@lemon @webghost0101 You can even achieve that with just #Wine. I carefully set up my Wine on my two devices with #DXVK on one and #GalliumNine on the other. Took a while, to be honest.
But now, together with wine-binfmt and icoutils, I can just double-click any #Windows game. 🍷
@SolOrion They don't deal with ISPs outside the country, because they can't sue them at a German court.
So they need to know it's a German ISP beforehand so they can request personal information accordingly. But maybe they could still figure it out from IPv6 address ranges... I'm not entirely sure.
@Evolone I went back to a #WoW 3.3.5a private server I used to play on when I was young and couldn't afford the monthly fee. The community over there is super laid back because everyone knows there will never be new content. I'm really enjoying my time there, despite only having a few hours per week to spare.
So, go back to your roots. Play a game you used to play a lot.
@stephfinitely @Magz @luckless @Wize_Hed They don't necessarily have to be open. I signed up to a private tracker by filling out a small application form, explaining who I am and why I want to join. They just want to keep authorities and lawyers out.
Makes me think... if you exclusively use IPv6 you might be fine because they can't geolocate you that easily 🤔
@Alextheacceptable In Germany, there are lawyers specialised on torrents. They collect German IPs from the peers list and mass-sue them over distributing copyrighted material. They always ask for a settlement payment of more than 5000€. It can usually be escaped by taking it to court, but I recommend not going through that.
So, depends on your location. Over here, download one movie without a VPN and you have a shit ton of legal crap coming your way.
@emi @shipp I think an open standard converted to a walled garden is still better than a garden walled from the beginning.
I can still send emails to GMail accounts.
I can still send SMS to my friend's iPhone.
I wish everything was fully open, but at least I get to chose my email provider or my SMS app. (Although SMS is completely irrelevant in Europe these days, due to providers still charging money per message.)
I would love to use it more, but there is just nothing on there to watch except for a few channels that just mirror a YouTube channel, or niche FOSS content.
@slembcke In my opinion, by releasing the source code, two things will be possible:
People with enough programming experience will be able to build it an play it for free (although they might not be, since it's missing some assets)
Evil-minded people will be able to copy your work and market it as their own.
...and this second point is where I see the danger. You don't want your work to appear as some chinese clone.
So... I'm not sure either. Maybe just try it as an experiment?
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