why do investments from large companies matter?

Because we are talking about a large company de investing from something.

It’s kinda the topic we are talking about.

Is Lemmy dead?

I mean. Yeah ? Can you imagine any large companies investing in this in any way? I sure can’t.

I don’t see how what they said was contradictory. VR gaming is indeed dead. And Linux gaming with 5 times less users is also even more dead.

There’s a reason why game devs completely ignore Linux as a platform.

Proton pass.

Used bitwarden for a long time til I lost my 2fa and lost the account. I also lost proton’s 2fa and they helped me get the account back. Been a customer since.

Passkeys are basically passwords that you don’t send to the server. So they are safer against phishing.

Basically the server has a message. They will scramble it with your public key. And send it to you. Your private key unscrambles the message and then you send the message back to them. So if they receive the original message back. They know you are you. And they never got their hands on your private key at any point. It’s awesome.

2fa is an entirely different thing. And I do wish it was more standard how it works. Some places if you lose it you lose your account (bitwarden). Others you don’t (protonmail).

Everyone should use passkeys. 2fa you have to decide if your case warrants it.

Edit: example of passkeys:

Step 1: they have the message “cat”

Step 2: they encrypt it with your public key and it becomes “acm”

Step 3: they send you the encrypted message “acm”

Step 4: you decrypt the message “acm” into “cat” with your private key.

Step 5: you send them back the message “cat”

Only your private key would be able to decrypt something encrypted with your public key. So they now know you are you. And they never got a hand on your private key. It’s the same as a password except you never send it directly to the server.

It’s weird to me how people(are they?) here bend over backwards to defend a monopolistic drm platform like steam.

I get gamers like their games. But come on.

The first mistake was liking a company.

DRM is never good for the end user.

As a necessary addendum to the comment above: I bought the game 2014 and back then I was thinking to myself: ok. I’ve waited enough. It surely is releasing either later this year or even if they delay it. 2015 at the latest.

If you do decide to buy it. Expect year-long delays for anything they say might be coming out.

Oh SQ42 is in polishing? They have claimed it was done back in 2014.

I hope steam is broken up. Monopolies and DRM are never in the users favor.

Ark ascended sometimes.

And waiting for season of discovery in classic wow. Super excited for it.

Bought the game after following it for a while and thinking to myself there’s no way it doesn’t release later this year.

That happened in 2014.

Lol.

loved my time in Classic but in retrospect, my fondness was just for my guild.

The social aspect and the game being slower are intrinsically tied together. Having to run to the dungeon and then wait 15 min til a straggler shows up lets you know the people you are playing with in ways that modern MMOs and their gogogo playstyle just don’t allow.

Classic was full of systems that intentionally put the social aspect of the game front and center.

Got a 256 used pixel 7 for $400 six months ago. It probably goes near 300.

I’ve been using Godot for engineering simulations and I cannot recommend it enough for this one niche.

Fun match so far. Surprised by how well Bolivia is holding up.