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Nexus mods? you mean the same site that paywalls downloading mods in bulk, and account walls downloading files to require sign in? And has already been proven to remove free features if they think it can be a decent perk for the sub model, the same site that deactivates accounts after a few months of no activity, the one with literal ads in their first party software and the only way to get around it is to pay a monthly subscription. That is the site you plan to keep your “always free, no paywall” product on.

Yea OK, I love the ambition but I will believe that when I see it. I expect SteamDB will be locked behind a paywall a few years from now at the latest.

Also if I find it amusing that if you look at the FAQ’s on it… they are straightforward and say they plan to make money off of it.

edit: Upon looking it up again, I misremembered the third party situation. They rate limit third party, if detected, so I removed that complaint.

if you include my intranet vpn daily, if you include external vpns generally only if I’m going to a hotel or a location I expect would be insecure.

it sounds promising but, ultimately I’m put off by the change to GPL to MIT you did back in july. I’m seen too many projects burned by that change. Generally the flow ends up being project becomes MIT, project gets acquired, project gets moved to be closed source/w payment model, creating a fracture of two different products, one that is owned by the company and one that is maintained by the community. In my opinion, It isn’t worth the time contributing or learning a system that has the potential to just be rug pulled once it gains traction.

Don’t take me wrong, I firmly get why the change was done but, it doesn’t change my thoughts on it

I think overall it will be good. We already rely on windows dependent games anyway for 90% of the gaming on the platform. So I don’t see why gamepass would be any different than wine or proton.

If we were gonna hold that line, then really we should have been super against having any type of transitional layer as a whole. But I don’t think that’s the right choice because the Linux ecosystem is a minority and you’re not going to get that to change anytime soon by making it actively harder for people to want to jump in. I think that it needs all the help that it can get currently.

It’s actually a little surprised that something like this hasn’t been done already. Not having Game Pass on Linux was actually the second biggest reason(the first being price) that I canceled my game pass subscription anyway because I used my computer 90% of the time so it didn’t make sense to keep Game Pass Ultimate. But Game Pass for PC didn’t work on Linux, so it was better off just not having it at all.

I have 3 repos in it but I don’t really care, it was all repos I had publically shared and open anyway

With the industry standard being a split VPN with anything corporate/intranet going over the tunnel, I’m amazed that this is still an issue in 2026.

My old cellular device wouldn’t allow me to connect to any company resources unless I had the VPN going period, it didn’t matter what network I was on and if it detected anything weird or wrong in the entire process it just never connected.

I noticed this myself by complete coincidence when itjust.works updated and I could click on my own comments and they wouldn’t pull anything.

I had thought that it might have been a bug with the server so I switched over to the standard Lemmy instance and it would load fine.

Then I dug through the settings more and I found the toxic mode hidden in the advanced settings. and realized that when I enabled toxic mode I could see the comment tree.

Weirdly enough, I did a deep dive into all the black lists that it has hard-coded when I saw and I couldn’t for the life of me find out what was flagging that post from being able to be seen. None of the instances of anyone in the comment train were in the black list, I guess it’s possible that the instance itself was in a blacklist, but I forgot to check that.

I would say data harvesting since you generally have payment information hooked up to it. But like even then you would think it would be much cheaper just buying it online.

Honestly, I’m surprised it’s only 47 considering its user base and the fact that we’re already in July.

It doesn’t officially say it, but it implies that the current system, they’re sun setting, didn’t have any type of annual fee.

If that is the case, then yeah, I would do the same thing and just not use the program. might be able to backtrack on the agreement to work with the gov as well and just go back to the old system for crew members. Makes no sense to pay more on a system that was working fine as is.

The airlines are in a pretty massive advantage here, delays for flight are already pretty heavily protected legally, as in there are laws baked into the system protecting/restricting airlines being sued for travel delays.

Worst case scenario is they can’t go back to the old program and they just cause mass delays which they can then directly blame the government for with no monetary penalty unless it goes over I think it’s a 6 hour delay.

I’m not sure, I was running 2.7.5 myself but i am not sure what version of immich I started with. I didn’t think this would effect fully docker setups much. I think this would mostly effected people who had configured with a preexisting database. I believe the docker edition with postgres built in upgraded for you awhile back unless you supplied an environment variable telling it to do otherwise.

you’re welcome, glad it worked for your use case.

Rsync is an insane tool when you look at it, half the flags you wouldn’t even know existed unless you were looking for them.

hey everyone gotta learns somewhere, and defo don’t expect you’ll ever stop learning on this adventure. That’s part of what makes this hobby fun!

is there any reason in particular that you are using both SSHFS and rsync? Rsync supports sftp which runs over an ssh connection via rsync -e ssh source dstUser@dstHost:/path

if you are only using the sshfs system to allow a local ssh directory on your system to use with rsync, you could likely skip that entire part and just use rsync.

LinuxConfig.org has a pretty decent page on it

As an FYI to people who are upgrading and use a preexisting postgres database If you still use pgvecto.rs (if the command \dx on the immich database responds with vectors not vector) you will need to install both pgvector and vectorchord in order to continue using immich. This will require restarting your postgres instance at least once if not twice.

It threw me for a loop at first because of the similar naming. Just thought I would share.

I couldn’t find a solid 10 but…

1. Minecraft for sure; the mod packs are insane and just GTNH could last me months.
2. rimworld - I suck at it but… I have time to learn
3. Oxygen not included - i have to be in the mood for this but it can hook me for hours
4. fallout 3 - ive never actually finished this because I’ve always got distracted by mods
5. Car mechanic simulator 21- I love the car mechanic games, I have hours in each even though ive basically finished them
6. Mass effect trilogy(I’ve never finished the series and the fact they all interweave means its defo on my bucket list)
7. If multiplayer is allowed: Ark survival evolved or ascended.
8. elden ring with randomizers.

If the part is on par with non-Chinese counterparts at a cheaper price, definitely

the standard Prism Launcher does have an offline mode. However, it’s only accessible once you’ve logged into a Microsoft account.(I just tried it because I was curious of if they checked against that) If you try to run a instance without not having a Microsoft account linked it will prompt for you to add a Microsoft account first.

Ignoring cracks/illegal routes, I’m not sure you can

Microsoft deleted any remaining Minecraft accounts that were not migrated to a Microsoft account 2 years ago now. Any accounts remaining are now solidly Microsoft accounts with Minecraft access. Unless for some reason the android and apple license system was exempted, If you never ported your account, you no longer own a license to use Minecraft.

Its BS that they were allowed to do this but, that’s the state of the situation.

Any legitimate/legal launcher that you find for Minecraft is going to require you to sign into a Microsoft account to use it, as they require account authentication to download the library files and the old Mojang account system that the original system used no longer exists.

you mentioned PovavLauncher. That’s a minecraft launcher as well, they don’t provide libraries for the game, and instead have you sign into a MS account so they can pull the files directly from microsoft.

edit: Apparently the requirement to have an account to download the files isn’t actually correct. It’s just they require you to have a license to use Minecraft if you’re going to download them. I don’t feel like it was always this way but it currently seems to be that way with my testing.