Quoting: elmapulnever heard of it, is this website legit? it has some... suspicious titles...
https://www.zoom-platform.com/product/larry-lotter-and-the-test-of-time [External Link]

A little search shows that this game is even on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/551840/Crystal_Shard_Adventure_Bundle/ [External Link]

Maybe the title is too small to get sued and then it's between the game publisher and the copyright owner and not the store.

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Quoting: amatai 
curl zoom-platform.sh | sh

That does not seem safe at all. We already have flatpack, snap and co that let dev bypass distro packaging but `curl ... | sh` feel a bit extreme.

I'm still happy to discover a new Linux tool and platform through. Thanks Liam.

This appears to be only a shell tool/wrapper for proton. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know Flatpaks are used for GUI applications. Although I have seen projects like Sunshine (Remote Game streaming) use it too, but that project distributes it only over GitHub released .flatpakref files and seems to be an exception. Yes, snaps support both (e.g. Nextcloud servers), however it's not really widespread.

Integrating it into graphical installers like Heroic or Lutris would be far better, but it's a good start. I love to see some competitions between the stores.

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Quoting: TarosCan I see somehow which games are invisible to me because of that?

On steamdb.info for sure. It's not yet known how exactly it will look, but probably games will get some new key like 'de_rating' and it will be searchable.

For example here are all games that have a key "foo" with the value "bar" (yes, that's actually a thing :grin:):
https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app_keynames&type=-1&keyname=338&operator=1&keyvalue=bar [External Link]

There is already the restricted_countries key with SteamDB [External Link]. They already use it for adult only like corn or too much violence games like Agony.

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One the one hand, I understand it that all future purchases need to comply with laws (and already bought games are unaffected) but on the other hand blocking unrated games is totally overkill. There a tons of game pages that are no longer maintained and only money is exchanged like old indie games. Now it's the responsibility of publishers if they still want to earn money from Germans. At least Steam/Valve offers a survey without the need to go through the USK rating organization. Currently, even bigger titles like PUBG or Rust doesn't have a age rating on their store page.

Quoting: ChrisznixSigh. Yeah, give it to us, we need the pain. Us Gerrrmans need to be protected, we have German Angst!
Man, why can´t we just have Eikes proposal? Auto-Age 18 for nonresponders and thats it.
We are already protected from all the pr0n-games already (as the only country i believe).

No, China too. A quick SteamDB search [External Link] shows if it has strong x content, it's likely blocked in both countries. See for example Seeds of Chaos [External Link] from a previous GOL article.

However, it should be noted that USK only wants strong verification systems for 18+ genre. So like age verification through state id or similar, but Steam doesn't want to deal with it. Well it's kind of understandable, because of privacy responsibilities.

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I think this feature is really awesome, because you already get automatic marks on achievements. Therefore, for existing games we already have at least some kind way to find important moments.

However, this new interface is not really integrated into the existing Steam library features. There is currently no way to share it to the Steam feed and the advertised sharing into Steam chat also doesn't exist at the moment.

Quoting: pb

Quoting: TharvasI hope there is an option to have the cached data in RAM if plenty to spare to not wear down and degrade the SSD too fast and only with the hotkey pressed the clip will be written to disk.

I just did some calculations and I'd need to be recording (at 12 Mbps) for 16 years non-stop to reach my disk's TBW limit. With my gaming usually limited to 1-2h a day, it gives close to 200 years. I think I can afford to have the background recording written to SSD. ;-)

BTW is it just me, or does changing the recording folder segfault Steam client for everyone?

However, smaller and older SSD also come with a smaller TBW. My 500GiB SSD only has an advertised TBW of 150. So that would only be 1,6 years with the highest setting (24 Mbps) of full time writing, but still with 2h average gaming it would 20 years (considering only game recording).

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Quoting: GuestThe Modrinth App does not currently have a Flatpak, are you using a different program? At the moment they only have AppImage and a Debian package.

I created an issue about how the app could be packaged here [External Link]. They're planning on having a Flatpak in the future however Tauri applications can't be packaged as a Flatpak [External Link] at the moment :unsure:

I'm sorry for the confusion, I was referring to Minecraft itself

There is a ticket for that: https://github.com/flathub/com.mojang.Minecraft/issues/116 [External Link] There is a workaround, but the maintainers are refusing it, because it should be fixed upstream. For me, it helped to add 'org.freedesktop.secrets' to Session-Bus->Talks as an override in Flatseal or by command.

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Not a big bundle this time with only 6 titles in total.

Well it's even smaller for users living in Germany. Postal 1, 2 are banned here.

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