I’d never buy a game with microtransactions, but is there any viable financial alternative for an mmorpg?

I don’t expect much privacy on a shared public space like the fediverse. If I wanted privacy, I’d spin up a new profile every day/week, and use an external bookmark manager to save stuff

Have you tried opening an issue?

I uploaded some music videos to odyssee, need to pick that up, I recently checked out my YouTube bookmarks and at least 1 third was not working anymore

sadly I don’t have easy access to weed, otherwise I’d buy a volcano

I already bought a Mighty, tho

a pillar in your ass

Dussy

In an unexpected turn of events, the downturn extended to server manufacturers

unexpected? servers are computers full of RAM

maybe the toucans on the sand?

People don’t want their library split on multiple stores. There’s always going to be a monopoly because of that, unless we start having multiple exclusives on different platforms. For videogames it’s accentuated by the fact that people want to be able to interact with friends, so they need to be on the same platform. Steam came first and had the best features, so they won.

Music? Spotify is in front of everything else

TV/Movies? This is the exception, as in this case there’s a lot of content that can be available on a platform and not the other. Netflix is still first, but if you look at the numbers the gap is lower.

I used to buy everything on gog, now with the steam deck I went back to steam. Yeah I know, I can use gog there too, but using steam is easier for sync etc. So, you see, steam made something amazing, the steam deck, and everybody copied it, but they were still the first.

If gog made a steam deck client with easy management I’d gladly go back to them. They still take a 30% cut but I’m happy to support DRM free games. Itch is also nice but they don’t have a lot of games (I do play 99% Indies).

IMHO there are no good or realistic solutions:

• lots of exclusives
• interoperability between stores, like the fediverse (this would actually be really cool)
• everybody sell games directly
• everybody goes back to buy physical

I have to admit that reading the other post I did think “why is he learning C instead of rust”, so…

I buy those round gluten free things. I start eating them and they taste so bland the need goes away

I remember someone on hacker news saying they were able to dump the whole database from their server, I cannot know if that s true but I don’t think everybody panicked for nothing

The list is just for a quick check, I actually went through all the repos of my services

Whatever you like it or not, we are in the LLM age, if pointing Claude to a CVE is enough to have a POC, embargoes are not going to do anything anymore.

Yeah but it has the python sources, you can skip the haxx0r l33t

POC at https://jackalsyn.com/posts/php-up-2026.html

Yes, but open backend means you can self host

really liked the first one, need to pick up again the 2nd one because I got stuck