lol Hopefully this will be enough to shake people awake and off to...

Murmer + Mumble
Matrix
XMPP & Jitsi Meet -- the tried and true old fashions
Mattermost? No personal experience here
IRC -- v3 is nice

Quoting: GoEsrI'm left wondering when governments will come for Steam accounts. My account is over 18 years old, so maybe they'll implement the same system Nexus Mods did.

Yeah.. I've been wary about this for a little while now. Before I began using Privacy.com, at some point I gave them my actual debit card. That ought to have been enough for them to figure out I'm over 18. Especially since it's been years since.

Even still, all the more reason to maybe buy Valve's HW and stick to GOG & Itch for buying games. As alluring as those 90% off games are... it doesn't matter once one is locked out of one's account!

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Will 2026 truly be the real year of Linux gaming on the desktop?
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"Linux is the next major frontier".

Pssh. That was so last year. Get with the times!😝

I'm honestly sadly surprised at the bad blood my fellow Linux gamers seem to have for GOG, for whatever petty reasons you are listing, are you forgetting these guys are the only ones with downloadable DRM free games fighting against "you'll own nothing and will be happy"? Get your heads out of your asses

That bears repeating. 🫤

Also, itch.io does have many DRM free games but, it's not their M.O. like it is GOGs.

I still find it mind boggling that GOG isn't focused on GNU/Linux as the objectives and principles overlap so much. What a weird disconnect. lol....

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I just wanna complain that I bought a GPD XP Plus. It's still running Android 11. They should be fined and forced to update to the lastest along with every security patch and continue to do so.

That said, the Pocket 4 looks like the best 2-in-1 out there that'll run GNU/Linux. So long as the hardware is good and others are taking care of the software....

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Obviously it's a cost and time savings measure. It's known that GOG is not very profittable, if at all. Now, one of the co-founders presumably paid off their debts and might not have much money leftover for himself.

LLM generated stuff can be useful as a tool for the first step. A director or some other non-artst person has an idea for promo materials can, within several minutes, realize them. The next step, however, needs to be to pass it along to a skilled artist, either on the payroll, contracted, or volunteer community member to make it genuine, original, and without the suckage. lol. Any necessary text can be added last minute as to not give away sales/et. al. ahead of time. That way, everyone wins.

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Nice. I have this one my wishlist.

For the record, I spent too long searching for this Diablo-like games [External Link] list on GoL only to resort to a web search and find it again -- on It's FOSS. lol *facepalm*

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randomly generated innards

Oh gods! 🙀

I guess he somehow has "hysteria"? 😖

This game seems very disturbing. 👍

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This game actually seems interesting. I like the pixel art and top down view. lol. It's a bit absurd but, doesn't seem too over the top.

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Ozzy & Lemmy "Hellraiser"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw79RVnlCb0 [External Link]

RIP 🤘🏼

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Happy birthday to them! I do try buying stuff from GOG over Steam unless there's some wild 75-90% off.. lol

I've got a few things in the cart and I'm just waiting for my Privacy.com account to notice that my pay cheque cleared in my bank account so I can spend money. 🤑

It's so weird to me. You'd think everything GOG stands for would be exactly everything GNU+Linux stands for and they'd be all about GNU+Linux...
The fact that they're so indifferent hurts my head.

It's both wonderful and sad that basically one person, with contributions from others, made a launcher that handles GOG installs. 🧐

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Ooo exciting! I play Siralim Ultimate and Temtem sometimes. Maybe I'll grab this in the future.

I'm digging the art on this. Reminds me much of.. well, you know. 😉

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