Remember the UK new safety law. https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/reddit-rolls-out-age-verification-in-the-uk-to-comply-with-new-rules/

https://www.404media.co/women-dating-safety-app-tea-breached-users-ids-posted-to-4chan/

Archive: https://archive.ph/2025.07.22-214505/https://www.androidauthority.com/once-were-nerd-youtuber-not-innocent-3579610/

Hello everybody!!!

Sorry it’s been so long since my last updates here on Lemmy. I do know its been too long between my Steam Deck / Gaming News posts (and I pinkie-swear that will change sometime soon!), but at least I have some things to share here which I hope you’ll find interesting.

I’ve been lucky in that a friend on Mastodon has asked me to help contribute to his weekly gaming ‘magazine’ - a site he’s launched a week or so ago with the idea of being:

...a site where we can write about games, technology, and nerdy culture in a relaxed, informal fashion. Where we can celebrate creators, game developers and anyone else who makes a positive contribution to the gaming community on the fediverse.

So, this time, I’ve written some things for this site as a contributor, and I’d love to get your thoughts on what I’ve written.

An article:

First is an article on RomM's new release version 0 4.0.0 (along with its Android app release!), which is a little different to how I’ve typically written and shared on Lemmy before. You might remember that I’ve interviewed the team behind RomM before, and shared it here on Lemmy. They’re all lovely people!

For this I wrote more of an 'article' - but also was in touch with all the devs responsible for the changes in this release, so you'll find them sprinkled throughout!

The link to my RomM article is here!

Minigalaxy:

The developer behind the Linux GOG launcher for games, Minigalaxy was kind enough to chat to me over a few days so I could hear more about the work and what brought the launcher into being.

I'm super grateful that they wanted to chat, and Minigalaxy is such a fun program, if you haven't already then you should check it out!

The direct link to that article I wrote is here

An interview:

Lastly was to be an interview with the developer behind Falkor, an independent game launcher built almost entirely by one develop. Designed to be personal, customisable, and community-driven, Falkor was built to stay in line with the dev's plan: a 'user-first alternative to the other launchers available'.

In our conversation, he shared his journey as a dev, insights on the plugin architecture, thoughts on legal boundaries, and future plans for Falkor, including Proton support and deeper community involvement.

Sadly, a few hours before posting, he actually ceased work on Falkor with an announcement in his Discord, and has stepped back from it. So that one is no longer being posted!

What's Next:

But I have also got plenty more in the works to share. I’ve been in touch with:

• PortMaster (though this one might be taking a little longer than I first anticipated)

• The person behind the emulation compatibility report site called EmuReady

• The dev team who have made Ocean Keeper: Dome Survival on Steam - they've been super kind and are arranging the dev team to answer my questions, and provide me with promo material to use

• And another handful of teams and devs – projects and independent games, which I suppose I’ll share when the time is right!

What I'd love most from all of you here is to hear what you think. These posts have entirely been for all of you on Lemmy in the past. But sharing these on this site does mean RSS will be easier for you (for those who ask how to RSS my posts).

Would you like me to share my articles and interviews here in Lemmy as they were, or through this fediverse-centric site instead? Or both?

Please share what you think. My style writing these, the format, the fact they’re on a site, just give me your thoughts.

If you’d just like a link to the site itself, its here:

https://magazine.fediverse.games/

One other thing, if you'd like to contribute to that site, then Mr Dendry stated:

...if you have a product or project you'd like to be featured on this site please reach out! Additionally, if you're a writer and you want to contribute, please let me know as it would be great to have a few people writing here aside from me.

Hope you’re all well, and enjoying gaming lately. Again, all apologies for my absence from Lemmy lately :)

I saw that no one had shared Junk Store's newly released version '2.0' announcement, so I figured I'd format it for Lemmy and post it here.

Is anyone picking it up? Or trying it out?

Anyway, everything below here is their words that I'm pasting in:

The wait is over! Junk Store 2.0 is now live, and we’re excited for you to try it! You’ve heard the fuss, now you can judge it for yourself. If it’s not for you, no hard feelings; all we ask is that you make up your own mind.

Check it out in action here

Get it here

What is Junk Store 2.0?

Junk Store 2.0 is a fully extensible game launcher designed to help you easily install and manage games from platforms like Epic, GOG, Amazon, and more — all without the hassle of complex workarounds. It’s faster, more stable, and includes a ton of new features to enhance your experience on the Steam Deck.

Try Junk Store 2.0 Now!

We know you’ve been waiting for a faster, more stable, and expanded experience, and Junk Store 2.0 delivers just that. While we continue to scale up some of our supporting systems, we’re offering a 25% discount on your first year if you sign up before the end of the month. Use the code EarlyBird at checkout to take advantage of the savings Learn more here

What Users Are Saying

• “Junk Store 2.0 gives me access to dozens of games I already own on platforms I rarely use — without all the convoluted workarounds.” — Anonymous

• “JS allows me the freedom to choose stores with better deals, DRM-free options, or freebies — without sacrificing the joy and simplicity of the Steam Deck.” — BadServo

• “This is f*ing great and well worth the sub. It’s leagues better than before and blows the Decky Loader version out of the water.” — Zer04evr

• “It's the perfect Swiss Army knife for my Deck!” — Tiny Tech

How to Try It?

• 7-day Free Trial – Try before you buy! If you cancel within the first 7 days, you won’t be charged.

• 25% off your first year – Discount available until the end of the month.

Why Upgrade?

You’ll still have access to the old version of Junk Store, but we truly believe the new version offers too many improvements to ignore. Whether it's the download queue, the new extension generation tools, or the ability to view up to 1,000 games, this is the future of Junk Store. Check out "What’s New" here

Hear from the Developer:

• Hear from the developer himself in this interview with Gardiner Bryant: Watch here

• Listen to Gardiner Bryant: Watch it here

We’re Here to Help

Junk Store is a living project. We’re constantly working on improvements, and we need your feedback to make it even better. If you run into any issues, let us know — we’re a small team, but we strive for fast resolutions.

Thank you for your support — Game on!

Users from 4chan claim to have discovered an exposed database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase, belonging to the newly popular women’s dating safety app Tea. Users say they are rifling through peoples’ personal data and selfies uploaded to the app, and then posting that data online, according to screenshots, 4chan posts, and code reviewed by 404 Media.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/34629331

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/34472919

• Reddit.
• Hackernews.

I don't really have anyone else to shout at about this, but it's an amazing way to host services in rootless containers entirely in user space using systemd (systemctl --user).

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html

Archive: https://archive.ph/2025.07.26-030339/https://gameinformer.com/2025/07/22/number-go-up

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Hello all! As the title suggests, I'm looking for some help and recommendations for starting a NAS storage/backup between a few households in my family.

Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask this. This will be my first entry into something something like this, so I'm not entirely sure where to go.

What I would like to do is have an enclosure in each house and have them all sync together. Two drives will be necessary since I'll use one drive just on my own since I have a lot of files to store. The other drive I would like to partition so that each household can be given a set amount of storage.

The rest of my family isn't very tech savvy, so I would prefer a solution that is relatively straight forward to setup and troubleshoot in the rare case I might need them to do something remotely.

I would like to keep the price of the enclosure reasonable since the rest of my family is pitching in on the costs.

Some extra info I copied from one of my comments:

• At this point, will have 2 houses, but likely 3 by next year.
• The first two will be a short drive away, but the third will be hours away.
• The houses are on 100/50Mb fiber. Very stable internet.
• Me being the tech person, I'll access them every way that's available. For the rest of my family I'll likely set them up either with a hardwire or local network.
• We will be using them as part of a 3-2-1 backup for all of our files like photos or documents. I'll be using the second drive for occasional video backup storage.
• The shared drive will probably be 5-10 TB, depending on how much storage each household wants. The second drive for me will be around 20TB.
• We want multiple units so we have multiple copies of all our important files in the event of something like a house burning down.

Another clarification:

We do want to access files from each NAS individually instead of having everyone connect to one master NAS. The storage will be used mainly for archival and backup, so version conflicts of individual files wont be much of a concern.