I have lost like two dozen DRM free games because the hard drive they were archived on died. There are also some DVDs filled with DRM free games, that are somewhere in my closet. I don’t even have a DVD drive anymore.

When Steam started getting popular, I resisted it for years. Instead getting DRM free Indie games and lots of Humble Bundles. At some point there was one game I could get on Steam, so I started using it.

My old Steam games are easy and fast to access, install, and play again. Far easier than rummaging through my own archive. I don’t need to configure or install Proton to play games on Linux either.

The lack of DRM on my older games hasn’t provided me any actual real life benefit. The fears pandered about by opponents of Steam haven’t materialized in more than a decade. If anything, the advantages of Steam have become more apparent.

Jupiter contains lots and lots of Helium that just needs to scooped up from the atmosphere.

I have used Macs for more than twenty years and have also played games on everyone of them. They run just fine.

If you buy a computer for gaming, Macs are not the best choice. However there are more great games that run well than you can ever play.

I distro hopped a bunch in March. Tried like eight distros, maybe more. I installed steam on all of these to see how it works.

In practice having a game on Steam is even superior to having a DRM free copy. My DRM free copies of games are on some old hard drive in a drawer. My steam library is right there. Removing and installing games is super straightforward.

Sensible regulation would target the network effect. That’s the barrier you identified. For example make it possible to use your Steam friends with GOG. Or have some kind of interoperability or standard.

Are you sure? Action Retro built a software RAID from 30 floppy drives connected over USB.

The worse the military, the better the propaganda. Is a rule of thumb at least.

Propaganda is always important. This is to be shared among Americans to further weaken support of Trump’s war in Iran. They did a pretty good job with this.

Anker

Something like: “You’re using an adblocker and we don’t like it. You can’t view any videos.”

They usually go away after updating your Adblocker.

Back to sourceforge it is then.

1% of people are ambidextrous maybe?

Does Omarchy count as Arch?

The school IT department is often the math teacher’s side hustle or a badly paid gamer dude with Microsoft certifications.

Surveillance and tracking is the least of their concerns.

Users

The long update has the advantage of providing an opportunity to touch grass.

!linuxsucks@lemmy.world

Most of the millions of Palestinian refugees living in Jordan were born in Jordan. They are descendants of refugees from 1948 and 1967. They live in regular housing. The so called Palestinian refugee camps ins Jordan look and operate like normal towns.

To ask them to take on anyone else is beyond a joke

Maybe the people of Gaza should be asked what they want. I’m sure some would prefer living in Jordan.

Jordan is already majority Palestinian. It even used to be part of the British Mandate for Palestine. Culture and language in Jordan are very close to Palestine in general.