because Proton made devs forgo Linux native versions.

To be fair, a lot of the “native” linux version run worse than the proton version does. Just look at Witcher 2.

And now we have self-driving cars that are able to kill people without human intervention 👍

I didn’t know it was still in active development and had moved on to Strawberry some time ago :D

I…what?

There’s a recent one, Expedition 33.

india is so badly governed that it is sad. once a country of mystery and spices, now a very backwards dirty place. i really have no clue what could make india grow in things like equality.

Well, they had great teachers, the british empire taught them well.

For audiobooks you should definitely look into your local library. They usually have a digital offering that includes fairly recent audiobooks. If they support overdrive, you can use Libby, otherwise there’s the Onleihe app.

There’s also https://www.bookbeat.com/de/ which is European and you can do libro.fm. Libro.fm is from the US but you can choose to support a German or European bookstore with your purchases.

Then there are the streamers like Deezer (French) and Spotify (Swedish) though Spotify has some very shady business practices like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_fake_artists_on_Spotify

I’m aware that alternatives are scarce and Audible’s exclusivity scheme is making everyone’s lives harder.

Thalia it’s just another locust that should have been prevented merging with Mayersche / Weltbild etc. People seem to have forgotten that it was Thalia that completely destroyed the small bookstores a few years ago, not Amazon.