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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • Just today I tried switching from Calibre on my Desktop to calibre-web-automated. But after about an hour of fiddling and searching, I went back to calibre on my PC.

    I couldn’t get KOreader on my kindle to simply sync books that I add to my library to my ereader wirelessly.

    The best I could manage is use KOreader to subscribe to CWAs OPDS feed, but that doesn’t automatically add new books, I would have to manually go to the OPDS feed and download the books. And apparently, kosync is only able to sync reading progress.

    With Calibre on. My desktop, I simply start the program on my PC, enable WiFi in Koreader and new books get automatically downloaded.


  • Steam’s policy is to, if a gamedev company gets a better offer in another store that doesn’t add the 30% markup that Steam adds to the price of games and shares that with their customers by selling their games cheaper in the other store, Steam will take their games down from the Steam store.

    Does anyone have a source on that? I couldn’t find that clause in their docs, all I could find that is in this: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

    You should use Steam Keys to sell your game on other stores in a similar way to how you sell your game on Steam. It is important that you don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers. (…) It’s OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.

    To me, that reads that this is only about selling steam copies of the game on other storefronts (like humblebundle for example), developers are free to sell non-steam copies of the game on other storefronts (like GOG or epic) for cheaper.


  • Valve bans developers from selling their games cheaper on other platforms

    I’ve just checked their steamworks partner documentation. This only applies to steam keys.
    https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

    You should use Steam Keys to sell your game on other stores in a similar way to how you sell your game on Steam. It is important that you don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers.
    (…)
    It’s OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.

    That, imho, is quite reasonable, because Valve provides these keys to the developer free of charge, i.e. the developer does not have to pay 30% commission on these keys.

    Developers are free to sell their games on other storefronts (like Epic or GOG) for a lower price than they do on steam, permanently. Or at least, I was not able to find such a clause in their docs, the only clause that talks about something like a price parity I could find on the keys page, i.e. selling steam copies of the game on other storefronts.










  • “Yeah, so I’ve got an issue with my computer, and I am getting an error message”

    “What does the error message say?”

    “Dont really know, lots of gibberish”

    “Would you mind reading that gibberish to me”

    “I’ll send you a screenshot”

    “Allright, I’ll look at it once I got it, and come back to you”

    At which point I will hang up, wait 10 minutes for their email, look if its something urgent and if it isn’t, wait about an hour or two before emailing them back my answer.


  • Games i currently have working 100% Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed CnC Tiberian Sun Red Alert Red Alert 2 The Sims complete collection Sim City 3000 Unlimited Sim City 4 Deluxe Carmageddon Max Pack Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now Carmageddon TDR 2000 Rollercoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack Windows Space Cadet Pinball Sid Meier’s Civilization III Complete

    FYI: I assume you wanted to list your games in a list format without having each title start a new paragraph. If you end your line in a double space before hitting return, you can do that.
    Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed<space><space><return>CnC Tiberian Sun<space><space><return> etc. will become:

    Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed
    CnC Tiberian Sun
    Red Alert
    Red Alert 2
    The Sims