PlasticExistence
@PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trying to pick a printer 2 days ago:
I think I like what I see out of the Qidi brand, but I don’t have any experience with them.
I would be interested in a review post from you should you decide to go that way.
- Comment on Trying to pick a printer 3 days ago:
If you haven’t made a decision yet, Formbot has 350mm Voron 2.4 kits back in stock. They ship from Czech Republic or China.
The Sovol SV08 is a good option too if you don’t feel like building from scratch.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 4 days ago:
You’re okay by me!
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 4 days ago:
The Bleem case is a separate issue from creating a backup copy protected by DRM
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 5 days ago:
The law is all about those technicalities.
I don’t agree with any of that noise around the DMCA for the record. I feel like we effectively lost our right to archival copies.
On a PC, what you said about copying the DRM along with the data is largely true. It is possible sometimes to copy the DRM and reproduce the image with the DRM intact. It also might not be depending upon the copy protection mechanism. Commercial video DVDs used to employ tricks with the storage sector that made it almost impossible to properly copy by a standard computer disc drive. You could get around this with additional program like AnyDVD, but that was only available for sale outside the USA because of the fact that it allowed you to bypass DRM.
And like you said, the content can be encrypted. Decrypting it is, IIRC, considered bypassing DRM - at least in the USA.
Again, I don’t agree that this is how things should be, but the legality of emulation is complicated depending upon what we’re talking about emulating.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 5 days ago:
I would be interested in that case if you find it. I spend a lot of time thinking about emulation and the surrounding stuff.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 5 days ago:
The emulation itself is legal, assuming you’re not using any copyrighted code, BIOS, etc. to make work.
The backup copy of your game that you need can be made legally as well, but in the USA, if the source contains a form of DRM, then you cannot legally make a copy.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 5 days ago:
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
In the USA, it is illegal to make a backup copy of any of your media when the original contains any form of DRM.
On any media where DRM wasn’t used, you’re okay to create a backup copy.
The law is different everywhere though.
- Comment on is there is any Lemmy server that care about privacy(does not require email), Does not impose limits on community posts like my current instance and does not have high amount of restrictions? 1 week ago:
I don’t dislike the Adam’s Family nor the Munsters, but I have blocked both communities because they each had a ton of submissions on the same day, and they were dominating my feed.
There’s nothing wrong with slowly submitting content. Submitting too much, too quickly makes it hard to distinguish from spam.
Just my opinion. I understand that you are looking to build something, and therefore you probably disagree on submission frequency.
- Comment on Were people happier in the past? 2 weeks ago:
I have this thought experiment I have been running in my head for years now. Don’t read too much into this, it’s just daydreaming.
Essentially, this existence is something that can be experienced from some higher dimension where other beings live. For whatever reason, they choose to enter our dimension and live a full life here before waking back up in their own.
Assuming the ‘me’ that exists here at least resembles the ‘Me’ in that higher dimension, why would I choose to come to this part of human history?
The answer is that I came to witness the height of human civilization and technology before that same technology ends humanity.
</daydream>
I sincerely hope I’m wrong about that, but the curses of this age have yet to be truly felt in my opinion.
You’re a history buff. Do you think that humanity has ever dealt with a greater concentration of wealth and power?
- Comment on 3D Printed Home Server – 6 Bay ZimaBoard NAS : 6 Steps (with Pictures) 2 weeks ago:
Very cool. Looks professional!
I printed a seven bay case, but for 3.5”spinning rust instead of SSDs. It was an ambitious thing to print when I had just started printing. It took something like 300 hours of printing and 4 spools of filament (inflated due to reprints).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There’s no meaningful difference in the eyes of the law
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You’re suggesting he kidnaps a minor?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Exceptionally bad advice
- Comment on I "found" this brick today on my walk home. I'ma keep it. Maybe put googlie eyes on it. Name it Brichard. 3 weeks ago:
I do not, but I’ve built fireplaces from brick. I can appreciate them more than your average person
- Comment on I "found" this brick today on my walk home. I'ma keep it. Maybe put googlie eyes on it. Name it Brichard. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 3D Printing A Modular Guitar Means It Can Look Like Whatever You Want 3 weeks ago:
Yeah they can get ugly there. It’s been a pissing contest for decades on just about every post. I do remember a time where people were just helpful and passionate about hardware hacking, but the web has an incredible amount of people on it now compared to how many were online when Hack A Day started 30-odd years ago
- Comment on I "found" this brick today on my walk home. I'ma keep it. Maybe put googlie eyes on it. Name it Brichard. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 3D Printing A Modular Guitar Means It Can Look Like Whatever You Want 3 weeks ago:
First time with comments on Hack A Day?
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 3 weeks ago:
You want all this from someone you say is highly suicidal. You understand that you would be setting yourself up for failure, don’t you?
If she’s not in a good place, then your relationship will suffer. You need to be realistic here.
- Comment on Holy shit I got Retro Achievements working on my Pi Gameboy! Lmao this is so cool. I get to achievement hunt in my favorite game, earthbound after 30 years. Amazing 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on His name is Carcin and he loves toes 🤗 4 weeks ago:
He was delicious
- Comment on This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii 5 weeks ago:
Missed opportunity for NetBSWii
- Comment on you are now witnessing the peak of online discourse 5 weeks ago:
Terrence and Philip?
- Comment on Doom the dark ages... 1 month ago:
Same reason I still haven’t played Black Myth Wukong
- Comment on Awooo 1 month ago:
He was delicious
- Comment on Rate my setup 1 month ago:
Pretty good, but needs more bean varieties
- Comment on godosaur 1 month ago:
Yoshi!!
- Comment on Trine Was a Masterpiece. Why Doesn’t Anyone Remember? 1 month ago:
You live long enough and you start to see the elements of a new game’s DNA. Most games build on another that came before it. For example, Undertale takes a lot of inspiration from EarthBound.
What this has meant for me is that new games have a harder time really gripping my attention because I often think “well, that part was fun, but this other mechanic was much better implemented in this other game.”
I don’t have the patience anymore - nor the free time - to stick with any game that doesn’t do something special. And for me, gameplay is more important than anything else. Great visuals don’t make up for unfun game mechanics.
To each their own, of course.
- Comment on Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages 1 month ago:
Sorry, boss, but this girl-on-girl playlist is to protect our sensitive data from Microsoft
