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I hadn’t heard of this but I might try it if it gets patched. I’ve been looking for a fun FPS.

Since I already had a jellyfish server for TV/Films, I’ve been testing it for music recently. And the Finamp app is pretty great. I can create playlists and download them for offline listening.

Personally it’s not a hatred for Secure Boot itself. It’s a hatred for these companies requiring something that 1) is not necessary for their software to function and 2) offers little to no benefit for their software

I refuse to let these corporations tell me how to use my hardware. Right now, I dual boot and I want to continue to dual boot, at least for the foreseeable future.

I get irritated when people say “it’s no big deal, it’s easy to enable”, etc.

You all are just enablers.

Yeah, while it would be nice, I don’t care about a native Linux version. Proton is so supported that I’m fine with using it.

Since they’ve explicitly stated that they want to continue to support Linux (at least for now), that at least shows a viable future for me.

Like in my response to the other commenter, that’s why I was playing FragPunk, because I thought support for Linux would be there. But they’ve pushed that to the way side.

Alright I’ll redownload it lol

I was playing FragPunk because it worked on Linux and I really like the game but they seem to be going the way that I thought The Finals was.

I just saw GoG announce https://freedomtobuy.games/ too

Last I checked, I was not able to get it to play. They broke it with an update and I assumed that was by design and I haven’t looked back.

So they just plugged it directly into the same network switch the ATM is on? That sounds incredibly dumb. The only ATMs I’ve seen the inside of had the network switch locked inside with the vault.

Also our bank had some kind of port security so if it wasn’t a recognized MAC address, the port just switched off.

Looked this up out of curiosity and the fact that it will only somehow allow mobile notifications for “up to 10 users” even if self hosting for free, is putting me off. I get if you were using their cloud, but restricting self-hosting almost feels malicious.

Looks like I’m on v6 and it’s not here either.

I know several people that do this, but most often it’s parents with kids. That’s still not an excuse though as there deserve their own privacy. In all cases that I’ve seen though, it’s through Apple/iPhones. Now I’m not saying Android users can’t or don’t do this, but Apple makes it so easy, that it’s everywhere and I hate that.

Fair enough. Honestly it was probably a safe bet too considering how much they have their hands in.

I can’t seem to find evidence of that. All I see is they’re Amazon affiliates, which pretty much anybody can be.

Do you have a source?

How is this the first time I’m hearing about a lineage TV OS?!

I just learned of it today and was checking out their dev blog and it went back to 2011??? That’s crazy.

Exactly. This isn’t explicitly piracy. Just because it can be used as such, doesn’t mean it perpetrates piracy. Some prefer to have a backup for their game installers. That’s all this is.

Have you ever purchased a game from GoG? If so, chances are it comes DRM-free in which case you could legally keep a copy in your “Game Vault.”

This allows you to have your own local copy to download and install. No GoG launcher required.

TLDR: Yes

Phind.com is a great alternative that provides sources.

Perhaps a model like itch.io offers. Each product can set a price or have a “pay what you want” model. I feel some would be more likely to give money if it’s right up front.

But the biggest part that I think we need, is a centralized location, store or not. Sometimes it’s hard to find if an open source alternative even exists because it could be on Github, Gitlab, Codeberg, etc.