RecluseRamble

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[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Kinda. It's basically a love child between server hosting and streaming services with focus on gaming.

You can connect your Steam account, for example, and then run games on their hardware which is streamed to you by browser. So you have control which games to run into but have to bring your own.

Payment options include more powerful hardware but even the basic one was great when I used it. So I could play a modern game with raytracing on my old potato. Your machine just needs to be able to easily stream stuff, so run a modern browser without sweating.

On the offside, it's naturally always online and I had latency problems when many players were online which was common on weekends and what got me to upgrade my setup eventually.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I used it in the beginning for this early adopter price to be able to play Cyberpunk 2077 on my 15 year old PC. It was great but I canceled because of hardware upgrades since then. Apparently, just in time before the inevitable enshittification.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't know about addictiveness but sugar isn't as harmful as alcohol, for example. Don't get me wrong - in my opinion the negative effects of sugar aren't taken seriously enough but they are far less pronounced and further down the road, while you can easily destroy your whole life in a year of alcoholism.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Good default, I'm of the same opinion, in general. We should only restrict entry age if simple education isn't enough - as can be seen by teen suicide rates rising in parallel with the spread of social media.

Sugar isn't restricted but alcohol and tobacco are. Why is that? Because there's a difference in addictiveness and possible harm done.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

No, bullying isn't the only danger. Addiction is another and that's just as bad here as for any other feed-based system. Legal addictive substances also have an entry age of at least 16, usually higher.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Traditional media aren't associated with bullying and suicide risk. Social media are.

Teens have always bullied, so it's hardly a surprise or preventable on social media. It implies that the victim cannot escape from it though and at least leave it at school. So moving entry age to a level, bullying isn't as bad is a good idea in my book.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like that's the missing last sentence: Am meeting dudes now.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (16 children)

You really cannot understand this without known what "sm" means here. Can someone please explain?

Edit: Thanks for the replies. But I just realized that wasn't all that is needed to understand. Key ring drawings having meaning? Is that some esoteric shit? Probably best, I just leave this thread for some memes I do get.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Cleaning up files upon uninstall - Your uninstall script should already be cleaning up any files created or modified by your install process. However, we know that some older games may not fully remove files upon uninstall, and it isn't possible to update the game any longer. Players need to know if any anti-cheat utilities have left files behind, especially those that modify OS kernel files.

This section alone shows how stupid kernel level anti-cheat is. Play a game and gain a persistent security risk. It's actually a feature that such games don't run on Linux.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I just want to turn the thing on and play Factorio or Minecraft, not figure out if my 4080 will run on it etc.

Funny that you chose two games that run natively on Linux.

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