...and listed as "Coming Soon" on GOG already.

It's nice to not have to play a pirarte copy for years before being able to buy it, finally.

/me looks pointedly at Dragon Quest.

The line "Every accusation is a confession" continues to ring true for the MAGAts.

My version is KDE patched, the actual browser I use is Librewolf, but I keep the distro package of Googlyfox around for when I need to use a less securely configured browser that allows redirects and captive portals and doesn't block bot checks that use cross site javascript and WebGL contenta and browswer fingerprinting and...

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn;t theft.

The leaker kinda sounds like a douche, but it's Take Two/Rockstar, so they deserve far worse.

Remember, it's Axon as well, and many more companies. and a major contrbuter who has linked in with all of these creepy services is Amazon and has the largest surveillence network in residential areas not just on travel corridors comprised of Ring doorbell cameras tied in to all of these systems.

Flock seems like the sacrificial lamb, to me. They are in your face, ther cameras are obvious, and their CEO runs his mouth so much everyone hates him.

It's like how Elon can't keep his mouth shut, but Ellison far more dangerous and nearly as rich.

I dumped Discord when I heard they were trying to do an IPO, as soon as that happens a company is without fail going to screw all of their customers because if there are shareholders the customer becomes the product.

Meanwhile they had to spend a huge emount of time airbrushing Ripley in Alien because she told them to fuck off with that shit.

If you upload to OneDrive, and they turn it on by default with the forced login now for online-only 11, you agree that it is not your data anymore.

Not saying it's right, but if you care (and even if you don't, but I expect people are too addicted to "convenience" to avoid it even if they do care) keep your shit out of the systems of Microslop and Be More Evil, Inc.

You could always take notes from ol' Petey Hogshit and drunk text them to journalists.

I saw a story about them preempptively sending information to the FBI, not responging to a warrant, but snitching on someone for their computer activity.

Alreeady on Matrix, too, of course. And my main social is Mastodon.

I've purged Meta, Microsoft, Google, Sony, all of them. Heck, I'll even be lookin in to alternative GPUs for the next build, and how well I can run things on RISC-V rather than x64 or ARM.

You have to be stupid if you're usinig Discord.

ftfy

Meta is a menace.

Period.

Full stop.

Already gone by then.

But that was the final straw for Google when I deleted an account that was a legal adult because they demanded my driver's license for a music video.

For me in 2026 all the consoles are emulated, and PC games are all run with Proton.

The more they tighten their grip the more loyal customers slip through their fingers.

And if you're ATLUS stupid to use some dogshit like Denuvo your games are just flat out pirated.

I mean, Lazy RedHat narcissitic Tech Bro Linux uses a a device ID as well, but you can purge it and get a new one, or rip the "convenience" parts out and ust configure things like we used to.

It's not necessary, it just makes things smoother, and easier to set up so it works with no idea what you're doing.

Sucks to lose the investment, but better than being punched in the face for looking like a pervert.

Wonder if Rayban owners can sue them for their money back now that they're unwearable by anyone with sense.

There are legitimate uses for head mounted cameras that track your focus.

There are none for these devices that try to obfuscate their presence.

I don't think "at risk" is right, legal privacy protections have been a joke since 9/11, and nobody in power (We e;ected Obama to fix that and he expanded it instead) is ever going to let the control they stole in that climate of fear go.