Then how would they sell access in a deniable way?

It’s all spiraling out of control

Yes, but that was in the OP. Maybe normal disk is not feasible for some reason

no graphics card whatsoever

computer can play h.265 and equivalent without troubles, provided video file is no higher than 1080 p.

Computer can play av1 files no higher than 1080 p only if I shut every other application down. If for example I run a browser and an av1 file with either mpv or vlc, system shuts down.

Can I put all that memory to use and avoid overloading the cpu?

Most of the answers seem to focus on the main problem, but your question got me thinking.
Since you are not getting shutdowns with lower qualities, maybe you could use RAM to play those videos.
Set up tmpfs. Before you start all the other things, use ffmpeg to recode the video to something without any compression, maybe tell it to not work too fast (like work on one frame at a time), and put the thing on that tmpfs. Maybe then playing this new file would be less demanding. The key would be to not force it to provide 30fps of encoded video

Although… Are you sure all this RAM is fine? Maybe it shuts down on more demanding videos because with those the RAM usage raises to the faulty part?

$ sh
sh-5.2$ echo dfgsdfgfd |& tee /tmp/t
dfgsdfgfd
sh-5.2$ cat /tmp/t
dfgsdfgfd
sh-5.2$

¯_(ツ)_/¯

True

But nowadays /bin/sh is often just a link to bash

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/bash.1.html

Pipelines A pipeline is a sequence of one or more commands separated by one of the control operators | or |&. The format for a pipeline is:

[time [-p]] [ ! ] command1 [ [|⎪|&] command2 … ]

(…) If |& is used, command1’s standard error, in addition to its standard output, is connected to command2’s standard input through the pipe; it is shorthand for 2>&1 |. This implicit redirection of the standard error to the standard output is performed after any redirections specified by command1.

For 2>&1 to work don’t we need to be using some shell anyway?

IMO |& tee dirlist is easier to manage

It’s too good ;) :D

Huh. So in this case, the file actually is respected. Refreshing

now one BNPL provider has announced a deal with a gaming company to allow people to finance in-game purchases.

Great, another data leech for marketing machine

offers interest-free biweekly payment plans

Uh-huh. I wonder, what do they monetize on, if the debt is interest-free. Surely this is only to grow user base. No basket analysis at all…

Reading your exchange here, one thing comes to my mind. One of the core principles of open source was that if you were distributed something, you have to retain the right and possibility to modify it to your use case. And if you’re going to distribute it yourself, you have to disclose the source of what you distribute. So in the OS spirit, even if creators put guards in place, end users have to be able to modify what was distributed to them

I liked the idea where the city between the missions was kind of like a lobby but then you had to sneak there as well

Also. It’s been 20 years? Already?

And same argument can be applied to other tech as well: “Linux should be illegal because people can use it to hack computers and send spam.” Or the entire internet can be used as a tool for criminal activities. What does that tell us about the internet? This in itself isn’t very straightforward in my opinion. It needs to be factored in and regulated. But it’s not the same question as should we have AI be part of the world.

I was thinking similar when reading the article. Going by the logic proposed in it, GIMP development team should be responsible for which images will get mashed together using it

AFAIK it’s the same technology, just applied to sensor->driving instead of prompt->text/image

But I won’t be angry if mods here decide it doesn’t fit

Looking at the repo I am not sure what this is. OS for TVs? App to watch television channels on a phone?

Wine can work in a pinch but I wouldn’t rely on it

In this case I would say the other way round. Proton works in a container, so getting to the sound interface for example might be harder than just using Wine