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- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 18 hours ago:
Steam is a distribution platform, with DRM provided as an optional feature for the developer. If I wanted to play Deltarune without using the steam launcher, I can go to the downloaded directory and simply launch the executable. For convenience’s sake, most users will use the steam client to launch their games, and some games force you to due to developer choice. In order to play the game I wanted to play though (Deltarune), steam only served as a storefront and a download repository.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 day ago:
There are games on Steam that don’t have DRM (since it’s not a requirement from Valve). The most prominent examples I can think of are games from Toby Fox and Klei Entertainment.
- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Shuts Down Rumors Haunted Chocolatier 'Will Be Abandoned,' Insisting: 'It Will Come Out When It’s Ready' - IGN 3 days ago:
As they say: “Let him cook.”
- Comment on smh 4 days ago:
I don’t believe there are any (unless you count length and mass measurements for physical component layouts). Perhaps it’s a byproduct of the field having international standardization for units from the outset.
- Comment on smh 4 days ago:
Huh? In my electical engineering studies almost everything is in metric. Are you thinking of certain holdover generations?
- Comment on thank you fb 4 days ago:
If we’re going off battlefield rules, it could be fun to shoot at.
- Comment on Had to happen sometime 1 week ago:
The hacker known as “4chan”
- Comment on Took you a while... 2 weeks ago:
You probably don’t need to do that. There’s lists for DRM free games on steam out there (Toby Fox games are good examples)
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it is incredibly easy using the module in EmuDeck, and the framerate is very solid (and can be modded and enhanced with things such as internal resolution upscaling)
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas 2 weeks ago:
This is nintendo we are talking about here, they have enough enemies that most of their consoles get blown open within the first year.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas 2 weeks ago:
Tbh a self hosted git or gitlab vs github only really matters for takedowns lol. I wonder how far we could go if the scene just paid a random dude in China or Brazil to just run repositories for warez and reverse engineering efforts that are untouchable by the ninjas.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas 2 weeks ago:
Yeah the steam deck might be a bridge too far, but I’m sure any modest gaming PC could handle a S2 workload quite easily. If I remembered correctly the deck is CPU bottlenecked for S1 emulation, and that probably will be more pronounced for S2.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas 2 weeks ago:
Truly, the PS5 of the new generation.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas 2 weeks ago:
They’re already on some of the basic components - but no retail games are playable yet. Fortunately the architectures between the S1 and S2 are quite similar :)
- Comment on Anon tries to save the internet in 2026 2 weeks ago:
You need to enable the setting in sources for the bypass. Youtube started putting in soft bans for VPN IPs and age restricted videos by forcing users to sign in (even in a web browser). Grayjay does have a bypass, which sometimes can counter the issue (you also can disable the login fallback so you don’t get asked to sign in anymore).
- Comment on Anon tries to save the internet in 2026 3 weeks ago:
The most powerful statement I ever heard was from when I asked my uncle why he doesn’t take as many physical security measures for his home, despite his educational background (electrical engineer) and knowledge of vulnerabilities.
His reply was simple:
“I trust my neighbors, I trust my neighborhood. If something happens to my family, I can ask around. If my neighbors need my skills or assistance, they can ask me whenever I’m home.”
I hope FOSS communities can reach that level in the common user sphere.
- Comment on Anon tries to save the internet in 2026 3 weeks ago:
Is there some sort of FOSS UX club we can establish? Maybe partner with some artists?
- Comment on Anon tries to save the internet in 2026 3 weeks ago:
FUTO’s line of projects seem to follow the same sort of pathway - Grayjay is incredibly easy to use :)
- Comment on Blu-ray hits 20 years old, and it isn't dead yet — optical disc format was introduced to the public at CES 2006 3 weeks ago:
Video capture is the solution to that. You may have compromises on rip quality, but the storage medium for that file can be anything with enough capacity - HDDs, Optical Media, Tapes, Flash storage.
The scene will outlive Blu-Ray, and I think it will outlive us all.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 5 weeks ago:
That could be a “curb-cut effect” result for the initial purpose - used to ensure volume, but doubles as a good way to align a label.
- Comment on Sometimes it do be like that 5 weeks ago:
It’s an imgur problem due to them not wanting to comply with certain laws (California privacy laws for my situation I suppose).
- Comment on Sometimes it do be like that 5 weeks ago:
“Content not viewable in your region”
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 5 weeks ago:
Running the server at the same time as your client (separate steam library entry) isn’t very taxing, fortunately.
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 1 month ago:
Notice how the the NSO platform is not available on the PC platform? No sale.
- Comment on its not an addiction I can stop whenever I want I just don't want to 1 month ago:
1,400 comments for myself now lol, nothing wrong with some shitposting and funny comments :)
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 month ago:
FDE? Maybe Coyote Brown depending on saturation/contrast?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That was the case with The Finals (Embark’s previous game) according to testimony by the team, and they are using the same development practices here.
- Comment on elixir of a god 1 month ago:
Heretics.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 month ago:
I do use noai ddg, but I never tried the images function. Guess it’s worth a shot.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 month ago:
Ah, I degoogled my life, so I use Wikipedia instead. Although considering that google images may be flooded with AI slop now that strategy might not work for much longer. Creative tho!