Arigion

I have never ever heard of a game coming with a help hotline. And I played a lot of games in that time. TIL that

one classic example is the game "The Legend of Zelda" for the NES. The game contained cryptic puzzles and secrets that were not easily solvable. Nintendo provided a hotline, called the Nintendo Power Line, where players could call in for tips, tricks, and solutions. Calls to the hotline were not free, creating an additional revenue source for the company.

Lol. Thanks. I really don't care. I'm running linux servers professionally since the late 90s, which means I have seen one or the other WTF. And systemd had quit some of them, especially flooding log files and race conditions. For example see https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7293. That took more than 2 years to fix. And if people like to downvote my personal experience with it they are welcome to do so. I mean all I did was answering a question why one might use a systemd free distribution. Oh and for the downvoters: SYSTEMD IS MICROSOFTS ATTEMPT TO KILL LINUX! Poettering always was their agent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering 😉

with Lemmy and Mastodon the opensource community has a place to really try itself out

Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.

My problem with systemd is that since I'm practically forced to use it that it's flakey in starting services after boot (independent of service and distro). Since systemd I had to install monit to check if all services came up. Didn't had that problem before. Or I forgot, it's been a while....

Argument Clinic https://youtu.be/uLlv_aZjHXc?si=TPn9cjOH1UUOmIvC

Yes, it has.

Eben. Die können ja Fichten pflanzen, die haben Nadeln und keine Blätter.

I bought NMS on release, even got a new PC for it and man was I disappointed by the missing content. Worse, after every time I tried to get back into it with some update my last efforts were broken. My base was broken or my home planet changed in a bad way or suddenly I had to manage a colony which I did not enjoy or my ship got lost due to a glitchy starbase. Every new patch I'm reminded of that and now I don't bother to start it any more. I hope y'all have so much more fun with it than I had.

Yes. I really don't think it's an effort really. I mean I just press register and enter some_unique_name@mydomain.com. This takes a minute. It's not that I have to create a new emailaccount or something. And I can even remember them, because the names follow a pattern. As I said it all goes in a single catch-all inbox where I can easily filter by adress. And if I get spam on such an adress they either got hacked or sold my data. Origin for example leaked my email adress for Dragon Age. I also give out unique emailadresses everywhere I need to give one. I got spam on an email I gave exclusively to an ebook distributor. When this happens I just block this adress. I do this because it's no effort at all. If we meet I could say to you: my email is yourname@mydomain.com and you get out your phone, send me an email and I recieve it. No work at all on my side.

Because I can give the credentials to someone who want's to play the game and I don't give access to all of my games.

I even do that with games I buy. You hacked my diablo3 account? Bad luck. But you don't have access to all my other games. I can even resell the whole game account when I'm done playing.

Don't get why my inital post was downvoted. I'm not saying that you should do that. Was just asking. But ok.

I have a catch all email, so I create an account every week for no good reason. Anyone else?

Do you have any credible source for your claim? I would like to point out National Geographic amongst others who thing its genuine: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/man-punches-kangaroo-saves-dog-australia