Kayn @ HKayn @dormi.zone

Admin & sysadmin of a Warframe-focused Lemmy instance at https://dormi.

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Many games on Steam use Steamworks DRM despite being available DRM-free on other stores, one prominent example being Batman Arkham City.

It is for me. Has it not been accurate enough for your use?

You are spot on, DRM is the problem at the core. That's why I prefer DRM-free stores like GOG over Steam whenever possible.

Luckily many of the old games I own on CD are also available on GOG.

You can play them on an emulator. You can even connect a Dualshock 3 controller to your PC, and it'll be just like playing on the "specialty hardware" it was made for.

Have you ever come across the idea of making digital backups of the physical media you owned?

You could have made digital backups of your physical games and stored that somewhere safe.

You cannot make backups of DRM'd Steam games that work without Steam.

...and what you buy in a DRM-free form.

It's all loanership, no matter which platform.

Don't find yourself in a false sense of security.

Your games on Steam are just as ephemeral as any other digital content purchased online.

Okay, try to transition an existing community to Matrix and let us know how well it went!

⚠️ Chromium browser detected, airstrike initiated ⚠️ ^/s

It's on GOG too!

https://www.gog.com/en/game/terra_nil

How can a new competitor acquire content creators to actually threaten the monopoly? Genuine question.

To be fair, at the current monopolistic state of YouTube, how many people are actually likely to avoid YouTube completely?

Vivaldi has released a blog post detailing how they'll handle Manifest v3: https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers/

TL;DR: They're confident their built-in adblocker will continue to work despite it.

I think the person you replied to assumed that the legal action was related to the pulling of ads, when they're actually two independent incidents.

It doesn't have to make sense as long as it bashes Windows.

Vivaldi also has a "window panel" that is basically a tree-style list in your sidebar of all your tabs across all windows and workspaces, and recently closed tabs and sessions.

Vivaldi's toolbar can be customized just like Firefox, but you additionally also get a bottom bar and a sidebar to place toolbar buttons on.

Vivaldi has a Spotlight-like search bar you can open with F2 to quickly find a page in your history or type any browser command like hiding the UI. You can also string multiple commands together and add them as a toolbar button.

You can add websites to your sidebar too to open them in a slide-out window of sorts (basically the same thing as Opera GX's sidebar).

You can tile multiple tabs to open them in a split or grid view, which I haven't found a way to replicate on Firefox so far.

And as someone else already mentioned, I personally find installing CSS and JS mods to be a lot more accessible on Vivaldi.

I also want people-owned website to take off, but as of right now there is little incentive for people to host their videos on their own when YouTube does it for free and gets you a huge audience.

For now, I have to choose between participating in the adblocker cat-and-mouse game, or just getting my Turkish "friend" to purchase YT Premium and being done with it.