Is the UK back in the EU already?

then why bring up the US, if you have no expectation of better behaviour?

Millenial here, its actually the same for us. Most millenials dont actually know how to fix a computer, either.

Are they still green/white where you live? Ours have been blue/silver for quite some time now.

No. Banning sales of non-zero emission plans is the plan, it doesn’t specifically ban combustion engines. Combustion engine tech has stagnated like the last 4 decades, though, so it’s highly unlikely they’ll be zero emission within 10 years.

This is car manufacturers complaining that they haven’t made steps forward for 40 years and are now forced to switch to the technology that made them obsolete.

I don’t remember how much point is the maximum before you lose your driving licence in Germany?

8 points and you lose your license. You can then get it back after a minimum of 6 months.

Do note, that points drop after a set time, depending on

• 1 point = dropped after 2.5 years
• 2 points = dropped after 5 years
• 3 points = dropped after 10 years

Personally, that reads to me that there already is en expiration date on the plugin version as well as the GOG extension.

Either way, while they are free to charge what they see fit, I was flabbergasted by the high price and it being a subscription. I’d argue it should never be their bread and butter. I see the target audience to be too niche for this to be a fulltime gig, I dont believe there’s going to be enough users for this to be sustainable, which is (I guess) the reason they went for a SAAS subscription model.

Yes, the plugin version is open source, but I don’t believe anyone is going to bother to fork it. Simply because there already is a sophisticated, quite advanced community project (Heroic) that does the job well on a steam deck, also works very well on the desktop, and uses the same backends (legendary, gogdl, nile) as JS.

And it really irks me, that they rely on free, open-source components for their proprietary, closed-source software to function. From what i understand, they are not in breach of the GPL license if they just invoke the binaries, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I’ve just watched the installation video and when they install Doom64 from Epic (around the 3:20 Minute mark), it mentioned legendary, a free and open-source alternative to the epic launcher. A bit of further digging we notice that junk-store uses gogdl and nile as well. I am absolutely baffled by this. This closed-source, proprietary $40/p.a. software is a wrapper (albeit a fancy one) for other, open-source launchers.

Now, i am sure theres a bit more to it than just invoking the binaries of these launchers, but personaly, I consider this shady.

The plugin version remains and will remain free according to the husband and wife team behind Junk Store. They’re very easy people to talk to if you need anything at all, and they have a passion for what they’re doing. I think it’s super shitty to call them greedy because they’re offering a paid option alongside the free one.

I’d like to point out, that the subscription to JS 2.0 is absolutely not there to keep the free version free. In their own FAQ on discord they are already on record stating that if the paid GOG plugin drops of in sales (not usage!), they are going to scale back or even stop maintaining the paid plugin as well as the decky version of JS.

I doubt this is going to be distributed via flathub, less likely even be maintained by your distro

The last update a few weeks ago said it was $40 per year.

Edit: its under “Learn more”

I assume they meant updates to junk store.

I am definitely not going to pick this up.

I don’t see why I should pay $40 for a yearly subscription to an app, that

• doesn’t do anything other tools like heroic don’t already do just as good or better
• doesn’t even come with all the features promised.
• doesn’t even provide an actual continuous service that justifies a subscription (games are hosted by epic/gog.

When they launched the initial app, they promised a one-stop-solution, but actually only worked with epic.
Then they promised a GOG plugin that would become free after testing, but then decided to not do that and instead make an entirely new app.

I have no confidence they can deliver on their promised features for their app, or suddenly do another rug-pull on the scope of their app. I can see them changing course any day, and putting further store plugins behind yet another paywall.

Compared to solutions that already exist (heroic), they offer access to the same stores, as well as amazon. The $40 junk-store can do less than the free and open-source heroic.