Many games might actually be DRM free without you realizing. Look them up on PC Gaming Wiki, and maybe you’ll like what you see.

With some games it’s as simple as launching them directly from the executable to circumvent annoying launchers and accounts.

Something most people probably don’t even think of doing anymore, and why would they. But it never hurts to try.

Well, yes. Which is why I mentioned the Spacers Choice edition.

It doesn’t seem to have the same specific issues on Windows though, apart from generally performng worse than anyone would expect it to.

So I reckon I’ll just try and see for myself if that’s true. Because the problems many Linux users (me included) seem to have according to ProtonDB make the game borderline unplayable.

Sometimes not even borderline.

Anyone playing Outer Worlds, the Spacers Choice Edition? Suuuper annoying issues, I might actually install it on Windows instead

Edit:
Flawless on Windows, general performance seems to be a tad better, too.

Which is great to see, because that means it’s not the game itself, and that maybe Wine/Proton will be able to fix these issues

They could just align the text bottom right, where there’s less gun poking into the area

I’m thinking vintage soviet lenses like from Helios and Jupiter, with a bit of Pentacon and Minolta Rokkor sprinkled in

Have someone else tell you what to do

If you don’t have a someone, maybe AI can help you.
Now, let me preface this by saying I have an extreme prejudice against AI, but I can’t deny its usefulness for breaking down tasks.

goblin.tools is a good one, and at least they state wanting to go open source in the future, and be independant from OpenAI. If data privacy is important to you, than that might be something to keep in the back of the head.

But damn, just typing in clean room and getting it broken down into all the little steps is undeniably helpful.

Oh my god, YES

Down to the lenses I’d use and everything

Ubisofts wet dream, yes

Yeah, this is why it’s important to try and break down large goals into smaller goals. (I’m not saying it’s easy though)

Look at building muscle for example. What you need to do is focus on the little improvements, one extra rep each week, one extra pound each week. Make that your goal every single workout, instead of beating yourself up over the fact that you don’t look like 5x Mr Olympia Chris Bumstead yet.
(Which you won’t anyway, but that’s another story)

We want short-term success, instant gratification, but excercising for improving our health is a long-term project, whichever way you do it.

So you need to train in a way that gives you these smaller achievements sprinkled throughout the weeks, months and years.

How though, that’s highly individual and depends on the person.

I mean, if anyone, Captain Lezbian is the person who needs to have one

I haven’t seen it used much in a non-gendered way, so I guess that’s why it has a clear masculine ring in my head

Not just guys, let me tell you

The only reason it’s like that is because devices come preinstalled with Windows. I would love if we had the Linux option that makes the device cost less

I sure do

never really bothered with the spinoffs, as the model of Arch makes them useless and more problematic to deal with

I highly enjoy using EndeavourOS. But then again, I wouldn’t classify it as a spinoff, it’s pretty much vanilla Arch, but purple.

Now Manjaro on the other hand… Tried it and understood why so many people don’t like it within the first week.

If they transparently inform buyers about the account requirement and what that means, then they have done their duty and are compliant, I’d say.

Not that I like that.

But as long as the consumer knows everything they need to know to make an informed decision about the product they’re going to use, it’s all good.

Now, this decision also needs to be voluntary, so if there are some dark patterns or other carefully constructed circumstances bullying the consumer into accepting all the bs, then that would violate the GDPR.

But what is voluntary or not is hard to say, for many products and services. Can be argued either way, and you better believe it will be argued either way.

Combatting symptoms is nice and all, but ideally you’d want to remove the reason these symptoms exist in the first place.

But the prices being so low is exactly what makes people care less about things like privacy, so not great either

And if even Meta agrees to do it, there’s no excuse left, is there

Not everyone can do everything at once, and doing something is better than doing nothing at all.