Dyskolos

AI is sweet and all,if we could only stop calling it that. It’s maybe “A” but most certainly not “I”.

Oh it does. But it’s mostly blood and tears 😁

Yes, a collector’s thing, see my other comment

They’re wanted because steam stopped them. So no new inventory-gifts since back then. And like every good that’s finite and decreasing in quantity, prices go up for collectors.

Last one I sold went for 80 bucks (batman telltale) even though you could’ve bought the game for some bucks in the same store at the time.

Still got my witcher3-goty sitting there and waiting 😁

So yeah, they probably tried to scam you to make some moneyzs out of - to you - worthless stuff.

See my other comment, this “drawback” is just based on missing knowledge. It’s absolutely the same as with torrents. If you are on public trackers/search-engines you’re fucked with the absolute mainstream-stuff. On private trackers you find what you need. Same with usenet. Lots of private trackers (at least in my native tongue, but most likely in many other tongues too) that deal with local stuff. I never not found anything except some very rare cases (in which torrent, debrid or even group-FPTs didn’t help either, it was just not available at all)

As you said: if you know what you’re doing…applies to everything :)

As said, if one does not understand a medium, it’s not the medium’s fault. Same as with torrent, if you need niche-stuff like localized dubs, you’d need local forums/sites for that. Same as with private torrent-trackers. I’m not a native-tongue either, but if i want localized or foreign stuff, there are at least 3 sites where i always find the stuff. It’s just not a simple “enter name, wait, watch” anymore, just the same speed when actually downloading. I even have torrent as a low-priority fallback enabled. Didn’t trigger for years :) Also torrent’s full-speed vastly depends on age of torrents and how mainstream their content is. As if every torrent of the last decade on that tracker is shared with full-speed.

Anyhow, if you think torrent is superior, you’re surely entitled to your own opinion of course. As said, the less people that use the usenet, the better for its future.

Proof? Why would I need proof? I was just helpful. Personally couldn’t care less where you get your shit.

I download at 100% of my line’s speed (3gbit) 99% of the time. I don’t need to rely on seeders and don’t care for u/d-ratio. If you don’t understand how things work, just stick with Torrents. The fewer that use usenet, the better 😉

Torrent sucks. Go for usenet. As long as it doesn’t really hit mainstream it’s far superior. Plus all the *arrs (sonarr etc) and you’re comfortably set. (Though they work fine with torrents too, if you prefer those for whichever reason)

I have a minimal maintenance-setup running for years now. Wanna see a show? Enter name, select quality, wait a few seconds, start first episode. Movie? Enter name, click download, wait a minute or more and watch. Same with music and subtitles and even fucking porn (who collects porn???).

Price? Not even 10 bucks a month (provider plus indexer). And I even could save, coz I use 3 indexers while one would suffice most of the time and I also pay monthly for emby (I like it and want to give back, beats the lifetime-payment)

Aye. I did learn this the good old hard way.😁

True, but you could also add a switchbot to it. Ugly but simple and without electrical maintenance needed.

That’s why I try to make dumb things smart, not replace the dumb with smart. Like, make the switch smart, not the bulb.

It is the inherent unfairness in global markets. Companies are more than allowed to exploit differences, while customers sure mustn’t. Like paying less in Russian steam e.g. instead of paying more in German steam.

Which should be forbidden by law everywhere. If companies can charge us based on average wealth per country, why can’t we shop based on average savings per country?

Like it was before steam noticed they’re loosing potential income. And with it also died the excellent tradeable inventory-gift system…

That is the only reason here. But steam-lovers will always paint anything bad more favouribly.

I’m also strongly invested in steam (sadly so), so it’s not just hate.

Sure, visuals can’t compete. Oh, no direct control anymore? I loved that “programming” of the whole group the most. Sure helped if you went in with no expectations of the previous titles. Guess I’ll just hop in and find out 😊

Better than the previous parts? Or at least as good? I totally ignored it so far. Not because of the “woke”-hate but just because the big ones rarely do anything worthwhile anymore and my expectations usually reach ocean-levels currently.

I stopped doing that after the first few hundreds… Now I’m at >5000 or so and only do a “bought to actually play” category 😁

Make all my tools again? I mean I have all the time in the world to pursue my hobbies but that’d be a good dent in time :-) With games it’s also about MODS. Even if the game might run, the mods mostly won’t. And I prefer mod-able games. Didn’t say it was Linux’ fault. It sure ain’t. Ok the shortcuts aren’t really an issue, that’s right.

And it’s not that I don’t KNOW Linux(es) and its benefits. As said, I am running numerous linux-machines. But just no UI. MS anti-consumer practices mostly don’t phase me either. The corporate versions of everything are way less hostile, pihole+firewall+strongly restrictive group-policies do the rest.

Linux would be greatest as the cost of one MS-Server-license alone could be a whole Xeon-Proxmox-machine running 50 linux-machines :)

No arguing with you. If I’d be just a reddit-surfing user that occasionally games a thing and does some office-stuff, there would be no reason at all for MS. I probably wouldn’t even notice the difference. But I would not even get drivers AND the controller-app for my Soundcard (creative x7 LE), and this one is VITAL. It’s not about putting time and effort into it, it’s just too many problems with no solutions for having not a tremendously great reward in the end. I would just tinker different things so that the shit does work.

I’m having ca 20 servers at home and the majority of those are linux. I love it. My main rig is still windows and will probably stay that way unless win12 won’t finally cure what pisses me off so damn much with 11. They won’t, obviously. But migration would be very hard. Most of my tools won’t run, most of my self made tools won’t run, most of my games won’t run, most 4 decades of internalization of shortcuts won’t cut it short anymore. And I won’t even start with the domain migration horrors as this one’s still MS. I would end up dual booting for eternity until I stop booting up one of the two.

So…my point is. I use the right tool for the right job.

I’m no android pro Dev, so no absolute confidence in my point. You’re probably right. And good you managed to bring it into HA without the permissions.

Sure they sell the data…my point was just that they would probably need the permission even if they didn’t want your actual location.