Ventoy is awesome, love being able to load a ton of different boot images on a single USB drive! The only issue I've run into is the occasional image that won't boot. Not sure if this is expected, or you need to sometimes tweak settings to get it working?
It isn't how it works today. I'm talking about sometime in the distant (or near) future. Surely at some point AI will have the capabilities on par with at least a low level hacker.
Or, if you still think that's a stretch, just imagine all the ways perfectly legitimate software can cost companies money. Not through malicious design, but just by mistakes.
There are some archives of the service here -
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Xfire
Supposedly most of the videos, and 20% of the screenshots? I'm not sure if there's a way to easily search the archive contents, rather than download.
There's quite a few profiles on Web Archive too -
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.xfire.com/profile/*
It was definitely ahead of its time! Not really sure why it faded away, I guess pressure from Steam (pun intended), and games moving to private in-game server browsers? Along with many other options for voice chat.
For those that didn't use it, Xfire was basically a combination of messenger, voice chat, and a server browser for games back in the day.
As far as I know, it was also one of the earliest ways to stream your gameplay for others to watch. I remember trying it out years before Twitch was around.
The only reason it came up again for me was I noticed it in some old computer files, ha! Used to be my most used application by far.
Ah yeah, I forgot about Hamachi! It was great for games that only supported LAN multiplayer.
It's great! Really scratches the Pikmin itch for anyone who enjoys those types of games!
I finally read it not long ago, and it was really interesting! Especially given how long ago it was written, seems like it established a lot of the themes you see in modern post apocalyptic media.
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