Neat thing I learned recently: create and attach a second virtual disk for data, set it to writethrough mode in virtualbox. That way it is excluded from snapshots and rollbacks.

No, you can’t have mandatory payment for DRM-free media. That’s why all bookstores operate on an honour system and let you walk out of the store without paying for the books you take with you.

That so many people think Mastodon is hard to join makes me think that there are a lot of people on the internet now who have never learned how to use the internet

A greedy asshole who thought himself a genius?

I tried it out today and came to the same conclusion. It’s not possible to use it as a standalone player unfortunately

Personally, I’m using Pocket Casts, but you can’t use it on desktop without their premium subscription, which I don’t need. Antennapod is a good Android App and supports sync through gpodder.net, but there are no good iOS apps supporting gpodder, so I stopped using it. But I thought you don’t need Spotify Premium to listen to podcasts on there. It might be easiest for you to just keep using it for that.

Are you sure NextPod can’t play the episodes? Because it lists it as a feature on their github https://github.com/pbek/nextcloud-nextpod

I heard it’s when you owe two months’ rent, which is the case after 32 days.

By saying “new” and “produced”, you are deliberately excluding the GTA Trilogy remaster I assume, because that is definitely a Rockstar Games mess.

For me botw was that game. I didn’t like the gameplay and many aspects of the game design. In contrast, I’m enjoying totk a lot more. It improved on a few aspects I didn’t like and the gameplay feels closer to what I want in a Zelda game. Overall I’d still prefer them to go in a different direction with the series though.

But in general, I’m not a fan of a lot of currently popular elements. I don’t need big, open worlds with a lot to do, that just gives me FOMO. I don’t want to build and manage stuff, and make a lot of decisions in my adventure game, I just want a good story and fun traversal and combat. And I don’t need 50+h of gameplay, I don’t have that much time and I usually start burning out after the 20h mark anyway.

I have played neither so far, but I remember hearing, that Prey 2017 has nothing to do with the “original” and the developers didn’t want to name it that, but the publisher insisted to piggyback on the name recognition

Another proof for publishers that they only need big promises and nice trailers to sell their game, nevermind the state they ship it in

Neither RPGs nor choose your own adventure games, but I’ll leave Celeste, Hollow Knight, and Cuphead here anyway

It is frankly insane how much attention those three paragraphs from a random outlet have garnered. The data they release is sparse, with little context, and largely obscure. It reads like the abstract of a term paper that used questionable statistics to validate a preconceived point. I would not be surprised to find out that they had incentive to publish something that makes Netflix’s decision look successful to investors. But even if you trust their numbers, all they are saying is that Netflix had more signups than usual on two days. It doesn’t mean anything.

I hope they get defederated immediately. There’s not much more Facebook can do to prove they are a bad faith actor.

I’ve heard good things about Nobara Linux for gaming. It’s basically Fedora but with some patches to make it work better out of the box for gaming. Stuff like proprietary Nvidia drivers can be preinstalled. I have Fedora on my machine personally, but installing Nvidia drivers can be a pain if the open source drivers don’t give you a working system with your card.