flashgnash

Do they actually need the help? Personally I'd just leave them be and be available if they need support for whatever reason

It sounds kinda like they're doing alright from the way you describe it and want you to live your life, not feel indebted to them

Not ready yet. There are a few dev kits but nothing realistically usable as a daily driver yet from what I've gathered

You make a compelling argument why not to use arch in calling windows users dumbfucks and swearing every 3 words in your reply lol

Perfect! Now I can deploy it to my kubernetes cluster and make it scalable!

#!/usr/env bash
~/doom-game/bin/doom

I think torrenting someone else's copy of a game is still illegal regardless of if you own a copy yourself

I'm talking purely ethically, I don't consider it to be any different where I paid for the game originally if I can no longer access it via that platform

Pretty sure roms are only legal if you rip them yourself from your own console.

I don't think it's legal for people to distribute them but torrenting makes that an unwinnable game of wack a mole to shut down so they don't bother usually

So far I've had one hard drive fail and lose a bunch of my work from long ago (before I knew to use git), have physically lost memory sticks to similar effect

On the other hand I've still got everything in my Dropbox that I worked on as a child, everything on my old web server was still there until I pulled it down and cancelled it, all the contacts on my phone I have ever made, and I've never lost a steam game

I get not wanting to put your faith in big companies and I don't like the idea but so far they've proven far more reliable than I am in looking after my stuff

(I also tend not to keep anything sensitive in there and open source all my code nowadays anyway so leaks and ai training don't bother me that much)

What about when that HDD gets lost or dies, then I need a backup.

Without an automated system will be unreliable and a pain in the ass to maintain

If it's automated and not just a hard drive I shove games on every now and then it requires a machine to run it and constant electricity

At which point what's the point of even buying it if you're going to torrent it later on anyway though

Would have just the same claim to ethically pirate it if I were to buy it there as if I bought it on steam

My concern with this and other platforms like gog is that I can be fairly confident valve isn't going under anytime soon, and that they have no interest in taking games away from people

I don't have nearly that same faith in a project that's only just started and doesn't have the amount of money behind it valve does

Sure, once you own these games you own them but that means having to store every single game I've bought somewhere incase they go under and it all vanishes

PC is powered off when not in use because it's only for gaming and occasionally a build server.

Laptop locked if I'm going out of sight of it, hibernated if I'm going away for more than half an hour or so/need to put it in my bag

Occasionally left on with the screen off if I need it for something remotely but then I'll remotely shut it down when I've got what I need

Does sound pretty reassuring assuming all that works for non http traffic too