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- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 6 hours ago:
If Doom Eternal is a rhythm game, what does that make Metal: Hellsinger aka “Doom but as a rhythm game”?
store.steampowered.com/app/…/Metal_Hellsinger/
(really great game btw)
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 17 hours ago:
TIL that Bungie is releasing a new game.
Although judging by this news and the first sentence on their Steam page being “…Bungie’s team-based extraction shooter.”, maybe it’s a good thing I can’t play their games.
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 18 hours ago:
Any reviews/feedback from current Nextcloud users? I do plan to eventually self host but would start off using storage included in the plan
If my Nextcloud stops working I’m done for.
My calendars are in there, my todo list, my notes, my contacts, all my savegames, backups, documents, invoices, photos, videos, everything.
It’s pretty heavy to host but it’s worth it if you make full use of their entire suite.
- Comment on Hacker advertises alleged database of 89 million Steam 2FA codes 1 day ago:
I once wrote the guy listed for their infrastructure that one of their mail servers is configured incorrectly.
He got back to me after 2 hours thanking me and telling me he fixed it.
Thought that was pretty impressive for a company of their size.
- Comment on Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors 2 days ago:
Intel has already deployed a fix for this in the 13th and 14th gen by permanently damaging the chip and crashing. Checkmate hackers.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 2 days ago:
There is now source code for the ROM, which makes creating ports and mods significantly easier.
The initial goal of most decompilations is to produce a 1:1 match of the original ROM. That’s how they know they’ve got a perfect representation of the original code.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 2 days ago:
Are you trying to run it on PC?
This is only the decompilation of the original for N64, the binaries it produces are for the N64 or an emulator. Making a PC port is the next step.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 4 days ago:
I bought the game on release mostly to support them. The folks at Moon Studios are seriously talented and deserve some support.
I played ~2 hours on release and thought the game was decent. The combat had some weight, the art style was excellent, the bosses were fun and challenging and the exploration was pretty neat. There were many performance issues which they have since mostly fixed but there were also a few systems taken from different genres that didn’t work that well together for me. I didn’t play for a while though, so maybe they improved things in that area.
Still, I’m also waiting for the coop, which is scheduled to release with the next major update.
I wouldn’t read too much into this news article. Their CEO has since clarified that he might have been a bit hyperbolic and didn’t expect the media to pick up on his random Discord post.
I don’t quite agree with his assessment of being “review bombed”. Most negative reviews come down to the game being released in early access: bad performance, many systems not working well together, being behind roadmap, missing coop on launch and more recently, difficulty. I do get their need for releasing in early access after Microsoft dropped them but it might have hurt them in the long run.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I had the same issue in the late game of Blue Prince.
The RNG is pretty fun at first but it quickly becomes frustrating when you have specific layouts in your mind. You gain some control but not enough to make it fun to restart over and over again until you don’t get shafted.
My solution was simple: I cheated. I gave myself infinite dice and rerolled the rooms until I got the layout I was looking for. Much more enjoyable that way.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
Sayonara Wild Hearts is such a good weekend game. Really cheap, really short, really good and with a soundtrack that you’re going to listen to long after finishing the game.
Highly recommend!
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
I ran Emby for a while before switching to Jellyfin. Still running it today.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
It has been a few years since I last used Plex but I always liked their interface, their tech stack is fairly modern, they have apps for pretty much every device, their title matching for content works really well and there was not much wrong with it back in the day other than it lacking local authentication.
I switched over long ago when they started pushing streaming services to my users that I couldn’t deactivate server side.
- Comment on Anker eufyMake E1 3D-texture UV printer now crowdfunding 2 weeks ago:
Heads up, I asked their support and it works neither on Linux nor without cloud.
Cool device though.
- Comment on Why is everyone using Tailscale? 2 weeks ago:
If Caddy works for you, no reason to change it.
I use Traefik because I like how tightly integrated it is with Docker. If the container with the config labels on it starts/stops the corresponding router in Traefik also starts/stops.
Since my services are mostly running in Docker, it’s the perfect workflow for me.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for documenting it for future people! Glad you got it to work.
- Comment on What is Docker? 2 weeks ago:
Anyway, what I wanted to know is why do people self host?
For the warm and fuzzy feeling I get when I know all my documents, notes, calendars, contacts, passwords, movies/shows/music, videos, pictures and much more are stored safely in my basement and belong to me.
Nobody is training their AI on it, nobody is trying to use them for targetted ads, nobody is selling them. Just for me.
- Comment on Bed slinger vs coreXY 3D printer 2 weeks ago:
I owned a Prusa Mk3 (bed slinger) and currently own a Voron 2.4 (CoreXY with flying gantry) and a Prusa Core One (CoreXY with static gantry), my 2 cents:
Bed slingers are cheap and reliable. Their layout makes sure the axis are always rigid and aligned or at the very least they are very easy to align if they are not.
They do have a giant disadvantage though which is shaking the print on the Y axis. For small prints that is negligible but as you go higher it becomes a disaster quite quickly. I could never print thin and high support structure along the X axis on my Mk3, it would just tip over or break once it reaches a certain height. Same issue with lithophanes. If I printed them on the wrong axis, they would fail or become distorted as the bed shakes.
I bought and built the Voron 2.4 primarily because Prusa did not release a CoreXY for such a long time and I did not want to have that same issues again since lots of my prints are pretty tall and thin.
In principle, the flying gantry is my favorite. The bed sits totally still and only the head moves, ideal for thin and tall prints. It’s also really cool to see the flying gantry level itself, almost like magic.
There’s one issue with flying gantries that I encountered multiple times on my Voron, which is that it needs very precise calibration in order to produce accurate results.
Due to the flying gantry there are just so many variables that can influence the end result. It’s almost impossible to determine exactly where the issue is coming from without much time for diagnosing. Skewed frame, skewed gantry, skewed Y axis, wrong or uneven belt tension and so much more. It’s a real pain to diagnose print issues. My Voron still has a very tiny skew and I have no idea where it’s coming from.
The Core One has a static gantry, which is in my opinion the best design I have used so far. Compared to the usual static gantry like on the Voron Trident, the Core One gantry has one solid 4 sided steel piece which impacts view a little bit but you can be certain that the gantry is square.
This drastically reduces the amount of possible issues. It still needs almost perfect belt tensioning so the gantry does not skew but other than that the only other thing that needs to match is the alignment between bed and XY axis, that’s about it. It was incredibly easy to get the skew on my Core One kit to pretty much zero.
No more bed slingers for me and seeing the flying gantry once was enough. CoreXY with static gantry so far is my favorite design.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 2 weeks ago:
I don’t use the Solution explorer but I also don’t think it has one.
I usually kickstart a fresh application with a SLN and a few projects in the dotnet CLI and VSCodium picks up the launch project automatically when I tell it to create a launch.json. For existing applications, if the .vscode folder already exists it will just pick it up or I can also just ask it to create a launch.json.
That workflow has been ingrained into me since there were no real C# utilities for VS Code when it first launched, so not much changed for me when going to VSCodium.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 2 weeks ago:
Is there something missing in OmniSharp that prevents you from using VSCodium?
I do most of my C# development with the OmniSharp plugin in VSCodium on Linux.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 2 weeks ago:
Helldivers works fine on Linux, I play it from time to time.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 2 weeks ago:
Ms office windows apps are kind of great compared to libreoffice
Did you give OnlyOffice a try? flathub.org/apps/org.onlyoffice.desktopeditors
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 2 weeks ago:
VS Code (i know it’s still MS but I do C# .NET work and rider is too expensive, I don’t want a subscription for an IDE)
VSCodium is a thing too if you want to un-Microsoft even further.
I use it for C# development on Linux and it works well.
getting a password manager
Bitwarden and Keepass are usually the go tos, depending on your use case.
then a new browser
Firefox or if you want to decouple from Mozilla as well, Librewolf works pretty well.
potentially a Google pay replacement
I’m not aware of any open Google Pay replacements other than taking a card with you.
As soon as you get rid of Google on your phone, you get rid of Google Pay.
- Comment on Monitoring OPNSense Logs with Grafana Loki 3 weeks ago:
You had me at “No Java”.
- Comment on Man, I really slept on Days Gone (mini review) 3 weeks ago:
I never heard of this game until it came out on Steam but I bought it on launch and was not disappointed. Really fun game.
Also, I noticed that the remaster update dropped today. Might just hop back in.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 4 weeks ago:
The Redux upgrade is available for $20 or with an active Switch 2 Online Membership*.
*Additional charges may apply; dedicated servers not included
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 weeks ago:
I assume you tried adding a new printer through KDE? There’s usually no driver needed if all you need to do is simply print/scan.
Does it fail with both options?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 weeks ago:
Which one, Bedrock or Java?
For Bedrock there is an unofficial launcher: flathub.org/apps/io.mrarm.mcpelauncher (Disclaimer: Never tried it)
For Java there is the offical launcher: flathub.org/apps/com.mojang.Minecraft
Alternatively, for Java, there is also the much better unofficial launchers like Prism: flathub.org/apps/org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #9 1 month ago:
Played a few hours of Last of Us 2 last night. Ran pretty well (80-100fps) on highest settings in native 1440p but with a 7900 XTX I can of course just brute force through it.
Surprisingly, the game ran flawlessly out of the box. Didn’t need to add the SteamDeck=1 variable like in the other newer Sony games.
Does not run with Proton-Tkg for some reason, so no HDR for now.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 1 month ago:
I don’t really mind tinkering with it, already know my ways with emulation on PC. However, I have no knowledge on Linux and that’s what worries me a bit.
If you know your way around PC emulation, you’re not going to have any problems. EmuDeck takes care of installing all emulators. You only have to manually add your key files, firmware, BIOS, etc. It works just like on Windows and the KDE desktop is in many ways identical to Windows.
You might also want to check out KDE Connect. It is pre-installed on the Deck and can pair with your PC for remote input, file sharing, etc.: kdeconnect.kde.org
So the Steam Deck can run the PS2 emulation and play these games (just as the PC can?).
Yes, the Deck is an emulation beast. Finished Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, Ico, Wind Waker HD and Echoes of Wisdom entirely on the Deck.
Most of the games of the Switch I’d like to play are the Mario games. I can name them all if necessary but will do it later (at the moment at work).
The less demanding games like the Mario Party games and Mario Kart run with no issues in all emulators.
For more demanding games like Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey, you might want to grab the last yuzu EA AppImage that released. You can find it quite easily by searching but you can also DM me if you need it.
For reference, the last release was version 4176 with an MD5 checksum of 9f20b0e6bacd2eb9723637d078d463eb.
Can the Steam Deck run Breath of the Wild without issue?
There are 3 ways to play Breath of the Wild on the Deck:
- Ryujinx/Ryubing (installed by EmuDeck out of the box)
- yuzu (no longer available)
- Cemu (the Wii U version)
I spent dozens of hours in Breath of the Wild on the Deck in yuzu to collect a few Koroks when I’m bored. Since I dumped my savegames from my switch, I just started where I left it on my Switch.
Ryujinx unfortunately struggles running Breath of the Wild, it runs the most demanding areas at about 20 fps. Which is on par with how the Switch natively runs the game but yuzu can reach 30 fps easily in those areas. Ryujinx also has quite severe shader stuttering when first entering an area, which yuzu does not have.
Cemu runs the game flawlessly, but it is the Wii U version. Doesn’t make much difference which version you play on PC since you can mod either to look good. I just played on yuzu because my savegame was from my Switch.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 1 month ago:
Death Stranding really clicked for me when “Bones” by “Low Roar” in the first real delivery mission comes on. Takes slightly more than an hour to get there and even then, it definitely is not a game for everyone.
