This is going to translate into “more sells” same as drm.

People who want to pay will pay. People who doesn’t want to pay won’t ever pay. With digital media there’s objectively any loss if someone who didn’t pay played your game. So just let it be, you are not going to sell more just because you removed or made smaller the steam refund window.

AFAIK the flakpak doesn’t bundle the linux kernel. And sometimes the kernel itself is the problem. Specially with programs that run very close to metal.

Also it’s again the false sense of security pf “if you don’t use vibed apps you’ll be fine”, making people forget basic security procedures.

I, for instance, had a service vulnerable and discontinued without noticing for months. It was something 100% made before LLM was a thing. Still had unpatched vulnerabilities and the project was abandoned. It was my fault for not checking more often is the services I host are safe or not.

If someone doesn’t want to pay for your game they would just pirate it.

I get that’s a disappointment for the publisher seeing a sale and then seeing that sale dissapear. But AFAIK they do not have to do anything, Steam manages the refund for them, so it’s harmless.

No matter how well you try to adjust the window, I could just copy the game files in my computer, apply the crack if needed and be done with it. I could ask for a refund after just one minute if I wanted. So my advice would be, don’t worry about it. You will be paid, as always, by people who appreciate your work and want to give money to you, and, as always, some people will play your game for free.

IRS agent: Vibe tax audit.

Linux has a fundamental problem with native builds of closed source applications.

This is lack of true retro compatibility.

On windows you can still run software made for windows XP with more or less issues. But windows api are more stable and it does have retro compatibility tools built in.

Linux does not, once in a while the OS APIs change, and any software not patched for those changes might stop working completely.

I have been thinking for a while. That it would be great if some sort of “linux retro compatibility” tool existed.

Similar to launching a program in windows with “window 7 compatibility” to be able to launch linux apps woth “Kernel 4 compatibility” or something like that.

Yeah, I agree with socializing education, healthcare and a lot of things.

But again, not because it’s a bargain for society means that we should allow lousy teachers in it.

The fact that many people pay a little for something is not an excuse to waste that money. Quite the contrary, if you are taking everyone’s money to do it you are obligated to do it right.

What I want is that education money te be well used.

Depending on how long they would be isolated.

Central american powers were starting to play with the Empire idea when europeans came along.

They might have had a Genghis Kang sooner or later.

Also contact by trade would have been almost as lethal as the conquest. Remember that most death were because the diseases the europeans brought with them.

Yep. University was also a scam for me. Learn nothing that couldn’t be learned by myself. Hell, many courses I passed thanks to youtube videos, teachers failed to teach me how to pass their own class.

Someone is still paying thousands for that PowerPoint reading, just not you directly.

Could you provide some examples when that had happened?

I’m looking up famous projects using mit license and in any of those that had happened.

Lua, node.js, jQuery…

Even X11 which was indeed replaced by other system… Wayland, which also uses MIT license.

The logic was that with a mit license companies will provide a copy of the software infected with spyware leaving the open source project behind.

Explain why that hasn’t happened to godot.

Great projects have used MIT without any issues. Godot for instance, which may also be needed, I don’t know if games made by godot could be closed source if it would use gnu license for instance.

Corporate takeover?

Ubuntu has always belong to a corporation.

It’s not like it’s a community project. Ubuntu has always belonged to Canonical.

That’s some ranked gooning level shit.

I love it.

If they came with manual, posters, artwork and all the goodies of old game boxes could be a win.

Also better done with completed games that are no longer to be updated.

For an empty box with a cd that once installed you need to download a 50Gb patch for it to be playable would make no sense.

AI vibecoded nuclear plant. What could go wrong? You just need to add “no nuclear meltdown” at the end of the prompt.

Definitive way to curb RAM prices, just use people’s brains.

You could also sell part of your brain to openAI to offload part of their models for the cloud.

It’s the matrix book but instead of cpu power is RAM storage.

It shouldn’t be that hard. I may look into this.

Really it’s just install the game, copy the local files and apply the steam crack (for most games), maybe repack it into a nice packed executable with some lightweight compression of the files for easier storage.

I suppose the worst thing would be to manage the exceptions to the rule, games that use other drm, or that maybe need some tweaking for the steam crack to work,nor maybe need to create some extra folders to work. But for most simple games it should me enough.