Not to beat a dead horse in a dead thread, but today something amusing happened in the software industry that I'm not sure how many people here will know about.
In the games industry, which has a strong influence upon on many of the same hardware and software technologies found in our music workstations, they've decided to take advantage of the Trusted Processing Module (TPM) that I was discussing weeks ago with regards to deeper integration with Microsoft and their ecosystems.
The game 'Madden 2025' actively blocks Proton/wine users on Linux, blocks steam deck usage, and blocks any personal computers who lack the TPM module seen in newer systems. I'm reading the angry comments flooding in on their review site from people who paid *$70-100* for the latest sportsball game, only to find out they are banned from running it on a variety of machines.
Something to consider, rhetorically at least, to do with accepting deeper integration into those ecosystems.
In the games industry, which has a strong influence upon on many of the same hardware and software technologies found in our music workstations, they've decided to take advantage of the Trusted Processing Module (TPM) that I was discussing weeks ago with regards to deeper integration with Microsoft and their ecosystems.
The game 'Madden 2025' actively blocks Proton/wine users on Linux, blocks steam deck usage, and blocks any personal computers who lack the TPM module seen in newer systems. I'm reading the angry comments flooding in on their review site from people who paid *$70-100* for the latest sportsball game, only to find out they are banned from running it on a variety of machines.
Something to consider, rhetorically at least, to do with accepting deeper integration into those ecosystems.
Statistics: Posted by Milkman — Wed Aug 14, 2024 9:38 pm