dandi8

joined 1 year ago
[–] dandi8@kbin.social 17 points 4 months ago

Now do GOG!

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There is no DRM on GOG. You can just download the offline installer, then install it even without an internet connection. It will never ask you to go online because it doesn't need to check anything.

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 22 points 4 months ago

Jesus, that sounds like hell.

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 4 points 4 months ago

I'm just hoping for a new Riddick game. Escape from Butcher Bay was amazing.

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 49 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Steam is a ticking time bomb but mostly for the reason that you don't own the games you purchase there and you can't back them up (mostly) so when Steam decides to ban your account or just closes down, you lose all of your games forever.

More people should push for DRM-free games with offline installers, like GOG and Itch offer.

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 16 points 6 months ago

One reason is the more you're forced to work, the less energy, and, more importantly, time you have for preparing healthy meals. Therefore you're more likely to go with preprocessed, prepackaged meals or straight fast food which will make you fat fast.

I've got a relatively cushy job and cook my own, relatively healthy meals but even I find myself going for that store-bought pizza when I have a particularly busy week.

Moreover, unhealthy, preprocessed meals are basically drugs in terms of the dopamine hit, so you're more likely to go for them if your life sucks and you're sad about it.

Add to that the lack of education on healthy eating, which I'd bet is easier to come by when you're at least middle class and bam, you're a fat poor person.

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

I wish they were more upfront about the GOG release date.
I'll gladly buy this once it's available DRM-free, like its predecessor.

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Physical media FTW. I wish it was easier to obtain movies and shows physically. I like to own my stuff.

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago

But now no one has all the new major releases, so in that regard it's a worse experience.

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What do you use for automating the backups?

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

A while ago I wrote an extensible dummy data generator for Java.

I needed to fake some scientific data for a project at work and wasn't satisfied with how closed for modification existing data generation solutions were, so I decided to tackle writing a library on my own.

It was my first major contribution to open source and had some architectural challenges which were fun to solve, not to mention the learning experience :)

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Isn't he only a CEO? What exactly did he himself create?

view more: next ›