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An oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. As such, it is a form of divination.

Well... they didn't predict this verdict did they :smile:

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If you enjoyed A Short Hike keep an eye on the upcoming Haven Park

I very much did. Excellent little game.

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Quoting: emphySo they got to profit from the extra media attention and support from linux users without wanting to spend on the obligation that got them into.Even if they give a full refund to the linux backers that doesn't repay the benefits they received.

Soon and one of these days somebody is going to file a class action suit against this kind of thing, win and set a precedent.

I will not be disappointed when this happens. Even if it means we get less crowdfunded indie games on Linux. At least you know that when the precedent is set for 'false advertising based on a crowdfunded project' you won't have people in this situation disappointed, out of pocket and having wasted their own energy with free marketing for these companies.

Because in the end no product at all is better than a lie.

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Quoting: PangaeaThey've been very 'hungry' lately. If you can't innovate yourself, just take over those who are (in general), and also remove competitors. It's Microsoft 101. (and many others in fairness, like Google and Facebook).

it's capitalism 101. Be the shark that eats / hoards (acquires) all the growing smaller fish until there is no other fish left in the ocean but just one giant shark, eventually and inevitably a crisis occurs, there is not enough food for the rest of the fish to eat. The shark gets to swim to the government boat and ask for a free food bail out. whilst all the everyday mino fish get nothing when they have nothing left to eat because the big shark consolidated and consumed it all and there is nowhere else to find food (work)

the little fish are told to pull themselves up by their boot straps but they don't even wear shoes.

Quoting: GuestAnother account to delete... What's next? Will they buy my country too?

They most probably already bought some influence.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

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Quoting: Xpander... at least according to the wording.. might just be the poor choice of words ofc

The average marketing person would probably show a confused look and say "What other browsers?".

I see it as the same as all the Linux distros. We don't expect them to support every single small one, so why for browsers? There's plenty of smaller ones - should they have to support them all and the various ways they support standards differently?

Exactly.

I think sometimes when we look through the 'Linux lens' we forget the layman on the other end.

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Quoting: edenistI really wish valve would release a steam-link program for linux. Not full blown steam, just a client that I can run on a lite-laptop that will stream from my big box.

Didn't they release a version for armv6/raspian at some stage?

speaking of steam-link app since the two recent articles are so closely related..

Im kind of disappointed with my testing of the recent 'steam-link' (flatpak). I know im probably in the minority that actually care, but Local streaming to me means the ability to have local only. Like Local PC to Local device. Im moderately privacy/security conscious, not so much as to not use something like Steam in the first place, but im just not that hyped to require an internet connection just to stream some local games to an old laptop. Was it always like this ? It might of always been but from testing it seems you cannot stream from your LAN connected Linux PC to another LAN connected Linux PC literally a few meters away without requiring permanent access to the internet (steam needs to be in 'online mode')
I would also have to mess with the firewall opening several permanent ports for the internet to see on ALL the devices that i want to stream too..

It gets me wondering if the name steam-link might eventually ditched in favour of the newer all encompassing 'Remote-play™' where everything is of course cloud streaming / online all the time hence why there is an internet requirement.

Maybe someone here can tell me it's not a requirement and explain how im doing it super wrongly, that would be appreciated :smile:

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