I had a peritonsillar abscess and it took a long time to heal up even after the antibiotics. The doctor was proposing that I have my tonsils removed but I decided to wait and see. Supposedly this is a rare complication that can develop after a bad sore throat. I’m really careful about sore throats now.

I can’t say I’ve noticed. I’ve had a bad cold and one particularly bad throat infection (left it for a week then it was diagnosed as strep throat and fixed with antibiotics, but had lingering symptoms for a long time) that took months to resolve since, but run-of-the-mill colds seem the same to me.

Did you catch Covid? How bad was it, if you did?

It will ruin the experience for anyone playing competitively in a ranked mode, which means invalidating that mode entirely. This drives players away from competitive games like CS, Valorant, etc. which is why those games all use anti-cheats.

Similarly if there is a persistent world or some state that the game relies on to make the game fun for everyone, e.g. extraction shooter, MMORPG, etc then if the game state’s integrity is compromised it loses meaning entirely. Imagine playing chess but your opponent can move the pieces any way they like; it stops being a game.

I do agree that games where everyone agrees on cheating should allow it.

All client anti-cheat have server components, otherwise they will be bypassed.

I love how in every anticheat discussion someone who actually knows something about how games work get downvoted into oblivion.

You can if you’re a spider

Khalifa,

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know why you are asking. If you are looking for closure, I can tell you that I won’t give you any. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let this go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and you will know what a Marine Biologist does.

Regards

This IMHO is the main feature setting Google Maps apart from the FOSS maps. I wonder what the best way of getting it to be FOSS is? Is it getting the public transport companies to provide programmatic access to their scheduling?

Fair point, but there’s quite a large hurdle to rooting a phone nowadays, and I’m not optimistic that FOSS will continue to work as well on Android for the average person once Google introduces these restrictions. iPhones could be jailbroken but there never really was much open source software on those things.

That’s egregious and really will impede using open source software on Android. Guess my phone will turn into a device for tethering now, instead.

How will this be enforced?

Why would I want Android on PC?

That’s curious, I wonder why? I’ll include the official Sony page on it in the post too.

https://opendevices.ix5.org/

There is still this. SONY’s phones are expensive, unfortunately.

Can you explain why? Does your threat model involve nation state actors compromising your phone physically?

Shape of Dreams didn’t have any trouble, apparently.

You can also science cooking. Meat thermometers are absolutely fantastic.

Yes, that’s right, so I did. I wanted to have a go to see what it was about, though, and I found that root was more important for me than the security that GOS purports to offer.

And when Google itself is one of your threat actors, literally the world’s worst solution that provides the barest modicum of protection against Google is by definition more secure.

This was what I learned.

I’ve done something similar trying to get root on Graphene OS, since I’m more far more concerned about corporations than nation-state actors. It can be done, but isn’t worth the trouble, especially since it doesn’t completely work and GOS updates may break it. Long story short, GOS wasn’t for me.

For anyone else who might be interested in trying to root GOS, take a look here: https://github.com/schnatterer/rooted-graphene I believe this to be likely the most comprehensive source for getting started.