The solution you’re looking for is to have a group that all those users belong to, and make the files have RW for that group.

The solution you should do instead is to run things inside docker, so each one gets an extra isolation layer, but all can write to the same files easily.

Installers are just fancy zipped folder. And AFAIK, all games that are DRM free on GoG are also DRM free on Steam. So you can download the game, zip the game data folder, copy it elsewhere, unzip it and play it there. I’ve done that with several games, in fact when I was trying to convince some friends to buy a game I did that so we could play it in lan with a single copy so they would try it and buy it so we could play it online later.

So, yeah, you can absolutely do that in Steam, which is why I never get the “oh, but GoG has DRM free games” appeal.

and that is because the one thing they do better:

DRM-free games.

Which games are DRM free on GOG but not on Steam?

Spanish is my native tongue, and the one I read that comic in.

It absolutely is the shape that matters. A blue circle with an arrow indicates you MUST follow it, a blue square with an arrow indicates you CAN follow it. A blue circle with an arrow pointing forward can be replaced with a red circle with arrows pointing in every other direction, because it indicates a mandatory, I.e. you must eat the banana.

Does it? Where in Europe is it different?

There’s one piece of advice I got from a Mickey mouse comic of all places. When I was a kid I read this Mickey mouse comic where he gets kidnapped and has to escape, but it’s cold outside and he doesn’t have any clothes, so he wears a mattress for warmth. Everyone laughs at him, but he keeps thinking something like “as long as I’m warm, they may laugh at me”, and for some reason that piece of advice stuck with me forever.

Which poster? There are 124 pages of posters talking about different DRM issues on GoG

Hahaha I have that one, and got it fair and square.

That’s interesting, I might give it more credibility then, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

I’m glad they’re doing it, but I’ll believe it when I see it. This seems like a marketing thing more than anything else, like most things GoG does. Which brings me to:

They are right about the DRM

Except they don’t believe that themselves: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singleplayer_games_with_drm/page1

Plus, if you disconsider the whole “having to use Steam to download binaries is a form of DRM”, AFAIK the same games that are DRM free on GoG are DRM free on Steam.

I’m all in favor of no DRM in games, but being able to play the games on my OS of choice is miles more important than them being DRM-free, because I honestly don’t care about the DRM status of a binary I can’t use. So I’d rather keep giving money to the company that’s investing in making me able to play games. I used to buy games from GoG back before Proton and DXVK, but those projects made Steam so much more attractive for Linux users that it is not even a contest.

Amazing, it only took them about a decade from it being the most voted for feature of all time until they started working on it. That gives me great confidence that they’ll treat us Linux users like first class citizens /s

On the other side of the coin, first time I went to Russia I was talking to someone and said “it’s just that this is my first time in Europe” and he got offended and said “You’re not in Europe, this is Russia”.

It’s because of several factors. In no particular order, crime statistics are skewed, they only account for crimes that have been discovered and considered solved, if a certain demographics were better at hiding or getting away with crimes it would be underrepresented. Even if we could trust the statistics, some crimes are less severe than others, and it’s hard to judge all crimes in the same bag, even all murders are not equal so statistics can get skewed by a demographic committing more of the crimes you’re analyzing even if they commit less if you were to look at specifics. Even if we could trust that, and have crimes organized neatly into completely independent and equally severe categories there’s the social factors. Most societies around the world tend to educate men more violently than women. Finally, even if you were to have a society with humans educated equally, and have a 100% crime rate solved with 100% accuracy and analyze crimes in a completely unbiased way, there’s still the biological differences, and men have more testosterone than women, and testosterone is responsible for aggressive behavior, so even in such a society there would still be some tendency for men to commit more crimes, although I imagine it would be a lot less skewed than today.

This reads like someone asking whether it’s safe to leave your front door unlocked again because he read about a bunch of people using open front doors to rob them.

It never was safe, it never will be safe, you’re trading convenience for safety, you’re supposed to review the PKGBUILDS to ensure they’re safe, if you can’t do that you shouldn’t risk it.

This is why I hate when Arch (yes, even Cachy or whatever is the current “easy” Arch) is recommended for new users. Arch assumes you know what you’re doing, it expects you to read the manual, and it doesn’t have kid gloves. You will get hit in the face by this and many other similar things, and will be told “it was in the manual”.

Except this is bad for customers because the price will be higher and it’s going to be the first actual competitor to the Oculus Quest, and it’s an open system, so it’s much better for consumers, but if the price increases even more than what they probably already had to make it increase due to RAM it’s going to be hard to sell well enough to justify.

Language, easily.

Google maps already lets me navigate almost like a local.

A quick search on the most important customs would cover that fairly quickly, plus a lot is likely to be overlooked because I’m a foreigner.

But language, it takes years to learn a language properly, and even then it’s not native level. Knowing the customs and streets is pointless if you can’t communicate, and google translate is not going to be that much help in a real conversation.

You seem to be one of the only people who think differently here, could I ask you to please respond to the questions? Most others have similar opinions to me so it’s not productive to ask them questions as they think similar, but you might actually have something to contribute to the discussion.

With that, I echo some of the questions that were made, plus a few more:

• How do you define what’s a drug then?
• Does alcohol/tobacco fit that description?
• Should alcohol/tobacco be banned under that law?
• Gambling is not banned, most places have casinos operational, and even the places that don’t are still allowed to play with friends for money, would your law be similar in that home use is fine?

Well, we didn’t had any of those when it was decided that alcohol was going to be legal but weed wasn’t. Since then the amount of car accidents caused by alcohol was so high that someone invented ways to detect that. Had weed been legal we probably would already have similar detectors.

But also, those tests are not that accurate, if you use a mouthwash with alcohol you can blow up positive for example, and if you get into the blood tests I’m fairly confident THC can be detected in blood tests. But at the end of the day we shouldn’t be trying to measure that, we should try to measure the impact, e.g. have a test where the person needs to press a button when a light goes on to measure response time, or similar tests. That’s what you care about at the end, someone might be wasted with a single beer and not have proper reaction time anymore, while others might be fine even after a few. The problem with that is that everyone thinks they’re the latter, but they aren’t.

I can, I have been touch typing in Colemak for almost a decade. I could type without looking at the keyboard on qwerty before, but it wasn’t touch typing.