Time for some European payment provider alternatives to those close-minded murricans.

The solution isn't moving the goalposts and choosing to be ruled by a different region in place of another (see user Iod's comment above about similar game censorship in Germany). This only delays the problem.

The proper solution, no matter how improbable, is for Valve to take a page of their own book of embracing open source solutions, that - by design - cannot be under the influence of any asshat authority, and apply that in their payment methods.

And I don't think stablecoins is the answer here either, those can be controlled and regulated too as far as I'm aware (do correct me if I'm wrong here). I don't want to sound like those cryptobros plugging some shitcoins so I'm choosing to end this here.

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The idea that "payment processors" get to tell people what is okay and not okay to spend their "own" money on.... I'm just glad I researched about future alternatives for when SHTF and now I feel prepared for whenever this evolves further (namely CBDCs) :unsure:.

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Only the Windows version though. Linux build is clean.

Didn't even realise there's a Native build ! That's awesome.

A quick look over at ProtonDB, and it looks like everyone is using Proton sadly, and the few who use Native report mixed impressions.

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I was wondering how I don't have Mad Max yet.

Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Antitamper

So, that's why.

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Another day, another Temporary Service game dead.

One down, shitload to go.

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I would also like to add that what the user is getting at could be better more attributed to sovereignty, rather than real privacy and security gains. Something that is still totally valid and I do support that position myself, but it's best to be aware of the broader state of privacy and safety if one does care.

While the EU is absolutely better for privacy/security than the US (America is probably the worst place for that, it was never really a contest), that doesn't make the EU saints or that they don't have intentions undermine their own citizen's privacy/security; see the EU plan to kill encryption, CSAM, and their future plan to ban Monero (private, digital cash) etc. If I were to summarize the EU's stance on privacy rights, I'd say their actions are that they don't want no company to have unrestricted access to user data, but they do want that data for themselves (the governments).

What truly ensures one's security and their right to privacy here is using the right open source tools. Nationality or HQ location is a concern for sure, but what's a bigger concern is using closed-source tools or even FOSS tools that aren't properly audited. Yes, this is the zero-trust strategy, since the idea of "trust me bro" or "it's fine, covert data collection is illegal here" are not at all enough to give one a real sense of what we're discussing here, only a promise.

This is why I don't mind the fact that, for example, the Signal private messenger is based in America, because any 3 letter agencies in the whole world can be my guest and spend all day long trying to decrypt that quantam-resistant cryptography of the Signal Protocol, and they won't succeed. This level of assurance is achieved thanks to the fact Signal is open source.

Coming back to Fedora/Bazzite being based in the US, this is one example of changing districts not doing anything to one's privacy, as Fedora already doesn't collect information on users by default, the code is open source so we don't have to take their word for it, we verify that ourseleves. What does hurt Fedora being in the US are other topics that are real show-stoppers (their paranoia of not pre-installing essential non-FOSS packages due to fear of the copyright police), but nothing that relates to privacy or security.

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Nice Titanfall 2 reference :smile:.

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Sure, options are great, but I'll stick with ProtonUp-Qt as an avid Qt fan and who has contributed a couple features to ProtonUp-Qt in the past.

Thank you for your service !

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Not sure what the bit Steam Input should be doing.

I tested HITMAN running with Wine-Wayland for that sweet HDR, and even with the latest 10-8 release, controller still doesn't work, until I manually turn off Steam input for the game.

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There is hope, Wuthering Waves uses the same anticheat and it's playable on Linux. Hopefully someone figures out the trick. or if it's up to game devs to enable support, well, hopefully they do !

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