Absolutely, and that’s the problem. Studios optimize for low-risk because art is just an investment vehicle for them, which is directly at-odds with what art actually should be: creative expression.

Banger comment.

Come and get your recycled franchise, nostalgia-bait slop! We can’t be fucked to pay any creative talent to write stories about anything new or interesting, so here are some of your favorite characters’ zombies that we acquired being dangled in front of you.

I’m about y’all, but I’m really looking forward to Barbie 9 and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!

Yeah. This is useless.

I fully agree with fighting fascism any way you can. I just haven’t seen anyone mention the opportunistic tendency that any for-profit entity will have to raise prices, especially if they can come out of it looking like the good guy.

Edit: idk what happened to the comment thread, so my reply probably doesn’t make sense, but leaving it here anyway 🤷

Buy European because the software is less likely than American shovelware to be hostile to your privacy (and humanity) too.

However, you should be on the lookout for European companies that use the tariff-induced price increases to sneak in price increases of their own. And call that shit out when you see it.

The problem with replacing GitHub with something that isn’t owned by genocidal Microsoft is that GitHub provides a fuckload of free compute via their runners. If you migrate away from that to another smaller service, suddenly you’ve got to pay for your automated builds (or lose them).

I fear that many FOSS projects simply wouldn’t be popular if they had to be built manually from source by end users.

Firefox’s version of MV3 explicitly supports the things that uBlock Origin needs to do. It’s not the same as Google’s malicious MV3 that was targeted at destroying adblockers.

It would be annoying if they removed MV2, but it wouldn’t break things like it did for Chromium.

Yup. It’s a moral baseline that, sadly, most people trip and fall over.

The GOS devs consistently write the most thorough and detailed patch notes of any software project I’m aware of.

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They were black-bagging protestors during the BLM protests too. This isn’t entirely new. The US has always been a police state. It’s just more mask-off about it now.

Being able to sync between devices is a huge benefit. I switched from Aegis to Ente Auth for that reason.

It’s all e2e encrypted, and you can protect your Ente account with a hardware key, so there’s basically no downside.

I’d be happy if they did and adopted Heroic as an official launcher. However, if that happens, I’d still want proper controller support to be added so that browsing the GOG store in Heroic doesn’t require mouse and keyboard bindings on something like a Steam Deck.

Because I use a Steam Deck and having a launcher for third-party stores is the easiest way to install games.

Additionally, the reasons mentioned in the other comments.

Anything but properly supporting the Linux community 🤡

How have they still not learned that the largest intersection of the people that care about their core value proposition (game preservation, DRM-free, etc.) are Linux users?? It’s not like they have to create the compatibility layers from scratch; Valve did it for them.

If they provided a launcher for Linux users, I’d actually buy shit from them. Yes, Heroic Launcher exists, but I’m not paying GOG for the work that the Heroic dev did. I want first-party support.

I don’t disagree with any of this. We just also need to be realistic about the fact that viruses have no boundaries and they don’t discern between marginalized people and fascist shitheads when they mutate and spread.

That isn’t how this works. Herd immunity is extremely important for people who actually can’t safely be vaccinated, but more importantly, having large populations of anti-vaxxers will create ample opportunity for the viruses to mutate into forms that we don’t necessarily have vaccines for.

We are all truly fucked unless we deal with these scum. It’s not just going to hurt the people causing the problem, and it will spread to the rest of the world.

You can just write bash scripts in your actions if you want them to be easily replicatable on your local machine, so you don’t really lose anything with that system.

Can someone explain why, and what to use them for?