Meanwhile, copyleft game availability remains unharmed in Russia. To learn who rules over you, simply find out who hides their source code from you.

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I continue to use Mumble as first choice. I like it's simplicity and self-hostability. However, since other gamer chat software have conditioned everyone into expecting a full persistent chat suites, I am exploring using XMPP instead.

Quoting: EikeWhy? I wanted to do voice chat (Valheim with a Windows using friend) lately for the first time (yay!). I was "defaulting" to Discord, but in the end wasn't sure why not to use say Telegram or WhatsApp (latency?) or, well, we were two, good old phone line.

IMO Mumble is voicechat for gamers without any of Discord's data harvesting, advertising, centralization or other anti-features.

Quoting: pete910It's also easier to do your own server.

No binary is offered to host a server and, in my book, if you can't run it on bare metal you can't run "your own server". I would be much more inclined to call Discord's instances more appropriately as chatrooms.

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One way that any software project can move to become simpler is to stop trying to be everything. I don't want my DE to have its own built in video player or backup snapshotter especially when I probably already have my own tools in place to handle those things.

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All that fuss only for them to release a rehash which doesn't even match the visuals achieved by some proper hobbyist mods. This recent debacle has me thinking: maybe it would just be better to run projects like re3 in anonymity. Host the code on some uncensorable network like IPFS and everyone involved just use aliases and pseudonyms. Anyway, if anybody wants a copy of the repo please PM me. I have prepared for this and would be glad to share the work (outside of GoL) of these good men and women.

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KDE wants to monopolize and bully others out of the space they occupy with underhanded business tactics and leveraging of legal frameworks? If I where Nate, I would have chosen a different analogy.

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I've always found SDL programs to just work without fuss or any tinkering. If this can entice more projects to use it then great.

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Quoting: EikeOr maybe they're looking beyond their own nose. Like caring for environment.

Bitcoin is not an effective currency.
It quickly degraded into an object of speculation.

The same banking system which formulated that argument to peddle to joe normie in actuality uses much more energy. [External Link]

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I suspect that a good portion of the gamer crowd is salty about cryptocurrency because of their experiences with inflated GPU prices. Anyway, does anyone remember nearly a decade ago when you could actually buy games on Steam with Bitcoin? The glowies shut that down pretty quick. The state can't have people using sound currency.

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If anybody wants a copy of the code let me know.

Whenever you want to learn the true intent of another person/organization, always watch what they do, not what they say. And Take Two's actions say they specifically want to prevent people from playing their games unless they submit to a very strict platform+software configuration.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeYou know what's funny? The psychology behind that exclusivity is the same kind of psychology around why Flat-Earthers are a thing.

Very much has to do with "I know some secret knowledge that others do not." And there is that same thing of "I can play this game because I bought the 'superior' platform." Exclusivity only happens because $Company pays $Publisher enough to not let others play their game. At least back in the day there was some sort of 'well this platform is more capable and that's why we published it there, as the experience of the game will be crap on other systems...' We no longer have that barrier at all!

Psychology is a huge factor in that. I don't know the correct term although it is something like sunk-cost. Console gamers have entered into their position accepting the conditions of access which the owner of that platform allows. When those conditions change, they will feel cheated by their cult leader and react as we have seen.

And unfortunately for layfolk, when an exclusive situation has been established they will tend to misinterpret the excluded platforms as missing out because "well that platform must not be as capable".

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