@gamingonlinux Easy to dunk on snaps, but scammers tend to go with what is popular. Linux desktops have generally gotten away without having to worry about this sort of thing, but maybe Ubuntu in particular has hit critical mass. :blobsweats:

But seriously, snaps should go away. 😋

@gamingonlinux Dude, Canonical's proving to be incompetent 😂

@gamingonlinux This is actually pretty bad for snaps. The whole point of a centralized app publisher is to prevent issues like this.

@gamingonlinux So the linux players can finish their story 😏.

@gamingonlinux it's just as "locked" to the valve eco system as Windows is to the Microsoft store. There are lots of ways to play games from other stores on the Steam Deck.

@gamingonlinux .. the bigger question is: will #Playtron contribute back to the #Linux / #FOSS community that it is built on? Likely given who they’ve hired, but we don’t know. Valve is making big money, but no question that they contribute back (and obviously Playtron won’t build their own Proton from scratch).

As an update to this: One of the videos Playtron supplied to The Verge, showcasing it on mobile, wasn't even their own and was taken uncredited from another person on YouTube, who hit them with a copyright claim and had it taken down. Not a good look.

@gamingonlinux The new changes are great, however they introduced a new term that completely screws it for me is that no longer can you have cross-region accounts in the same family. Which cuts me off from my family. Which worked before just fine.

I realise this is to prevent cross-region purchasing shenanigans, which Valve has constantly had so many bad-eggs ruin things with, but it really does make my LDR that much harder. Not cool :(

@gamingonlinux Finally!

@gamingonlinux something worse though, region locking!

@gamingonlinux wait a second, is this an rce to the client? E. G. I could have others code executed on my machine by playing apex

@gamingonlinux Bro, how miserable these people have to be to inject cheats to streamers? Seriously, if people were smart, servers would be empty.

@gamingonlinux hopefully this one or Valve's SteamOS for other handhelds manage to capture the market before Microsoft awakens and gobbles up everything...

@gamingonlinux what a terrible name

@gamingonlinux bold design, but I am thankful for every more option on the market

@gamingonlinux I have almost that many in my backlog

@gamingonlinux Good thing i don't use Spotify

@gamingonlinux True :D

@gamingonlinux
Foo Fighters - My Poor Brain
Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do, Death by a Thousand Cuts

@gamingonlinux Discord users. You'll never find more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

@gamingonlinux 😂 😅

@gamingonlinux not the same ambitions, but I am also keeping an eye on this project: https://blogs.gnome.org/tchx84/2024/03/13/gameeky-0-6-0/

@gamingonlinux This seems super interesting. Downloading now and checking this out! Thanks for sharing the info about this!

@hankskyjames777 @gamingonlinux [RE: Lack of federation and MIT license]

Woah-woah, take it easy, at least we have a place to get off #roblox

@gamingonlinux Content creators seem to play a big part in game popularity these days. I only knew about supermark simulator because I follow sips on twitch and he started playing it.

@gamingonlinux Got to love Helldivers 2.

@gamingonlinux
If you inspect the floodlights near the automoton bunkers the game calls them “Authoritarian lights”

@gamingonlinux awww they are giving fascists a bad name

@gamingonlinux Last time I checked Lemmy was infested with tankies, so I think I'll pass

@gamingonlinux Using Lemmy since the reddit blackout, quite a nice place.

When the blackout began, it wasn't quite ready: the servers couldn't handle the load (not only because of the hardware, but also because of Lemmy itself), moderation tools wasn't good. But the situation improved a lot since then.

@gamingonlinux can I log into this using mastodon / moshidon?

@gamingonlinux small typo in the article’s last sentence: “This added the NVIDIA Reflect support and improvements for NVIDIA NVK support.”