sic_semper_tyrannis @ sic_semper_tyrannis @lemmy.today

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I use 7Digital and HDTracks to purchase DRM free music. Neither require KYC or block VPNs. At least one uses PayPal but allows guest checkout. I use Privacy.com cards to purchase too

Here's just one example https://kkc.com/blog/apple-whistleblower-details-intimate-data-spying-profiling-in-new-interviews/

That's unfortunate to hear. I doubt anything will compete with Steam with all the things you want. People need to choose to put value where it really matters and have some inconveniences. Pirating certainly won't get you what you want. Supporting DRM free services (and the games devs) will do more good. You could download your GoG games through the Heroic launcher and it'll use wine proton (or whatever it's called). Also Nexus mods has a new mod manager that'll work on Linux but it's only in alpha stage currently.

Get an Everdrive or blank CD and flash ROMs to them to play on your original systems.

I think giving up swipe to text is a small thing to make your life more private

That's a nice thought. Thank you for sharing

You should abandon Apple for Linux anyways. Apple doesn't care about you, your privacy, or anything but them making more money, from you. This has been proven time and time again by evidence and whistleblowers.

Then let's support the good companies to make it the rule and not exception. The market won't change until the consumer tells them what's important

GOG has no DRM. Once purchased you can download the files and own it. You could even write your games to CDs if you wanted and play like the old days.

Edit. I was setting up a new laptop for my Dad. I remembered we used to play an old fighter jet game when I was young. I looked it up and found out it was Falcon 3. I then found GoG sells it. So I purchased it on my account and loaded it onto his computer with no reference to GoG, no clients, etc. It was a surprise for him when he got his new computer.

So are most services and then at some point do some type of rug pull with BS EULA changes, etc. that change the functionality of what you're using. This is prevailant in everything now a days. I'd say with Steam the writing is on the walls. They have so much power in the PC gaming market (like with the examples you gave) it's only a matter of time.

I do see how useful and user friendly those services you mentioned are

Read their EULA, you license your "purchase". You don't own your games. Steam also injects their own DRM onto the vast majority of games.

I was thinking Steam but Epic, EA, Ubisoft; they're all riddled with crap

Is this what you're talking about? https://kkc.com/blog/apple-whistleblower-details-intimate-data-spying-profiling-in-new-interviews/

Now let's go one step further and quit purchasing games with DRM from a particularly large PC gaming service

Yup. Keeping old cars going on fossil fuels is so much better than millions of new cars being built every year, and in order for them to be built they ship them around the world to seperate facilities. I could go on and on

Make a NextDNS with the settings/features you like and add that as your router's DNS service. Super simple

Glad to hear you're on Linux, living a more sovereign life and having an easy time with it. Mint does indeed work very well for me too. I put Mint XFCE on a ~2015 laptop that Windows was bloating down to dysfunctional. Now it works reasonably well.

You'll hear other people say Linux works well until it doesn't. Well so does Windows. It has many issues too that people tend to not mention. Don't get discouraged by those people. Most of the time Linux is totally fine for normal users, it's people trying to do abnormal things that then causes issues.