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Proceeds to hit “forgot password” to check if I had only forgotten that I already have an account there

Check out Framadate. It’s hosted (and IIRC developed) by the French non profit org Framasoft.

https://framadate.org/abc/en/

Source code should be here: https://framagit.org/framasoft/framadate/

Obtrusive space advertising is defined in U.S. federal law as “advertising in outer space that is capable of being recognized by a human being on the surface of the Earth without the aid of a telescope or other technological device.”

Too bad they have the requirement for a technological device. Else I’d be able to argue that I shouldn’t get any ads from satellite TV or when using Starlink or…

On the plus side, Witcher III on PC is usually dirt cheap in a sale.

I think it’s quite ironic that NVidia gave a free copy with the RTX 50 series in the last few weeks and the first thing I see when I checked yesterday is that Valve had to open a bug with NVidia because their drivers seem to crash the game in Proton…

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/9820#issuecomment-4548601291

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I mean, I fully expected them to use Denuvo or another aggressive DRM - considering the hype around the game. I initially expected something worse after I read that comment. Since DRM was broken by abusing the hypervisor, I wonder if a new generation of DRM might block running in a VM or on Linux/Proton completely. Like Kernel level DRM module or such.

If it’s “just” Denuvo, I personally don’t care that much as it usually gets removed after a while and I usually wait for a sale anyways. My backlog is big enough to keep me entertained.

As for the betrayed: Why the fuck do people preorder games? I get it, if you want a physical edition of a console game and want to be able to play day one (or want to have it delivered day one). I also get it somewhat with physical goodies of a limited edition (as the digital goodies are usually just a simple skin or such and not worth it). And I get it, if you consider backing a crowd funding campaign of an indie game as preorder. But besides that? It can and will only be a let down usually.

Uhmmmm wtf? I haven’t consciously seen something like that in any of their reviews LOL. And I clicked on some random other ones and didn’t see something like this. And it wasn’t even published on April 1st?!

Can confirm, mine came in a plain brown box. Obviously Valve as the sender and a battery warning label, but no other obvious hint to its contents.

After opening the first box, I found a second one that’s way more telling inside, but nothing on the outside.

Huh? What do you mean? I guess they announced Denuvo or some other DRM?

If you’re generally looking for Indie games (meaning smaller teams, max. AA budget), there much selection in this comment section.

If you mean hidden gems, that not many people have played/know about, then take a look at https://buried-treasure.org/

Been there. It’s somewhat ok if they do it consistently. E.g. registration and login form both allow more than 16 chars and then just truncate the password silently.

Worse is if the registration form does it, but the login form uses the full password you entered (or vice versa) and then the login fails because the password doesn’t match…

Only downside: Initially the creator of a Flatpack defines how it is sandboxed. For Steam it’s rather permissive. It’s not like on mobile where you get asked for permission for everything potentially dangerous/privacy invading, but rather like the earlier days on mobile where you install a Flatpack and implicitly allow all permissions it wants.

An update might change the permissions or introduce new ones. You can use tools like Flatseal to change the permissions of installed Flatpack apps, but keep in mind that those changes will probably be gone after the next update and can introduce problems.

In the end, sandboxing something like Steam is hard, as you not only need to think about Steam’s permissions, but also any game you might run from it…

IIRC Discover on KDE also tells you on the update list. But only somewhere in the list of updates - theres no explicit dialog warning you of changes/new permissions

No, that’s just to make Windows programs/games run on Linux. But you can e.g. use the Flatpack version of Steam to Sandbox Steam and its games (https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html)

I was lucky and could order right on the release day. It arrived the day before yesterday. So it took quite a while, but… It got here, it feels nice, it works - too bad I haven’t had the time for a longer gaming session yet…

Probably fed with pie. Or trampled over by Mastodons.

Well, there’s a decent chance someone already uploaded it to archive.org

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You know,that hole is a little turbine. Just fire a blank cartridge in it to make it spin and charge the battery. There’s also a variant that supports a live round, but its efficiency is way lower and there’s a decent chance you’ll need a new phone afterwards…