ReversalHatchery

@ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, you’re right: gamedeveloper.com/…/how-steam-employs-drm-what-th…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  but wait a minute. when, and how did exactly valve popularize always online DRM?

  you know that they have nothing to do with denuvo, and steamdrm is not always online, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure valve deceived you. It’s not fair that we can’t run purchased old games on the OS they were built for. they could really show instructions on how to make them run on that OS, maybe even make a simple but official lightweight client that can download it for you, on that old OS.

  but if you are on windows 10, what can they do with a game they sold you that won’t work correctly on anything beyond XP?
  yes, the above things they could, and should. but even today you are not locked out: copy the game files to USB, drop in the goldberg emu, and play the game on your XP machine. It’s a single file, not eben needs internet.
  if the game had DRM? I am not sure that’s the fault of valve. didn’t the devs put it there?

  and if you accept the “solution” to drop steam, and start renting your games? you won’t be able to do even this. you are literally locked out both if you stop paying, and if the service stops making that game available because their license expired, politics, or whatever. and you literally can do nothing about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Enter Monthly Subscription Game Libraries and DRM-free → Exit Steam

  In lieu of even the simplest commitment by Valve to keep their DRM client free of system requirement creep, business models like Ubisoft+, EA Access and Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers. The claim is often made that you “do not own the game” with these services, but you do not own them on Steam either; Valve stops pretending to care if their store’s software breaks your game after you have played it for two hours.

  I would rather pay a fraction of the price to play a game for one month than pretend digitally distributed games have the lifespan of a boxed physical product. You can consume the entirety of a game within one month and pay an appropriate amount of money for the ephemeral service offered.

  this person is extremely misguided. the a copy if the game files, drop in the goldberg emu dll, and done. works forever, in as many copies as you feel like. DRMs can stand in the way, but that’s exactly what makes it even worse on subscription platforms. and online only, or strictly multiplayer games? these won’t work whatever you do, but that’s not valve’s fault.

  valve is careless but today other than GOG, it’s still the best (read: least bad) popular storefront, and subscription based systems are simply just the worst.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but surely microsoft keeps multiple copies! they are infallible!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar PV vulnerabilities⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t understand why is it so essential to connect everything to the internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Authenticator now warns to export passwords before July cutoff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s just 2 official servers. the default selection is the one in the USA. you can use any of them regardless of where you live.

  there are other public servers too, and it can also be selfhosted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Authenticator now warns to export passwords before July cutoff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  bitwarden for passwords, aegis for time based codes.

  choose the eu instance for bitwarden.

  don’t forget that google play tries to deceive you when searching by showing you the real app down in the results, and the first result usually being an actual piece of malware that tries to lock you in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[UFO 50] Hamter attacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh! you are right, this page works but I didnt realize I need to whitelist scripts and script requests for it.

  But even on this view I can only go until the 14th page, where it says the same thing:

  Sorry, guest/bot limit reached. Please login (register) to increase the limit (or unlimited with MobyPlus!)

  Dont you also see this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Open Web Index goes public in June 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  oh no, why do we too need to conflate search with AI??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  or possibly something else, but definetly not atproto as it stands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[UFO 50] Hamter attacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks, I’ll consider it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[UFO 50] Hamter attacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this page says so: www.mobygames.com/game/

  after sending that comment I noticed that I can also just browse by platform, but those lists are limited to 6 pages :/ see the notice at the bottom below the page switcher: www.mobygames.com/platform/win3x/…/page:5/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[UFO 50] Hamter attacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  well I actually know neither. I have very slight memories of it. I think I was using windows XP at the time. the game, as I remember, was a bit like those physical fidget games today, in that there was no story (or I didn’t understand it yet) or any kind of goals (that I could understand?). there were multiple different locations in the game, one of them us a kitchen similar to this one, but I’m not sure if I could regularly walk across them, or just click on doors or something to move to another location.
  given that I couldn’t yet read at the time (I think), I have no memories of its title or the desktop icon, or at least I wasn’t able to recall it in any degree for a long time.

  I expect that back then there were much fewer games released in a given timespan than today, but I don’t even know where could I see even a list of them that I could go through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[UFO 50] Hamter attacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this kitchen reminds me of a game that I played relatively lot as a little kid, around 2005 or so, probably even before I learnt to read because I don’t remember its name at all.

  how do you even start to find such games?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the ASCII graphics are stunning, aren’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  real linux users don’t need a graphical session!!! everything can and should be done on the terminal!

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it does. it locally aggregates, collects data about what you do on your computer across the days and weeks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it is, and that is still happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the point is that making it local-only is not significantly better. it does not solve a major problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m in dire need of a new monitor but, it seems, it is harder to find a good one than I thought.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, it seems dell is just utter garbage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m in dire need of a new monitor but, it seems, it is harder to find a good one than I thought.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been using IPS displays for many years, and I had to look up what is IPS glow. now I see it, but it doesn’t bother me. what bothers me is that my dell monitor is absolutely garbage on reproducing dark colors, while my much older cheap LG is very good in that. like, the black background of the terminal shows a very visible difference

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah the famous linux phones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Covid․gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy website⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  if you only look at the top of the page, it’s like saying trump is the white house lab leak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨你好!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  no need to learn chinese whwn they can just pick a nice European language

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to unalive myself if this is actually what we can expect from them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know who needs to hear this, but DO NOT EVER expose Jellyfin to the internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your smart TV is (presumably) on your local network

  often, but not always. sometimes the TV is at a different house, when you are a guest or at a second property

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know who needs to hear this, but DO NOT EVER expose Jellyfin to the internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh, in your firewall. I think I can count the percents on one hand about how much of jellyfin users run a firewall applience besides it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know who needs to hear this, but DO NOT EVER expose Jellyfin to the internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not exposing jellyfin, but for sure I wouldn’t let my plex server even see the internet (I bet iy wouldn’t even work that way).

  jellyfin is perfectly accessible everywhere it needs to be. been using a VPN on my phone for ages for all traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know who needs to hear this, but DO NOT EVER expose Jellyfin to the internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s but no. I like my privacy more