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With any decently sufficient backend data analysis, you catch these folks just as easy.

No you can't. Using server side analysis of behaviour will always get false positives, especially as ML networks are getting better and better at reproducing normal player behaviour.

Your server side logic can't detect wall hacks, ESPs etc.

which basically just keeps the lazy people out

That's better than nothing. Cheating will always be possible (see DMA devices), but as long as you make it reasonably hard to put most people off it, that's a success.

cannot completely control the environment

But applications should be able to attest the environment is not modified, which is what desktop Linux lacks. Windows, macOS and Android do have methods to do this.

like a user's physical hardware, you're fighting a losing battle

The alternative is no releases on PC.

Fortnite doesn't actively oppose Linux, compared to Roblox cheating which keeps a lot of logic on the server, cheating on Fortnite on the client has a more bigger impact.

Unfortunately there's no way to properly ship a kernel level anti-cheat on Linux right now and none of the mainstream distros ship with any kind of attestation or OS verification out the box like Android does.

SteamOS could change it here though, we'll see. I don't have much hope given the thing doesn't even use Secure Boot by default.

software installed and updated manually from vetted repos only

So something most desktop Linux users don't do.

4G is ending up as the replacement to 2G as the base network. I suspect 5G networks will be shut down before 4G ones given IoT devices are largely setting on the low power variants of LTE.

FYI, Android has had zRAM support since KitKat, which is from (checking notes) 2013. Same year as iOS.

iOS compresses regular pages, it doesn't need to go through the swap system to compress/decompress them.

This imho should end up having better savings and performance. zswap when it gains support for non-swap usage may close the gap.

How much of that internal tooling was related or shared with Oppo?

I preferred OnePlus over Oppo simply because OnePlus phones visually look cleaner, despite likely being from the same design team.

It seems Oppo (and Chinese OEMs in general) are allergic to symmetrical camera bumps.

Oppo owns OnePlus completely.

There used to be BBK Electronics that owned both, but it split up and OnePlus got placed under Oppo.

To be fair, the situation of the Falklands is very different to Gibraltar.

The Falklands were never Argentinian. The "native" inhabitants are the ones currently living there.

Spain ceded Gibraltar under the Treaty of Utrecht.

Russia says the same thing about Ukraine.

but not for a developer

I disagree. Immutable distros are great for developers, you set your dev env up in a container environment and when it goes pear shape you can just tear it down and start again without needing to worry about leaving a mess on your host OS.

You can't "sudo make install"

You can if you're going to target /usr/local, which should be where make install installs if it's following the FHS correctly.

Microsoft is responsible for the updates on a Lenovo.

Because it's their operating system and their live services?

Just like Microsoft with Windows.

That doesn't work when someone has multiple or virtual cards. That also means if someone steals my phone they get my credit card too.

Not a great solution.

There's a fair amount of blame there, but it's also partially how Android has to be compiled/built for the hardware.

Unfortunately it still requires OEMs to ship that kernel.

We should be fighting against SafetyNet and similar attestation systems. The proper solution is one we had with desktop computing for decades. If you keep the key material on your eID or bank card

So you want a bank card/ID card to be required each time you use Google Pay? What's the point of Google Pay then.

Considering that it's rare to get kernel (or any) updates on non-flagship phones

How the cluster f*k of the Android update situation Google has allowed this to happen really needs a regulator to step in.

Planned obsolescence is supposed to be illegal in Europe.

External HDDs.

Nearly every law pushed by the EU Commission has support from the EU Council.

Chat control is no different.

You can use system APIs to get the memory space of another application in Windows as long as their run by the same user.

However iirc processes can opt out of this so only administrators can.

In my opinion, the debate about kernel anti-cheat on Windows is fear-mongering

I don't think a lot of people who complain about kernel anti-cheat actually play competitive games.

If you're in the kernel you at least have raw access to the USB controller and input events, thus can try pick out real mouses from fake ones.

Riot went as far as pushing a UEFI firmware update to Valorant players to close a hardware attack — the first time an anti-cheat has reached below the operating system to change your firmware

I don't believe Vanguard did this at all? It told users they need to update their firmware to play, it didn't touch the firmware itself.

Cheats started in user space, so anti-cheat moved into the kernel to see them. Cheats followed into the kernel, and then below it into hypervisors

I think cheats moved into kernel space before anti-cheats did.

Even with a rooted phone you can't mess or snoop on data in the trusted execution environment

A rooted phone can have a modified runtime/kernel that can inject code into whatever processes it sees fit, including Google Pay.

Which can expose information being sent to and read from the TEE by the app.

Plain wrong. PSD3 does not apply to "digital wallets" [1] ("This Directive also does not cover, in its scope, the provision of technical services including processing or the operation of digital wallets.").

The legislation still applies to the bank behind Google Pay.

Compared to some other cc TLDs (like .ly, .ga) that are used for domain hacks, at least the ones for the BoTs (.sh, .ai, etc) are politically stable.

How many people would have played if it wasn't on Game Pass though? I doubt many.

Expedition 33 was on game pass and still sold 8 million copies.

I think some of these game studios got so content with Microsoft constantly paying that they forgot to make games that would actually sell.

South of Midnight took 7 years to make and cost $100 million to make... yet sold hardly any copies and I'm not even sure who they were trying to make it for.

Meanwhile you have studios like Sandfall and Warhorse pumping out games on a fraction of the budget that ship millions (and imho, make better games).