Any changes GOG make to wine/proton would have to be open source anyway

Yeah I usually do the same. Offline installers are a pretty big benefit. I like to know a lot of games are available offline.

Wow, i have been using desktop Linux longer than Torvalds!

Moving away could just mean not buying more stuff there rather than not playing what you have already bought.

Isn’t proton just wine with a few other things like DXVK? And all open source, so they could just fork or even copy it directly. Proton is based on a fork of wine too.

So far I use Lutris for GOG games. Does galaxy still work offline and not act as DRM in any way? So anything already installed could be launched with it?

Yep, not logging in, that killed off the last bit of usage I had for reddit.

I should install Debian to replace my current Ubuntu install at some point. Might move some services I run to a VM to reduce effort when reinstalling my OS. Then it’s just install steam and copy over my game backup folders. Plus with a VM I can easily move it to a proxmox mini PC if I ever get round to buying one.

You can let others use your hardware and in return get higher priority to use others. Want to generate 20 images? Its quicker spread across several other peoples GPUs at the same time with the same prompt.

Not poked AI stuff in a while though, it was interesting from a technical perspective but overall not super useful to me.

But we do own RAM, do they plan to buy all of it indefinitely? All sorts of other businesses still need computers so they will be buying them even if they cost more, and when they replace them the old ones can be sold off.

There is even the possibility of crowd sourced AI, I know AI horde exists although I think its pretty small and I haven’t touched it in a few years now.

With memory prices I think a lattepanda is a better choice than a pi if you want a cheap PC

They have but the other components don’t cost much in comparison. You are pretty much buying memory and it happens to have a completed system attached.

Pi zero is still pretty cheap though. 512MB of memory should help keep that affordable.

Piracy is illegal and they are of course doing a great job at stopping that…

The open models aren’t controlled by them though.

The real scam was capitalism?