Malix

Malix, 11 days ago

I guess just because how the question was laid out, I’m disqualified as I was taught how to use it the first time I used it. :P

with my first linux -system, I had an experienced friend to hold my hand while installing, configuring and usage - including vim. So, the first thing he taught me was how to exit it. This was sometime in … 2003-ish?

Malix, 15 days ago

if you use the archinstall to setup everything (partitioning, locales, de’s, etc), not that much, but def. more than some “everything and the kitchensink straight out of the box” distros. The installer worked nicely on 2 machines I’ve tested it on, a laptop and a desktop. While the base system and graphical desktop installed nice, there was quite a bit of manual tinkering left.

But, steam works more or less the same on linux as it works on windows - but there is some proton version selecting, and even then absolutely everything doesn’t work.

Personally, nvidia+wayland (and xwayland in general) is pretty horrid with some games, but supposedly that’s supposedly getting fixed next month… It’s always something and the fix is so tantalizingly close.

and, it’s not like the EOL for win10 is that close, seems to be October 14, 2025, so there’s still plenty of time.

Malix, 15 days ago

gamingonlinux.com/…/microsofts-new-recall-ai-will…

www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/copilot-plus-pcs#…

Malix, 15 days ago

looks cool, I’m assuming it’s diablo-esque? Consider my interest tickled.

OTOH: now, I understand this is a me-thing, and totally a peeve, but: …steamstatic.com/…/ss_9c16fc30038768654d12a33dad5… - why, WHY, is chromatic aberration (CA for short, TLDR: blue/red colors separating towards the edges of the screen) so prevalent nowadays? It’s like the modern-day lensflare, who wants this? It only makes sense if you’re simulating a bad camera lens on purpose. Is there supposed to be a drone flying over your character in the game, filming it all? Can it be turned off?

It’s a hard nope for me as far as effects go, my eyes start to hurt due to some strain very quickly if a game uses it. Had it on Outer Worlds (ini-edit removed it, no in-game option. BOO), Cyberpunk (in-game option to disable it, YES!).

Malix, 15 days ago

obvious privacy concerns aside, who the hell actually needs this?

If something I do is important enough to remember later, I do save it (bookmark, screenshot, screencast, whatever). This doesn’t need to be automated, esp. since it seems to require 25-50 GB of diskspace to do anyway.

For users, this is a solution seeking for a problem. For megacorpo this is just more data harvesting, even if it’s “only local” for now. Hard pass, nopety-nope-nope, also arch btw and so forth.

Malix, 16 days ago

“Where’s John Connor” - could work :D

Malix, 22 days ago

This one is pretty fun. Not the most in-depth “vampire survivors” clone out there, but it’s silly and free. Plenty of characters to unlock, more gear unlocks with characters but still after 20 ish characters my builds are always the same… Might be doing something wrong.

Anyhoo, weeaboo af, but fun in short bursts.

Malix, 22 days ago

Def worth a try at minimum. Doubly so if you’re into the whole animu vtuber thing, or so I hear, so… the usual grain of salt.

I don’t know a thing about these streamers but the game plays fine. Some items require some reading, eg. bouncy balls -weapon scales with the bust size of the lady, cutting board -weapon does the inverse… The game doesn’t tell these stats, but the wiki does

Malix, 21 days ago

heh, to me vocalist is a percussive instrument. I’m down for anything as long as it flows… But don’t have spotify. But link/recommend me up, my dude.

Malix, 20 days ago

Fun tunes, totally jamming these if they’d play in game or whatever situation I might be at (bar, party, whatever), but not really jams I’d specifically seek out to actively listen.

Still, happy I heard them, the carousel one did bop for me a bit, but … eh, I dunno. Cool stuff, maybe the overlord algorithm of youtube throws something bit more my jams on the frontpage at some point after going through these! :)

Thanks!

Malix, 23 days ago

sample size of 1, admittedly, but there’s so few times I’ve managed to break arch - which I can’t 100% attribute to myself.

Once the updates broke, somehow wiping bash -binary and kernel. Not entirely sure how or why, all I did was a normal pacman -Suy. I might have issued the pacman -command from a long path which didn’t exist anymore, not sure if relevant or not. Hasn’t happened since, so… dunno. It did spook me a bit, but nobody else at the time reported similar issues.

I’ve ran arch for years at work (webdevelopment, desktop and laptop), home server (irc shell, mumble, etc hosting) and now home desktop too (gaming, media, dualbooting with win10).

The home server has required a powerbutton -forced boot once or twice, many months of uptime & regular kernel updates can apparently mess something with networking and usb, so can’t ssh in and keyboard doesn’t get regognized when plugged in. So, you know, reboot after kernel updates? :D

It’s always a good idea to check the website for breaking changes which require manually doing something, there has been a few along the years.

Malix, 23 days ago

so, roughly something like Deathspank?

Malix, 23 days ago

only if the dev/publisher/whoever-responsible offers the different versions as available branches in the game’s properties. Some do, most don’t.

Malix, 29 days ago

list of surprised people:

Malix, 29 days ago

Games/franchises like this feel like they’re aimed for youtubers. But do people actually enjoy them as games, or do they enjoy them as reaction/gaming videos?

I might be a bit out of the loop with these, but I kinda feel the “main audience” is mostly kids, are the kids actually going to go to the movies to see it?

Malix, 29 days ago

Yea, there’s always the one that innovates and then there’s the imitators. Trend setters and trend chasers.

Now, I’m fully admitting my experiences with any of these mascot horror things is limit to youtube videos, but still… to me these just feel like cheap jumpscares and kinda jank youtuber-bait games with excessive tacked-on lore… But that’s just me, if anyone enjoys these, don’t let my grumpy old-man-yells-at-clouds-grump dampen your parade, go you go!

Malix, 29 days ago

I was about to argue that this isn’t “pay-to-win”, as just having the ship doesn’t automatically make you better in-game, but…

www.elitedangerous.com/…/python-mk-ii-standard && www.elitedangerous.com/…/python-mk-ii-bundle

If the pre-built ship is destroyed you will be able to redeploy it at no cost, but any additional modules you have added will require in-game credits to retrieve during re-buy.

does this mean that the arx-bought pre-built ship has essentially 0 Cr rebuy? Sounds kinda low-bar entry for no-risk pvp or griefing, if so.

Malix, 1 month ago (edited 27 days ago)

personally: only second-hand info about reddragon keyboards.

The pricepoint is low, don’t expect premium experience. It’ll do keyboard stuff just fine, most likely.

Also, apparently the customization app doesn’t work at all on linux, even through wine. EDIT: openrgb does support some reddragon models, but only mice. openrgb.org/devices_0.9.html?search=red+dragon - but, keyboard support might happen?

Malix, 1 month ago

using it, syncing my bookmarks with it between systems (work, home, laptop, phone, tablet)

Malix, 1 month ago

installing operating system: 15 minutes, give or take.

give a name to the computer: 45 minutes

Malix, 1 month ago

Hell yea, Indy Atlantis is absolute peak… then again so is most of lucasarts point&click adventure games.

Man I wish the teased sequel for atlantis was actually made :/

Malix, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

I know I’m way late to this thread, but just gonna drop this artist here, “Access to Arasaka” www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxzBrzdZOK8 - obvious cyberpunk (as in, the game, tabletop and otherwise) vibes just for the name. Pretty cool stuff. Can’t put a name for the genre really, electronic, kinda ambient/idm?, but that’s all I got.

Malix, 1 month ago

while all of those qualities are great, they alone don’t make game great.

Malix, 1 month ago

I haven’t played many SNES games, but the ones I have have been pretty good. Fairly sure there’s quite a bit of stinkers in there too.

Malix, 1 month ago

as far as I’ve understood it, the main issue of the account lies in the fact that the game has been sold on regions which either cannot make a psn account, OR are allowed to link their steam account to the PSN account.

So basically, for quite a few people this means the requirement will lock them out of the game. Sure, VPN’s and linking accounts outside of their home region is apparently possible, but then they run the risk of getting their account(s?) banned.