apparently it’ll pwrma lock itself after x amounts of invalid passwords which is just incredibly stupid. But don’t worry, there is a backup key! Yeah, that is lie

If you only used TPM for bitlocker with no pre-boot authentication or something similar, it’s possible that you had the “MaxDevicePasswordFailedAttempts” policy configured. Apparently that is configured by default if you use the security baseline.

IMO it makes a lot of sense to lockdown and require bitlocker recovery if there has been a few failed attempts.

We use bitlocker on probably over 1000 devices I don’t believe we had any substantial issues with it. Of course users occasionally get locked out, but that should be planned for and a process should be in place to help them.

I suggest deploying windows hello or smart cards to reduce the dependency on passwords. Window hello for business is especially great since it’s free, secure and way easier and faster for users to use, especially if your devices have fingerprint readers or face recognition. I wish Linux and MacOS had anything as useful as Windows Hello.

Pretty sure the new Call of Duty games work like that.

In the case of normal apps like PayPal graphics shouldn’t be a huge factor since it should be vectorized and there is pretty much no graphics in apps like PayPal.

The issue comes from frameworks.

You have to pay if you want to stop a year’s commitment early. Iirc you have to pay half of what you promised you would pay them over the year. So if you changed your mind it’s cheaper to cancel than to continue paying for the months you have left.

If you sign a contract agreeing to their terms (and receive a discount in exchange) you have to follow them. The same goes for any other contract where you have a year’s commitment like for an ISP. It’s all pretty standard.

Is it annoying? Yeah obviously but they make it pretty damn clear when ordering that it’s a year’s commitment and that you receive a discount. Any reasonable individual should be able to figure out why you get a discount.

They could try doing something. I dunno maybe trading limits and/or time-outs combined with DMCA takedowns.

Maybe the cost of setting up casinos isn’t very high but it takes time to build up trust from consumers and get customers.

If they can shutdown the biggest casinos that are sponsoring YouTubers and competitions that’s at least a decent win.

I never said that they should disable trading. Just that they should go after gambling sites and introduce things that would make it harder to gamble.

What are the downsides to banning it for us?

Yeah, it will probably be removed in a year or two. Three years at most.

People have limited funds. It’s as simple as that.

Do GOG work properly on Steam Deck now?

Unfortunately denunvo is actually really good at accompanying its goal of entirely stopping pirates or at least delaying them for months.

Last I checked there are only a handful of crackers able to crack denunvo. 1 only likes football manager, 1 is a completely insane russian apologist, and iirc the other one is fairly sane but very inconsistent cracker.

Depends on what happens to the company. Maybe he has children that can inherit his company shares and maybe they don’t want it to change.

Maybe they set up a trust or something that can take ownership.

I really hope valve never gets sold.

What are you referring to?

You usually don’t lose access though. Passkeys rarely replace passwords so you could still use your password or reset it if you don’t remember it.

I just don’t think synced passkeys should be the default for example iOS.

What Microsoft is doing with device-bound passkeys using Windows Hello is imo great.

There are quite a few big alternatives to Adobe stock. I doubt they are even the biggest one.

That doesn’t transfer the private key though (or at least it shouldn’t).

I’m pretty sure it’s just transferring public keys and signing the response with the private key on your phone.

Sure, but I don’t think it’s a huge problem since it’s honestly pretty hard to find more than 5 services that support discoverable passkeys.

I personally like it. Imo passkeys should optimally be device bound and the private keys should be stored in TPM or equivalent and be non-exportable.