When you know you have DRM free installers on this store, and you “just” want to download them. Where do you click?

The big blue button or the little > line that look like it is a title? It is exactly like the cookies popup that show front and center the “accept all” button, but hide in text at the top somewhere the “Continue without accepting cookies” link.

For me to not call that a dark pattern you need to have the same visual language for both download:

• Both a big blue button ✅
• Both a link ✅
• One is a big blue button, the other is hidden behind some sort of title that don’t look clickable? ❌

Do you keep an up to date copy of all your games installers?

I have some games on GoG. But when I wanted to install games, I got their launcher installer. You need to go through some dark path to find the true installer. At least it was the case a couple years back.

Also a few month ago they putted an announce to hire someone to lead the Galaxy launcher. They explicitly asked for someone that would push the use of AI in their team.

I fear the moment they gain enough traction, the game won’t be as easy to install DRM free. Their launcher will be the DRM, just like steam.

So yeah, they provide an escape hatch for now, but sadly other than that it looks to me they are more like Epic than Valve. I have not much trust for them.

(Maybe Humble Bundle stopping to provide DRM free download of the game + the steam key eaeliy on made me very skeptical of this?)

Is GoG immune?

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I’m french… she did not convinced me at all.

1. You try to reduce the harm as much as you possibly can on the easiest way possible.
2. Now that you have a, admittedly not great, gov that may hear a bit of what you said you can voice your disappointment to them.
3. Voting for (or against) someone does not prevent you to organize and voice your discontent!
4. So after the harm reduction go and try to steer the political debate where you want it to.

And yeah your bipartisan system in the USA is fucked up. I don’t love our system here either.

Note: YOU are the one to choose which is the one who would cause the less harm. Or be the more willing to listen to you when confronting them.

On every embedded including a few IoT devices I worked on, every single time the IPv6 is either outright disabled, ignored, or treated like IPv4 even when telling my client what they want is not how IPv6 is designed.

May not be the same everywhere, just my anecdotal experience.

Also remember:

The ‘S’ in IoT stands for security.