possible, for instance.

Even if the communication between client and server is encrypted, the client can’t decrypt if it doesn’t have the key. And if the key is on your computer, it can be procured.

Reimplementing the server from scratch can certainly be necessary in a lot of cases as well, of course.

Piracy will always be possible.

This feels super weird. Would they turn liberals away if they showed up? (Or at least tell them to go protest across the street because “this side is for anti-globalists” or whatever.) I dunno, just seems odd to try to create a popular movement specifically by alienating people who would agree with them on that particular issue.

I might have to make a community called “downvote unpopular opinions” with the specific purpose of posting unpopular opinions so that they can be downvoted.

Hey, fuck yo-

Oh, it’s in /c/unpopularopinion. sigh. upvote.

I thought Donlon had broken up.

XP was bad enough to make me switch, and it was very arguably the “best” version of Windows ever.

Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag

But they repeat themselves.

First off, as others have said, Wine and ReactOS benefit each others’ development.

But second, for those folks, particularly less-tech-savvy ones, who feel like they “have to” use Windows for one reason or another, “Windows except FOSS” seems a much easier and more tempting option than “Linux but tries to be like Windows”. I do think that argument is a bit less compelling than it once was, but for sure, if ReactOS was “done” and fully compatible with Windows 11 or whatever, my mother, for instance, would be beyond thrilled to switch to that. As it is, she’s kinda sorta starting to come around to the idea of using Linux maybe at some point, but she fears the learning curve. (And I very much don’t blame her for that.)

Lindows “rebranded” because Microsoft sued them for trademark infringement. They’ve been “Linspire” since… 2004, I think?

Na, Lindows was just Linux that looked like Windows (kinda). ReactOS is FOSS Windows, no Linux kernel involved. It’s an original kernel which apes Windows as closely as possible. The idea is that hopefully, some day, it’ll be a full drop-in replacement for Windows with full support for Windows software, no compatibility layer (e.g. no Wine) required.

Wow. That’s super shitty that’s becoming necessary for some projects. But I don’t fault the Ladybird folks for deciding this was necessary.