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- Comment on Is the Robert Reich mastodon account actually run by Robert Reich? 1 month ago:
His linktr.ee from his official website links to that account. So it’s official.
I think the question is: is it actually him using the account, or is it a social media manager?
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 3 months ago:
If I played any Rockstar games, I’d be unhappy with their new anti-cheat too, since it needlessly blocks linux, but this isn’t the way this should be protested. If anything, this probably validates their decision.
The way this should be protested is to just stop playing. Stop giving them money. Stop boosting their month active user numbers that they can flaunt to investors. Hit them financially, since it’s the only hit they really care about. There’s a sea of other high-quality games you can play instead.
- Comment on Where do you find new games nowadays? (Both singleplayer + multiplayer) 4 months ago:
One of my main tools has been SteamDB’s instant search - it’s basically a giant list of all steam games, sorted by review score, with a TON of different filters you can apply. Looking specifically for something released this year? You can filter for it. Looking specifically for a co-op action shooter, or a singleplayer 2d platformer? You can filter for those too. Wanting to exclude early access games or exclude games with a min/max number of reviews? You can do that too. Very handy tool
- Comment on The US population only accounts for 4.2% of the world. 6 months ago:
English-speaking population is about 1.5 billion worldwide and 300 million of that is in the US, so the US is about 20% of the world’s English speakers. Factor in internet access, and the US is almost certainly >20% of the English-speaking internet.
- Comment on block this account if you haven't already 6 months ago:
Looks like Lemmy.world has the entire instance blocked: lemmy.world/instances
Was wondering why I hadn’t heard of this bot before…
- Comment on Me in the pic 8 months ago:
Both Bitwarden and KeePass are very secure, certainly much better than something like Lastpass…
Bitwarden’s server and client are open source and completely E2EE (similar to Signal, the server is zero-knowledge). And even if you don’t trust Bitwarden’s official server, you can host your own.
KeePass is fine too, but it doesn’t have a centralized server like Bitwarden. You have to use other tools to sync your vault between devices. Which some people prefer, but others dislike. Just depends on your preference.
- Comment on Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software 9 months ago:
The clips of the hacks being installed/activated are pretty crazy:
Note that the title has been edited: we do NOT know if this was EAC yet. The article says it “may have been.” EAC has claimed it wasn’t them (but of course they’re going to claim that). Instead, it could have been Apex’s source engine. Or, it could have been two individually compromised machines from software completely unrelated to Apex; remember, these are two high-profile targets, after all. We just have to wait and see what the real cause was. Regardless, I wouldn’t play Apex for at least the next day or two, just to be safe.
- Comment on Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software 9 months ago:
There isn’t much sandboxing in Wine, but at least on linux, the AC is forced to run in userspace (instead of having root priviledges). So it’s not quite as invasive, but it still has access to everything your non-root account has access to.
- Comment on Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software 9 months ago:
This clip is him installing Malwarebytes, after the hacking/cheating incident happened
- Comment on Massive ‘Apex Legends’ Hack Disrupts NA Finals, Raises Serious Security Concerns 9 months ago:
The clips are pretty crazy:
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 9 months ago:
I think the Deep Rock developers are owned by Embracer now, so I’m not sure if that counts as “indie” anymore, even if they’re still a small (and previously somewhat home-grown) studio. But it’s still a damn good game - ROCK AND STONE
- Comment on Favourite developers 9 months ago:
- Valve, when they actually make games… and when those games aren’t Artifact or Dota Underlords…
- id Software
- Telltale Games
- Frictional Games (Amnesia, SOMA)
- Red Barrels (Outlast)
- Playdead (INSIDE, LIMBO)
- Landfall (Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, ROUNDS, Clustertruck, Totally Accurate Battlegrounds, etc)
- Daniel Mullins (Inscryption, Pony Island, The Hex)
- David Szymanski (DUSK, Chop Goblins)
- Mason Lindroth (Hylics)
- Obsidian’s older stuff
- Rocksteady’s older stuff
- I have a love/hate relationship with FromSoft
- Honorable mention to Nightdive: They do fantastic modern remasters of older games, like Quake 1 and 2, System Shock 2, Blood: Fresh Supply, etc.
- Comment on 9 months ago:
Awesome work. Out of curiosity, what engine did you use and how was your experience with it?
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 9 months ago:
If you want a good laugh, check out The Looker. It’s a short satire of the Witness, free on Steam
- Comment on Now that Deus Ex has been cancelled, what other games scratch the Deus Ex itch? 10 months ago:
There are some story-rich RPG shooters that are almost pre-2010 I could recommend, like maybe Dishonored or Fallout 3/New Vegas. But pre-2010 is tough, only ones I can think of are the System Shock or maybe Thief games.
- Comment on What is on your to-play list for 2024? 10 months ago:
I got NV modded up through the Viva New Vegas guide, so hopefully that fixes the crashes for me. Figuring out how to mod it on linux was surprisingly easy too, thanks to the MO2 linux installer on github.
- Comment on What is on your to-play list for 2024? 10 months ago:
There’s now way I’m finishing them all in 1yr, but these are currently on the list:
- Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
- Subnautica
- American Truck Simulator
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Stardew Valley
- The Witcher 3
- Slay the Spire
- Terraria
- Comment on GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused version of Android, is adding Android Auto support 11 months ago:
If you need Android Auto, the closest thing you’ll get is LineageOS with some sort of GApps, but those are far from the “privacy and security first” goals of GrapheneOS.
If you are looking for something private/“FOSS-focused” and don’t need Android Auto, I like CalyxOS a lot, and have heard good things about DivestOS.
- Comment on Saints Row – free to keep today on Epic Games Store 1 year ago:
I strongly dislike Epic as a company, but at least Heroic Games Launcher makes the experience tolerable. And free is free, but for anything paid, I’m always willing to pay extra to own on Steam/GOG instead
- Comment on Best games that can be completed in under ten hours? 1 year ago:
Well-reviewed games you can 100% in less than 10hrs: Portal The Henry Stickmin Collection OneShot Stray Grimm’s Hollow Any of The Room games Pineapple on Pizza There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension Doki Doki Literature Club TOEM Finding Paradise The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog CULTIC Gorogoa The Case of the Golden Idol
Well-reviewed games you can probably beat in around 10hrs, but not quite 100%: Portal 2 Vampire Survivors Pizza Tower Katana ZERO A Hat in Time Resident Evil 2 Hotline Miami The Wolf Among Us Undertale Papers, Please Baba Is You DUSK POSTAL 2 Outlast
- Comment on Instead of only voting for one candidate we should be able to upvote or downvote each candidate 1 year ago:
Approval voting has a special place in my heart because it is such an easy transition from first-past-the-post (what the U.S. uses). You literally just change the ballot from “select the candidate you like” to select the candidates (plural) you like" and you’re done, and it’s such a significant upgrade from FPTP.
- Comment on Instead of only voting for one candidate we should be able to upvote or downvote each candidate 1 year ago:
It’s certainly still better than the US’s current first-past-the-post system, but it has a critical flaw where a candidate who would have won can end up losing by becoming more popular, which could be abused by people trying to “game” the voting system. In reality, something like approval or score voting would be more representative of voter’s desires.
See Nicky Case’s excellent write-up on how that can happen: ncase.me/ballot/
- Comment on Instead of only voting for one candidate we should be able to upvote or downvote each candidate 1 year ago:
I will always upvote that ncase ballot link, it’s so well-written.
Lots of people here are arguing for Ranked Choice, but Nicky’s write-up shows that even though it’s still better than the US’s first-past-the-post system, something like Approval or Score voting are much better options.
- Comment on Instead of only voting for one candidate we should be able to upvote or downvote each candidate 1 year ago:
This is a form of score voting, and the specific form you discuss is the method used to elect the members of Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee (although they call it “Support”, “Neutral”, and “Oppose” instead of “Upvote”, “Abstain”, and “Downvote”).
- Comment on Instead of only voting for one candidate we should be able to upvote or downvote each candidate 1 year ago:
I was all-in for ranked choice voting (and even started working on an app for it) until I learned that a candidate who would have won can end up losing by becoming more popular, which is extremely counterintuitive, and a flaw that I don’t think any voting system should have.
Nicky Case wrote a fantastic explanation about how that can happen, plus exploring many other voting methods: ncase.me/ballot/
I still think RCV (and really anything else) would be better than the US’s first-past-the-post system, but I’d definitely prefer some type of approval, score, or STAR voting over it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
For Deck, you’ll likely be using EmuDeck for your emulation setup, which will install PCSX2 for PS2 games.
You can see the other available EmuDeck emulators here: emudeck.github.io/…/steamos/#what-does-emudeck-in…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
On the Playstation side, RPCS3 is the PS3 emulator, it’s great. There are some experimental PS4 emulators, but they aren’t ready yet.
On the Xbox side, Xenia works well as an Xbox 360 emulator; it’s not linux native though, but it might work well under wine. I’m not aware of Xbox One (or later) emulators.
On the Nintendo side, I would be surprised if a Nintendo game that couldn’t be emulated exists. Even Switch games run very well on day 1 of release.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 1 year ago:
-Ori and the Will of the Wisps on Steam Deck
-Entropy : Zero 2 on desktop
They’ve both been amazing, especially Entropy. Can’t believe it’s free
- Comment on Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline 1 year ago:
A surprising amount of games support linux anti-cheat now: areweanticheatyet.com
Oculus does not work, but that’s expected for a Facebook product… Valve Index and HTC Vive work pretty good. I’ve personally played 5-10 VR games on linux with an Index I borrowed from a friend
- Comment on Xbox users call out Activision and Microsoft for "vomit inducing" full-screen Modern Warfare 3 ad 1 year ago:
PC ≠ Windows
-Your local linux evangelist