Hmm… Do I side with Epic, famous for:

1. Apple app store lawsuit because they didn’t get enough of the profit
2. Google play lawsuit, ditto.
3. Paying publishers to release games exclusively on Epic Games Store, pushing up prices to gamers.
4. Many allegations by former allegations about toxic work culture, very long working hours, especially “crunch” times leading to burnout and mental health issues.
5. Aggressive loot boxing and monetization of games specifically targetting children.
6. Having to settle a lawsuit with the FTC for $275m to escape prosecution for breaching children’s privacy laws and forced to issue a further $245m in refunds to customers who were victims of “dark patterns” employed by Epic.

Or with Steam?

Summary of answers so far:

• Yes.
• No.
• It will break your windows.
• Do $other-thing instead.

I hope OP found clarity…

Can your phone reach your server at the address you’ve given?

There’s not a lot in your question to allow us to help you. Explain what you’ve done so far and what error message you might be seeing.

Genuine question: Do you think linux would be better or worse today without that influence?

https://publicapis.io/

In the Bible they had to make a law against it

So they did about eating Pork, but Christians like the taste so eat it anyway.

“Leviticus 11:7-8 that pigs are considered unclean and should not be eaten.”

I’m pretty sure “zoophilia” is more about being into animals rather than actual sex with them

I wasn’t sure about this, due to the common link with sexuality - but it looks like - at a semantic level - you’re right.

From the original Greek via Aristotle;

philia is commonly translated as friendship or affection. Its conceptual opposite is phobia

Continued today with Bibliophilia, Dendrophilia, Thalassophilia etc (Books, trees, the sea) - all non-sexual, and there are hundreds of other examples “used in everyday language to describe completely normal, passionate hobbies and aesthetic appreciation”

You’re assuming others are all like you.

Sure, alone doesn’t == loneliness for some people. Life the life that you want to live, there’s nobody keeping score, everyone’s too busy living their own lives to care much about what you do or don’t do, within reasonable societal norms - just idle judging as you’re doing about them.

This isn’t some new thing btw, I’m 55 and only had two people I would consider good friends. I married one, and the other died in his 40s. People come into our lives and leave, but I doubt I’ll make more real friends. I’m fine with that, partly because of the reasons you mention.

Linux’s only objective is to get better.

Any commercial OS has the sole objective to make money for its owner.

Cream.

As a kid, we owned a village shop in the early 1980s that used to sell clotted cream in big open trays. We’d eat what didn’t get sold - until one day I was given some that was very off. I was violently sick and stayed well clear of it for forty years. Tried it again recently in my mid fifties and it’s quite nice.

Also fish - hated the taste when I was younger, but tried it at middle age and quite like it now. Just a change of taste.

Heh. ISWYDT

It wasn’t actually that, it’s just such a dumb question to ask, and insulting as hell.

Are you drunk?

Not so much underdog - maybe. Everyone wants to be interesting or special, perhaps.

“I’m Irish, you know.”

Gitea is great for selfhosting. Small footprint, very fast, extremely capable.

I also maintain a couple of Gitlab installations at work, but it’s a lot slower and uses more resources. I mean it’s good, but it’s very much a full fat option.

Bitbucket is very old and, eww, Atlassian - the exact opposite of a selfhost friendly company.

We’ve considered eliminating the Lifetime Plex Pass in the past, given that recurring subscriptions help us sustain long-term development, but we know it’s still a valuable option for many in our community. So instead of retiring it, we’re keeping it available at a price that reflects the real, ongoing value of the software we’re committed to building and maintaining for years to come.

Translation: We fucked up by creating a lifetime pass but now we can’t get rid of it without being sued by everyone who did what we said they should and bought one. If we honour existing passes and stop selling new ones, we’ll be reviled by everyone else, so we’ll just pick a ridiculous figure out of the air so nobody can say we killed them.

Do you genuinely think that’s going to be soon?

Seem that I’ve been hearing about mainstream RISC being “just around the corner” for around three decades.

Good question.

26 years ago I was a volunteer community manager for a (at the time) huge fps for a big online gaming community. That involved effectively recruiting and managing a group of admins, developing a system of monitoring and anticheat reporting. In hindsight I put way too much time into that but I have difficulty limiting.

It was tiring. 4/5 hours every night after work. No social life. All my choice.

I don’t regret it. I did good, I think. With the team, we stopped a lot of really nasty racism and other abuse. Really helped inform and prevent aimbotting and similar cheating (went down a whole other rabbit hole and ended up writing several guides on the subject). Generally made the servers a nicer place to play. I was offered a job with the company, but I couldn’t take it - and they’ve since closed doors.

Downsides: Death threats, doxxing attempts, a long running issue with another admin who didn’t like me firing him. The charismatic cheaters who think they can charm their way around a ban with begging and promises. The entitled players who’ve never been told “No” before and get ridiculously angry. It can be a lot.

Now I try to help around the edges rather than be the main guy. I do manage a biggish facebook group, but it doesn’t need a lot of input.

I know what you mean - although I’ve found the… receptiveness? on lemmy is generally better than reddit for most things, but yes, the scale is tiny in comparison.