Well it was nice for a while there.

Be cool if they could integrate with gadgetbridge

If you’re itching for Freelancer, there are modern options! There’s a couple of different community patches / mods that attempt to bring it up to date, see: HD edition and Crossfire. There’s also Underspace and Hell Galaxy which have free demos available. Similar gameplay and mechanics but much darker take.

Vultures are always a pain in the ass tbh. Zippy little bastards.

Total nothingburger. BioBank is a research dataset used for cohort studies. There’s about 500k volunteers who contributed some genetic material, demographic and lifestyle information, anthropometrics and physiological measurements. It’s mostly used to discern possible genetic and lifestyle factors for chronic disease. It’s not like they’re getting access to the whole NHS database and stealing DNA to build supersoldiers.

I don’t know, but you might get better help in the more active Linux gaming subs like !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml or possibly a flight sim sub if there are any.

Look into syncthing. Not sure about encryption tho and I’m not in a position to check RN.

Soulseek deserves a mention for music

I put it on the hat on the throttle.

The ergo and mapping is fine. It’s the build quality that leaves a bit to be desired IMO.

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Not sure how long it is since you’ve played, but this is kind of part of the powerplay update. Station concourse decoration changes with the controlling power and level of reinforcement.

Original Elite as an arcade machine on station concourses.

Edit: Another crosshair for actual movement vector like in Elite 2 would be really useful.

Campaign.

Like others have said, there isn’t one. There’s a storyline delivered via galnet and community goals, but you’re free to drop in and out of it as you please. There are various factions you can join and support via powerplay, which will give you weekly goals and a rank-up / reward system. You can also rank up with the federation or empire for access to ships, or pick a minor faction to support informally by doing missions and trade.

Multiplayer.

Again, you’re free to drop in and out. Space is big, though. And with instancing, even in open you may not encounter other CMDRs outside of heavily trafficked systems (stay out of Deciat unless you want to get murdered). There is a dedicated PvP system that’s kept in Anarchy state so kills won’t get you in trouble. There are plenty of squadrons you can join, check inara (also an invaluable resource generally) to search them. Most people form a private group to do missions or whatever. On the radar, filled dots are NPCs, empty ones are PCs.

Flight Stick.

You’re not missing out. The game is perfectly playable and a lot of fun with mouse and keyboard, stick and keys, HOTAS, HOSAS, controller, whatever. Most of the high ranking PvP players use mouse / keys. I’d suggest finding your feet a bit first before dropping any serious amount of money. But if you do end up going down that route, get something decent. Purely personal opinion but I wouldn’t bother with the X3D, although some other people like it just fine. The absolute rock bottom cheapest I’d suggest is an X52, and even then I hesitate to actually recommend it. I have one and don’t regret it, but I wish I’d had the patience to save for something better.

And some general advice: Don’t forget your limpets, bring a fuel scoop, and don’t sell your Cobra. Always take the materials reward (not trade commodities) from missions. Money is tempting in the early game, but you’ll get creds as a side effect of playing anyway. Mats will set you up better for the mid - late game when they become a lot more important.

With a little fucking around I’m fairly sure you could do it on the phone itself via termux.

Yes, fuck Amazon and Bezos. No argument there. But this also helps people who have previously paid for content to break out of Amazon lock-in while keeping what they’ve paid for. You don’t have to buy new stuff, but this means you can keep the old stuff.