when physical media properly dies off and people cause enough of a fuss that governments and legal bodies around the world put in new laws around digital ownership

I do not expect the death of physical media to have much of an effect on legislation. Technically, physical media also do not grant ownership of the data stored on them. If you bought software on CDs, you owned the CDs, but you still needed a license to legally use the software.

I do see one big difference though, but I doubt it will be enough to cause legislation changes. In the past, when people were mostly offline and relied on physical media for software distribution, it was basically impossible to enforce a non-transferable license.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: ElamanOpiskelija

Quoting: soulsource

Created in Unreal Engine 5

And here we have our reason why it performed poorly initially. Getting Unreal 5 games to run well takes quite a bit of work...

Only in GOL we can get the luxury of reasonable takes like this. Steam forums, on the contrary...

I can only guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's because of the target audience. The Steam userbase is basically a mirror of society as a whole, while here we are mostly people interested in tech stuff.

I, for instance, made the above statement, because I am working with Unreal professionally. Unreal 4 was a lot lighter on the hardware by default than Unreal 5. Not that Unreal 5 couldn't perform well, it just needs a bit more work to get it to do so.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Created in Unreal Engine 5

And here we have our reason why it performed poorly initially. Getting Unreal 5 games to run well takes quite a bit of work...

View this comment - View article - View full comments

And here I go again, sinking another couple of hours into that game..

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: GuestI really need to get around to buying Dwarf Fortress on Steam. I haven't because I'm a bit scared I'll not be able to manage the new UI. I tried the free version with the new UI and couldn't figure out anything.

The new UI isn't great...

Last time I played, it was also still quite buggy. Basic stuff like building stairs sometimes didn't work at all (building an up-stair from dug-out area into non-dug-out area), other times it was extremely clunky (building stairs from non-dug-out area into dug-out area)...

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Purple Library GuyFor people without big budgets, you can actually be limited in what you can use your computer for just because you don't want to buy (or bloody rent!) the software and you don't know there's another way.

Don't forget about piracy. Most Windows users I know don't care about legality and just pirate whatever they can for their home PCs. Not sure how much this experience can be generalized though.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I still prefer the old UI and work assignment though. But I also love the new music... Maybe I should just download the soundtrack and play 0.43...

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: hjahreThey could have tuned the graphics down a notch ;)
!https://youtu.be/00-zImTwJOc?si=545gSun4MU-T5T7W [External Link]

I had a pirated version of this back in the DOS days...
Thanks for bringing back those memories.

(Btw: Does anyone know where one could download a legal copy of this game to play in DOSBox? Seems GoG does not have it :sad:.)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Sorry, but this presentation feels a lot like they took the German Manjaro guy, and forced him to present slides that were originally written in Chinese and translated to English via Google Translate. The horrible AI voice in the advertisement video at the beginning of the presentation doesn't help it either.

I love the Denglish though: "Millimeter-Quadrat".

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: kaktuspalme

Quoting: bonkmaykrGentoo users probably having a field day laughing at us right now compiling all their stuff from scratch.

Doesn't change anything if the sources are get from the tarball.

Even worse, Gentoo had marked a potentially affected version as "stable" and rolled it out to their regular (as in: not testing) user-base...

At least they are doing the sane thing and roll back to the last version from the previous maintainer.

View this comment - View article - View full comments