I found MoonDeck while perusing the Decky plugin store and it’s absolutely awesome. I’ve had Moonlight and Sunshine set up for a while because Steam streaming is very inconsistent between Deck and Linux, but I didn’t use it often because it’s a pain setting up launchers in Sunshine for each individual game. MoonDeck...
Helldivers 2 works almost perfectly on Linux. I had to nest it in a gamescope session to fix some weird mouse issues, but that was it. I dual-boot Windows and I’ve never even launched it there.
No, I literally had to add one change to the game launch properties one time. It took me probably 3 minutes of googling and following instructions. I wouldn’t call that “a bunch of fucking shit”.
I disagree, it’s a statement of fact. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that fact that you’re lazy about fiddling with computers. I’m lazy about certain things in my own life.
But it’s pointless trying to convert lazy people to Linux when it requires an effort level above 0 and they don’t want to put in anymore than that.
I’m not sure where you heard that info about the keys, but it’s not right at all. In fact, suyu went the ryujinx way and makes you provide all the keys and the firmware yourself, whereas yuzu only required the keys.
Suyu has done a lot to remove the problematic code and restructure their documentation. It would do well for people criticizing them to first go see what they’ve done. The suyu devs themselves said that the DMCA request didn’t even come from Nintendo, it came from gitlab automatically because they forked a repo that was taken down.
in last week’s email to the reproducible-builds email list1 about reproducible Arch Linux I mentioned there’s only one unreproducible package left in docker.io/library/archlinux....
This is dope, but I’ve been curious, what benefits are there to this? I know reproducibility can improve security by proving that the distro is delivering the packages they say they are, but is there anything else?
Title says all, is it possible to use a mainline kernel on a non-SteamOS install or do you have to use Valve’s kernel they ship with SteamOS 3.x? Is it possible to find all the the patches they use and compile a kernel yourself?
Mainline is also missing some OLED patches around changing the panel refresh rate and audio cutting out when switching from desktop back to game mode, last I recall. Those are the issues holding me back from installing Bazzite on my OLED.
It’s still usable, for sure. The Bazzite team back ported the WiFi and BT patches, so those function. But if you rely on reducing refresh rate to save battery like I do, that can be a big one.
The audio issue isn’t too big of a deal, you just have to do a full reboot to go back into game mode. Just takes a few extra seconds.
But if you already have an LCD, I see the wisdom in waiting for the team to iron out OLED support.
I could go in-depth, but really, the best way I can describe my docker usage is as a simple and agnostic service manager. Let me explain.
Docker is a container system. A container is essentially an operating system installation in a box. It’s not really a full installation, but it’s close enough that understanding it like that is fine.
So what the service devs do is build a container (operating system image) with their service and all the required dependencies - and essentially nothing else (in order to keep the image as small as possible). A user can then use Docker to run this image on their system and have a running service in just a few terminal commands. It works the same across all distributions. So I can install whatever distro I need on the server for whatever purpose and not have to worry that it won’t run my Docker services. This also means I can test services locally on my desktop without messing with my server environment. If it works on my local Docker, it will work on my server Docker.
There are a lot of other uses for it, like isolated development environments and testing applications using other Linux distro libraries, to name a couple, but again, I personally mostly just use it as a simple service manager.
tldr + eli5 - App devs said “works on my machine”, so Docker lets them ship their machine.
Aspyr has a history of laziness and incompetence, unfortunately. I really want to like the company because they were one of the few companies bringing my favorite games to Linux (KotOR and the Civ series) before Steam and Proton got so damn good. But their Civ ports were always plagued with weird bugs not in the original games, not to mention they didn’t have cross-platform multiplayer, preventing me from playing online with my Windows-using friends unless I dual-booted or tried to fight Wine. And somehow their Civ save file format is different, so you couldn’t even switch between Windows and Linux and continue the same game. It was baffling.
Aspyr’s KotOR port was considered pretty good, I believe. I was disappointed in their Civilization series ports for Linux because their netcode was incompatible with the Windows versions, which is baffling to me, considering Linux users are already siloed so much in other ways. But the games ran okay, so it wasn’t all bad.
But yeah, I haven’t really heard any good updates or news come out of Aspyr for a while. If I recall correctly, they were the original devs for the KotOR remake, which was going to be their first game from the ground up from a technical perspective. But they had that taken away from them after working on it for a year or two, which is crazy. It must’ve truly been awful.
KotOR’s console controls can be a bit awkward at times. I haven’t played it on Switch, but I originally played it when it released on the OG Xbox. I assume the control scheme is similar. And the graphics are going to be dated, but that’s a given for a game from '03. But other than that, I’m sure it’ll be a fantastic experience, especially for a die-hard Star Wars fan. It’s still my top game of all time, and if you can play it on PC with some graphical enhancement mods, it still holds up really well nowadays.
The reason this works well for certain applications and not others comes down to programming language / framework and compilation optimization.
If the application was compiled directly into an executable binary and optimized, it can be decompiled, but it won’t be human-readable. Programmers would have to delve in and manually trace the code paths to figure out how it works. Fun fact, this is how a lot of the retro game decompilation projects are happening. Teams of volunteers are going through the unreadable decompilations and working together to figure them out.
Dotnet and Java based applications are easier, because they don’t usually get directly compiled into machine-executable binaries, and even when they do, it’s still easy to decompile them. This is because they’re both compiled to an intermediate language that’s more optimized than the original, then that IL is run by a runtime. Dotnet’s IL is called Common Intermediate Language and Java’s is called bytecode. This sounds weird, but it’s kinda cool, because it lets people write different languages without having to have a full compiler. They just have to be able to get it compiled to an intermediate language, and then the existing runtime can take it from there.
I’m sorry I didn’t call out every exception to the rule. Obviously, if you do illegal things on my instance, I will care. I kind of thought that was a given, to be honest.
What launching Battle.net through Steam feels like (lemmy.ml)
WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY=1 %command% + Proton Experimental = working Battle.net
MoonDeck is awesome! (github.com)
I found MoonDeck while perusing the Decky plugin store and it’s absolutely awesome. I’ve had Moonlight and Sunshine set up for a while because Steam streaming is very inconsistent between Deck and Linux, but I didn’t use it often because it’s a pain setting up launchers in Sunshine for each individual game. MoonDeck...
Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad (www.neowin.net)
I have Raynaud's Syndrome. Occasionally, my fingers will lose all circulation. (lemmy.world)
Uncle brian... I get you now (lemmy.world)
I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? (lemmy.world)
You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Both President Biden and the White House have enabled the Fediverse integration on Threads.
GitLab confirms it’s removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu (www.theverge.com)
Archlinux base packages are now reproducible (fosstodon.org)
in last week’s email to the reproducible-builds email list1 about reproducible Arch Linux I mentioned there’s only one unreproducible package left in docker.io/library/archlinux....
Valve's custom kernel patches for SteamOS' kernel; how many are up-streamed into the mainline kernel already?
Title says all, is it possible to use a mainline kernel on a non-SteamOS install or do you have to use Valve’s kernel they ship with SteamOS 3.x? Is it possible to find all the the patches they use and compile a kernel yourself?
Playtron plan to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based system for gaming (www.gamingonlinux.com)
www.playtron.one...
Docker - what use is it?
I see Docker mentioned every other thread and was wondering how useful it is for non development things, and if so what they are.
Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection used modder's work without credit (www.eurogamer.net)
How does this KEEP GETTING WORSE??
Are We Watching The Internet Die? (www.wheresyoured.at)
How do people make patches for closed source software from outside its software company/devs?
You see this with some apps (I think ReVanced is a popular example?) and games occasionally, and I’ve never been clear on how they do it.
I saw this question at ask lemmy and the answers were'nt much satisfactory or serious for my taste . So what stops admins from doxxing its users ?
Like even if they have nothing else they could just leak IP is there any law against it ? Or any technical aspect stopping them ?