What? Authoritarians need their cattle for their system to work? Who’d have thunk?

That’s already plenty, thank you very much!

How does the interoperability work for your setup? Did you set up something special? What backup system do you use?

I ask because I plan to integrate some Apple stuff so my family can interact with it, like local-only backups, interacting with the TV (kodi) and music (mpd). I will not use software from apple on my side (well, beside the FOSS stuff from them, like bonjour or the printer stuff).

At first I dual booted with Windows and kept my games on the Windows drive. You can just tell steam the path to the games, after mounting the drive. Some games ran fine, some were a little more difficult or impossible to play, even when reported as working on protondb. The reason apparently was NTFS that wasn’t playing nice. That was the moment I ditched Windows entirely.

Under the hood windows uses NTFS, while most Linux distros use EXT4. Linux can read NTFS, but Windows can’t read EXT4 without some tweaks. So I thought my setup was good.

You can try this setup for yourself, it’s a good intro IMO.

Yeah, was thinking about joining the room to see what is written. Not what was asked.

But your username and server will be seen and could potentially be noticed by someone you don’t want.

Steamdeck + Dock and you can game on your TV AND on your travels.

Less repression from China I presume. Heh.

Much appreciated!

Just use wireless bro

Street smart

Well, at least they didn’t put their scope on backwards. Can you imagine?

It’s really hard to establish privacy in this age. Everything store bought will fight you on it. And everything store bought will fight different solutions, so it’s harder to stay in contact with your friends; or get them to change with you. It’s just way easier to fight the “newcomers”. And that’s a start at least.

The Venn Diagram of “people still spending that much money on a game” and “people that are easy to please” seems to be a circle. Maybe something to do with a sunk-cost-fallacy coupled with the “social proof” stuff?

But I don’t know the game. Maybe it’s okay.

Those are a lot of words to say you have a positive outlook on live and don’t understand and disagree with my more negative one.

The punching was probably a bad metaphor. Just another way of saying that trust needs to be earned. And that the rest of the industry (at least the AAA part) did really not earn it.

In the beginning I only read the title and intro and wrote a (in my opinion) funny text. Then it got taken seriously without getting questioned. Then someone got personal.

Now I see that I was wrong, after that same someone gave me enough resources to prove their point.

It doesn’t mean another mishap where I don’t read the text won’t happen again.

If I want to write another snark comment of the type of “…why the overly specific denial?”, I will. Even if all three of you are against it.

I will give it to Saber however that they are doing good work, provided by the information of the one telling me to get therapy over a comment. So they will be spared of my snark, until they change. If they change.

Achtung, Feind hört mit

Sounds like describing a moth. Are they maybe found more often than butterflies in Thailand?

Ve vill spread and multiply! No aisle can stop us!

Well, “schmettern” (verb) literally means to smash or to belt something. “Schmetterling” comes from the old Slavic “Schmetten”, meaning cream (the one you skim off milk), but it sounds more like it comes from “schmettern”, which is a word still in use.

What? Maybe I don’t understand your phrasing correctly. Do you mean you DO trust the official statement? No shame in that, if that’s what you want to say. Or do you want to say that you only trust the official statement if it’s the first thing you hear about something? Then it gets confusing and I don’t think you mean that.

Concerns and guesses about a persons intentions are indeed valid. I’d rather not let people punch me to learn their intentions, I’d rather keep my distance regardless of an innocent face. Metaphorically speaking. Thanks to goodeye8 I read more about the company and their stances and now think it’s valid what they say. I will still be distrusting of companies, but maybe I’ll do more research before commenting. Maybe.

Also, my guess always has precedence over anything other people state. I rather trust my eye rather than someone else’s. Again, metaphor. But my guess can be (…steered? Guided? Influenced?) when given more proof from different sources.