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Comment on Discussion Thread 🕹️ Sunday 5 October 2025

Um ok. I thought I’d just play some Minecraft on my computer.

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Well it’s linked to my Microsoft account now which I knew, have to sign in again, okay I have the password… but now it’s forcing me to let it use Bluetooth and demanding I scan a QR code because it wants a passkey that I don’t even think I ever set up. I don’t think I even have a passkey. I may just quit playing the game if it wants to do all this. Everything is enshittifying to a hostile degree. In the past I tried to use emulators to play retro games from iso but it was often broken, lacking the ability to move or save game. Perhaps I’ll have to finally get my shit together on installing Linux and Wine, and then see what games I can find for Linux.

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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Check out GOG.com

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- melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thanks!
  
  (Sorry to complain so much. Things are just going really downhill)
  
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  - Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Nah, rail against the enshittification!
    
    I have one modern win machine. And it’s only there to keep my hand in professionally. Want me to sign up for something? Fuck off. Need me to download an app? Download my arse. I refuse to partake in a broken system. Eat me.
    
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    melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I feel like all I ever do lately is scream at things to suck my arse and eat a dick. It has to be getting repetitive.
    
    I have a Windows laptop for gaming but I really regret updating to Windows 11 and it’s steadily getting less usable with all the enshittification. Everything else is following suit, old faithfuls are getting fucked sideways, and at the end of the year I’m going to lose everything including Steam and Github.
    
    I have a couple of ancient games on CD Rom and thankfully I added a cd drive to my desktop when I built it… but I don’t know if they’ll work with modern computers and that is the one I have earmarked for Linux because Windows 7 is out of support and the hardware can’t take Win 10/11.
    
    I wish I had learned how to be a proper geek because it would really help in adjusting to this influx of fucked up bullshit.
    
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    melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I’m also really sad because Minecraft is a sandbox I can virtually play with electrical circuits in.
    
    My solar battery is working but low output and has been stored away because I’m currently too tired and mentally scattered to troubleshoot
    
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