Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: ElectricPrismHow and where do I open a steam:// URL -- I can't seem to navigate to the area where I can manually enter the location.

Just in your browser, and if your desktop is setup correctly it will open it inside Steam and you get a Console tab along the big main navigation bar.

That makes sense -- I was able to enter the link into LibreWolf and it used a sort of xdg-open to pass it off to steam. Thank You.

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How and where do I open a steam:// URL -- I can't seem to navigate to the area where I can manually enter the location.

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Quoting: AkonadyLinux users are willing to pay thousand upon thousand of money on games (closed source) but doesn't want to buy a proper OS and want open source software :dizzy:

Half true. Being a Linux user is a status symbol to me. I buy $600-$1000 GPUs for many years to be able to get good FPS on Linux, then MESA, AMDGPU, DXVK, Proton kick ass and get us into good shape, etc...

Then I donate money to Krita, GIMP, EFF and other foundations meanwhile companies dump millions in donations into Blender, Godot, and so on.

In essence you could say I spend THOUSANDS of dollars to _NOT_ use WINDOWS -- badly made blackbox shit os. And I'd do it all again.

Hell I threw a thousand at Valve just to buy a Index when I'm not a VR person, and I plan do the same thing when their new Hand Hand Game Console or 2021/2022 Steam Console comes out with over 7K native games or 44K games including ROMS, Proton, etc...

We use Linux because it's __BETTER__

So what did everyone buy this sale? Not sure I need much I have a backlog of like ~500 Steam Games I'd like to play.

Oh and I also have donated and thrown money at FOSS games in dev like 0AD because it's nice to have someone buy you a pizza once in a while and makes those games even more kickass for @all

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Quoting: KithopThankfully, IRC (and Matrix and Mastodon listed in the article) are open enough that you can just cut ties and say 'screw it, we're doing our own!', like the Libera.Chat team is doing.

Any mention of them on Freenode gets you booted, and yeah:
It's happening (Matrix) [External Link]
to lots [External Link]
of people [External Link]

Also, for anyone using the 'main' matrix.org homeserver, they're working on proper IRC bridging:
Bridge libera.chat #1324 [External Link]

After reading those and the comments in this thread I'm so done with private networks. You get 10 years into something, and then all of a sudden something changes and the next thing you know you have people breathing down your neck with unreasonable requirements.

To me Federated seems like the only sane way forward. I hope this leads to the rise in Matrix, Mastodon, PixelFed and other Federated networks like Email.

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I've literally been using Big Picture to access the Downloads and manually que the updates for over 500 games. It's my biggest annoyance since the new UX update.

I can't welcome a "All Downloads" page fast enough. Godspeed Mr Gaben.

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We've seen over 700 projects (including us!) have their Freenode channels be taken over ... [because we] had the sheer audacity to mention Libera.Chat

Owch. I would like to thank Andrew Lee for confirmation that (Ex & Decorated Freenode Staff) Libera.Chat criticisms must be valid. I remained partially skeptical up until this moment.

What a mess, may Freenode.net be buried quickly so the legacy behind the name is not further tarnished by this skidmark known as Andrew Lee.

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I know other projects sometimes will build themselves on a demo.exe that is stored at https://archive.org [External Link] since any demos released were legit distributed by the authors, -- "no backsies".

I really wasn't expecting to see this game in my feed, but like Turok 1 & 2, and other games from that era I am pleasantly surprised.

Top comment "sweet memories" indeed.

Edit: I know it may seem silly but I could also see a group starting a "License Library" where CDs/DVDs each have a unique drive and are connected to a computer. A person can then "borrow" the game by simply connecting to the server (WAN or VLAN), eg: `sshfs` mount the game and play -- a reasonable limitation would be only 1 person per copy at a time so the "borrowed" copy can be given out and taken back as needed so to speak. I see no difference between that and lending your game to a friend person to person, and considering there would have been no foresight into the future it's not like any licenses or agreements could have predicted such future capabilities so I don't anticipate any breech on 80% of the larger scope of content.

/daydreaming

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I'm with Liam on the title being accurate & factual.

It's up to the reader to not make inferences based on limited information (We all do it sometimes). This is a good example of why Critical Thinking is so important & reeling in those "leaps of faith" to "fill in the gaps" of what we do and do not know.

FTA -- Props to this Kiwi for educating himself on the laws used against him and using those same laws to fight back. Education & Tenacity are powerful tools to be reckoned with.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: TheSHEEEPI came here to see a bunch of "capitalism bad! Harrumph!" comments and was not disappointed.

Capitalism bad! Harrumph! :grin:

But I think you're being a touch unfair. It's the game designers themselves who said "Capitalism bad". The first comment was a "capitalism good! Harrumph!"
And I personally haven't even said anything about capitalism yet, I've just pointed out that it's silly to rule out of bounds all critique of any system on the basis that the person criticizing is in, and part of, the system.

Lol you made me think of this inverse meme that could use a Capitolism version becoming a Banana Republic

!link [External Link]

Of course it points out my favorite point that neither Capitolism nor Communism as systems exist -- remember Tiananmen Square Masacre? That was the gov using rural folk against City College kids who were like "Yo bro, this isn't Communism, this isn't what we were promised".

On the other hand in the quote "Capitalist" world (lol), you have a handful of corporations literally control everything including government regulations.

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Valve is protecting themselves from hostile partnerships.

This has nothing to do with consumers. Just whether or not Publishers can get the Sweet Sweet Valve Nectar and Fuck Valve at the same time by under-selling their partner with another partner eg: CCP+Tencent+Epic.

Valve Says -- No you must be fair to us -- if you want to charge less elsewhere you have to charge the same lower amount for our customers too.

And of course the Hostile Partners are all Surprised Pikachu on why they are not allowed to be on a platform while simultaneously fucking that platform over.



Bravo Valve for respecting yourself and requiring equal treatment, I'm 100% behind you, especially after the 7,000 Native Linux Games that Valve gave me and the 0 Native Linux Games that Epic gave me -- oh but I got some hostile remarks from Tim Sweeney, get wrecked Epic -- I don't mind having a #2 gaming store -- but if I have anything to say about it it'll never be a Anti-Linux piece of shit store like CCP+Tencent+Epic -- but hey why should we be surprised, Epic basically is complacent against their CCP Partners in literal genocide and slavery of their Uighers picking 20% of the world cotton and using prison labor where their fingernails literally are falling off from to produce the worlds slave garlic.

Where is the world outrage and human decency focused on the right problem and not a diversion when you need it.

As for Wolfire's David Rosen selling off Humble Bundle to IGN -- thanks bro, you really fucking sold the company & us down the fucking river -- but hey sellouts gotta sellout, and good shit gotta become bad shit -- Humble Bundle, Woot, Newegg, yadda yadda yadda.

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