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  • "Wow, how cool is it that she's 13 and already works for the FBI! "

  • Steam: Now that we're past the summer solstice, it's time for us to announce the Steam Summer Sale! Starting this Thursday at 10am
  • I'll throw a caveat on certain things that get delisted...this is my biggest poison on Steam. Just grabbed Forza Horizon 4 because of its announced delisting in December.

    Otherwise tbough, solid advice!

  • LAN bypass on Linux
  • Sweet. Thanks! A quick update and verification on routing and all is working. Appreciate the assistance.

  • I'm Not a Programmer, but Here’s Why Linux Is My Daily Driver
  • I am so, so close to doing the same. Still have a small partition carved out for CoD and Windows. I just find myself booting in to it less and less.

    Thank goodness MicroVision seems to be keen on continuing to flog that dead horse with a Warzone focus, means I can finally be free.

  • LAN bypass on Linux

    Hi all,

    Is there a conf change I can make to bypass local address filtering with ProtonVPN on Linux? When I attempt to access NFS and SMB shares on LAN they fail to connect with Proton active.

    Thanks!

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    GreedFall 2 is setting its sights high, hitting all the CRPG tropes at once
  • I've been slowly playing through the first one. Its a pretty decent game. There's some unique stuff they're doing lore/world wise. The combat could be tighter and the waypointing could use some work but there's a great core and lore. This could be Spiders breakout game.

  • Old but Gold
  • Haha. Sounds like you have great taste. We had tickets for that 2020 tour as well and had a similar experience. Damn greedy corpos.

  • Old but Gold
  • On yeah! Saw Devy solo with Gojira 12 or so years ago and he was hilarious. Had the whole crowd doing jazz hands during Animals among other things.

    I didn't get it the first time I saw SYL (with Fear Factory forever ago) but at that solo show I was all in and have been a huge fan since.

  • Old but Gold
  • Fucking a it is!

  • Old but Gold
  • Haha. His humor live is always so damn good. Seeing the entire outro would be rad!

  • what foss phone OS do you use and why?
  • Thanks for the rec! Typing on it now. Pretty decent so far. I dig the hover on the word as i swipe

  • what foss phone OS do you use and why?
  • Also posting from a Pixel 7 running Graphene for abouta year. No issues, I use Fdroid for most apps and Aurora when I have too. Only bummer is I haven't found a good FOSS keyboard with swipe. Really miss gboard for that and gif insertion.

  • Old but Gold
  • Damnation/Deliverance is such an amazing combo. The outro to Deliverance is probably my favorite of all time. That back and forth between the 2 riffs is fucking magic.

  • It's almost the week-end, what are you guys going to play?
  • I have seen credits on that game probably three times since it's launch. Anytime they release it on a new platform I instinctively snap it up.

    I do agree that the world feels pretty empty, but it is Mars in their defense. The gameplay loop is so good though. And sometimes there's no better feeling than grabbing a sledgehammer and leveling a building.

    Hopefully you're able to make it through! There's a little bit of variety introduced to the environment around the half to three quarter mark.

  • Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck. Tim Sweeney says Linux is ‘a terrifically hard audience to serve’ (2022)
  • I don't begrudge him running a successful business. And I didn't give a shit about who you feel I can or cannot defend. Lol.

  • The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
  • I built my entire cloud storage strategy around Google drive because it had very simple integration with my previous seed box provider. Like, I could run Plex from the cloud through them directly off of my Google drive and then mirror that to local storage.

    Super slick and easily usable setup. In a push to completely de-google my life the past 2 years I had to figure out an effective migration strategy off of that stack.

    It was a total pain in the ass. Not to mention moving the rest of the people on my family plan off of Google as well. The majority of them are fairly tech savvy and even with that in mind we struggled.

    I am now 100% self-hosted and learned a shit ton about docker along the way but, I couldn't imagine trying to do the same thing with a group of entry level users.

  • The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
  • The last sentence resonates with me. I too wore a robe and wizard hat back in the day.

  • Phil Spencer says Xbox’s aim with COD is to give players choice, not ‘do slimy platform things’
  • Phil's out of the circle of trust. Don't believe a single thing from his mouth.

  • Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck. Tim Sweeney says Linux is ‘a terrifically hard audience to serve’ (2022)
  • I also wanted to add on a recent experience I had that highlights this even more so.

    I was going through old archive drives and found a digital copy of "The Club" that I had purchased from Direct2Drive. I don't know if anybody remembers them or not but, they were one of the early digital storefronts that focused on PC digital downloads.

    Anyways, I had the installer and my provided key in the directory so I installed the game and attempted to launch it only to be met with an activation screen. When I attempted to activate those servers had long since been decommissioned so I was dead in the water. Feeling that sting that one gets when they can no longer play something they legally purchased I started searching around for information on workarounds before I grabbed a crack. I found a thread from the company that had purchased the rights to all direct2drive purchases that had a workaround for doing the authentication through an alternate method.

    I tried all the steps listed including performing a recovery process for an account that I had long since lost the login information for only to be met with a failed authentication once again. By this point I had invested close to an hour maybe an hour and a half of my time trying to get some shitty old game to work and decided it wasn't worth it.

    I hopped over to Steam and saw that I was able to purchase the game directly from them for $5 and download it immediately without any need for additional authentication steps or trying to track down who had purchased the rights to give me access rights to the thing that I had purchased 15 years ago.

    Sure, my one experience may be anecdotal but I think it highlights some of the greater issues people might not take into consideration when talking about what valve's cut is and what that represents to us as the users of the services they provide.

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