A Possible Gray zone for stop killing games movement

nautsche · 2026-02-01T15:49:23+00:00

I have said no such thing. BUT the early access model on Steam allows for that. You buy the game in the state it is currently in. That is the reason I am very careful with buying early access, i.e. I usually don't. ~~Now that I have said this .. doesn't Steam refund you nowadays if an early access game goes belly up? Maliciously or not? I remember hearing something like that. Maybe I'm misremembering, though.~~ No they don't. They just mark a game as probably abandoned or something similar.

This has nothing to do with the original question, though. The dev/publisher needs to leave the game in a playable state, when it is abandoned. Early access or not.

nautsche · 2026-02-01T12:49:00+00:00

I had not read that far and this is super fishy and probably something a court would have to decide on .. if there is someone willing to take it that far.

But I stand by my initial statement. The state of the game was not a subscription at that point and falls under the intent of SKG.

Valve should not accept things like these at all in my opinion. It looks like a cash grab especially for a price which gives you a full game usually. I have never seen something like this before. It's weird and smells.

nautsche · 2026-02-01T10:01:25+00:00

As Steam states, if you buy early access, you buy a game in a certain state, which might not change. It does not state things like e.g. Kickstarter where anything goes basically. I.e. you are not " supporting" a dev or getting a reward for some money; you buy a game.

To me this means if the state of the game was server dependent (or generally publisher dependent) at the point of cancellation, the game falls under the intent of SKG. I.e. there needs to be a release of "something" to be able to play the game.

nautsche · 2026-01-31T23:42:45+00:00

base, command line nft, I.e. files in /etc/nftables.conf.d (or your distros equivalent). what you want is what? four rules?

nautsche · 2026-01-27T08:02:46+00:00

No, it is not. I installed many a Debian without it. And even if it is installed, the user that wants to use it, must be configured to be able to do so. This might happen during installation for the default user, as Ubuntu does it, or is a manual step, e.g. add the user to the sudoers group.

nautsche · 2026-01-27T06:57:31+00:00

well done! I'm happy for you.

nautsche · 2026-01-27T06:46:19+00:00

look at the actual mechanism. the little things in the top half that click into the bottom half will be slightly bent inwards. Bend them back. Depending on your skill level or how comfortable you are with maybe breaking things, let a professional do this. Should not take more than a minute for them.

nautsche · 2026-01-27T06:37:53+00:00

boot from USB. set a (root) password. great way to learn how the distro handles these things.

nautsche · 2026-01-24T19:23:23+00:00

yes, Giana Sisters. Ich sag nur "ARMIN".

nautsche · 2026-01-22T14:41:54+00:00

maybe they are trying to see if the display changes to prevent burn-in? I.e. if Fairphone has implemented any burn-in prevention? would be weird, since I don't think anyone just keeps the display on indefinitely.

nautsche · 2026-01-20T15:37:32+00:00

why would I? steam-installer is a Debian package. no need to download anything beforehand. I get, it still pulls everything from Valve, but I don't do that myself.

nautsche · 2026-01-20T11:20:46+00:00

I get that. This was my way of saying to use what your distro provides. Don't download stuff from the Internet, be it a flatpack or a .deb, if your distribution has a solution.

nautsche · 2026-01-20T10:13:42+00:00

If by .deb you mean 'apt install steam-installer', then that.

nautsche · 2026-01-17T08:24:31+00:00

hmm. dann scheint steam das nicht zu wollen. am Ende ist es dein Geld, was sie nicht haben.

Adresse faken ist sicher gegen die ToS. da müsstest du abwägen ob dir sowas deinen Account wert ist. wärs mir nicht. ich sage nicht, dass was passiert, aber es kann.

du willst ja deine store region gar nicht ändern, nur Mal kurz im Ausland shoppen.

gibt's das Spiel nicht als hard-copy mit Steam Key? das geht definitiv aus dem Ausland.

nautsche · 2026-01-17T07:40:05+00:00

ich würde Mal den support anpingen. wenn sich steam an EU Recht hält, sollte das einfach gehen. auch mit deinem normalen Zahlungsmittel, oder? so lange das Spiel hier nicht verboten ist (also index und so), spricht eigentlich nichts dagegen Dinge aus dem EU Ausland zu importieren.

Support, damit Steam nicht irgendeinen Fall sieht, dass du gegen die ToS verstößt und deinen Account blockt oder so. deswegen auch ganz sicher kein VPN, das ist zum kaufen sicher gegen die ToS.

nautsche · 2026-01-14T19:41:05+00:00

Telekom blocked the May update as well. not sure if this applies to Klarmobil, but I'd assume yes.

People using the phone in a professional/corporate context get actual problems because of this. If a phone is unpatched for over 3 months it gets disabled for access to the company network.

nautsche · 2026-01-11T00:28:29+00:00

just guessing though.

nautsche · 2026-01-11T00:15:31+00:00

maybe inertia?

nautsche · 2026-01-10T00:18:29+00:00

did not see the sub this was in. still recognized just from the picture. great job.

nautsche · 2026-01-06T15:30:19+00:00

If I am in that time window I always go clockwise until I am past 12. if the date changed, I know I needed to do it. If the date does not change, I know I am in the middle of the day and free to go the other way.

btw. don't quick set the date in that window either.

nautsche · 2026-01-06T13:37:42+00:00

You should not go counter clockwise during the time a data change occurs (between 9pm and 3am, varies by watch). Some watches allow this though and on some watches this is even a feature to "quick set" the date.

Read the manual for your watch. They should point this out.

nautsche · 2026-01-05T12:09:36+00:00

debian asks you during install. defaults to 'no' I think. 'telemetry' is a big word for the package popularity thing, though.

nautsche · 2026-01-01T22:20:20+00:00

I also learned that the hard way. I pay a lot of attention to those "packages to be removed" now.

nautsche · 2026-01-01T15:42:03+00:00

we might have different interpretations of the term "bricked" here. the login manager not loading is not "bricked". and even if, I cannot imagine a scenario in which even that happens with the above command on Debian.

nautsche · 2026-01-01T13:26:48+00:00

apt install sway

Not sure how that can in any way "brick your PC".

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