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I dare say that games are preserved more through digital means then by physical media though. You have plenty of sites keeping different versions of a number of games, old or new, without any form of DRM (or bypassed) on PC (through “piracy”, as ironic as it may sound).

Physical media nowadays are mostly a form of DRM anyway - a disc that will only work on a certain system, and that usually requires you to go online to activate it anyway, which means that they won’t work after a couple of decades (or even much earlier). The biggest advantage of it, imo, is the freedom of selling/buying or trading used copies.

Ever since they announced the ‘new’ Reddit, it was pretty obvious the old Reddit would be killed eventually. It’s taking even longer than I actually believed.

Now, the funny thing about it, is the typical hypocrisy surrounding these American companies. First it didn’t just allowed, it fully embraced the scraping and AI bots, and now they call it ‘bad behavior’ and want to prohibit it just so they can be the sole people to use it there (or to charge other companies to allow them to do that).

And maybe I’m being naive, but it feels to me that Reddit is slowly digging it’s own grave. I don’t believe that there’s actually that many people using it nowdays, when pretty much all discussions there are either a) toxic people, full of themselves, fighting over stupid brands and predatory companies; b) stupid memes; c) bots faking they’re not bots, or ads faking they’re not ads; and d) information that has already been scraped or that was written by AI bots, or that just doesn’t hold any real value anymore.

Reddit used, a long time ago, to be a place where actual useful information was posted and good wikis or megathreads were created, curating these information (even though you actually had to some digging to get there sometimes). Nowadays it’s an echo chamber of the most useless shit internet has to offer, and all the good data has been moved or copied to somewhere else. But that’s what happens when you start to treat the same users that built the whole value of the platform as collateral trash.

For now, yes. But these companies change their strategies all the fucking time. As soon as they see their “only on Playstation” strategy is not giving them the expected return, I am sure they’re gonna backflip, again.

Microsoft and Sony (and pretty much any other big corporation in the game business) are not reliable in the slightest - the only difference between them right now is the amount of power they have.

I find it both amusing and shocking that we still have ‘fanboys’ up to this day, when these companies themselves can’t even maintain a solid long term strategy. All they care about is making maximum profit at the cost of literally everything else, so their ‘promises’ hold no weight at all.

Never heard of Tombwater and Hunt the Night before, and both look excellent! Specially Tombwater (it gave me some Dark Tower vibes, loved it). Just wishlisted both and am considering buying them.

Reddit’s global daily active unique users, or DAUq, rose 17% year-over-year to 126.8 million for the quarter, ahead of analyst estimates of 125.9 million. The company’s U.S. specific DAUq came in at 53.5 million in the first quarter, representing a 7% year-over-year increase.

And they’re not bots. Believe!

If you rotate your IP, cleaned your session cookies, and don’t start again spamming anything, I believe it’s highly unlikely you will get automatically flagged again.

But honestly… As others have said, why even bother? Or worst… Why would you worry about it? If you create an account and get banned again while behaving normally, just take it as a lesson that Reddit sucks and move on.

Considering the average time for game development nowadays, these studios barely had time under the Microsoft umbrella. It’s just ridiculous they’re getting shut down already.

Nope. Distrobox does not offer any meaningful protection, since its purpose is to integrate with the system. It’s basically meant to make downloading and managing packages from different distros, on the same system, much easier… but it’s not meant to protect and isolate your device the same way that Flatpak or other type of containers do. That baing said, stop relying on Distrobox as a safety measure, and check your recently installed and updated packages since 9th June, to make sure you were not infected.

I was starting to get too confident in AUR. Thankfully I wasn’t affected. Just replaced all possible AUR packages to their respective Arch and Flatpak alternatives, with exception of very few or from the ones I had no option. But will definitely check before updating them, and will only install AUR packages as a last resort.

No. If it came from AUR, it doesnt matter the method you used. You should check all the AUR apps you recently updated (from 9th to 12th June), and compare it to the lists. Only AUR though… Arch official repos are not affected by it.

I’m not banned but I haven’t participated much there for a couple of years.

I’ve heard that Fediverse wasn’t much better, but the fact that Lemmy, Piefed, Mastodon and pretty much any other Fediverse platform are open source, and completely ridden of ads, and data collection from giant corporations is already a HUGE difference.

Sure people are just people and you’re gonna find toxic communities everywhere, but at least here you don’t need to “fear” getting banned because you can choose an instance that has core principles you share, and through them you can access pretty much any community you want, and keep active.

On Reddit, you have no other place to go. You either shut the fuck up and accept their terms, or you, if you get banned, there’s nothing you can do about it.

Also, a lot of communities here in Lemmy/Piefed are very active. I don’t need to be drowned on an infinity number of posts when most of them are just silly repetitive memes or karma whoring, with zero meaningful discussion.