Vodulas

Can't sell you out if you never bought in

Discord works great on Linux nowadays. Depending on the game, anti-cheat might also be fine. I play Helldivers 2 without any issues. It's fine if you don't have the oomph, but Pop_OS and Bazzite are both super solid ditros with a gaming focus. I have been using Pop as my only OS on my desktop for months now and really only needed the command line for VPN access and Switch modding

Oh for sure. I just meant this one didn't do anything different than the 011 and is more expensive. And well...trash quality

it’s no different than buying something made (in whole or part) in China giving tax money to the CCP to further Uighur genocide in Xinjiang

The difference for me is that while I do try to avoid those things, it is not possible a lot of times. I can avoid buying a game 100% of the time. They are essentially a luxury item.

$240 with no fans. Not that I will need a new case anytime soon, but that is ridiculous for a narrow 011 clone

Adding to that, sometimes those lines are things you know of and would like to not cross, but are impossible to avoid.

I have excellent news: you can also not buy games from those companies too.

The russian people still deserve to earn a wage, to pay for their necessities

While I can't say that Saber for sure works this way, but every studio I know of pays a salary, and the sales of the game don't factor in (with the exception of bonuses and maybe shady practices around contracted QA). The article even states they are busy working on their next game, so those people are currently being paid.

I don't believe anyone is calling out the employees in this situation. I think the difference is agency. I can choose whether or not to spend money on the game, thereby choosing whether or not to send money to the Russian government. A Russian employee does not have that choice, much like people in the US don't have a choice to pay taxes that fund a genocide. People buying leisure items do have that choice, though.

This is not about the politics of the company or whether or not the people support the government. Influence is not the point. This is about material support to the Russian government. Money spent on the game goes to the Russian government in the form of taxes. This blurb says it in plain text:

To put it crudely, an average gamer, who buys Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 for $59.99, helps the company to fund the Russian army with almost $12

Kinda what I figured. I was going to suggest a shared mailbox that could be unlocked with a password that is behind some kind of time gate, but I found this site:

https://www.futureme.org/

I know nothing about it, but seems to do what you need

When I was there actual salaries were lower, but they gave out a lot of RSUs. Good ole golden handcuffs

I may be under thinking this, but couldn't you just schedule an email to be sent on that date using whichever email provider/client you use?