fwiw, every week or so there is a scheduled task that permanently overwrites contents of deleted comments.

fyi @freamon@lemmy.world

The OEM version is working fine, as the drivers are embedded there. My point was that without this recovery partition you tend to run into issues on newer devices, as the MS bundled drivers get updated only infrequently.

even on Windows 10/11, I’m still frequently hearing about issues at work where the necessary ssd drivers are only included in the default windows installer (not the recovery shipped with the device) like half a year later. at least with Dell this seems to be a common theme.

I have a large library of games I’ve never played on stream. a couple months back I wanted to play a game I had installed a while ago and guess what, forced always online. not from steam, but from the shitty team behind doom (don’t remember which version it was), which just happened to be at the time I had a multi hour internet outage.
afterwards I figured out I had to explicitly block some network traffic to stop it from trying to force me to sign up for an account with the developer.

while steam certainly has DRM options, they are configurable by developers and afaik can’t enforce an always online requirement with just steam, only though custom logic in the game or third party DRM. developers are also free to not use steam DRM.

DRM, as usual, harms the legitimate buyers.

that being said, steam still does bring a lot of value, such as their hardware developments, their work on better Linux gaming support, the update distribution through a trusted source, and various others.

you’re not getting banned from steam, you’re generally getting banned from participating in anti cheat secured lobbies of a single game or a group of games.

single player experience is generally not affected.

having a 3 strike system before getting banned from multiplayer just means it’s 66% cheaper for a cheater to get a new copy of the game.

this is also not new and has been the case for the current family sharing system as well.

how about “silly”? “stupid”?

unlike on reddit, you can edit your post title here on lemmy.

I keep trying but it keeps asking me to set up an account. eventually it accepts that I set up an account named root, but it won’t let me continue without an account.

🥇

reporting absolutely helps. it increases visibility for content that slipped through automated moderation and having more reports for content indicates urgency.

here’s also some more context and explanation about what’s going on:

https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psdqurvye
https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psnooe6p1
https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9pth6oh3xr

why not?

based on the sticker logic, it’s clearly not

The report did indeed show up, so that is something we can work with.

Since Lemmy 0.19.3 0.19.2, reports are also sent to the user’s instance admins in addition to the reporter’s instance admins (and community instance mods/admins where applicable).
Keep in mind that you can’t report the same item multiple times and the same text will be sent to all involved instances and their admins/community mods.

at that point you’ll just discourage any new users if they have to gamble on whether or not their content is actually seen by anyone. account age really isn’t a good indicator of anything other than soemone being dedicated enough to spam. considering this isn’t the first wave of csam attacks, i can assure you that whoever is targeting lemmy with this is determined enough that account age won’t deter them for long, they’ll just have to slightly adjust their playbook.

that doesn’t do anything, they’ll just register accounts in advance and wait some days.

we’ve even had spam recently from accounts that had been dormant for months, although it was a different kind of spam.

account deletion does not federate in general, only banning (+ content removal) does

no, they’re getting a lot of downvotes because it’s spam.

they’re not interested in legitimate discussion, they only need to promote the spam links at the end of the post.

I ate fiber but now my internet is down. what do I do?

have you seen someone with a 90° asymmetric face yet?