When you add a server endpoint in the settings, you’re pointing it at your own existing server (Dawarich, Home Assistant, Traccar or any HTTP endpoint).
Ok please forgive me, I’m unfamiliar with this terminology.
Colota actually has automatic file export (Settings > Export Data > Auto-Export)
Oh, sick, I missed that somehow, thanks.
Sorry for the confusion on my part.
I still don’t see a way to import data? Doesn’t do any good to back it up if I can’t import it back in?
There is no backup server. Users can create and add one if they like.
No I understood the server is self-hosted…?
Colota offers out of the box file export
I see that but this should be an automatic backup process. Plus there’s no way I can see to IMPORT that data somewhere else.
When I use an app like Fitotrack, it automatically makes a backup file periodically and then is automatically backed up to my server with Nextcloud or Syncthing. I don’t need a dedicated server for it.
Colota already uses WiFi for home detection (WiFi pause in geofence zones)
How can it do that when it didn’t ask me for an SSID? And what’s the point of the geofence if it doesn’t even use it anyway? I am cornfuse.
When wifi disconnects or/and motion is recognized the GPS starts again.
How is motion recognized without GPS?
This, and other games like it can be played with 1 finger:
Why a dedicated backup server instead of just backing up to a local file that can then be backed up to a service of choice?
Also for profiles, it would make more sense to use Bluetooth to detect a vehicle or WiFi to detect when you’re home vs. Geofencing or Android Auto or speed. How can it tell when you leave the geofence if the GPS is off?
in the Linux world, 8GB is fine
Yeahhhhh no
I think what you’re trying to say here is that if actors worked for small independent companies that they wouldn’t be famous. However you’re not considering the other side of that coin, which is that if they actually did that, they would either make those small companies into big ones, or make the big ones (like Disney) more ethical. But Disney gets to remain the big unethical company because no one cares about anything but money.
All they have to do is shut the fuck up. No one should care about their opinions. The moral high ground was lost when they started working for one of the most ethically corrupt companies on the planet.
Multiple people are making similar comments because it’s NOT good enough.
I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean. Disney is a notoriously shitty company.
LOL if he cared about Disney ethics he wouldn’t have been making movies for them in the first place.
It only matters in the sense that you’re allowed to not purchase online games.
Virtually every game in existence has some sort of online element. But what you seem to be unable to grasp is that many of them have single player modes that don’t require any internet connection.
It’s as simple has having a server that checks the version of the game installed before allowing access to online services.
It doesn’t matter if you prefer offline or not or that you CAN play solo, it is online coop.
Of course it does?
Hence it begs the question whether it’s the platform’s fault per se.
There is no question. GOG is proof that you can do it. Therefore if others don’t do it, it’s their fault.
Once again, all of this is beside the point. The point is that those games are effectively gone.
Why would you think another company doing it better makes Valve not responsible? I don’t understand the logic.
As BL2 offers online-coop, and is also the major selling point of that game, a fragmented market is impossible.
…no? It’s not. You don’t have to play it online.
Gog does it, but Gog only offers a mere fraction of what Steam has.
And that matters for the purposes of this conversation why?
Sure, Valve could enforce that, but…as said…why?
I explained why in my first comment. It’s why we’re talking in the first place.
Fragmentation and the resulting nightmare of customer-support. On steam’s AND the dev’s side.
I don’t see it. Neither of them have to support old versions.
But the vast majority of people are clueless (and still use those devices) and need to be “guided”.
No they don’t. If people are clueless, they don’t need to utilize this feature. It’s call an “option”.
Firewalls and especially sinkholes are VERY necessary
You misread my comment. I didn’t say they weren’t necessary.
Imagine 1 million clueless gamers running an older version of their game because they’re too lazy too update.
how should online games work if every Joe and Jane got their “own” favorite version?
Not talking about online games. Besides, the how or why do not matter, the point is the games are gone.
Also, you can install an older version. Just with more hassles.
I pay Steam to deal with the hassles. I am not a software engineer.
But, of course, only indie devs do that.
Valve has the power to enforce this system-wide.
So it’s the fault of the delivery-device?
…yeah? Of course it is.
Why didn’t you make a backup of an older version just in case?
I pay Steam to do that.
Besides, last time I checked, you can. With a bit more hassle.
Not interested.
All not the case for a “live” online-game. Which borderlands wants to be.
That’s exactly the problem.
And since Steam won’t let you play older versions, those games are effectively dead.
That is what firewalls and sinkholes are for. Stupid telemetry.
That shouldn’t be necessary and is beside the point.
The whole industry goes to shit, but it’s not steam’s fault.
The most recent ones I’ve noticed are Riders Republic and Borderlands 2. Helldivers also introduced a bunch of new microtransactions years after it’s launch.
Cool, thank you!