Vigilance. Resource monitoring and network traffic monitoring. The occasional scan with anti malware tools to catch known bad actors.
I use malwarebytes when someone needs a scan, though they got naggy enough that I uninstalled it right after using it for my grandfather. Other monitoring IDK. LittleSnitch is popular on Mac but I have no personal experience with it.
It absolutely is. There's nothing out there in the past thousand years that isn't based on other prior art, copyright law only replies to direct copies, and there are explicit cutouts past that that allow you to directly copy some things if your work is transformative.
The fun in any game is all of it.
They're taking away stuff to sell back to you. It's not possible to have microtransactions in your game and be a decent human being.
Derivative works are only copyright violations when they replicate substantial portions of the original without changes.
The entirety of human civilization is derivative works. Derivative works aren't infringement.
Paid cosmetics mean that you don't earn the cosmetics through normal gameplay. It fundamentally sabotages the way progression and rewards work, replacing fun, user serving game design with cash grabbing addiction mechanics.
There is literally no circumstance where any microtransaction is forgivable. The mere existence of microtransactions irreparably destroys the experience.
Their algorithm sucks and I'm perfectly happy minimizing my exposure to it, but the whole premise behind video suggestions is that it's based on what you like. You could try to replicate it with subscription lists instead, but the bottom line is the feature as it is doesn't really work without knowing what you watch.
It would be interesting to see them be made to actually delete shit they allegedly shouldn't have.
I don't even sort of see how this particular case has merit when chrome outright tells you that incognito mode means nothing at all to any website you visit, but "torch everything illegitimate" sounds fun as hell to enforce.
The rules valve gave for verified is that it has to perform out of the box. The fact that they don't stick to that is a huge disservice.
It's supposed to work well on the out of the box settings to be verified. Manual adjustment shouldn't be higher than playable.
It also probably doesn't deserve verified. It's playable, but I had to manually lower settings and use FSR.
But Larian aren't the ones who decide that so IDK what they're mad at Larian for. Do they want them to add traps so it crashes on Linux lol?
A week is plenty of time to do it right. It's not like you're asking someone who doesn't know algebra to do a video teaching advanced calculus in a week.
The etched glass is a significant value add. Matte protectors aren't comparable.
Whether that's worth the premium is up to you, but it helps a lot in harsh lighting.