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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I know that this is supposed to be a family, but it’s a surprised dog face to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Been using this in Beta for a few months now. Very cool

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is a lot easier to manage than the old library sharing where I was always going between machines, changing accounts and sharing libraries with people with multiple desktop logins on multiple machines. Changed the family over today. I am concerned this new system will get abused by groups of independent adults like Netflix was and publishers will withdraw games or prices will increase. Just pirate please and don't ruin a good thing because for parents with dependent kids at home the cost of living is rough.

Being able to remotely manage parental controls from my login for younger kids is also awesome. It feels like it was made by an actual parent instead of a single 20 something tech bro like some other parental control systems. It is fucking abysmal that so many streaming apps make it hard to find age appropriate content or set sensible access controls.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well they already were, but the Team Families system IS here indeed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

lol I know it just hurt my brain reading “families is”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Between my wife’s enormous Steam library and Whisky/Crossover on my M2 MacBook, I’ve been playing more games than ever since the beta of this popped up. It’s actually quite impressive how many games just work - albeit with some compromises in places.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Can you share more about how you got steam to work that way? Right now I play some games through a VM with horrible performance.

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