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.

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…

When the ICO recieve a complaint they usually send an initial notification email to the data controller to advise that a case officer will be assigned in due course.

Well, unless it relates to a serious or ongoing data breach, which tends to be triaged immediately into an active investigation.

Initial notification letters do usually recommend trying to resolve the issue with the data subject in the interim though.

That probably spooked Reddit into moving your case up the priority list as I imagine they’ve got a pretty substantial backlog of SAR, erasure and objection requests, considering the circumstances.

The response window for most of those rights is 30 calendar days + extensions if applicable, so they could also have just been responding as late as allowed, accounting for aforementioned probable backlog.

Do let us know when the ICO gets back to you though, will be fascinating to hear what they have to say.

It looks like the TLD was sold off to a private business by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority in 1997, with those rights subsequently being sold on to other corporations.

The British government have issued an FOI response advising that they recieve no funds from .io domain registrations. The Chagos Islanders still don’t benefit, but it looks like that’d need to be squared with a hedge fund rather than a government.

…It is weird that territorial domains can be auctioned off in the first place though.

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.