At least for the PC versions of Vice City and San Andreas, the originals are missing the music too. A bunch of licenses expired 10 years after release and the Steam releases got updated accordingly.
Great game, with some innovative level design involving portals and gravity manipulation. Delisted back in 2009 and impossible to acquire legally to this day on PC.
I've got this game in my steam library, and I wondered why no one ever talks about it. I never realized it was delisted and made impossible to buy so long ago.
Until I looked it up, I almost thought my memory of it was the Bernstein effect especially since there’s a 2017 game by the same name and much more popular.
The sequel to Prey (2006) was stuck in development hell for really long until they finally scrapped it, so the publisher placed the trademark on a completely different but similarly themed game instead.
I remember a level where I went through a portal that led to the surface of a miniature moon, encased in a glass case inside the room that I entered through. Inside the case and miniaturized, I watched the enemy aliens scatter around to look for me.
They found me and barged through that portal, so I went back out and smashed them through the case. Alien pussies on the wall, the whole artwork and design of the game was utterly unfettered.
The ending made me feel so… powerful. David and Goliath -core, heavy metal native american going through the spirit land to save the human race from aliens. I didn’t know it was delisted. What a shame.
The scene with the planetoid hovering in the middle of a room was made me remember the game despite playing it more than 15 years ago. It was so ahead of its time!
There's a set of licensed music in the game that's likely another reason too sadly. Pretty unique game for the time and I'd redeemed it on Steam from the cd key in a used physical copy I bought dirt cheap.
It's not only a matter of having better hardware (though it certainly helps a lot). For example, Apple does a lot of software tuning and tweaking to make the Macbook speakers sound as good as they do. And it's been fascinating to read the extent of work Asahi Linux had to do to recreate the software portion of Macbook's audio stack.
I’ve heard from several people who game on Windows that Gamescope side panel with OS-wide tweakables for overlays, performance, power, frame limiters and scaling is something that they miss after playing on Steam Deck. There are separate utilities for each, but not anything so simple and accessible as in Gamescope.
> You claim to value efficiency, yet you've spent the equivalent of a full fiscal year arguing about why a Firefox fork that 12 people use is the only path to salvation.
Vendor lock-in a serious concern. Just reading through this KeePass issue again and seeing how much pressure the industry is trying to exert to prevent the users from being able to export their own private keys should be concerning. I come back to this discussion every time I see someone arguing in favor of passkey adoption.
>The unfortunate piece is that your product choices can have both positive and negative impacts on the ecosystem as a whole. I've already heard rumblings that KeepassXC is likely to be featured in a few industry presentations that highlight security challenges with passkey providers
Hi! I'm the commenter on that post that keeps being brought up!
I don't think requiring an encrypted backup (with a key or secret that YOU control) by default is "preventing users from being able to export their own private keys".
Hi! I have no issue with having the backup being encrypted by default, except the discussion returns again and again to disallowing any cleartext export, even when specifically requested by the end user.
And on a separate note, I fundamentally disagree for political reasons with the idea that the websites should be able to block specific passkey providers.
You say "requiring by default". That makes no sense in this context (or most) - you can either require something (which is not "by default") or you do not (at which point you can encourage something as strongly as you like, but it's still not required).
The github issue is quite clear about "requiring", not "by default", which is a restriction on what someone does with their own data. Particularly since AFAICT there is still no spec for data exchange over flat files. CXP is a probably-reasonable more-safe option to encourage, but it really shouldn't be the only option.
(arguably CXF only defines non-encrypted files, since it doesn't even recommend encryption options or provide a way to communicate what was used, except to say that it "MUST" encrypt or coordinate over CXP)
Our org just migrated from Bitrise to self-hosted GHA runners just a couple of months ago, with cost savings as a main reason. I already foresee an interesting conversation coming up tomorrow.
I have bought a Dreame L10 Ultra with Valetudo in mind, but I discovered that if you skip connecting it to the internet during the setup process, you can still use it normally. I don’t care about any of the smart features and simply start a full cleaning or a spot cleaning by pressing a hardware button on the robot itself.
Good point. That seems like a good option as well if you don't need any other features.
I don't really use many of the smart features, but the ability to set up cleaning zones in valetudo has been really nice. Same goes for "do not clean" zones.
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