Yeah I’ve been noticing that. It’s probably a case of it being cheaper for them than games, but I’ve also noticed they’ve not yet done a cycle where it’s ONLY freemium stuff, at least.

Next week, for example, is an Apex skin and a game. If it was JUST the skin I’d probably be less gruntled, but as it is, I find it hard to get too upset that I’m only getting 1 free game instead of 2.

Excessively patient. I’ve noticed there’s basically a 50/50 chance of any game I find interesting showing up for free on Epic eventually, so I mean, fine, I’ll wait a couple of years to save $60. Why pay for something that’ll eventually be given to you, paid for by some vulture capitalist’s dragon horde?

I take some of their money, get a free game: win/win.

…at this point, I’m pretty sure my Epic games library is way bigger than my Steam library, simply from the 3-5 free games a month that Epic tosses at you, of which like 1/3rd are actually pretty good.

the hybrid route of “Yea you can play as long as you want, but as soon as you give us money you will be required to give us money forever to play” route is counter productive

100%.

There’s a couple of games I would probably be playing and spending money on that follow that monetization method and the problem is that… I don’t play one game endlessly.

If you cancel and go away, you’ve made returning to the game a pretty substantial hurdle, and for me at least, I’m just… not going to.

(Also FFXIV’s utterly incomprehensible login system that requires six logins on five thousand different pages under nine names doesn’t help since every time I try to come back I can’t remember how to even log in to anything.)

I have both my TOTP and my Passwords in the same program

What’re you using for this?

I’m using Bitwarden in a similar configuration but given they’re being funky about their definition of ‘open source’, I’m maybe looking for an alternate.

If it was Chris Roberts, it’d just be a JPEG of a dinosaur and a promise that the mount is in the pipeline for early pre-production to be added to the next major quarterly alpha release once it’s ready.

Also it’d be $499.

Which is exactly what anyone who wasn’t wanting to just snort some concentrated outrage knew was the case.

And you can argue as to if OFAC list should apply to things like this or not, but the problem is that the enforcement options for OFAC violations include ‘stomp you into the ground until you’re powder’, most people are just going to comply.

refuse to go into caves in Skyrim

Well there’s giant spiders in those caves, so he’s got the right idea.

(I do not like spiders, I do not like giant spiders, I do not like giant surprise spiders the most.)

If it doesn’t yell at me about unexpected creepers in my house area, I’m going to be VERY disappointed.

Eh, someone who just discovered that there’s more to Linux than just desktop uses probably.

It comes as a shock that the world mostly runs on Linux to some people and they have to let us know that “HEY GUYS! Your phone uses Linux!”.

It’s cute.

Unity although it was mostly still Gnome with extra Compiz plugins

Don’t forget the added value of the Amazon ads!

No, not value for you, value for Canonical.

For a server? I want it out of date, so long as “out of date” means “older versions with backported security patches”.

I’m boring and don’t care about the new whizzy crap, because if it’s working now and it’s secure, I’m not touching it. There is no feature you can offer me that will make me want to update a stable working server, so don’t screw with what version of software I’m running.

For desktop use? Give me KDE Plasma 6.2 right now, not three years from now. I need that new shit in my veins, so hurry the hell up.

So I mostly use Debian stable on anything server-y, and Fedora on anything desktop-y.

And, I posted this just a few days ago, but I don’t like, at all, going outside of distro repos on Debian for packages.

You end up with dependency chain issues in dpkg/apt, because dpkg is super hyper prone to them anyways, and have installs you can’t easily just update or upgrade because it can’t figure out what in the hell you’ve done to it.

So I just uh, don’t use 3rd party repos for updated versions of things unless it’s utterly critical to do so and/or accept that at some point I’m doing a clean install for a migration because shit will be so broken you can’t pull it to the current stable version because of the 3rd party software.

That makes a lot of sense, and I’m going to blame me coming off a flu and seeing a wall of math and my brain going ‘uh what’.

doubt it would happen in my lifetime honestly

We’re at least 28 years into ‘Totally year of the Linux desktop!’, so I must say I’m afraid your right.

This has been a shockingly long-tail of inertia, and if people haven’t started moving by now I can’t see what exactly would suddenly cause people to decide to learn a new OS - which is a huge time investment - and all new software.

Maybe if Nadella starts breaking into people’s houses and wrecking up the place?

So I was looking at the way they’re doing pricing, and is it just me or did they go for the most complicated way possible to define usage?

I’ve been mostly using “discount” S3 providers for stuff/Cloudflare, but they look to have gone for the needs-a-maths-degree route which seems somewhat at odd with their usual billing practices.

Sure, you can just add a bind mount volume to mount a path from the host system to the container.

The only thing you’d have to make sure of is that whatever uid/gid the container is running as has permissions to access whatever cert files you’re after (but if you’re being bad and running as root, then congrats, that’s not usually an issue!)

Edit: redacted docker-compose example of this:

  service-name:
    image: image-tag
    restart: unless-stopped
    container_name: service-name
    hostname: service-name
    command: '--cert /data/live/domain.com/cert.pem --key /data/live/domain.com/privkey.pem port ip:23'
    ports:
      - port-external:port-internal
    volumes:
      - /etc/letsencrypt:/data:ro

Ubisoft MBA: Why is everyone so mean to us, we’re only trying to take your money and provide you sub-par entertainment!

Straight up piracy at this point.

I have vanilla-ass white boy musical tastes, so I’ve had little issue finding what I want on Soulseek.

That said, there is one thing about Soulseek that’s not advertised: there’s a freaking enormous list of “blacklisted” terms that won’t return search results even if the data is there.

Lots of banned artist and album names that will return zero results, unless you do something like search for a song or two that’s on the album you want and finding the data that way.

Might be worth seeing if changing what you’re specifically searching for improves your results, since I was dealing with like 70% completion until someone told me about that ah, feature.

Edit: and you can have my iPod from my cold dead hands.

watching players metrics and not seeing many people quit or cancel over this

This feels like a case where the metrics are going to outright lie about the real impact.

Maybe not very MANY people quit, but those that leave are going to have been the ride-or-die, dedicated fans that have been playing for, in some cases, decades now.

They’re the only members of the player base that are in guilds that actually have anything in the bank worth caring about, because a new expansion will have effectively devalued the entirety of the mundane gear and potions and food stacks MOST guilds use their banks for.

I may just have a skewed view here, but this is an issue that impacts the dedicated, vocal, and visible section of players far more than your random guy who shows up to run a LFR once a week so uh maybe finding time for a human to actually look at and do something useful would be a good investment.

But then, I’m also not an MBA so what do I know.

But again, most people aren’t running Linux

Exactly. This is bad, for the 0.3% of the computing population that use Linux AND have CUPS installed AND actually print things.

Not exactly a prime target, compared to literally almost anything else. If I were going all-in on something after having gained access to someone’s local network, I’m 100% in on any exploit that lets me use an infostealer trojan to steal your session cookies, not fiddling around and hoping you print something.

(Patch your shit anyways, but there’s no need to freak out.)

You talking modern stuff, or are we talking 90s Tiger Electronics games here?