So does FreeTube and ReVanced

I like FreeTube the most because its multiplatform.

I use FreeTube and NewPipe. But Google just broke them. Even yt-dlp needed to implement a JavaScript engine.

I’m using ReVanced in the meantime but I’m not enjoying it. It’s good as a backup I suppose as it’s better than using YouTube through a browser.

Here’s my guide for installing ReVanced via obtainium, just incase it can be useful for someone

• install the following in obtainium

  • https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/
  • https://github.com/ReVanced/GmsCore/

• download the suggested version of the official YouTube apk

  • https://youtube.en.uptodown.com/android/download/1102578123

• launch revanced manager, patch the YouTube apk, then install the patched apk.

• go to YouTube app info and select it to be able to open YouTube links by default

Edit: just used PipePipe for the first time. It works and seems like a better alternative than YouTube ReVanced to me.

Fuck AI.
Fuck the Saudi royal family.
Fuck Jared Kushner.

Boycott all EA games.

Check gog, their versions are DRM free

No

Thank you, criticism is my passion.

Personally, I’m quite happy with less exclusives and more multiplatform games that I can play with all my friends regardless of what device they bought.

My biggest issue with gameing now is that PC has too many exclusives and I can’t play my favorite games with a lot of friends because they wanted a console instead of a device that can be used for any digital workload.

I can’t wait to play Elden Ring 2 when it’s made by Nintendo because Elden Ring used summoning and now only runs at 12 fps.

I’m trying to 100% tropico 6 before the new one comes out.

Also been playing various games in luanti, minecloneia specifically

Any developer who makes apps worth using will push releases to their git repo first. The release will then trickle through the various app stores release processes, which might be automated or manual.

If they push to a public git repo, then you can skip all the app stores and just use something like obtainium to download release when they are available.

In some cases, apps are only released in git and not placed in any store.

Yes, it’s the game devs fault for not optimizing a game that was released in 2022.

It definitely could not be Nintendo’s fault for releasing a console in 2025 that can’t play games from 2022.

Unpacking is a great game because of the storytelling. This seems promising but unless it has a similar ability to weave a narrative then it won’t be to fun to play.

JDM: Japanese Drift Master is looking good right about now.

You can do rally and drag racing in My Summer Car.

After you build the car that is.

Updated the link

Yes you can, it is in the Crowdsourced app configurations repo

{"id":"net.typeblog.shelter","url":"https://fdroid.typeblog.net/","author":"PeterCxy","name":"Shelter","additionalSettings":"{\"appIdOrName\":\"net.typeblog.shelter\",\"pickHighestVersionCode\":false,\"trackOnly\":false,\"versionExtractionRegEx\":\"\",\"matchGroupToUse\":\"\",\"versionDetection\":true,\"releaseDateAsVersion\":false,\"useVersionCodeAsOSVersion\":false,\"apkFilterRegEx\":\"\",\"invertAPKFilter\":false,\"autoApkFilterByArch\":true,\"appName\":\"Shelter\",\"shizukuPretendToBeGooglePlay\":false,\"exemptFromBackgroundUpdates\":false,\"skipUpdateNotifications\":false,\"about\":\"Isolate your Big Brother Apps, using Work Profiles\",\"appAuthor\":\"PeterCxy\"}","overrideSource":"FDroidRepo"}

https://www.gog.com/mods

Fedora is fine for gaming. The biggest issue I had with it was that if i had an issue with it, I had to do a web search for fedora + issue and I got a lot of unrelated hits for hats.

That said, gloriouseggroll made their own Fedora based gaming distro called Nobara. However I don’t know if they would have based their distro off of fedora if they didn’t work for Redhat.

Personally, I prefer rolling releases which is why I no longer use Fedora.

• Link to the games list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1at1k7qIo5dgPp6K1aCrYIyAgNOjY-IhF

• Link to the European Citizens’ Initiative: eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home stopkillinggames.com

:starts head banging:

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability which could allow an unprivileged attacker to escalate permissions. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering.

• Tropico 6 is on sale 65% off on GOG right now.

• Yakuza Kiwami is a remaster of the original and is a beautiful and hilarious rpg

• Subnautica is kinda a perfect mix of both RPG and management games

God, please no. All I did was joona server to figure out how to mod fallout new Vegas. The documentation could have easily been on a static plaintext page but they said it was only available on discord.

_Encrypted_™*

I didn’t use a validator, formatter or prettifyer since I just copied and pasted the json that obtainium exported. I was able to import it onto my work profiles obtainium using the exact data posted in the code snippet however. I wouldn’t mind seeing a diff to know what the difference is since it looks the same to me too. I’m not sure why your getting the error, I’ll just screen shot the settings.

Thanks, I’m on a phone and must have done something wrong but just fixed it, tested it this time and edited the original. It should work now.

Oh yes you can install directly. Obtainium will install help with upgrading to new versions however as they get released.

Edit: I suggest using obtainium so that if the app gets any new releases or updates you can easily get notifications and manage that. I also originally submitted a bad json code snippet which I have corrected and tested.

After deleting googles safetycore, do the following to ensure Google doesn’t reinstall it.

1. install the latest release of Obtainium

• also available on IzzyOnDroid
• also available on F-Droid

2. Via Obtainium, install Safetycore-placeholder

it might take some messing with Obtainiums settings to ensure that the latest version of the saftycore placeholder is installed so here is an export of my settings just for this app. Just copy the text and save it as a json to import the settings.

{"apps":[{"id":"com.google.android.safetycore","url":"https://github.com/daboynb/Safetycore-placeholder","author":"daboynb","name":"com.google.android.safetycore","installedVersion":"v3.0","latestVersion":"v3.0","apkUrls":"[[\"Safetycore-placeholder.apk\",\"https://api.github.com/repos/daboynb/Safetycore-placeholder/releases/assets/232142109/"]]","otherAssetUrls":"[[\"v3.0.tar.gz\",\"https://api.github.com/repos/daboynb/Safetycore-placeholder/tarball/v3.0/"],[\"v3.0.zip\",\"https://api.github.com/repos/daboynb/Safetycore-placeholder/zipball/v3.0/"]]","preferredApkIndex":0,"additionalSettings":"{\"includePrereleases\":false,\"fallbackToOlderReleases\":false,\"filterReleaseTitlesByRegEx\":\"\",\"filterReleaseNotesByRegEx\":\"\",\"verifyLatestTag\":true,\"dontSortReleasesList\":false,\"useLatestAssetDateAsReleaseDate\":true,\"releaseTitleAsVersion\":true,\"trackOnly\":false,\"versionExtractionRegEx\":\"\",\"matchGroupToUse\":\"\",\"versionDetection\":false,\"releaseDateAsVersion\":false,\"useVersionCodeAsOSVersion\":true,\"apkFilterRegEx\":\"\",\"invertAPKFilter\":false,\"autoApkFilterByArch\":true,\"appName\":\"\",\"appAuthor\":\"\",\"shizukuPretendToBeGooglePlay\":false,\"allowInsecure\":false,\"exemptFromBackgroundUpdates\":false,\"skipUpdateNotifications\":false,\"about\":\"\",\"refreshBeforeDownload\":true}","lastUpdateCheck":1740803687541492,"pinned":false,"categories":[],"releaseDate":1740416435000000,"changeLog":"This release is signed, you need to uninstall the previuos version.","overrideSource":null,"allowIdChange":false}]}

I’m in agreement. I think where our opinions differ is that I’m not worried about consumer electronics in this new economic and political reality. And the reason I’m not worried is that I know it’s fucked.

We will not see the type of economy that we have been used to for quite some time. And if the last democrat admin is anything to consider, then I doubt these insane new regulations will be repealed even if the Republicans lost power in 4 years.

I think there are much greater concerns than consumer electronics and now is the time to plan for them.

I think I might get the point…but I think we are past trying to build budget friendly PCs for gamers wanting to play the latest AAA titles.

As a gamer myself, it’s sad but I’m tightening up my belt and preparing for much worse economic consequences. Like what a 100% tariff on Taiwan made chips will mean for the US military budget and the national debt.

Honestly, I’m anticipating buying junk hardware for at least the next 4 years that’s being auctioned off by companies that are not able to deal with the new economic hardships that this and other decisions are going to create. I doubt I’m going to be able to play the latest games nor will I be able to afford them. Luckily I have a backlog of games and there are a lot of books I want to read too.

I think one of the bigger consequences of this in terms of pure compute is people not being able to self host open source LLMs and similar models offline. As I think this will soon become something that’s expected to have access to in the next couple of years.

I am for getting tech you need when you need it. I’m against buying tech you might want to have now just in case it cost more money in the future.

If you are really concerned about future costs of essential items that you will die without, then I suggest stocking up your pantry with shelf stable food as much as you can and researching what you can do to help your local community grow their own food.

You know what’s cheaper than a $2000 RTX 5090? Not spending money or upgrading unless you actually need to.

I already had this in futo keyboard

I’m always angry at funko for being a shit company that sells shit plastic products whose main purpose is to take up shelving space, everytime I’m reminded they exist.

Iwantmyname is a budget registar so I’m not surprised at their non effort. I’ve used them to help see what domains were available but never actually did business with them and I don’t recommend you do.

Well for games it kind of depends on the specific DRM used and how exactly the game utilities it. DRM means digital rights management but there is a wide variety of DRM and ways it’s used.

Some DRM might limit the amount of computers software can be installed on, some might verify the contents to ensure none of the files were changed, some might authenticate with a server before starting up, and some might have kernel level access to read your RAM and log your keystrokes.

I’d also like to add that the yakuza series used for this picture are great games that now come with DRM, unless you buy them on GOG.

I bought a big bundle of the games through steam on sale and Yakuza: Like a Dragon came with DRM on steam. Buy on GOG, its the same game but DRM free.

I should have waited for the GOG sale, now I might pirate it to play the game I bought without DRM.

Its a start.

I can’t wait for a new always online game featuring John Halo with kernel level anticheat which won’t work on Linux.

Link to the video demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2M0hrLoA5M

I’m playing on Linux, endeavorOS, X11, latest proton-ge with raytracing at 4k and I’m getting a solid 45 minimum fps. I don’t experience any issues.