I enjoyed the Star Wars Jedi games.

Vulnerable, Insecure, Broken Entry

It’s just prompt engineering for coding. Let an AI dump a bunch of code for you, debug until it no longer errors, pull request and repeat next sprint.

5% of the time, it works every time

I just get a notification stating I don’t allow them to track me so they have no garbage to stuff down my throat

It looks good! I’m gonna play the shit outta this game

Except you have the added fun to pay for this

No need to bring that up, I still pretend that never happened and Maya is good and well

Fuck Take Two. Gearbox develops the game, they have little say in the price the publisher slaps on it.

I’m sorry but that’s just not at all what he said. He said “If you really want it, you’ll find a way to make it work.”

If you don’t complain when it’s €60, you don’t have to buy it on day one. Take a month or two, or a year, to save up 20 extra and buy it when you’re comfortable.

You’ll have known about this game for over a year now, if it’s that important to you you’ve had a year to save up.

And if you’re struggling to make ends meet to the point that you can’t really afford video games, maybe wait for when it gets hugely discounted.

These are all ways of making it work. The end result is the same, you’ll have played the game.

Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps?

Made by a smaller studio but published by Microsoft

Yeah they did. But at this point Half Life 3 has a mythical status they will never be able to measure up to.

Considering every Half Life showcased Valve’s new tech in the Freeman narrative, one could argue Alyx was our Half Life 3. It had everything: the signature storyline, new gameplay, new tech. What more are we expecting from Half Life 3?

Containerized software. The main advantage of this is that every application, or stack of applications, runs in its own ecosystem. You can restart a container whenever without having to reboot your entire system. You can store all data off a container in a volume, so if you hit a snag, you can recreate the container without actually losing any of your configs.

You can also create networks so that apps run in different subnets than other apps.

Very simply put, a docker container is like a mini system that runs on your main system.

Something else I like about docker is docker compose. You can create a container or stack of containers with a single simple YAML file without actually having to install anything yourself. I manage my containers in Portainer.

The case by noyb referenced single player games. Stuff like session start, duration et cetera was being tracked.

I was one of the people that signed the SKG initiative after The Crew was taken offline. Not because I loved the game so much but it’s the principle. I payed for it and should still be able to play it.

On the same day noyb files a complaint including an accusation that in just 10 minutes, a single player game called to the servers 150 times

Might I recommend the tv show ‘A Man on the Inside’?

You can run nginx in a docker container and define reverse proxies there. That will only require your to open up 443 in your router if you use SSL (which I highly recommend and is simple with Let’s Encrypt)

Then I’d recommend connecting to your arrs and torrent client in Nzb360 paid edition to manage everything in there.

As far as safety, well nothing is bulletproof. If they want to get in, they will. Best thing I can recommend is to run your arrs / indexers through a different IP address than your torrent client. But if they want to find you, they’ll find you. Thing is they probably won’t come after you if your ISP doesn’t report you uploading terabytes a day. SSL helps and keeping your arrs behind complex passwords (use a password manager) will keep the server itself relatively safe.

Unless of course, ISPs in your country suddenly start to crack down on illegal downloading hard.

Most flexible would be to make a PHP form with a MySQL/PostgreSQL database.

If you want an off the shelf solution maybe a Microsoft Power App or a FOSS alternative?

On my server I do most things under a non-root account.

On my Windows machines I really don’t want it to tell me what I can and cannot do. If I break it I’ll fix it.

It has some gimmicks that I don’t think will stand the test of time, but mostly I think it’ll be like 8 with some tweaks. It’ll be fine, I think.