There’re few games that work like that. Many use the steam basic drm, making the game not launching if a valid steam session is not running.

That’s why I have the generic steam crack. In case they pull the plug some day.

Worse thing about snaps is that the server that provides them is propietary and owned by canonical.

Open source people tend not to like when things are not open source.

Other than that they are like flakpacks but blessed by canonical. Sometimes they are more curated or there’s more official releases on snaps that flakpacks.

Both are a way to deliver software without falling in dependency hell and kind of isolated and more secure(?).

Also is a way to wait 10-15 seconds to launch a simple app so there’s that.

Paying 19 million dollars in wages for 50 people…

There’s profit there, for sure.

Yeah, that seems shady at least, what kind of salaries are they getting?

Where I live in europe, IT people usually hace salaries between 30.000 and 80.000. And it is considered a pretty good salary.

I tend to buy stuff I’ve already pirated.

I have games bought with 0 hours played because I already played them with my pirate hat.

When you are a pirate you have a different mindset. You get to really choose who do you want to give your money to, and you tend to chose people who really deserve it.

Seems great, if they achieve the same security standards as a private company I don’t see why we cannot have public CAs.

In the EU by next year app communication protocols need to be compatible by law, it is mainly said that it would mean that whatsapp could communicate with telegram but I suppose it also should work with signal.

I use thunderbird, though it really feels like it has terrible performance for me. Feels like a really heavy program for just an email client.

Still better than having ads on your client.

If some day I cannot block ads on YouTube I’ll go to Patreon or any other platform that gives creators a real share of what I’m paying. Google will not see my money.

It’s like no longer having one cheap and convinient way of seeing content makes people rather pirate things than paying 7 different platforms each one more expensive than the next and all of them trying to mess with you and your wallet in new and unexpected ways.

You can just use Jellyfin which is open source.

Sometimes they are more convenient, than cd ls mv cp everything, when you don’t have access to a file explorer.

Specially if you are working with a server via ssh, or some machine without any Desktop Environment installed.

I think youtube ads are served by the same dns as the content, so pi hole shouldn’t block youtube ads at all.

They probably are just asking for a loan right now and need to justify that they are going to increase profits.

Isn’t there already a monthly charge on Amazon prime?

Airless tires exist since forereve though.

Why use plex when jellyfin exist?

I’m more than happy with my jellyfin server knowing nobody can block it against my will.

I genuinely tried to look for a legit way to make it an option for paying in a small online store without having to depend on paypal or a bank gateway.

Well transaction fees for any big coin are like many dollars per transaction. It’s ridiculous. For smaller transaction fees you have to go to smaller coins that can disappear or lose half their value one day to the next.

And still, if we forget thar people wouls need to pay like a 14€ fee for 1€ transaction. They still have to go to a exange to change their money, and then I have to change it back, because very little things can be bought with crypto, less with cryptos that doesn’t have ridiculous transaction fees.

Did I mention than transaction are not instantaneous either? Unless you pay big transaction fee or use some obscure coin that no one uses.

At the end, I ended up with paypal. I really wanted a way to be “independent” of big companies for transaction. But crypto is completely ruined (if it was ever functional that I doubt it). It’s not a coin, they are just speculation and bets. With cybercrime and drug dealing being the only “real” uses it has.

Company bankruptcy speedrun any% no hacks

How’s that even legal.