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Iirc the first news are about a month old now, pretty recent stuff. Having followed console modding and emulation for some decades now, from my experience, patience’s the key.

On the Switch 2 specifically, I made a thread of posts a while back, listing my irritations with the console and its overdependance and overreliance on internet connections.

But if you’d be interested in following news on the matter, GBAtemp’s a good source for that, and adjacent to that there’s also !emulation@sh.itjust.works and !emulator_news@crust.piefed.social (latter one run by me hehe). In fact, GBAtemp has RSS feeds, so I think I’ll link to Piefed too.

unixsocks moment 🫣

Also, as others said, @Untamed_Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone, if the game is on a DRM-free-oriented platform, like GOG, Itchio, etc., you could look for those.

Additionally, looking for sources of a given game can help find where it’s less of a hassle to get it, specially through databases or adjacent, like PCGamingWiki, ITAD, NeoDB (fediverse-compatible!), GameFAQS, etc. Also apparently it isn’t uncommon for databases to cross-reference each other, so one can lead to another.

If the game is only on Steam, install Linux on a VM, install Wine in it, run SteamCMD through Wine, download the build you want, and move to your host OS.

SteamCMD is a minimalist/terminal-based version of Steam. The Windows version can be downloaded separately. However, it downloads needed libraries and I’m not sure how good Steam is at escaping Wine’s environment, so a VM adds an extra security layer. Also the command changes depending of whether it’s 32-bit or 64-bit, if it’s for Linux, MacOS or Windows, or even if it’s a previous, still public update, and it’s been some years since I used those and I don’t have the commands noted down, so can’t help with that at least right now.

If something’s allowed to be pirated, it can’t be pirated.

Perfection.

How many times have I clicked this combo by accident and logged off Mint… 🥲

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=949446

Name makes it hard to search, yeah. :V

Worst comes worse, one could install a VM with Windows. And for the edge cases where neither VMs or compatibility layers suffice, the user can install Windows on a different physical drive and plug it in just when needed.

Gut feeling, but I think the panic would last 2 days. Then issues would be found and unofficial patches would be made faster than fire spreads in dry folliage.

Also pushing for DRM-free contents, and understanding the only plan being destruction only benefits those who discreetly hoard power.

And tangential, but money is trivial when one has power. Plus, these companies seem to just joard control, while answering to centralizing countries. So I would wonder if truly the intent is “capitalism”, with whatever negative adjectives are added to further distort the combined notion of free market, minimalist state and meritocracy.

Ignore the bottom one. Forgot to move it further down.

But there are also a few communities dedicated to India, since it seems more of an event from there.

There could be communities also dedicated to culture, holidays/festivities, and so on. I didn’t look as deeply, but if me in a small instance already found a few contenders for the previous ones, you likely can too.

To the OP, could fit those possibly:

Haven’t seen if it got posted, long months and I am going through saved links, but if it didn’t get posted, maybe here since the humorous connotation, !wallpapers@lemmy.ca, !wallpapersbr@lemmy.eco.br if you speak Portuguese, or !photoshop_nonsense@suppo.fi?

DLsite allows users to translate their manga, paying a commission to the translators when people get the translated version. If availability, or lack thereof, is the problem, it could work too.

Also if you watch on browsers, there’s @birb@rss-parrot.net (not compatible with Lemmy specifically though)

Grayjay mainly. PipePipe which still works for me (check if yours is updated) to get individual RSS or channel links.

I’d try keeping requests to a minimum, like with putting everything to download and watching those instead (e.g. with yt-dlp or Grayjay’s Watch Later playlist set to auto-download), using RSS on another device/IP (e.g. with a VPS, @birb@rss-parrot.net on Mastodon or a phone/Raspberry Pi on another connection) then forwarding over to your main device, avoiding requesting all subscriptions in a row (e.g. Grayjay’s Subscription tab or having a too aggressive refresh/fetch setting on an RSS reader), rebooting your phone when issues start (if it’s a cache/memory leak issue), and/or using a VPN and changing servers as needed.

Gazeta do Povo had a translation distributed for free. Maybe they still do?

!Travel@crazypeople.online

!travel@lemmy.ml