March 29, 2025

I’m not so sure

Same in Summit. I guess there needs to be a standard that everyone follows, because currently I have a client which automatically handles normal other-instance links, and these link helpers actively break it!

Doesn’t Windows leave program files and data all over the place too?

I saw a Lemmy post about Super Metroid Redux being a great way to play Super Metroid nowadays, seems like it brings a lot of your desired bells and whistles

!linuxphones@lemmy.ca and !linuxphones@lemmy.ml aren’t the busiest communities but there do seem to be a few people giving it a proper go

Interesting, does that mean there is just one primary account and to be part of a family group with it you essentially can’t have your own account or purchases?

That’s probably because it’s a PC game that was ported to phones!

Because if they don’t then you can essentially just give a game away, and that means less sales

How would you make it so you can only share games with your family? As in what technical definition of “family” would you use that can’t include your friends?

Sounds like it’s no more DRM than the limits of a physical cartridge, right?

Brand new account immediately starts spamming about cryptocurrency “games”? Seems legit.

I was specifically thinking of the guy in bed with the really long arm!

If you’re wanting to build a game, do it for you and not someone else. It’s going to be a difficult and thankless task, so make sure that you are enjoying the process!

Looks like a screenshot from Thank Goodness You’re Here

It’s pretty trivial to just keep your card in your pocket and use the bank’s website though

Google will continue to publish the source code for Android’s Linux kernel fork, as it is licensed under GPLv2, which mandates source code releases, and is separate from AOSP.

This is about AOSP, which apparently is separate and uses the MIT licence.

I can’t see it making a huge difference, Android has always been in that “OSS but not FOSS” area of basically being completely owned and controlled by Google.

You can also use something like Cryptomator to encrypt the files yourself and chuck them in any storage provider without having to worry how good their encryption is

Well professional developers are often employed by companies that want make use of open source code to sell their proprietary code. It seems more likely to me that those companies will instruct their developers not to work on any GPL code rather than some big ideological shift in the individual developers.

Also I wonder how it handles reposts, i.e. the same link multiple times in one community

I would also like to know! This seems like advice from the early days of Android when the software was way more buggy, everything seems very stable nowadays and I rarely find myself needing to reboot because something is in a bad state.