Afaik, it does work as a country, even if it's not formally one.

Not familiar with any, but in case the sticker creation system from Signal behaves like Telegram or Whatsapp, it is fairly simple to do it, specially stactic ones. Just convert the image to be within the expected canvas size (up to 512px on Telegram; don`t remember on Whatsapp) and in a format it accepts (png and webp usually do the trick). For animated stickers, it usually is a bit more cumbersome / complicated.

Can't give precise numbers, but at least that I can notice, despite greatly filtering what I check, there's enough stuff to make running out of stuff to check rather unlikely. Besides, as I started using RSS feeds a lot recently, mainly for federated platforms (not just Lemmy ones), and the reader I use can hide posts marked as read, it's being a struggle to lower the number of posts to read in comparison to the sum of posts automatically pulled during the set up of each link.

An AI is as good as its sources, and skimming through the domains from the posts, quite a few of those don't seem like very reliable ones.

Doesn't appear to have a RSS feed either, and doesn't seem like Nitter supports it. 😔

Or should be made available

Could, then, people here in the comments bring FOSS games from other sources too?

Just checked it.

For the empty spaces in the carousel, you could use this:

::: spoiler spoiler gaming.amazon.com##a[href*="platform_specific_tag/"]:upward(li[class="grid-carousel__slide"]) :::

And the platform_specific_tag is what appears in their links when you open their pages and that, from what I can observe, is specific to where they activate in.

For example, in Jurassic World Evolution and Electrician Simulator, the tag is the epic/ part of the link.

For Overcooked 2 and The Outer Worlds, it's gog/.

And though it should work without the /, maybe better keep it, as the lack thereof may trigger false positives, like if Legacy of Kain for GOG is available, but you block legacy results in case you want nothing from Legacy Games, you won't see Legacy of Kain due to its name appearing in the link.

Maybe this? ::: spoiler code gaming.amazon.com##a[href*="platform_specific_tag/"]:upward(div[class="tw-block"]) ::: It's the filter that is the least dependent on div blocks' structure that I can think, and unless Amazon changes either (or both) their links format and how they list stuff, at most I think you'd need to change the tw-block part every once in a while, as such bigger sites seem to change the divs' names some times.

Is your drive where you install games automatically mounted by the system? In case something changed in your system, does it have the same path as Steam expects it to? And is the drive a separated storage? And though it may sound like a stupid question, I think it's important to ask also, are you sure it's on the storage you think it is?

From a quick look, it is on Bandcamp, for those that would rather have it DRM free (FLAC, MP3 and derivatives):
https://garoad.bandcamp.com/album/va-11-hall-a-prologue-ost-sounds-from-the-future

It's also on ITunes (only AAC and MP3), but worth noting getting to the store page is a bit cumbersome even with the link:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/va-11-hall-a-prologue-orignal-soundtrack-sounds/1190726465

I think that, while, yes, fragmentation hinders a system, it is also its saving grace, as it also stops a given family of systems from growing into what made the competition problematic.

Taking the Program Files folders as example, they have limited read/write permissions on Windows, so whenever possible, I try to install them onto a folder I make in the root of C:. But more and more, since at the very least Windows XP from what I could observe, Microsoft is training users into using only the users folder, and less and less programs give an option to install elsewhere, installing only on the Program Files folder instead. Meanwhile, on Linux Mint (my distro of choice), if AppImage (my to go medium of programs) isn't working well, I can always fallback to other means, such APT directly or downloading its .deb files then extracting them, getting from flatpak, compiling it myself, building a custom AppImage, running on a VM or emulator, or in the worst possibility, I make a dual boot between Mint and some other distro.

Also, although there are many package managers, from my experience, they usually work similarly. Some changes in syntax, options and names, but nothing outlandish. It would be, I think, like someone learning a close language to his/her mother tongue. And from experience, you can even organize installations in a more standardized way, although it will take some effort from your part to figure out how, since some adaptations may be needed (java 8 and sdl ptsd intensify).

And lastly, from what I can observe, stuff in Linux more often than not share logic or even methods with a lot other stuff in the system. Dunno if it's a bit of a bias of someone that's using Linux for a few years already, but the fragmentation usually feels superficial to me, with distros being more tweaks of the ones they stem from, and major changes being better observable when distros are sufficiently far apart.

If you want to gradually move away from closed and/or paid software, afaik, the only way is through unlocking the bootloader and uninstalling programs through there.

Alternatively, there is the nuclear option, to replace the whole system, and start from zero with a distro as close as possible from AOSP. Worth noting it also requires unlocking the bootloader.

About the tool, thanks. I'll keep it in mind.

About Heroic, it allows installing several versions of a few forks of Wine, Proton and Proton-GE included, and it's installed on a folder specific from Heroic, instead of installing on the whole system.

Alternatively, or perhaps even concurrently, you can have a Proton instance without having Steam installed. Dunno how it works on Lutris, but besides being able to install Proton manually, you should also be able to install a few different versions of it through Heroic too. Dunno other means for that but probably are.

So untrustworthy company is even more centralizing now?

Sadly I couldn't think of a better way yet. 😔

Though not due to piracy, I also end up with a lot of repeated, redundant and/or unwanted files, so I'm often having to delete them.

I see. That's sad. But thanks for clarifying it!

Not ideal, but what I do is to load all musics onto VLC, open the list view (Ctrl L on Linux), let the list fully load, sort by song name and check what appears repeated or that I don't want for other reasons. It also helps if the songs are metadata-rich, such as the ones bought from Bandcamp and ITunes (not Apple Music), so it's easier to differentiate them (given this community, I have no clue how/where from yours are). And lastly, there's a little plugin I found a while back that helps a bunch, vlc-delete, which adds the option to delete the currently playing file, and that, at least in the Linux version, benefits from motor memory since it can be executed with a quick succession of 2 Alt shortcuts.

The Reddit-inspired instances like the Mbin and Lemmy-based ones may be of interest for you. The Lemmy ones, from what I can tell, always hide the follower list, and the Mbin ones allow the user to choose between showing and not showing. Also, both seem to be able to connect to Twitter-like instances, though UI for that part in the Mbin ones is pretty barebones and the Lemmy ones mix them up.

But what if you try to navigate through the archived pages? The lack of direct links is something that also happens in some Microsoft pages, but some times Internet Archive manages to archive such pages anyways.