I still got a torrent from 2005 seeding, with 2 other people.

I was surprised how many co-workers my age and younger (GenZ) don’t even own a laptop let alone a desktop.

I know it was becoming more niche, but didn’t expect it to happen that fast…

A VPN is a must have for browsing the internet in the UK these days, our laws and only getting more Orwellian by the day.

By all means do what you must to avoid handing over data to our police-state government.

Leave a text file along with your music including a donation link and thanking people for listening.

I’ve heard more than a handful of artists getting some money that way after putting their own albums up on torrent/file-share sites.

This one ^

The physical comedy alone is gold, Also you won’t leave their parents dealing with the nightmares like some of these movies…unless they really fear someone breaking in to piss on their rug.

Seagate has been very hit n miss with me. I’ve had one of their drives last near a decade only for a newer model of the same drive to fail within 6 months.

What’s generally considered more reliable brands for around the same price? preferably ones easy to grab in the UK.

I’m older GenZ “Zillennial”?

What in particular makes you think there’s not many of us on here? Not like Lemmy makes you state your age on your account.

I don’t use Battle.net but I had a similar issue when using EA Desktop through Lutris. The program would demand a restart to apply updates then would just shutdown and say the same thing next time you ran it, if it even still ran.

My permanent fix was to use Bottles for EA Games and it’s worked fine ever since then. Lutris works fine for everything else though.

EndeavourOS is what got me to daily drive Linux finally.

The installation is easy, it’s got sane defaults and pre-installs most common dependencies.

As crazy as it sounds, some people only trust software backed by a large corporations.

Valve for the most part has extremely good will amongst the typical gaming crowd. While Linux as a whole doesn’t.

I’ve tried to sell people on Bazzite before when they’ve brought up wanting SteamOS for the desktop, But I always get ‘But it’s not “REAL” SteamOS, just some random Linux devs clone’.

I agree it’s the wrong way to go about thinking of it, Probably backed up very few people outside the Linux space understanding what a distro actually is. But it’s still the general consensus among your average gamer sadly…

Still I’m hopeful an offical SteamOS release will be good for getting more people to try and explore the Linux space.

I dunno about you update issues, But one thing I have to point out is the Linux native version of BL2 is an outdated build so if you want to play co-op with Windows players you have to run it through proton.

It’s a reference to a scene in The Matrix.

Couldn’t think of any temporary fix I’d done…Then I remembered I’ve been running an network cable out my bedroom window and into the room where the router is for nearly a decade now.

I told myself I’d get around to drilling a hole for it…In the previous place and ended up doing the same thing when I moved here over 3 years ago.

I’m an older GenZ born in the late 90s and I’ve had to show a few younger peers how to torrent recently.

The idea of you needing a “special” program just for downloading a file seems to throw some of them off.

I do know a few young people are tech/programming wizards but “generally tech savy” people seem to be declining. It’s either you’re really into it or barely know anything outside popular apps.

One other thing I’ve noticed, People just seem to be more paranoid about downloading stuff not already installed on their devices. Which its good people give at least a bit of a shit about security but convincing people Firefox isn’t a virus gets a bit annoying (Yes I’ve had that conversation).

I got it to run for one single match and I haven’t had any luck since.

Either the game crashes when loading into a match or I get an anti cheat error.

(Update) I got it to work for one more game by using Winetricks to install pdh.dll but after that game it just started crashing again…

‘There’s no point fighting it’ or ‘Privacy is already dead’

The arguments that make my eye twitch, It’s such a defeatist outlook but seems like the most common nowadays.