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Open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 24 is out now with plenty of new features
21 February 2021 at 12:59 am UTC Likes: 9
If they want to charge a "convenience" fee like Ardour does for Mac/Win OS users buying binaries, they could and simply sell copies on Steam for $5-10/ea. He'll I'd even buy one just to make updates automatic.

The alternative is that gamers could "build their own copy from source". Most Mac & Windows users aren't gonna do that obviously.

Arguing that "open source" somehow prevents this is just naive & ignant.

Money may tear down some barriers & lower friction speeding up product production but it doesn't open every door and fix every problem.

If you want to help them cover costs or buy them some pizza, coffee or beer you can do so here:

https://play0ad.com/community/donate/
Pharaoh-like isometric city builder Nebuchadnezzar is out now
19 February 2021 at 4:04 am UTC
Instabuy. It's really cool to se new games explore the Tried & True mechanics and concepts that were loved for generations.
Terraria for Stadia cancelled, due to Google locking the developer out
10 February 2021 at 1:48 pm UTC Likes: 2
Fuck Google. Let them burn.

Long time user of Gmail (since beta 2004) and advocate of Google Services & Phones I recently closed out many Google Accounts. Very soon they are deleting accounts if you don't login for a period of time including the pictures, besides feeding your pictures to their AI to profile you besides stupid bullshit like what clearly happened here in this post.


If you want to leave Gmail, here's the way out. You will need to enable "Less Secure Apps" to enable `imapsync` access

https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps

Download `imapsync` from your package manager as seen here:

https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync

 
sudo imapsync --no-modulesversion --syncinternaldates \\n
--host1 imap.gmail.com --user1 '[email protected]' --password1 'PASSWORD_1' \\n
--host2 localhost --user2 'USERNAME2'  --password2 'PASSWORD_2'

In this example, using "localhost" you would be SSH'd to the email server for it to work. Alternatively LINE 3 could be updated to protonmail or another provider.

Additionally, create a full backup of your data

https://takeout.google.com

Then delete your account or delete all data in your account (eg: wipe out everything in Thunderbird in "All Mail") -- if you need your account for "account recovery" of things on the internet for a while just leave it at 0% usage.

You can also self-host or purchase Cloud space with a App Suite that covers pretty much all the basics Google does -- using it the last few months IMO it does Files, Calendar, Webmail linkup, Documents/Spreadsheets, Password Management, Address Book, and apparantly does Talk which recently I learned using Materbridge can link into existing services like Discord (I haven't setup yet), the Video Calls seem to work okay User to User, etc...

https://nextcloud.com

Good Luck @all and Fuck Google.

Edit: Also fuck Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & all the big guys. In the spirit of Email (serverA.com to serverB.com) https://mastodon.online is growing as a kind of "Email" for Social Spheres to network. Other interesting projects are Pixelfed (Federated Instagram), Matrix/Element.io (IRC meets Discord), PeerTube (Federated YouTube [some servers allow NSFW, some do not in the main feed]), LBRY.tv / Odysee.com (YouTube alt using LBC crypto to reward content creators, Federated IIUC)
Valve to lose $4 million for patent infringement with the Steam Controller
4 February 2021 at 12:04 am UTC Likes: 1
Scumbags. My Faith In The System looses 1000 points with stories like these.

Of course, the copyright and patent systems have become systems of oppression and nothing more than more "Control".

It's just another example of a "good idea" of protecting inventers taken beyond too far going horribly horribly wrong.
Valve abusing the market power of Steam on game pricing according to a lawsuit
1 February 2021 at 10:21 pm UTC Likes: 5
Weighing In.

Steam maintaining their market dominance is in MY best interest.

They Win? I Win. We All Win.

If devs want to sell for less on other platforms, Steam doesn't have to admit them access to ride Steam Train Party -- Choo Choo.

Steam's relationship with devs/publishers is PARTNER, and if they are doing things that jeopardize that PARTNERSHIP out of self-interest -- they are ENEMIES if not exploiting Steam being an ENABLER.

Lets level too -- this isn't about the little devs, but the big devs signing ANTI-CONSUMER agreements behind closed doors.

I'm 100% with Steam, FUCK DEVS who do this. GET THE BOOT AND GET THE FUCK OFF THE STEAM TRAIN CHOO CHOO BITCHES.

Edit: TL;DR: Steam is being ANTI-COMPETITIVE while other platforms are being ANTI-CONSUMER. As a consumer I'm fine with this.
Steamworks gets Denuvo Anti-Cheat, here's what Irdeto say about Linux support
19 January 2021 at 4:34 pm UTC Likes: 6
Quoting: Eike"Denuvo Anti-Cheat will not prohibit Linux users from accessing single-player and non-competitive multiplayer features of their games"

Ain't it great? It's anti-cheat - not anti-DRM! - and will not prohibit single player stuff!?!

Incredible, It's almost as if they understand Anti-Cheat should not necessarily be ANTI-CONSUMER too. Mind = Blown

I much prefer games that do it like Halo MCC where you literally are given the choice as consumer if you want to launch with anticheat disabled ( which I do so I can play on custom servers )

It's funny looking back, back in the 90s "cheats" used to be a "feature" you literally paid extra money for a players guide or game shark or whatever to get special new capabilities.
Bytten Studio say not to sleep on Linux in their postmortem for Lenna's Inception
18 January 2021 at 12:42 pm UTC Likes: 1
Cool, I didn't realize this was for sale yet, grabbed a copy for a Linux friend who I think will be stoked on this.

Launching a game reminds me of building a fire, you want to get enough gamer engagement & positive reviews as you can to get the blaze going to snowball. Linux gamers are great at that whole "network effect" thing -- I can't tell you how many copies of Terraria or other games I've bought people some of whom only use Linux occasionally, actually at the time got a bunch of kids in school to start playing too (same w/ Starbound).

Once again the numbers point to us being a modestly big enough piece of the pie to notice. I mean I sure as hell wouldn't throw out a pie with 7 of the 8 slices eaten,

Or like bake some bread and be like "well I added 7 of the 8 ingredients -- I dunno if I like this yeast stuff so I'm gonna leave it out."

Lol.

This game looks epic, super stoked to see what it's about and only $5 atm, not bad at all.
The open source Epic Games Store app Heroic Games Launcher has a big overhaul
12 January 2021 at 6:30 pm UTC Likes: 3
It's cool that some people who otherwise couldn't can get legal copies of games for free.

It's cool that people are making it easier for themselves and others.

The lame part is Epic Games & their nasty attitudes these last (5?) few years.

I would encourage the creators to consider expanding the scope to included GOG, Itch and others in addition to Epic.

For someone like me I'd rather spend the extra 50 bucks to not have to register an Epic account and support Tencent/China -- destroyer of Riot Games / League of Legends and other things I used to like.

Tim Sweeny is a hot-head who got himself & Epic into a epic lawsuit with Apple over in-app transactions. Guess it doesn't always pay to be off your rocker.
Epic Games has acquired RAD Game Tools so they now own Bink video and more
8 January 2021 at 11:04 am UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Breizh
QuoteThe good news is that Epic will not be locking it down to their systems
for now.*

I'll give it 6 months. That's how long it took Epic to murder Rocket League IIRC.
KDE will hopefully have a 'Production-ready' Wayland session for Plasma in 2021
4 January 2021 at 11:27 pm UTC
The new Launcher is welcome, I've hated Kickoff for more than 10 years, and good alternatives haven't existed like they do in Gnome with Arc Menu for example.

I love the scope of KDE's features, but between every major version it seems like useful things are left behind for unknown periods of time (Look @you global menu)

And the features that do exist always feel like they haven't been fleshed out (Installing addons is done in a ackward menu with no screenshots except a tiny thumbnail, no user-feedback and multiple installation sources with poorly named files making it difficult to understand which one is the newest version)

That and now the whole Qt 6.0 / Qt 5.15 Drama, I am surprised KDE is entering a "stable" time when Qt's new commercial LTS plans are essentially creating a year or more of instability. Seems bizarre.
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