Date: 2020-07-02 12:14 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lunartulip
On Steam DRM: it varies heavily in how easy or hard it is to strip. There are a bunch of Steam games which don't actually have any DRM at all, and if their directories are copied to a non-Steam-containing computer will continue to run fine. There are a bunch more which, while they don't run quite that easily without Steam, are relatively trivial to hack or patch to allow them to do so. Both of these categories are documented on the Steam wiki's list of DRM-free Steam games; the information there isn't complete, but it's at least a very useful starting place.

On game updates: the main three places I'm concerned with keeping track of game updates from are GOG, Humble Bundle, and Itch, since those are the three sites on which I have largeish libraries of DRM-free games.

I'm not aware of any mechanism for tracking Humble Bundle updates short of manually scrolling through my library and seeing whether the game installers' associated checksums have changed. Itch in theory offers notification emails when new files are uploaded for a given game, but in practice I have that setting checked and don't recall having ever received such emails, even through some very unambiguous game updates; meanwhile, it offers definitely-working emails for update announcement posts, but those need to be made manually by the developers, so aren't reliably thorough. And then GOG does keep track of each game update in a relatively-practical-to-check way, although without any direct notifications beyond "check library and see what's been marked as updated since last check".

On email: when I say 3 GB archived, that's the figure given in my breakdown-by-service for Gmail, alongside 0 GB from Drive and 0 GB from Photos; I haven't tried zipping or 7-zipping my newly-exported archive, but I'd be surprised if it ended up smaller than 1 GB. I haven't encountered /r/DataHoarder before, though, so that definitely seems like a good next place to look, yup!
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