It’d be better if they went after literally every other AI corp than Meta in this case. Meta is the only one that’s ironically releasing open-source models and leading the way for open-source LLMs. I don’t want Meta to stop doing this.

Meta’s llama models are generally open. In fact Meta is the main megacorp that’s driving open-source AI right now. Everyone else keeps their models proprietary.

Here.

Yeah there are lovely solutions for everything if you can self-host, but the general crowd only has standalone websites hosted by some brave pirate captain.

With regard to ebooks, a clean Kindle-friendly website that immediately downloads the .azw3 file for any book selected.

We are not in want of such solutions, Lutris and other existing solutions are capable of making game-specific environments already. The main problem is having enough volunteers to painstakingly run, test and submit the exact dependency parameters for each game that makes it run correctly. Same will be the issue even if we shift to Nix or anything else. The problem is manpower scarcity, not lack of tech.

A Plague Tale: Innocence has already been given away for free in EGS once. I have it in my library.

Lol, no one except the completely deranged would forego a meal for an episode

Because contrary to the opinion of most terminally online people, media consumption is a very tiny part of life and happiness. It’s literally non-essential.

My backlog is so large, I’m definitely going to die before getting through it.

Don’t call it that, man! games are an escape, a leisure activity. Not some work assignment you need to compulsively finish. It’s OK if you don’t play everything there is. 🙂

Librarians are not always (but in fact, are very rarely) Lit enthusiasts who’ll know the best choices whenever you ask them. Most of them are just doing their jobs.

But the libgen upload interface is cumbersome, requires way too many details and has regularly denied my uploads whenever I tried.

SMS has been free in India since 2016. Though one could say WhatsApp had already become dominant by then, so it stuck.

WhatsApp does not come pre-installed on most phones (for some reason it often isn’t included even with Facebook’s crapware). It is still the de facto chat app in India, Brazil and dozens of other Asian, South American and European countries.

All these features you get much better using actual E2E-encrypted chat apps like Signal or WhatsApp like the rest of the world.

How far would you go to conform for something as mundane as chat bubble colors? How soulless will your life have to be to demand something like this?

How the hell are there more Private Tracker users than DDL users

Unbelievable. You genuinely think the rest of the world wouldn’t have had computers had your god Microsoft not been so benevolent as to donate a few machines to a few schools for PR

Stay happy in your pathetic white saviours’ world, I guess. There’s no point discussing anything with you

It’s hilarious that you think Microsoft’s charity is what brought computers to the third world. Do you even hear yourself?

Linux’s development would have accelerated a lot had there been more demand. There wasn’t enough demand because pirated Windows was getting the work done.

The past 20 years is what’s relevant for all countries apart from Japan, China and those in North America and Eastern Europe when it comes to PCs.

I don’t think any cost above ₹200 (~ $2.5) would have been justifiable for an OS in third world countries in the '00s, and the “dirt cheap CD keys” were certainly more expensive than that anywhere.

In most countries other than those in Western Europe, North America, Japan and China, computers arrived roughly a decade late. In fact PCs never ended up being used in the mainstream till the late 90’s/early '00s in India, a lot of options had matured by then.

How do those companies audit businesses that they don’t know are using their software? Do they have a special force built just to track creative releases from indie makers?

Windows and Office were successful in enterprises precisely because they were popular and the familiar choice among staff. They got popular from piracy.

PSA, FitGirl and Dodi setups do fail during installations on Proton and Lutris Wine, but if you were to run them using vanilla Wine they (generally) work perfectly. Just open a terminal in the downloaded folder and enter wine ./setup.exe. Just make sure you set the correct installation folder (e.g. Z:/home/username/games)

Update: the latest FitGirl setup for Cyberpunk 2077 didn’t work on either

Yes, I did. The setups crash midway during installation.

Install the Nvidia driver first. Most things won’t work otherwise

Good point.

No, your account is not in danger. Steam doesn’t care. It’s not like they could take any action even if they knew the non-steam game you added was pirated, in the first place. They don’t hold the IP of every game and cannot police you on their publishers’ behalf.

Update: tried with a few repacks. Both Dodi and Fitgirl setups fail during installation for some reason with Proton. Running them with Wine works fine.

Good to hear!

Sherlock Holmes

The fuck!? Isn’t Sherlock Holmes public domain?

Paradise

That sounds like a great way of doing it if it works

If that’s the problem, my guide can also be condensed to:

1. Install Steam
2. Install your game
3. Run game through Steam

Long read, but much less effort than going through ridiculous hoops with launchers and their own Wine runners

Too late, Unity ain’t getting that lost trust back up anytime soon.

It’s there on the megathread already

Damn I’m feeling old!

For me “Sky” was the 90s SkyRoads game. It was quite fun, you can play it on the browser now.

It’s gone the Ubuntu way and enshittified itself to a grand mess. Stick to pure Arch, it’s not as hard as before now.