Private servers are not always a viable alternative option for players as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable.

Then it sounds like the legislation enforcing leaving private servers on the table should also move the liability to whoever is hosting the servers. I’d be surprised if it doesn’t work that way already tbh.

That’s kinda the way of the world in general unfortunately.

They want to be a sport and betting on high-level sports is quite common.

HDR PNG is huge

I have like a 70% success rate with this trick

In Python, self is not a keyword, it’s a conventional variable name. You can replace all instances of “self” with “this” and your code will work the same.

While selling data in general is shitty, I want to push back on the fear mongering a little bit.

This only applies to new accounts, can be opt-out of, and doesn’t apply to self-hosted content.

Stirring up drama and discussion = clicks = money

+1 for UBlacklist. Here’s the link if anyone’s interested: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

FOSS and supports Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

It’s impressive that’s still the case when SteamOS is running a translation layer that Windows doesn’t have to.

Also, SteamOS is actually a pretty fully-featured OS, and it’s based off of Linux, so it’s not that specialized, besides the UI.

There’s some good points about reliance on internet but also note that there are plenty of dead old games and the ones we talk about now are those that survived.

There are modern games that will likely last.

I tried jellyfin but it isn’t even close to as a good as plex

In response to your spoiler:

I specifically didn’t like that scene because it’s a massive departure from the lore of all the other films. If they could just do that, why haven’t both sides been doing that all the time? Is it supposed to be that this group is the first group to try this, with the tech that has been around for at least a few centuries? If they had all died in the process I’d be more ok with that, although that also seems like a departure from how hyperspace works in the other films.

Tbh I kinda don’t mind the podcaster ads when they put their own spin on it and are cute about it

Neither have I really. It’s the last one I used, which was like 5 years ago.

These days I’m mostly using docker containers but all my docker containers as well as my hosts are flavors of Linux so YMMV.

So that you can run the windows exclusive software in a virtual machine.

Time to download Virtualbox

This summarizes Severance

Some particular reasons why I’d recommend Minecraft for this:

• it’s very easy to get started, but there’s a lot of depth if you get into it
• its pretty slow-paced
• its a multiplayer game where someone of a much higher skill level and someone of a much lower skill level can play together without the noob player feeling that they are holding the advanced player back
• if you set the difficulty to peaceful it’s hard to die, and it’s impossible to fully “lose”. You can also turn on keepinventory.
• it’s a very open-ended game where you can come up with your own goals, which makes it something that everybody can find fun in their own way
• if they do get into it, it’s a good segue into a wide variety of other games. Just figure out what part of Minecraft they enjoy. You can also extend Minecraft by playing with mods.

You can’t gift, sell, share, or play that game on a new device once the servers shut down.