About time we start protesting. Young people are absolutely fucked and since society in general is getting on average older and older government policies tend to cater to the most voters i.e. not us.

GOG needs to fix their client first and port it on Linux. Yes, Heroic is a thing but we do need better handheld compatibility anyway and Linux users, I think, are more likely to be invested in GOG mission.

No shit. Still, it's disappointing how easily our society is collapsing.

Misleading title. After reading the linked Gitlab discussion it's more likely a backend change from Google side. Aurora does use burner account but early reports seem to suggest they are not flagged or rate limited.

And despite implementing EAC they intentionally made the game just not work on Linux. That killed any interest I had, I'm not surprised about the horrible port in the slightest

Seems like Donnie doesn't feel like annoying the Chinese. I'm sure he will block America's NATO allies though.

The problem here is that I don't see Sony reversing their decision and when the market leader does something the rest of the pack follows. Microsoft will undoubtedly scrap a disc drive for their nextgen PC/Console hybrid. The new disc to digital feature is just a means to soften the blow. So, whatever fuss we raise it doesn't really matter. Sony has already decided to take the hit and move on.

Fair enough, Germany should not tolerate such antisemitism /s

I mean, if only Russians could somehow stop the war.

This makes a lot of sense actually. It'd be awesome to have more options for head units. I'm not sure about the target though, amateurs working on their car or restoring old models? I don't see a lot of companies choosing a Linux based head unit for their cars. But the same argument could be said for Linux phones too.

No doubt. So that we would have been forced to buy US weapons. Shameless.

Heroic is great, it's convenient and has improved a lot recently. Remember to buy your GOG games through Heroic to help those lads out!

I fail to see the point. The company sells laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled not phones which are the targets of such apps. Linux phones are still in their infancy and for Android we do have excellent apps like Mapy pulling their data from OSM. What am I missing?

Just buy refurbished. Better for the environment too.

I'm finally playing Crysis. For a 2007 game it's really good looking. The shooting is less frantic and a lot more tactical than I thought it would be though. Great experience so far.

And they are also being targeted by US sponsored hackers so it's impossibile to keep services up this way. I hope this is a wake up call for someone but I don't think so.

While I fully agree and support Codeberg stance on vibecoded projects I'm not sure I follow their reasoning here. For instance they complain about webcrawlers scraping their site to train their LLM models but I don't see why getting rid of the vibecoded repositories wouldn't make them more palatable for scrapers. A site full of human made code is infinitely more useful to those companies than a slop infested honeypot.

A lot of doom and gloom posting on this topic but I feel like it's a step in the right direction even though for now it's just a plan. I wish my country would follow.

Saw was mostly filmed in one room. Bloody good film, the first one.

I'm trying for the umpteenth time to read Dracula but as always the Mina chapters are destroying any interest I have in the story. I will try to finish it this time though!

I'm also slowing grinding the last couples of chapters of Orbital by Samantha Harvey. I did enjoy the book at first but after a while it feels a bit samey. Gorgeous descriptions will only take you so far imho.

As non fiction goes, I started +KAOS. Ten Years of Hacking and Media Activism, a collection of interviews to A/I members, the Italian collective recently shut down by Trump. Incredible read, highly recommended it!