If you want to own your games, buy them on GOG.

Certain clauses may be unenforceable, but not the entire EULA.

It’s easier to make small saves for games like The Pedestrian, because essentially all you have to track is which puzzles you’ve solved.

Whereas in an RPG with a persistent world like Cyberpunk or Skyrim, you have to save the state of every single object and mechanic the player has interacted with during their run, and there are usually a whole lot of those.

Federated?

You’re just throwing together FOSS buzzwords at this point.

With GOG, you can at least have full confidence that the game will continue to work without any outside connections.

I didn’t say they deserve no protection at all. You are twisting my words because my opinion doesn’t align with yours.

I advocate for games having a clear indicator for any online dependencies. I do not advocate for outlawing said dependencies or mandating “offline patches”.

If you are clearly told that you’re buying an ephemeral product and you are still surprised when it shuts down, then I don’t know what to tell you.

This basically boils down to “read the terms & conditions”, which isn’t unreasonable.

If a game states in its terms that access may be revoked at any time and you buy the game, then you have no reason to be surprised when access is eventually revoked.

Obviously when terms aren’t clear enough or intentionally obfuscated, that’s indeed an issue for legislation to act upon.

All this wouldn’t be necessary if gamers would just stop buying games that are obviously live services with remote kill switches.

How else do you expect the moderators of that sub to keep out raiders and spam bots?

And that was the end of GOG

How?

Where does it say that you need one?

Since both services store your notes as markdown files on your disk, you can just move your files over. When spinning up a docker container, you likely defined a path for your SilverBullet space. If not, try creating a note and see if you can find it on your disk.

According to PCGamingWiki, the game does have Steam DRM. It was available DRM-free on GOG.

That’s why I buy on GOG. There I can pull the installer for a game and hoard it when I know the next update is going to go bad.

How I bought Steam Deck OLED ~100% cheaper from Steam:

Credit card theft.

IMO you don’t have to be shooting bullets to qualify as a shooter

Your instance will still exist, and federation should continue as normal if you manage to reclaim the original domain.

If you have to switch to a new one, however, federation will be very awkward. Other instances will essentially treat you as a brand-new instance, and mirrors of old content will be “orphaned” and no longer sync.

People like you are the reason they don’t use Linux.

Keep going like that and you’ll see what the real reason is.

I also want people-owned website to take off, but as of right now there is little incentive for people to host their videos on their own when YouTube does it for free and gets you a huge audience.

For now, I have to choose between participating in the adblocker cat-and-mouse game, or just getting my Turkish “friend” to purchase YT Premium and being done with it.

The memes are annoying because most of the complaints are superficial.

“Look, "b" + "a" + +"a" + "a" outputs "baNaNa"! JavaScript bad!” Yeah, that’s what happens. Just don’t do that thing that obviously doesn’t look right. Don’t use var, just like every modern JavaScript learning resource will tell you. Don’t use == if you don’t intend for type coercing to happen.

If you don’t write bad code on purpose, JavaScript is fine.