There really is no difference. For almost all intents and purposes, GOG’s offline installers can be treated the same way as physical CDs of way back then, with one of the only exceptions being that you cannot resell them.
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There really is no difference. For almost all intents and purposes, GOG’s offline installers can be treated the same way as physical CDs of way back then, with one of the only exceptions being that you cannot resell them.
Nowadays the Heroic Games Launcher is the preferred solution for downloading and running GOG games. It’s a community-run project, but officially affiliated with GOG.
The Heroic Games Launcher can download and run GOG games. It’s a community-run project, but officially affiliated with GOG.
You’re already free to support developers and instance owners financially if they’ve set up either Patreon, OpenCollective or LiberaPay 🤷
Problem is, not enough people are doing it. Case in point: https://join-lemmy.org/donate
Turns out you’re actually the owner of your home instance. I didn’t know that when I made my previous comments.
I’m guessing you’re currently paying for your instance’s upkeep out of pocket? I can’t spot any donation links on your instance. This might work for you personally, but do you really expect other, larger instances to do the same? Even donations are only rarely sustainable.
How do you expect your instance to cover its costs, then?
So how is your home instance financially sustaining itself? Surely you’re helping it, right?
B-b-but the Fediverse told me that XMPP was embrace-extend-extinguished by Google!!?!
So every negative news about Twitter, Instagram and literally every non-fedi social media platform is “relevant” too?
The post itself doesn’t even make an effort to connect this to potential benefits for fedi.
My problem is what others described: downvoting without actionable feedback.
This is exactly why I prefer instances that have downvotes disabled.
So why does Proton work on multiple products at the same time? Simply because:
- throwing more bodies at existing efforts has a point of diminishing returns and then a point when it even becomes counterproductive
- given the lengthy minimum time it takes to perfect services, starting earlier lets us deliver more to the community over the long term
That’s why we bring new services to market earlier than some of you would like, but I can also say that it’s never done if we believe it would compromise an existing effort.
So why does Proton work on multiple products at the same time? Simply because:
- throwing more bodies at existing efforts has a point of diminishing returns and then a point when it even becomes counterproductive
- given the lengthy minimum time it takes to perfect services, starting earlier lets us deliver more to the community over the long term
That’s why we bring new services to market earlier than some of you would like, but I can also say that it’s never done if we believe it would compromise an existing effort.
Proton would be absolutely awesome if it stuck to it’s “We’re better than GMail” plan and provided stellar email and calendar.
You’re saying that like those have now gotten worse than they were before.
There are separate mail and VPN plans. What are you upset about?
You might be surprised to find out that, just like everywhere else, Linux users are a minority among the Proton userbase.
Nobody on Linux puts such software in kernel space
Falcon Sensor is also being distributed for RHEL and Debian, and it caused issues there too.
https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-rocky-linux-months-ago-but-no-one-noticed/
Some instances choose to disable downvotes. If you downvote a comment that originates from one of those instances, it will have no effect outside of your home instance.
Because otherwise you’d be supporting the Chromium monopoly, and that’s the biggest sin imaginable in the Fediverse.
When have they not had the full package on GOG?