Been using for some 2~3 years now a Nitro 5 laptop almost always set to the Nvidia GPU. Issues are very rare, and some times compatibility is actually better than with the other GPU, the Intel one. Also worth noting I use Linux Mint though, and been some years since I last tested systems based Arch (btw).

The cheapest someone can get an upgrade is generally now for years now, to my knowledge. I’ve been seeing prices going up since before any pandemics, major ongoing wars, crypto, NFTs, LLMs or datacenters, so seems to be a general tendency.

Not saying the person shouldn’t have physical money, but that it could be easily tackled by ill-intended parties.

Then there is a “police raid” to the person’s home and somehow the money stored there vanishes.

Bank apps in Brazil demand face scans to validate installations for some years now, so while the path is different, result can easily be similar: your expenses are tied to your identity. No privacy and a track record if someone wants to do some fishing expeditions.

The current government here, which is being seen as a dictatorship more and more even by its previous allies, was also trying to push for Drex, a cryptocurrency they would control, while also trying to kill physical money. The Executive also did a rule that if you made more than a total sum of iirc 5000 reais in transactions in a month (very low amount tbh), you had to show all your finances of the year to the government agency tasked with gains and expenses taxes, killing another aspect of privacy and financial privacy.

UE games looks rubbery/plastic to me since at least the PS3, the point which I started paying attention. No matter how good a dev is, sadly I can’t hold hopes for such a promise.

Licenses are far older than digital contents, and the PS Vita, which I wonder which is the company behind it, gave a concrete example that consoles can make backups, and that’s halfway there.

Furthermore, another platform, GOG, explicitly states in its service contract that users are allowed to keep the contents they get. Similarly, when the service was active, Humble Bundle’s Humble Trove explained right at the beginning of its page that games included in the selection were free to be kept once downloaded. Two examples of decently-sized for-profit companies allowing for digital ownership.

Sony’s defence to me sounds a lot like gaslighting.

RSS helps avoiding part of the BS those “2010’s platforms” put the users through, like curating what you follow, having access to shadowbanned users and groups, and redundancy in case those you follow get banned, “mysteriously” gone from a given platform, the platform becomes unreachable, etc.

Can’t help with so little details.

Regarding the OP, deja vu…

But about including ActivityPub to one’s own site, if I may add, Wordpress, NeoDB and Threads have integrations to it, Tumblr considered it even if the idea was dropped later on, and Bridge Fedi is a thing for federating to/from Bluesky and other AT Protocol platforms. So if @PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com thinks it’s within scope, go crazy, I’d say.

Trying to untangle the title:
After wrongly classifying “Future? No Thanks!” as pornography, Steam re-reviewed it and and removed the classification, lifting relevant sanctions in the process.

Also, to the OP, microblogging doesn’t have titles by default. What can happen is the poster to add a very small paragraph in the beginning that works as title, but that doesn’t seem to be the case for the linked post.

Egyptians worshiped cats. Now I have the image of Bast getting booped and becoming flustered in my head. 🤭

For prices, no. For the social aspect, yes.

Also, as others said, @Untamed_Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone, if the game is on a DRM-free-oriented platform, like GOG, Itchio, etc., you could look for those.

Additionally, looking for sources of a given game can help find where it’s less of a hassle to get it, specially through databases or adjacent, like PCGamingWiki, ITAD, NeoDB (fediverse-compatible!), GameFAQS, etc. Also apparently it isn’t uncommon for databases to cross-reference each other, so one can lead to another.

If the game is only on Steam, install Linux on a VM, install Wine in it, run SteamCMD through Wine, download the build you want, and move to your host OS.

SteamCMD is a minimalist/terminal-based version of Steam. The Windows version can be downloaded separately. However, it downloads needed libraries and I’m not sure how good Steam is at escaping Wine’s environment, so a VM adds an extra security layer. Also the command changes depending of whether it’s 32-bit or 64-bit, if it’s for Linux, MacOS or Windows, or even if it’s a previous, still public update, and it’s been some years since I used those and I don’t have the commands noted down, so can’t help with that at least right now.

If something’s allowed to be pirated, it can’t be pirated.

Haven’t played many recent homebrews, but of the recent-ish games I did play, other than Micro Mages mentioned in another comment, there’s Nyx - The Paradox Relic (NES) and Tanglewood (Mega Drive).

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Haven’t seen anyone pissed about this yet, but in case someone appears, lest we forget Ani.Social’s issues with Lemmit.Online.

angy

Every journey has a beginning though!