They’re even wearing a 100 gecs - Frog on the Floor shirt in their Rainbow Frogs talk. (better view here)

I would say the bare minimum is supporting their game client on Linux. They don’t need to be supporting project developments like Valve, but at least giving a token gesture that they recognize and are doing their part for this issue would be a nice gesture to the gamers who feel that anti-DRM/game preservation and a future with Linux are very correlated - regardless of Linux’s present-day state. By not having their game client available on Linux they have actively hindered the growth of Linux, and only through Valve’s support are we getting closer to that future (as well as the Linux community who have eventually made their own GOG clients due to the lack of official support).

They have been making a willful choice to not use any of their money to support Linux, which has been clear for many years by the GOG users overwhelmingly asking for Linux support to no avail. Their Linux game installers are the bare minimum of using someone else’s setup installer. I’m saying that if I’m going to be giving money to somebody, I’d rather give it to a company that’s doing more with it and seems to have a stronger belief in actually making the effort to achieve this future instead of waiting for it to happen by someone else’s hand.

I wish they’d align more at least on the Linux issue. What’s the use of preserving games for an OS that’s not going to last? It seems antithetical to their goals. Meanwhile, Wine and the rest of the Linux emulation components are also doing real work for preserving games by just making their original releases continue to work on modern operating systems through translation layers. My guess is GOG is waiting for gaming on Linux to be “worth it” before devoting their time and effort into it, which is basically just being a fair-weather friend and not actually helping.

Stuff like this is the main reason why I only buy from Steam if I can help it. GOG has a noble anti-DRM goal, but Valve is doing a lot more stuff that matters. Besides, I count Steam’s apathy towards their own easily-bypassed DRM as effectively DRM-free at this point, and as far as I understand Steam’s DRM is also voluntary for game devs to use.

I’m he/him, otherwise I usually try to refer to people as they/them because you never know, and I don’t want to have to research people before I refer to them. Down with gendered pronouns IMO - what a nuisance.

I’m curious which of their stuff you don’t like; Drew is one of the few people I subscribe to on youtube. They’re fairly funny, they don’t upload that often, and they seem to be genuine in terms of only making content when they think they’ve got something entertaining, interesting, or important. Even in the sillier videos, the deeper messaging is usually something related to exposing dark patterns.

Dear lord the LTT Linus is a nightmare to watch. I did enjoy listening to Torvalds’ answers to the questions they asked, but had to constantly skip past the other one getting in the way. I know Torvalds’ key attribute is not being “nice”, but he’s clearly got his heart in the right place.

It looks like it might be; I just know someone that has a site using it and they use a different mascot, so I thought it would have been trivial. I kind of wonder why it wouldn’t be possible to just docker bind mount a couple images into the right path, but I’m guessing maybe they obfuscate/archive the file they’re reading from or something?

You can customize the images if you want: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper#customizing-images

It could be both, but often I see downvotes used strongly when information is actually incorrect or misleading, regardless of whether the person is trying to be pleasant or not. I guess that upvotes on a post like this could be mistaken for agreement. If the OP was instead phrased as a question it probably wouldn’t be downvoted.

I think it’s more of a result of OP conflating this with an “average” Debian experience. Who knows if Kali (downstream) or the user made a frankendebian, and who knows what they’ve done to their install before this log. Using Kali for an improper reason doesn’t give a lot of bonus points in our trust that this is not user-induced.

Do you think they’re actually friends or like work friends?

Yeah that sounds about right. It also depends on which indexers you’re using, as I imagine the more public indexers will have a higher chance of getting takedowns from trolls. It’s worth noting that I believe the running theory is that a lot of 2021-2023 articles were voluntarily deleted to save space, resulting in issues even for .nzbs that weren’t takedown’d. It’s also theorized (and outright stated sometimes) that providers do silently delete data that is rarely or never accessed as well to save space, so that can be a random issue too.

Personally, I lean more into torrent technology because usenet can be fickle for these reasons even if you’re in the secret indexers, whereas if you’re in at least some semi-good private torrent trackers you’ll never have completion issues (just potentially slower downloads). I also feel like usenet’s scalability, future, and pricing is sort of uncertain.

It’s generally better to instead have more indexers, or indexers that repost stuff. Articles on the various providers often get taken down at the same time, so while it’s not a bad idea to get a lot of blocks just in case, you’ll get a better chance of completion by just trying a different .nzb

The lifetime prices actually don’t seem that bad depending on your usecase (mine is solely redundant backups). Compared against Backblaze B2 for backup or a VPS service you’d come out ahead after a few years. I pay $50 for a 2TB VPS yearly, which I also use as a public IP reverse proxy/etc. Of course, “lifetime” means “for the life of the service” and all that, as well storage may not scale forever into the future, and companies usually tend to mess around with older lifetime deals after 5-10 years, but on paper it’s slightly tempting. Anyone have any tiebreakers?

Edit: I think I’d be kneecapped trying to find a cheap enough VPS to switch to that still fits my bandwidth needs. It would still be like minimum $20/year, in which case the price difference would be resolving at ~$30/year, which isn’t really fast enough to not consider this a risk or push.

As far as I’m aware this is true (same with a lot of desktop linux distros), but I’m more interested in freeing myself from Android at the moment. I’m sure we can get there eventually w/r/t security, but it takes time, and we’ll never get there if we don’t start moving.

It mainly makes me pine for linux phones. I think Graphene is the best we have at the moment in the mobile space, but that’s far more of a testament to our lack of options than how valuable Graphene is. I have no doubts that we’ll eventually kick Graphene to the curb when it stops being useful, so I’m not overly concerned with its future. Worst-case, I think many of us would be just fine on any other AOSP rom for a few extra years until linux phones can come save us all.

I’m implying that most normal people would not give their consent to it, or would be coerced by the app into giving consent when they don’t understand what it means (e.g. Windows Delivery Optimization).

I think that the idea of an app “stealing” bandwidth from its users because they want to save money on their own servers is a pretty bad look. Our current world is still not that great w/r/t internet quality, price, and availability, and it was surely worse in the past. It could definitely be more of a thing in the future, but maybe only for stuff used by techy people who could understand it and give proper consent.

I don’t want to write up a whole paper at the moment but I’ll note that you really shouldn’t be trusting any cloud providers with your data, because you should always be fully encrypting your data before they get their hands on it. Plasma Vaults (if you use KDE) are one way to do this, or you can use something like Cryptomator, gocryptfs, etc. Basically how it works is that you store files encrypted in one directory (/home/me/Encrypted), then transparently unencrypt that data to another mountpoint for your regular usage (/home/me/Unencrypted). Modifications in the Unencrypted directory will automatically affect the Encrypted directory through the use of magic. The cloud provider will only sync the Encrypted directory, and without the key they know nearly nothing about what your data is.

Given this sort of workflow, you can store your data anywhere, as long as you have a nice (open-source) way of syncing to that provider that can’t introduce any further vulnerability.