r/dankmemes May 21 '24

Depression makes the memes funnier Soon enough privacy will be a luxury.

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u/skadusch Mod senpai noticed me! May 21 '24

Yeah the hardware usage seems accurate xD

For me its the multiplayer games, i hope there is a time where i can live without them.

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u/orokanamame May 21 '24

Eh, most multiplayer FPS games (CS2, Apex, Helldivers 2) run great on linux. Valorant, COD, Fortnite, R6 don't.

In this case, I just make a partition, install windows10 there, no updates, no bullshit, download a game and play with friends. It's a rather simple life. I use office on that instance too.

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u/napalm51 May 21 '24

valorant runs on linux? how about vanguard?

a while ago i started playing league of legends with my friends, but i don't like very much the idea of vanguard on my personal computer, so i just let it go

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u/orokanamame May 21 '24

No, valorant doesn't. Neither does league, and I fully support you refusing to allow kernel level anti-cheat run on your PC. Fuck riot, and fuck CCP.

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u/napalm51 May 21 '24

so you think running vanguard on a fresh windows partition can't harm you? like, with no personal data on it

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u/GoldStarBrother May 21 '24

It gives enough access that if someone found a backdoor they could maybe write a virus to your bios. This is rare and a lot (probably all modern ones) of mobos will block this. Although the way they do it is also hackable, MSI had some security keys stolen which might make this possible for older bios versions.Typically the purpose of this is to reinfect your drove after you wipe it, but it could be used to infect other partitions/disks in the system.

Again this probably isn't possible on your computer. But vanguard has access to absolutely everything including any random chips that can have firmware on them which the OS can flash, and those are shared between partitions obviously. So the answer to your question is no probably not, but it's probably technically possible on some machines. But an attacker would need to find a vulnerability in vanguard first.

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u/napalm51 May 21 '24

that's crazy

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u/GoldStarBrother May 21 '24

Computers do be wildin'

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u/orokanamame May 21 '24

Can it harm you? No, probably not. But it's still a direct backdoor to someone. And honestly? I'd rather not risk that. Companies can not be trusted with any of our data, unfortunately.