I have good news for you:

https://www.polygon.com/24074441/gigantic-game-relaunch-rampage-edition-steam-release-date

he’s gone off the rails in the last 6-12 months - complaining about needing more linux devs

It’s also ironic in light of his history of loudly bashing linux and linux game development.

I can’t think of anything good to say about Tim Sweeney.

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Section 3: Disqualification from office for insurrection or rebellion

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Are there any 5.5 physical sourcebooks? Were they ever planned at all?

I haven’t been following One D&D news, but I got the impression they were focusing on a subscription-only model, so I’ve been planning to stick with my 5e books or switch to an ORC-licensed system.

Correcting some misconceptions…

Element for Android doesn’t support searching in encrypted channels

That’s true of regular Element for Android, but it’s being replaced with Element X (which is built with Rust). I would expect search to be added there if it isn’t already.

and I think you can’t use E2EE in the browser at all(?)

I have done it in Firefox, so that’s false. Perhaps you had trouble with a specific browser?

plus basically every other client has even more drawbacks when it comes to E2EE.

Nheko handles E2EE just fine, so that would seem to be false as well.

Since you’re looking for recommendations, it would help if you said which clients you tried and what problems you had with them.

In case you haven’t seen it, you can set a Features: E2EE filter on this list:
https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

I just learned about that as well. I hope Larian dilutes or buys back Tencent’s shares.

In most places, there’s money in enforcement, and power in disenfranchisement.

I don’t know what Thailand-specific motives might be in play here, if any.

I bought one during the clearance sale for the price of shipping, assuming that it would be abandoned but maybe still useful as a low-power linux server. I guess I ought to set it up and take advantage of it.

Thanks, Valve, for not letting these things become instant e-waste.

if other people aren’t posting it seems silly to penalize the ones who are

I suppose that’s an easy statement to agree with. However, a sensible rate limit is not a penalty.

if this community has any hope of being anywhere near as comprehensive in coverage as the News Subreddits

I left Reddit on purpose.

I would rather have quality than volume.

I would rather my news feed be diverse than dominated by one or two self-appointed influencers of discourse. (Even if they have good intentions.)

I approve of this rule. Ten articles per person each day is more than enough at this stage, and the threshold for “too much” can always be adjusted as the community grows.

somehow they managed to invent like 90% of all “evil” MTX and DRM in the process

Having worked with DRM systems since long before Valve existed, I’m reasonably certain this is just plain false.

Do services count? Because in that case, ride-hailing. A replacement for services like Uber and Lyft.

This is not about FOSS. (As you could have deduced from my mention of Foundry.)

It’s about services like Discord collecting and owning our words, our voices, our stories, our communities.

It’s also about us retaining access to those things, and having agency over our personal information. Discord has been known to lock people out of their accounts if they don’t hand over their phone numbers or photo IDs, for example.

There are perfectly good tools available that serve their users, rather than exploiting us for the benefit of corporations, and I choose to use them.

(It’s also nice that Mumble has superior voice quality, which I find helpful to role playing, although that’s not its main advantage IMHO.)

My only experience in this area was back when I was using reddit. It seemed that most tables expected everyone to use Discord (or some other closed system), so I stopped looking.

I wonder if fediverse folks would be more likely to use tools like Mumble, Matrix, and Foundry.

Random bit flips are fairly common on Earth, too. This is why ECC memory should be standard equipment on systems handling data that anyone cares about, rather than reserved for servers.

The first step toward solving a problem is acknowledging it. This is welcome progress from “most people don’t care.”

Yes, exactly. Or if a loud noise outside keeps you from hearing something important. Or if the voice actor mumbles. Or any number of other things that happen in real life.

If you can store player decisions long enough to assemble a cut scene once, you can store them long enough do it again. The decision tree is already there. It’s not difficult or expensive.

Cut scenes should have the standard playback controls: Pause, stop, next/previous part, subtitles. They should also be available for later replay.

Baldur’s Gate 3 does this, and the number of saves is configurable. It’s nice.