Yeah Lunduke showed his true self and I’ve written him off as yet another narcissistic crazy in the world.

Hmm, yeah my PC is about 2-3 years old now and it booted just fine. If normal Arch can boot (EFI ideally), then Garuda should be good.

Garuda Dragonized

You are right. They can’t for every distro.

But fedora/rhel, Ubuntu/debian, and arch-based distros are the most commonly used. So they can provide official packages for those, and/or as the OP said, provide an official flatpak.

And to be fair, it’s a nice-to-have to have a better sense of trust, but given the unofficial ones are open source, it’s quite likely any maliciousness would be rooted out very quickly.

I’m sorry you’re having to deal with that – especially for a technology we’d all like to see in that space to provide good competition to the main two. Thanks for your efforts to push that forward!

I feel that pain, but probably not to the same degree. I’ve backed over 300 campaigns on Kickstarter and Gamefound. I’ve had around 8 that didn’t fulfill and didn’t give a refund – somewhere in the vicinity of $500-800 worth overall. It’s maddening when it feels like our money was either stolen or at best, wasted.

From what I’ve read and listened to, they’re misleading in this report when they say all crowdfunding backer devices have been fulfilled/delivered.

Both. I tend to let the -arr apps decide.

Or, the game devs/publishers could get a clue and realize that the already-supported anti-cheats on Linux work perfectly fine and do the job, not requiring the Linux community and vendors to jump through more hoops to satisfy their unfounded paranoia.

In the meantime I’ll continue not buying and playing their games.

Yes, they actually do. They’re tokens of ownership that can easily be converted to money. It’s called an asset.

This is why this world is so fucked. People quibble over definitions of things while the rich assholes running the show get richer.

And so many in this thread want to keep it that way.

Oh well, not like I can convince anyone here of anything, nor do I care to try. Keep believeing what you want.

Let’s take that logic outward a step…

Stocks are digital these days. Cryptocurrency is digital. So you’re basically saying those should be licensed to people, not owned.

Ownership has nothing to do with the tangibility of the thing in the age of the Internet. And to say otherwise is missing the point of ownership in the first place.

If I outright buy a movie, whether digital or not, I should own it – be able to download it, play it whenever I want, in perpetuity. If I subscribe to a service such as Disney+, then I fully know that I am purchasing a license to view their content.

The logistics of providing such ownership is the cost of doing business, just like it is for Blu-ray. I would argue that ownership should be even easier, logistically, for digital goods because there is no actual manufacturing effort involved (aside from initial production of, say, a movie).

The only reason companies want to license digital goods, instead of providing ownership to those who buy it, is greed (edit: and control).

So is it pho-to-pi-a? Or photo pee?

Of course any article can be biased, but this one has cited sources, at least. It would take further digging to determine if those sources are credible.

https://libcom.org/article/starvation-army-twelve-reasons-reject-salvation-army

In my opinion and based on my past reading on the subject, the simple fact that it’s a religious organization is enough to dissuade me from giving them anything. It is no small statistic that religious organizations are corrupt, hypocritical, expect obedience over tolerance, anti-union, anti-LGBTQ, ultra-conservative, and generally support the notion that people must be submissive to their authority.

I’ll continue to donate to secular organizations that do genuine good.

But it doesn’t function flawlessly, at least not yet. I know of one pretty big online networking bug that affects me – You currently cannot connect directly to a password-ed server (by IP), it won’t prompt for the password and it simply denies entry. And since the multiplayer server browser is pure garbage, you can’t even properly search for the password-ed server because the search only filters the current page you’re on, and even pagination is flat broke.

This game has a lot to get fixed. This is my major hit list that I’d like to see fixed/enhanced:

• Fix it so a client can directly connect to a server that requires a password without having to use the server browser
• Fix the server browser so pagination works properly
• Fix the server browser so keyword searching actually filters across all registered servers, not just the currently-loaded page
• Fix the server so when purposefully not registering as a public server, it doesn’t show in the server list (my private server is not supposed to be listed, but I had a random stranger connect…and since I cannot password the server yet due to the bug listed above, they got on and built stuff before I could kick them – and I cannot destroy anything they made)
• Enhance it so an admin can destroy all content irrespective of guild
• Fix the in-game chat so it actually scrolls properly and can be user-scrolled up and down
• Fix the pal AI and pathing, it’s atrocious
• Enhance it so you can dedicate a specific pal to a specific job
• Fix it so party pals will properly attack incoming raids outside of the base circle
• Enhance it so storage bins can be labeled (without having to use signs)
• Enhance it so if there is a security code on a door or storage box, it doesn’t allow other guild members access without knowing the security code (this would require a level of ownership to each crafted item)
• Enhance it so stacks can be divided by an arbitrary user-defined number instead of only by half
• Enhance it so signs can be placed on foundation pieces
• Fix it so pals that fight intruders cannot destroy buildings and other crafted/placed items
• Fix it so wooden “security” walls are are not so easily destroyed by a simple pal invader
• Fix it so other pals and players cannot become invisible
• Fix it so in-dungeon bosses cannot use an ability that would place them outside the arena, thus requiring restarting the fight (in other words, fix the collision detection so properly bound the boss to the arena)

I’m sure I’m forgetting numerous other issues.

I don’t know what you mean by ISPs in the US don’t have NATs. They most certainly do NAT at the gateway device. But they also typically provide a way to DMZ to your own router instead. I don’t have to deal with double NAT simply because I effectively have my ISP gateway in bridge mode (forwarding all traffic to a specific device, in this case, my personal router).

Note: I have gigabit FTTH from AT&T. I left cable internet the moment fiber service was made available.

Oh I did that the moment I was able :) I just have too many devices for entertainment (first world problem, I know).

Yep, that’s what we “early” adopters get for adopting so early. I’ve hardly even played my Steam Deck and certainly not enough to get its value yet, I’m not upgrading to an OLED one. I have played my Switch a ton, but I’m waiting on a Switch 2 (which hopefully would have OLED from the beginning, like all these devices should have had at the start) before I bother upgrading.

What? Speak up! I didn’t hear you.

Compared to Plex and any modern UI, it’s garbage. But I agree it does indeed work well enough. Just not my cup of tea.

I also use Plex, but it is definitely not FOSS. Jellyfin is a thing, the UI needs a LOT of work, though.

I prefer Plex mainly because it has allowed me to easily share to family without any real barriers except that the account information is controlled by a for-profit company. And to be fair to myself, I was a Plex user before it left the OSS world, back when it was a simple fork of XBMC. So I’ve been bought-in since its early versions.