I backed up all the old files minutes before the update went through. Pretty sure it can be played on LAN wit some tinkering, so also online with hamachi/gameranger/zero tier/radmin VPN.
But yea, the old matchmaking is gone now. It does make some sense to scrap it, so the player base doesn't get split, but an option to play 'legacy csgo' would be nice.
You can probably even rollout your own matchmaking for csgo. People did it for dota 2. There are older modified dots 2 versions out there where people have setup custom matchmaking servers (iirc)
I highly doubt it. Stadia shutdown, while the Switch and Steam Deck are both a huge success. The latency in cloud gaming and reliability on having a stable network connection are still issues for many people. Not just that, but I don't think most gamers want to pay for another subscription which will always be a thing for cloud gaming and even then you still need some kind of hardware to play on anyway, so why not a good handheld? Even PC manufacturers like Asus are making their own handheld (RoG Ally), Switch 2 and Steam Deck 2 are basically guaranteed. If anything handhelds will just keep getting better and seem to be increasing in market share.
Oatmeal + milk warmed in the microwave for a minute, then add fresh or dried fruit. That's the only cereal I will eat. Everything else is tastes like cardboard or candy for kids.
True, but the main game is similarly plagued by some of the worst cheats I've ever encountered in an online game and I'm almost certain there are some serious security vulnerabilities to be found there.
I stopped playing when some cheater impersonated me in the game chat and then crashed my game, after I insulted them (mostly out of curiosity to see what else their cheats can do). It's just so far beyond what happens with cheats in other online games. I've also heard of people being followed by cheaters across game sessions and being DDOSed.
The only thing that's similarly bad to the cheats in GTA Online is (the original) Modern Warfare 2 which has had RCEs.
> True, but the main game is similarly plagued by some of the worst cheats I've ever encountered in an online game
Why is it even possible for a player to change the entire map for all players on the server to winter? Why is it even possible to "attach" a helicopter to someone's head? Why is it even possible for players to spontaneously burst into flames, even after dying and respawning?
These are dumbfounding "cheats" that only exist to troll players. I have no idea why the client/server even accepts these environment changes. It seems really easy to prevent...
If things are so frozen that you can't open System Monitor (task manager), try this: Hold down SysRq and Alt, let go of SysRq, keep holding down Alt, then press these buttons in order (don't need to hold them): REISUB - to remember it: "Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring", also known as "raising the elephant".
On some systems you need to enable this feature first, so try it out once to see if it works and look up how to enable it, if it doesn't.
On most distros, you can also get into a command line, with the combination CTRL + ALT + F1 - F8 (try out which function keys do it for you and how to get back to the GUI). There you can use `ps`, `kill <pid>`, `reboot now` or restart the GUI. I'd keep a note of the exact commands on my phone just in case.
As a sidenote, I've had an issue on a good windows desktop PC where it freezes when watching YouTube or ither streaming services. I can still move the mouse for a bit, but clicking does nothing and I'm unable to even save it from a hard reset with Ctrl + Alt + Delete. Sometimes it won't happen for weeks, but if I'm unlucky multiple times in an hour. Look up "PC freezes while watching YouTube" and you will see I'm far from alone with this issue, Asus motherboards with new AMD processors seem to be the common factor. Haven't had this happen on Linux yet (dual boot) and I've tried everything to avoid these unusual freezes in windows, but nothing seems to help.
Are you on Windows 11? There is an ongoing fTPM issue with AMD firmware that can cause behavior like that. I had this issue and ultimately just disabled TPM in the BIOS. Its supposed to be required for Win 11, but I haven't seen any issues since disabling.
Well this is the perfect example of the infuriatingly arcane crap that I have to deal with on Linux. Every time I need to do something on Linux, I have to look it up and then when I do - it is some crazy long explanation of hoops I need to jump through to make it happen. I try to keep track of these notes, but it all takes so much time.
I am hoping someone comes up with a fully dis-arcaned distro. Especially ditch (or remap) goofy command line relics into the obvious and easily remembered. Why do we still use CP instead of Copy? Legacy stuff that greybeards would freak if it were changed. Let them use a greybeard distro and make one that is for joe user.
Yes, I use Mint and it is still full of arcane crap.
Sarah O'Connor writes an article about a human dying from a factory robot
In the Terminator movies, Sarah Connor leads the resistance and her son is the leader of the future resistance. The machines try to kill her and her child. The whole movie is about robots killing humans and Sarah's efforts to save humanity from robots.
Sarah O'Connor the FT reporter appears too young to have watched the movies and/or remember the movies (1984, 1992) gets deluge of Twitter engagement given her article and her name.
For whomever hasnt seem the original two Terminator movies, the are absolutely huge culture moments for robotics and AI. Part II is also a cautionary tale about scientists who dont think about the effects of their work.
I stupidly got into FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) in one of the games from a cellphone couple years ago. I mistakenly assumed that your team from one annual release of FIFA would carry over to the next release, but I was shocked to find out that this isn't the case. EA basically deletes players FUT progress every year! Thankfully I didn't spend any money on it, so it was just time spent which was at least kind of fun, but I know some friends who have sunk a couple hundred bucks into it and they continue to buy and play the next game. I'm baffled that people put up with this. I will never touch FIFA again, until this changes. At least Fanatics can't delete your trading cards and you can resell them. Until there are similar guarantees for digital items, I don't think they will have nearly the same appeal. Valve has been the only company I know of that has done this decently with TF2, CSGO and Dota 2 skins.
I think the issue you have is real, but perhaps not quite in the way you think? if you have the full game on a console/PC, you can continue to play with your team from the previous year until maybe 3 or 4 years on when they turn off the servers, and all your work is lost forever. that's the thing I have an issue with. I'd love to go back and play with my teams from FIFA 13 or 15, but they're lost to the wind, or at least somewhere within EA's archives, at best
Your issue is an issue with the way they implement the app, which has always been a bit of an afterthought to the main game in general. Still a valid issue and must have been extremely annoying, but I suspect your case might be quite unusual in that you came into it via the app, rather than the main title. however admittedly I'm not as au fait with the FIFA world as I used to be, so that may be more common than I assume
I see at least one very good reason why this shoud be possible: old phones. Reusing old phones as a webserver seems like a good idea to me, since they were built for power efficiency (unlike old PCs) and would otherwise simply end up as e-waste in a landfill or discarded, forgotten in a drawer somewhere.
Maybe it's because I use LineageOS (and Cyanogen mod before that), but I never even knew that there were problems with being able to run a web server on android. Just recently, while I was bored on a train ride, I used the Fdroid app Lightweight Web Server (LWS) to send some files to a friend on iPhone for which I would otherwise have no easier way of doing (whatsapp upload is slower and filesize is limited). I move the files into the folder, prepare the HTML file a bit, then my friend sets up a wifi hotspot, I connect and tell my friend to enter the IP-Address or scan a QR code. Works nicely for me (although weirdly it doesn't work if I create the hotspot. I need to connect to theirs, I wonder why)
Even if this is something I only use rarely, using a phone that can't do something this simple is unacceptable to me. It's satisfying in itself that I don't want my phone manufacturer to arbitrarily limit what the hardware can and cannot do. Would I suggest running a business website off my phone? No. I doubt it's secure, performance is limited, ddos would be a possible issue. Do I still want to be able to do silly things with the devices I purchase? Absolutely.
Another point, if I remember correctly, a cellphone mesh network of some kind was useful for Hong Kong protestors at one point at least.
I don't think the guy is suggesting phones are great general purpose servers people should host online services on.
On their own, they are small and efficient. Proper servers need 10x, 100x, or more power just to boot. Sure, AMD has some amazingly efficient Zen 4 cores now. But cores don't exist in a vacuum. Just spinning the fans on such a machine consumes more power than a phone could even dissipate.
Not saying about what and where anyone should run, all I'm claiming is that mobile phones aren't actually that efficient, they just sleep a lot and that's how they get low power draw
> Would I suggest running a business website off my phone? No. I doubt it's secure, performance is limited, ddos would be a possible issue. Do I still want to be able to do silly things with the devices I purchase? Absolutely.
Running a web server on a mostly-trusted LAN for 5 minutes doesn't sound like the security risk you're trying to paint it as
Your friend creates the hotspot, you connect to it like any other WiFi network and then for the address, they enter the IP of your phone which is shown on the lws app or it can be scanned as a qr code. (It doesn't work for some reason, if you create the hotspot. I don't know why. I edited my previous post to correct this detail)
Not OP but I would try something with a .1 ending, deriving the first three bytes from the client phone's IP. Although, when creating a hotspot, Android might make a new network namespace for it so you still wouldn't be able to connect to the web server.
I tried submitting the link to Outline and it didn't work on Chrome or Edge from EU... the site might be having an issue of some kind or it's just this particular link. Recently I tried it for something else and it only worked on Edge, strangely enough. It's annoying that it doesn't "just work", like it did before.
The new water looks good too.