Quoting: kerossinWell, I think why people get angry is because most mods aren't done for profit but out of love for the characters and stories, and just to have fun. Same for users of mods, they like the characters and want to have fun but then when Nintendo or whoever comes in and says "you'll enjoy Mario when I'll allow you to" it sounds like a big "F you" to the fans.

Yeah I'd say this hits the nail on the head, whether a company is legally in the right is not what the people who complain care about, it is more-so ethically and the intent and time people spent on those addons, I guess people go to legal as you can't really argue about ethics as ethics are opinionated and you can't disprove/argue with an opinion (you can argue with one but it'd be pointless).

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Quoting: KithopStill wish there was a viable, self-hostable, FLOSS alternative that covered enough of Discord's feature set to convince people to switch.

Mumble has great audio, but a very dated UX and nowhere near the rich text chat support, nor game streaming.

Element / Matrix seems promising, but they're wholly uninterested in being that competitor, considering how long people have been asking for simple drop in/out persistent voice channels (literally 4+ years I think, last I checked, which was admittedly a year+ ago at this point) where you can see who's already in or not at a glance, and the company behind it focuses on chasing contracts with police forces instead :sick:.

IRC of course strips it all back to text chat.

Everyone else seems to be chasing Slack and business use cases primarily.

Yeah, I can spin up my Owncast instance, hook OBS up to it, give my friends a link and then try to juggle both the VoIP call and the persistent rich text chat with other apps. While I'm fine going that route, there's intense friction getting the average Windows gamer to participate and leave the Discord bubble.

Yeah I love Mumble when I found out about it, still stuck on discord though. Would probably (in an ideal world) use Matrix + Mumble but there is Spacebar which might be what you want when it releases.

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Would recommend A Plague Tale: Innocence, got it for free on Epic, played through the whole thing, it was an interesting game.

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As someone who plays TF2, I am very happy to hear this, very excited!

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Quoting: JordanPlayz158

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: JordanPlayz158Where did you get this info, wasn't difficult to get waydroid installed and working on my linux distro?

Waydroid boots up Android in a container, and needs to be installed separately. As I understand it, neither of those are true for ChromeOS or Windows - they can run Android applications out of the box.

Oh? Fascinating, when did Windows attain this functionality, back in the day, BlueStacks was the way (which I would not say is out of the box or different than Waydroid). Not sure how ChromeOS does it without a container though

I was asked to look into this a while back. Windows 11's WSA (Windows Subsystem for Android) obviously makes use of virtualization, and it's not quite an out-of-the-box experience. It's not installed by default for starters. Secondly, you can only install apps from the Amazon Appstore unless you want to sideload them using the Android SDK. Oh and the Amazon Appstore is only available in a limited set of countries so sideloading might be your only option.

Doesn't sound much nicer to use than Waydroid to be honest.

Oh I see, thank you for explaining and clearing this up, no clue windows made a subsystem but does make sense it uses virtualization and I agree, seems on par with waydroid for difficulty

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Quoting: JordanPlayz158Where did you get this info, wasn't difficult to get waydroid installed and working on my linux distro?

Waydroid boots up Android in a container, and needs to be installed separately. As I understand it, neither of those are true for ChromeOS or Windows - they can run Android applications out of the box.

Oh? Fascinating, when did Windows attain this functionality, back in the day, BlueStacks was the way (which I would not say is out of the box or different than Waydroid). Not sure how ChromeOS does it without a container though

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Quoting: WorMzyWho makes up these percentages? People checking statcounter.com to see who's checking statcounter.com? :huh:

Their stats code across 1.5+ million websites.

Interesting, definitely a small subset compared to every website and/or every computer and Linux is definitely lower if they do check just user agent as most privacy respecting browsers tend to use Windows useragent for less fingerprinting so in reality, it could very well be over 4% for either case.

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Quoting: CatKillerThe thing that ChromeOS can do that desktop Linux can't (but which Windows can) is run Android applications. But people generally don't think of Android (or Windows) as a desktop Linux OS.

Where did you get this info, wasn't difficult to get waydroid installed and working on my linux distro?

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Quoting: PinballWizardNow if only I could stream with audio on Linux.

This may actually be a linux issue, as in I have heard windows are not linked to their audio stream(s), at least maybe not through pipewire?

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Quoting: wytrabbitI guess you're unaware that DRM free games that don't require any Steam services, can be launched outside of Steam... it's not illegal

Even if that's true: That's not thanks to Valve. What does this change about Valve's absolute Pro-DRM stance? It's not about what's legal or not but their intentions & actions. They do actively restrict the access to the user's games.

I mean I doubt Valve actually likes DRM, it is more so the industry that requires/likes it, just like iirc HDMI won over DP because it implemented DRM/Copy Protection (and at that time) DP did not, unfortunately, to stay on top, you need to bend to the will and demands of greedy game companies as look at GOG, I love their approach but they are definitely not the top store nor has as many games as Steam because they only sell DRM-free games and even though I am speaking to brick wall, companies, whenever you add DRM, you are absolutely, unequivocally giving a pirate better value and/or experience than a legal buyer, that should **never** be the case if you want less people to pirate, you **must** make the experience worse or unbearable for the pirate (or at the very least both should have the same experience but definitely not how it currently is.)

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