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Yeah, it seems to have appeared again at some point. I’ll need to learn how to run it on Linux, but it apparently should be possible indeed! Or maybe I’ll find some place with a Windows computer to try it. Nice! :)

Oh, apparently Rockstar has made it playable again at some point. Nice! :)

How about GTA2? That’s by far the best game in the series! When are we going to get to play that one again?

I’d imagine one could make plenty of art from that many metres of blue plastic cord. No idea how to find a suitable artist, but someone sure would have artistic use for your waste!

Oh, so Stellaris 4 is out already?!

I’m apparently currently running Stellaris 4.2.3. I didn’t even know it’s not Stellaris 1 anymore!

It’s… Weird. If they consider there to have been already Stellaris 2 and Stellaris 3, meaning they see it as a different game, then… Why just delete Stellaris 1?
But also, I do need to try downgrading to 2.1.3 and see how it feels now that I’m used to the ways of Stellaris 4!

I think the 1.0 build is still available on steam

…wut?! How?

And the original Italian so that you don’t need to click the post open:

Buongiorno. Ho un problema: ho un notebook con Linux Ufficiozero, e ho un database access (non convertibile in un file per LibreOffice Base).Come faccio per usarlo? Devo ricostruire da zero tutto il database in LibreOffice?
Oppure mi tocca installare in qualche modo, forse con wine o un altro programma, Office su Linux?
Per me è di capitale importanza questo database perché mi serve per gestire un ente del terzo settore, praticamente devo gestire benefattori, offerte e progetti sostenuti

A machine translation of the Italian-language Mastodon post, by DeepL:

Good morning. I have a problem: I have a notebook with Linux Ufficiozero, and I have an Access database (which cannot be converted into a file for LibreOffice Base). How can I use it? Do I have to rebuild the entire database from scratch in LibreOffice? Or do I have to install Office on Linux somehow, perhaps with Wine or another programme?
This database is of paramount importance to me because I need it to manage a third sector organisation. Basically, I have to manage benefactors, donations and supported projects.

Is there actually a way to get to play the original? We now kind of have Stellaris 2, and Stellaris 1 is some kind of abandonware?! Although officially they are both Stellaris 1, of course.

It strikes me odd that Heroic doesn’t want to be available with apt, though! It’s even advertising that it is intentionally packaged in a way that duplicates pre-existing libraries – apparently to just take some extra place from my hard drive for fun?!

Doesn’t really wake much trust in them caring about how to use a computer’s resources. Whether one wants to be afraid of two applications sharing a library file or not should be left for the user to decide… And it’s not very nice that there an increasing number of ways applications can be installed, and these clever people are supporting that development… How am I supposed to have any overlook over what’s installed on my computer? This is starting to feel like Windows :(

I don’t really believe it’s very good for computer security that applications are installed without anything in the OS keeping track of whether they need security updates or not!

I tried that some time ago, and at least at that point it needed configuration to get up and running. It was a hassle. I have family that needs a lot of my time at the moment. Between August and December I could find less than 10 days where I was able to decide by myself what I do after workdays or on weekends.

I’m not going to spend those precious minutes configuring any damn thing. Steam works out of the box. Now someone was just mentioning something called Heroic launcer. Sounds good. Wonder why Gog is not linking to it very visibly on its site if it works?

Okay, in other words: I won’t be buying any more Steam games :)