Archival purposes. Movies and shows you watch often; games you’ve bought through GOG or Steam that you want to keep but don’t always want clunking around on a hard drive. I have an 8TB network drive that I throw more ephemeral files on. It also houses a bunch of ROMs.

Basically this. Archiving old games and things that you want to play but you don’t want them to constantly occupy hard drive space. I have an external 8TB drive connected to my router for other stuff I actively use.

Pirate and burn to a disc. I threw my old LiteOn BD burner in an external case. No ragrets.

I’d punch one Matt Walsh in the face to save all humans from having to read this fucking drivel.

I have all of the big studios blocked on Steam. So any new dog shit they pump out that is inevitably built around nothing but extracting wealth, is never shown to me.

And all of it draws a straight line back to billionaires.

It coincides with real life really well right now because my wife and I started snorkeling recently and it’s been a nice disconnect.

Playing through Subnautica and having fun with it. I just completed the Seamoth last night so I can delve into the deepest depths of the ocean.

You can get banned from connecting your console to their services if you’re caught using pirated games, or you’ve tampered with the system. There’s ways around it though, and some people don’t care if they’re locked out of services as long as the system still plays the pirated software.

Sony thinking they can just pull a Steam way too late in the game, and with Steam and GOG as competitors 😂

>accidentally leaks your identity data

>sells u the product that secures ur identity data

I hadn’t heard of Steam being dragged into this. Just let us have some nice things!

[…] and just to clear this up right away: what she said was nonsense. You can, literally right now, head over to the official Minecraft website and download a .jar file to let you run your own private server.

I love how confidently stupid and wrong she was here.

What I fucking hate is this pattern of attacks on open source and self-hosting we’ve been seeing. Anthropic’s CEO saying that open source self-hosted LLMs are “dangerous” for example.

Not entirely sure. I think it’s to gain adoption and it helps subsidize node operators.

I’ve been a Mullvad user for probably about a year but I’m considering Nym.

Editing for further context: their board includes Chelsea Manning which bodes well, I like that they use decentralized nodes, and that all of their code is open for review. The $NYM stuff is a little weird, but to me it comes off like an attempt to decentralize currency, which can anonymize in its own way (with an asterisk). Just not sure what that landscape looks like, since a person’s identity can often be figured out by looking at the public ledger. I’m still learning about Nym though.

BDS has been a thing for years. It works.

This is what happens when you vibe-code your OS.

Windows: constantly having to apply patches and run tools to combat the privacy violations.

Linux: install once, run updates regularly, never have to worry about the constant privacy issues.

I appreciate that those tools exist for de-bloating Windows, but that sounds like a giant pain in the ass.

This is a rough one. Accessibility is severely lacking in so many tools and interfaces.