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    1. find a pirate station with a high value smuggling mission
    2. keep accepting and canceling mission, filling inventory with the smuggling good
    3. warp home to a base with a place to sell

    makes tens of millions in like half an hour with almost no setup. Just need a base with a warp and a trading post. Haven’t played in a bit so maybe patched out but it wasn’t in the major update prior to this one.



  • XenoStare@lemmy.worldOPtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldWhy do you use Linux?
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    1 year ago

    What is good about the service that is in any way similar to Linux, is my question. The two seem explicitly opposed in my eyes besides that Steam is using and therefore contributing to some Linux related projects.

    It seems akin to supporting Microsoft for their implementation of WSL. MS also makes good some good products. They also have contributed. They are still anti-thetical to what I thought most Linux users want out of a company. Steam still seems anti-thetical to what I thought most Linux users wanted out of software.



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    Yeah this is my main point, I feel the same way when people are trying to run other proprietary software. I understand just being very particular about workflow, big part of the reason I use any given Linux distro, but moving to Linux to then go through the hoops of running MS Office, which even in the best case scenario will be another app that is not easy to update, has always seemed silly to me.







  • It varies a whoooole lot depending on preparation and beans but I’ve certainly had somehow sorta salty tasting coffee. One bagel place I used to go to every morning had especially bad, salty tasting coffee from the bitterness. I was tired one morning and accidentally used salt instead of sugar, forgot I had added anything except creamer, and didn’t think about how salty the coffee was until 3/4 of the way through it because of the aftertaste.

    Usually pour over is far less bitter, the French press coffee I make isn’t salty at all but is bitter, moka pot coffee I make is neither bitter nor salty.

    Coffee usually has no sodium in it so it isn’t literally salty, probably just the bitterness, or it’s just from the water source.


  • Making it seem like Steam’s problems for the first ten years were some software bugs inherent to all software.

    It required you login every 48 hrs to two weeks to play most games for DRM purposes, they had no return policy, app’s buttons barely worked, overlay made games run considerably worse, it frequently took up a shitton of resources. The 48 hr thing meant that if you were offline for a bit and Steam was down or slowed (any time a bit sale happened or a big game was launched) most games were unplayable.

    Steam came out in 2003 and tons of people complained about Steam DRM hearkening the end of actually owning videogames until at least 2012. GoG came out in 2008, didn’t require a launcher at all, sidestepped everything wrong with Steam.

    There’s been non-buggy, not anti-consumer software as long as there’s been computers, Steam prior to like 2016 was not that. There’s been an alternative, buying physical games (until they all started using Steam DRM or worse) and GoG.

    Yeah Epic Launcher is barebones. Both Steam and Epic are anti-consumer because of DRM, and making users beholden to any buggy software update to play software they purchase. At least Epic pays devs.