• 1 Post
  • 149 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 1st, 2024

help-circle







  • Buycott is not about individuals in the US. Its about keeping money in our own economy and reducing economy in the US to make it clear to the people and the government that this behavior makes US products less attractive and hurts people. This is not about any individual voter although if I could only support the part of the economy not aligned with MAGA in the US I would. Problem is, the employees and companies spend it mostly in their own economy. Canada or Denmark have shown pretty successfully how buycott can work.



  • Vintage Stories has its own launcher and also native Linux build. Its a more slow progress and survival focused voxel game and I find it immensely satisfying playing with friends. Many tool crafting mechanics are very similar to real life, also food making has debth, there’s crop rotation and just so many little things. It was founded by the Austrians and the company sits in Latvia. It has a very international dev pool also with many from the US but I feel like that shouldn’t be an excluding factor. Way better than buying some game from Steam from an American AAA Studio




  • FYI its not actually open source. Its a cool idea but you can’t actually sell it or sell derivatives of it. Even at zero-sum. This hinders any actual forks from being successful, as any intention to sell the product (even without aiming for profits) is forbidden by their license. It just allows for tinkerers as contributors without properly allowing forks. Makes me a bit sad tbh, because its so close to being awesome.



  • The government should just pay some money to maintainers instead of giving it to corpos. That way everyone wins, instead of just google because the code is in the hand of the public. Also google, please just like, politely, fuck off. We know you guys want in on this, even if we need an out. Everyone knows your worries aren’t for public interest but for your own pockets. FOSS actually supports a much more competitive landscape by not locking in users and allowing people to build on each others ideas instead of creating monopolies.