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The push to live services, online DRM, microtransactions, DLC and other such things is because they have identified that there is more money to be made as a ‘server operator’ than a ‘game developer.’

They don’t really care about getting paid for the game, they’d rather give it away for free if they can make more money off controlling the servers.

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It’s mostly up to which manufacturers allow boot loader unlocking.

The pixels are somewhat a continuation of the nexus line which were more developer centric.

That’s a better way to frame it.

The patch is ‘about as open source as you can get’ but the actual application is far from it.

My understanding is that it literally can’t be used in an open fashion since it critically requires a proprietary closed base.

Some source code is available but the entire thing is not open source.

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There’s plenty of other options for cloud storage out there.

The issue, especially with Apple devices, is how cleanly they integrate into the device and people’s existing habits.

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No text mode is HDMI with a 3070, the monitor does have HDMI compatibility in the options but it’s off.
The no scaling was displayport, but AMD RX 5700 to a GSync display so that might have been the issue because it did actually work fine with NVIDIA cards.

I tend to get the kind of Linux issues nobody believes.
Currently my installation “works” but none of the text mode boot up stuff displays at all so I have to dig out a spare screen if it gets stuck there.
Another screen I could never get the display scaling to work no matter what I did - I tried swapping cables, editing the resolution manually, different drivers, different distros, everything I could think of but it would always output 640x480 native pixels unscaled as a tiny square in the middle of the screen.

Windows gives me issues but it usually just works with every screen+gpu combination.