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Cake day: February 10th, 2025

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  • Developers who use kernel anti-cheat don’t support Linux because userspace anti-cheat is largely pointless. It doesn’t matter if you personally don’t care, the companies that want anti-cheat do care.

    The workaround for kernel anti-cheat requires hundreds of USD in hardware. The workaround for userspace anti-cheat is entirely software.

    Because of this, you will have less cheaters if cheating has a $500 price tag. That’s why kernel anti-cheat is effective, there’s no way for that to be solved with a WINE patch.








  • Tl;dr, 3 new revelations:

    • The NSA listed Cavium, an American semiconductor company marketing Central Processing Units (CPUs) – the main processor in a computer which runs the operating system and applications – as a successful example of a “SIGINT-enabled” CPU supplier. Cavium, now owned by Marvell, said it does not implement back doors for any government.
    • The NSA compromised lawful Russian interception infrastructure, SORM. The NSA archive contains slides showing two Russian officers wearing jackets with a slogan written in Cyrillic: “You talk, we listen.” The NSA and/or GCHQ has also compromised Key European LI [lawful interception] systems.
    • Among example targets of its mass surveillance program, PRISM, the NSA listed the Tibetan government in exile.



  • 75C is fine, the CPU will throttle in order to avoid max temps. This isn’t something that should cause instability.

    It’s POSSIBLE that this is a bug that’s fixed with a microcode update, see here for installing it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Microcode

    TL;DR:

    1. Install amd-ucode
    2. Edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, add microcode after autodetect
    3. sudo mkinitcpio -P
    4. reboot

    If that doesn’t fix it, and it crashes in Windows too, it may be a hardware problem. There isn’t much you need to do in order to get a CPU working.






  • However, they absolutely are able to ban you from a store for not complying. How effective a ban is at a store that sees thousands of people walking in every day, I’m not sure. But it’s something to keep in mind if you have limited other options nearby.

    This.

    Don’t take the advice of ‘Ignore them and push past them’. You can get trespassed by LP and if you’re caught in that store again it is a misdemeanor and you’ll be arrested, processed into the local jail and have to post bond.

    Your store may not do this but it is completely within their right to trespass anybody for any reason and if they’re a store with a lot of theft then they’re more likely to target the people who are attempting to bypass their screening.

    They’re standing there during time periods where there is likely to be theft so that, if they’re clued in by LP, they can stop an individual and check their receipts. The average customer they’re going to simply look at your receipt and let you go on your way because they have no reason to suspect you. If they thought that you specifically were stealing then they’d be inventorying your cart.