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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

EAC is the only thing holding me back, and I don’t trust it on a VM since it does some deep hardware voodoo.

It’ll probably live on its own machine I only use for that purpose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Before I read the further comments I was going to say Easy Anti-cheat does work fine. Lol. You may want to write out the full name first to avoid confusion in the future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Whats EAC again? I'm always eager to learn what possible show stoppers exist for people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Exact Audio Copy

I own a lot of CDs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh interesting! What do you use for that and what is the result? Flac or other?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, FLAC. EAC has numerous checks to make sure the rip was flawless. I then either listen from my computer on speakers attached to a stereo, or I stream via Plex/Jellyfin. I have wired and wireless headphones and earbuds I use depending on what I’m doing when listening.

I already had lots of CDs before streaming was a thing, but still (more often than I’d expect) I come across albums that aren’t on any streaming platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Linux can rip FLACs, did you have any issues?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s the robust and verifiable logging I can’t give up. It’s an addiction.

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[–] dubyakay 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

EasyAntiCheat. Not sure why it'd stop them, because Proton has an EAC runtime.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Why don't we have an open source anti-cheat protocol that is a demon-level service. Everyone hates kernel anti-cheat, but only because they're close source, so why don't we have one that's open source. Seems like a simple solution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

honestly doing it server-side should be the norm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think it can work if it's open source probably. There's always ways around anti-cheat. It's only a matter of finding it. Making it open source makes it trivial.

With that said, kernel level anti-cheat doesn't really seem to slow anyone down much. I've heard that the games with them still have plenty of hackers. Why try to solve a problem with such a big weapon if it isn't going to work anyway? Best case, it potentially adds some really deep vulnerabilities to your system, and maybe slightly slows down hackers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

From my limited understanding, it seems like it's dependent on the anti-cheat itself. Riot Vanguard is pretty much the gold standard and it does deter cheating significantly more than others I've seen. Like I think I've seen 2 or 3 cheaters total in 200ish hours of Valorant. Compare that with BattleEye or EAC (Siege and Apex respectively) and you see enough cheaters that it feels like they're cheating every time you lose a fight. These are all kernel-level so it seems that kernel access is required but it also matters how good the actual anti-cheat is.

Edit: It's a bit weird with Apex thkugh because it could just as easily be the broken controller aim assist

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[–] dubyakay 2 points 3 days ago

Valve will figure it out for us and then offer it for any game published on Steam.

Dunno what state their own services are in currently for games like TF2, CS2 and Deadlock.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I still use VirtualBox with Windows 10 to launch all the Affinity products because GIMP is so bad. And for browser fingerprint protection, e.g. chrome (ungoogled) on windows, because no browser fakes it. Not mullvad, Tor or Brave.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You might like winapps for your usecase. It makes things feel more fluid if you have a PC capable of running a Windows VM at the same time.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I think GIMP is great. It does everything most people need it to do. You just have to take time to learn how to use it, just like with everything else.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago

Keep hoping.

Most users don't care that their OS is outdated or unsafe.

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