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Game store itch.io has "deindexed" adult content due to payment processor scrutiny
25 Jul 2025 at 5:01 pm UTC Likes: 11

Steam move last week was concerning. This is straight bad. There were some amazing game on the lot. Sure some of the game delisted were creepy, but there were games that figure relationship more healthy than most of the relationship in the literature. Just kinky and horny.*

* I love how English is so full of understatement when talking about sex.

Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed
17 Jul 2025 at 8:13 am UTC Likes: 6

I'm pretty sure Paypal, Mastercard and Visa allow you to pay for HBO whereas
Spoiler, click me
Game of throne featuring incest
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Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed
16 Jul 2025 at 9:50 am UTC Likes: 49

I have a mixed feeling about that. I'm not against some kind of regulation on content, but I'm not keen on US prudish moral deciding what I should not play.

Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit support has been withdrawn
5 Jul 2025 at 7:05 am UTC

Neither Ubuntu nord Bazite has any link with Red Hat still both of them dont want to maintain 32 bits as well.
The point is not about RedHat it's about distributions that have trouble managing 32 bits when they don't have long release cycle nor rolling release.
Having 32 bits support in a software that can be shared by all the distro with a slower release cycle may be one of the solution Fedora is talking about.

Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit support has been withdrawn
30 Jun 2025 at 1:46 pm UTC Likes: 1

The proposal was not to break gaming on Linux, rather than not having the whole load of 32 bits maintenance on the distro maintainers.

Distro maintainer is a tough job, and they did not get much credits for that, but they got a lot of flak whenever they try to reduce the load to a more manageable level (dropping xorg, using systemd,...). Maintaining a distro is increasingly complex and the wear of it has caused the death of many great distros. By all mean, maintainers deserve their propositions to be received charitably.

As for the proposed change, I think we need a dedicated emulation project for legacy 32 bits software, much like proton for games, XWayland for X11 built on Wayland, and so forth. It is not a Fedora issue, it is a distro maintainer issue and I can see a future where only Debian, Arch, their derivative and smaller-scope distro focused on 32 bits compatibility still have 32 bits (Arch because of its manpower, Debian because it ships a major version every 5 years).

Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
25 Jun 2025 at 1:44 pm UTC Likes: 1

It seems to me there is a lot of bad faith reaction to a statement of intend aiming to find solution for when critical upstream package will stop suporting 32 bits.

That's how I interpret
And it’s better to start planning for the removal of i686 packages now than when (insert foundational package here - for example, CPython) stops supporting 32-bit architectures and we need to scramble to adapt.

Manjaro Linux lead gives more info on the new ZOTAC GAMING ZONE handheld with AMD
22 May 2025 at 8:16 am UTC

alexleduc: I have moved out after repeated failure to update the key and other reliability issues :sad: That's sad because I still haven't found a distro I like as much as I'd liked Manjaro before getting fed up by their quirks.

ZOTAC GAMING ZONE Handheld getting a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 prototype with a Manjaro Linux-based OS
14 May 2025 at 1:46 pm UTC

Manjaro is an interesting choice, it's Arch-based like SteamOS and it is managed by a company which make it easier, from a company point of view, to work with than with the loose structures that manage most FOSS project (Valve is very good at working with them and its one of its strength. I find the means Valve use to intereract with the FOSS world fascinating).

Get some quality strategy games like Battlestar Galactica Deadlock in the Slitherine Strategy Bundle
8 May 2025 at 6:54 pm UTC

That's an amazing bundle. A pity I had bought Master of Magick recently, for the same price I would have bought the bundle.

A public alpha of the 'semi-immutable' Manjaro Summit Linux is now available
16 Apr 2025 at 2:48 pm UTC Likes: 1

@scaine
I would be less categorical talking about love or hate, some people are wary of Manjaro for various mistakes the Manjaro team have made, the same apply to Canonical. Each mistake a distro team do, they lose a little trust.

That's a pity for Manjaro through, I like their theme way better than Endeavour's (please no more badly IA generated wallpaper).