Don’t know if you’ve tried this before, but there at a few guides for getting the mod working on Linux. This might help?

https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=147190

The mod has been consistently going since 2005, so they’ve had a lot of time to build up assets! There’s a lot of snazzy new features, but everything still aims to integrate with Freelancer’s original setting and lore. Mixed success, but it works more often than not. There’s a community Discord if you wanted to take a look around or ask questions.

Do you know where that link happened to be? I’m wondering if it could be dredged up with the Wayback machine.

We’ve got a Discord server if you want to drop by and take a look around. :)

Yep! Discovery alone has been going since 2006, and has had a 24/7 multiplayer server running consistently that entire time (barring minor outages from faults and attacks). Pretty incredible really.

I also don’t like thinking about it because I first registered an account on their forum in 2007… really puts the inexorable march of time into perspective.

You can host your own server too, although there’s a few steps you need to follow to get FLServer working properly. There’s instructions on the Discovery forums for that.

Freelancer is 2003 Microsoft abandonware which still has an online mod community. Most prominent is probably the Discovery mod, which hosts a 24/7 RP server.

https://discoverygc.com/

That’s a hell of a nostalgia trip. Freelancer is probably my all time favourite game, and I had literally a decade of fond memories of Disco before I eventually drifted off.

What’s it looking like these days? The pop count and surviving factions were looking a little sad the last time I checked in a year or two ago.

The two YouTube links from Haelian in my summary set up the context for why this is really hard, and then commentary on the actual run itself.

Those last few seconds were absolutely hair-raising, even if we already knew how it was going to end!

See you in 200 hours, enjoy!

Also, if you’re playing for the first time maybe don’t watch those videos until you’ve completed at least one run for spoiler reasons.

It just blows my mind to see all the different ways people will bend over backwards and then contort into a pretzel to try and blame the US for causing and perpetuating a war that Russia is exclusively culpable for…

In the EU and UK, public bodies contribute to mapping data by publishing large amounts of geospatial data using interoperable standards that can be commercially exploited.

This is set in the EU through the INSPIRE Directive, and while the UK is now off doing their own thing, they still use the same standards.

https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/inspire-directive/2

https://guidance.data.gov.uk/publish_and_manage_data/harvest_or_add_data/inspire/

Data Protection shouldn’t be a relevant issue - at least not in the sense that it forcss them to delete accounts. When you process data under the GDPR, you have to identify a lawful basis.

I assume that transactions through the eStore would be handled under the contract basis, with the hosting of the game in the library forming part of the contractual relationship. That would enable them to maintain an account for as long as the contractual relationship persisted.

That basically means GDPR doesn’t force them to close an account, they close an account based on their policies because they choose to. That’ll be based on their T&Cs, so things will fundamentally circle back to whether their T&Cs are legitimate and lawful.

It is possible that a data subject could potentially raise a claim for damages under the GDPR, on the grounds that the deletion of their account is a breach of contract that amounts to an availability data breach.

Canada does good work squashing OPCA claims. I’m very much a fan of Justice Rooke’s utter obliteration of the ideologies’ rhetoric back in 2012.

Maybe Amnesia: The Bunker is something to look into. I’ve not played it myself yet, but the reviews I saw made it sound like it might meet most of your criteria.

Oof

UK district and borough councils have a homelessness prevention duty which also applies to refugees. Unfortunately said councils are also largely falling to pieces and social housing stock hasn’t met demand since Thatcher eviscerated it in the 80s.

This basically means that a bunch of them are going to end up living long-term in ‘emergency’ B&B placements due to a lack of available social housing, unless they can find private arrangements themselves.

So… was this intended as suicide by border guard? I imagine whatever his original plan is he’s going to end up regretting it.

1. It’ll be funny if Georgia also gets off the pot and indictes too.

2. Could this go in US News instead? Lemmy is broadly very US-centric already, so posting US politics here too drowns out other global stories.