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Wait for the next big Steam sale and go wild.

Saw this earlier today. Good stuff! 👌

Yep. Matrix, specifically using the web and desktop Element client. https://ems-docs.element.io/books/element-support/page/exporting-messages
You can also select and delete several messages at once, but the easiest method to nuke a chat is to kick/ban all other members from it, leave it yourself and let it sit for a week until servers delete the room and all it’s contents permanently by default.
It also has a built in sticker library. If your want to build your own, custom sticker packs on Matrix have different guides depending on the app your’re using. Here’s some stuff on that. https://matrix.squirrel.rocks/stickers/

Just use Peertube or Odysee. But blockchain has never been useful for anything other than keeping a verifiable and more or less tamper-proof common registry in a decentralized manner. In other words, transactions. Trying to use it for everything, everywhere, all at once (loved the movie) as they’re now trying with gen AI won’t lead anywhere. And if what you meant is you want a video platform that pays in crypto you’ll probably find something like DLive still lingers.

Yours truly,

The NSA.

I only buy games on Steam, GOG and ItchIO. The main reason I don’t give a cent to stores from EA, Ubisoft or Epic Games anymore is their services and terms are horrible. I’m all in for supporting competition when it’s good competition.

I was originally interested in FBCF, but not being an always online game and even less at that price. If they wanted less risk they should’ve given players better options on how to buy and play their game.

I share this point of view, but from what I gather it seems to just be a shortcut to get the PGP setup done easier. https://www.openpgp.org/software/autocrypt/ I guess it could be a start for someone who’s new to this as long as they can export their keys and use them elsewhere later. There’s also work being done to have PQC in PGP if you’re interested. https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2025q1/000489.html Pretty cool stuff.

My man. 👌

So good to know! Thanks!

1. Uninstall Windows
2. Install Linux
3. Enjoy

Love them all. Amazing games, each with it’s own neat peculiarities.

That’s easy to say now, but BG3 wasn’t getting much attention during it’s early access and other CRPGs like the Pathfinder games weren’t that popular either. BG3 has been a phenomenon for a multitude of reasons, so saying developers stopped making games like BG3 isn’t too precise either. The only game that gets close to BG3 in both features and praise is Divinity: Original Sin 2, which was also made by Larian.

Didn’t bother. I’m already too regretful about the games I bought on EA’s store and that I’ve been having trouble playing since they ditched their Origin launcher. Add the fact that BF6 won’t work on any Linux OS either and I’m out. I’m not paying a cent for games as a service that won’t ever serve me.

Folks at Digital Foundry have been talking about the matter. Most games made with Unreal Engine 5 share this among other problems.

If their games arrive years late, cost more than 60 bucks, are buggy and unoptimized and require a PSN account to play them on Steam they can burn them for all I care.

Most people are buying Nvidia because that’s what’s commonly recommended on reviews. “Want to use AI? Buy Nvidia! Want the latest DX12+ support? Buy Nvidia! Want to develop videogames or encode video? Buy Nvidia! Want to upgrade to Windows 11? Buy Nvidia!” Nonstop Nvidia adverts everywhere, with tampered benchmarks and whatnot. Other brands’ selling points aren’t well known and the general notion is that if it’s not Nvidia it sucks.

The more you pirate the more hyped and disappointed you’ll be about things you’d otherwise never have known about. It’s a double edged blade. Your criteria grows. You spend less on highly advertised products and more on niche things most haven’t heard of. But when pirating as an act of boycott you also risk growing attachment to the product or franchise you’re pretending to sabotage. So if it sounds ethically correct to pirate something instead of purchasing it to harm someone in the production chain, don’t do either. Most people will just preorder a collector’s edition for another of their releases as soon as they forget or relax about what upset them. Piracy isn’t theft, it’s generosity, accessibility and preservation.

Yet Tim Sweeney marketed Nanite, Lumen and other sparkly smoke in UE5 for the opposite. Because who needs a decent development team getting paid to polish things and put wit over bloat when a monkey could just leave the default resource hungry settings and call it a day? Props for UE3 though. UE3 was tight.

I usually defend press, but people at Bloomberg are very obsessive, manipulative and misleading.