Financially, preorders without a “preorder bonus” are a zero interest loan to the developer. Preorders with the “preorder bonus” are a loan with the bonus as interest. Even if the game were guaranteed to be good, you could most likely be doing something better with the money until it comes out. Since the game is not guaranteed to be good, it is a risky loan as well. Without any of the protections you get when you make an actual loan.
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It's also helpful to note that “shell builtins” don't typically have man pages (at least for BASH). You can find help on these commands by typing [builtin name] --help or looking in the shell's man page or info doc (no one told me when I was learning, so I got confused as to why some of the more common commands didn't have man pages)
Don't worry. It was a bit ambiguous 👍
She seemed pretty cool. I can't tell if the gender envy or the competence envy (for lack of a better word) was strongest
That was the joke
This should work with some caveats.
- Tbis probably won't work on WSL (Linux needs direct access to your hardware).
- For DVDs, you need to be sure libdvdcss is installed for this to work correctly
- You probably already have this on your system if you have successfully watched a dvd in Linux.
- You may need to replace
/dev/cdromwith the name of the device file corresponding to your drive.
- This creates an exact copy of the disk, including the unallocated space. You would probably want to follow the guide https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Optical_disc_drive#Creating_an_ISO_image_from_a_CD,_DVD,_or_BD
- (@[email protected]'s use of mkisofs does the same thing because they copy the files on the disk rather than the whole disk. But you don't need makemkv. You should be able to use any method of copying the files and Linux should use libdvdcss to decrypt them.).
“deep magic”
Linux trys to treat devices like files. If you ran xxd /dev/cdrom, you would see every bit on the disk (not just those of the files, but those in the free space as well) in order from the first to the last (converted to base-16 in what is called a hexdump). Not that you need to see this, but your video player does. The “DRM cracking” is actually a feature of libdvdcss that makes it possible for the system to treat the disk this way. dd is just a general copying command and if Stack Exchange is to be believed, it isn't necessarily the best option (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12532/dd-vs-cat-is-dd-still-relevant-these-days). But it probably is necessary for the linked guide to work because it has dd truncate the file.
edit: caveats is note spalled caceats
edit: file → files on the disk
So amazing, but also so frustrating watching a stick figure guy get better than me in math in 15 minutes
Trivial exercise.
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Just change all the boxes so they all read “Chat GPT-4.”
Yeah. Sorry. I figured it was possible that you were using desktop or something and maybe you'd just not realized it wasn't visible on mobile
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That's certainly true. I'd still say that for the online stores, for which that policy applies, there isn't a lot of upside to preordering. Because the purchase is digital, you will always be able to get a copy on release day (unless the publisher artificially limits how many games it will sell, but I've never heard of a publisher doing this).