Depends on your hardware. My routers can serve as a Wireguard serveur, so no need for a computer for that part

No, you’re right. And combined with the easy refund you get from Steam for example, which would make it basically a trial period, there are a lot of possibilities.

I was thinking more about very long games that you’re not sure you really will be convinced after only 2 hours. On a Persona for example, 2 hours is nothing, you’re not even going to pass the tutorial.

Of course a demo is not forced to be at the start of the game, but some games are hard to showcase 😅

On the other hand, I’m just realizing that we are talking about an actual rental model, which we don’t really have at the moment. Gamepass is a subscription model, which is quite different (and not in a good way)

So yeah an actual renting model could be cool, depending on its pricing of course.

It’s not just that. It’s also that the second hand market is really not there anymore. There are a lot of games that I know I’m only playing once, in this case it makes sense to buy it, then resell it. But it’s not really feasible on PC.

In this situation, a rental market does make sense. And it also allows more easily to test games you probably wouldn’t have bought. I played Persona 3 this way for example.

To be fair (and I used to like the gamepass. I recently started to change my mind on that) the PC offer for gamepass is better and less expensive than the XBOX

That’s only for RyanAir

And to be fair, most of these games would still be challenging at a lower difficulty. I expect that the late game bosses of Lies of P would remain difficult in the second difficulty setting (maybe not as much in the first setting, but for now we don’t know what to expect)

You can do both. FreshRSS for example allows you to subscribe to it like you would subscribe to any RSS feed

Same in France. Anyone can call themselves a “software engineer”. But the title of “engineer” (ingénieur) is specific for people who graduated from a school allowed to deliver engineering degrees.

Just a heads-up, until v2 is released, it does not scale. I used it to monitor around 40 services. It’s too much. So if you have a lot of things to monitor for uptime you might need to either split in several uptime-kuma services, or reduce the frequency

As a French? Yeah fuck France…

Yes, that’s exactly what they’re doing. If you have a Patreon, you must choose between increasing patreon price on Apple specifically compared to Android and Web, or you can keep the price the same, in which case you will earn less from users using iOS in-app purchase

Square wheels + overpriced in the game + literally a single storage space in the vehicle. That was a great shitpost from them

Yeah no, don’t go to France, seems like we’re trying to speedrun the road to fascism, so might not be a great plan either…

That’s good, because otherwise your data might end in a blaze.

(Totally not speaking from experience)

Yeah I went back from Contabo tbh, as you said, I had several outages, the worst of which lasted several days with absolutely no information, nor response from the support. (My VPS had all the symptoms of a broken disk, which was extremely worrying)

That, plus the subscription fees, it’s not something I would advise today

Yeah, this is one of the seasons the Pirate party is pushing for a unique ballot, because the current format is really unfavorable towards small parties that don’t have the means to print the ballots among other things

Concerning your edit, not sure about other countries, but I can speak about the process in France.

We get (normally) ballots with the programs in the mail before the elections, so we can also bring ballots from there. Then the way it works when voting is

• there’s a table with ballots from all lists that provided them (so missing the ones we’re talking about here) and you can take any number of them
• then you go isolate in a cabin where you put the ballot you want, or nothing, inside an envelope
• finally your identity is verified, your vote is counted and you put your envelope in a transparent box

So there’s not really a way to definitely know you’re voting for an unlisted candidate here.