Good point. I had forgotten about disabling network access. I think a majority of the games I paid for work off the idea that if you connect a few times or have a certain amount of plays times you can then play offline. Well the ones that check that is.

Maybe I’ll give this a go. Thanks for the advice

What data would be sent off having Google Play services installed? I get that you can disable certain permissions and can also use profiles.

Ideally I wouldn’t want to use profiles. I could use something like Shelter on a rooted device but that kind of slows down multitasking

Thanks but I’m shooting for as little contact with Google as possible

I’ve tried lucky patcher with a few games with minimal luck. I haven’t tried it with Stardew Valley though so maybe there’s a chance

https://fmhy.pages.dev/storage/#youtube-android-apps

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Chances are it’s probably a duck.

That said they may be taking it as a sign of the other person’s larger ideology. For example if they have a strong anti immigration stance they might come to the conclusion that the person is racist.

There’s sometimes the mentality if you give this person an inch they’ll run with it so they may say it to stop things from derailing

There’s also a ton of dog whistles the alt right use. Remember when the milk emoji was used on Twitter? What about the okay sign? Hawaiian shirts?

It doesn’t hurt to be cautious. Trusted sources have occasionally included malicious materials and blindsided users

Thanks for the tip on Drunken Slug registrations being open. Just signed up

I used to run a Raspberry Pi 4 in the same case for months at a time and didn’t have issues. I’d say you are fine

No. I typically do donations to projects I appreciate like Wiki Media through cryptocurrency and I don’t think that’s supported by my instance.

Upvote:

• I can tell some effort/thought went into the post/comment

• It contributes to the correct community

• Is somewhat original

Downvote:

• It doesn’t belong in the community

• Is spam

• Post/comment is rude or contains unnecessarily offensive material

• It’s a Reddit’ism such as commenting “This” below something they agree with

Neither:

• It’s a hot take I don’t agree with

• It’s been posted several times (including cross-posts because I typically sort by all)

They work just fine. You can either attempt to use the install script Lutris provides you and hope it gives you the option to supply your own files (this is primarily GOG games and source ports) or set up a new game from scratch by selecting the exe file of the installer and later changing it to the game.

You should check ProtonDB even if you aren’t using Proton to make sure there’s no additional fixes or edits that need to be applied.

If you need help or have questions let me know.

There are archived versions of re3 and reVC if you wanted to give it a try. I can’t say I’ve had any issues running the latest release.

Another classic. It’s a shame the client cannot run on Linux due to the lack of shared resources in DXVK.

From what I recall Doitsujin of DXVK seems to think it’s a ways away from getting fixed.

Are they inactive right now? I’m not sure if they went the way of re3 (a reverse engineered version of GTA 3 designed to fix bugs, port the game to several platforms, and expand modding capabilities) and were shut down under pressure from Rockstar.

Did you let it run for a bit and configure your browser? Mental Outlaw has a good setup video.

If it’s an issue with being unable to install i2p in the first place that’s a separate matter

I’d recommend people check romhacking.net and see what hacks exist for some of their favorite games.

Itch.io also has a lot of new games designed for retro consoles. Micro Mages is probably my favorite for the NES.

Probably the PS3. It has a fantastic large library of games and is potentially backwards compatible with the PS2 and is quite easy to mod.

The PS Vita would probably be a second because it’s a great emulation handheld with plenty of source ports. I’m just not a fan of a majority of the official games that were released on it.

Here is a Kotaku article titled Bootleggers Explain Why There’s So Much Video Game Piracy in China. It is from 2013 and I think there has been a size amount of legislation changes but it sounds like the grey market for video games was thriving thanks to console mods.

I could still see it existing today considering you do occasionally see someone selling drives full of pirated games. It might be a more local sneakernet style of system.

Good question though. I love hearing and learning about how piracy works in other countries.

By pirating an NFT you mean saving the image? Because the owner of an NFT doesn’t always own the copyright or license.