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Quoting: CookieShinx

Quoting: ScottCarammellfriends list actually huge, easy multiplayer on java at long last. now all it needs from bedrock is controller support

Oh my God yes please, I really dont get how this is a feature that is still missing on Java.

As a game developer myself, my two cents is that Windows is their main platform for Java, and controller support is really poor there unless you integrate a library like SDL.

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Fixed a bug that could cause suspend and resume to fail on systems with runtime D3 (RTD3) power management enabled.

I swear this always gets fixed just before it breaks again.

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I'm surprised this came out so early. I thought they'd provide more support for the Steam Machine. Either they were doing that in the background without telling us, or they want to get this update out the door ASAP since the Machine is being released soon.

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That's a really good thing that Embark (and Valve) acted quickly

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Silksong is 25% off, I didn't really like the first game so I don't think I'm gonna pick the sequel up, but it may be an interesting deal for people who did like Hollow Knight.

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The last Plasma update was over a year ago, so it'd be a long wait until 6.7. Personally I'm hoping they're waiting for the Wine Wayland driver to be enabled so they can update the whole stack but it's more likely that won't happen until 2028.

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> Desktop Mode now uses Wayland by default

Pretty neat. Wish they'd jump to KDE 6.6 though, since there's a lot of upgrades and fixes that's already been out for months now.

Hopefully next they'll jump straight to 6.7, especially since it is treated as the final transition before full Wayland-only KDE.

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I don't see this performing well on the Deck. The minimum specs (1070) are over 100% higher than Steam Deck's GPU. And if it's anything like Control, you want at least 40-60fps for it to be playable. SD can probably run it at 30, but a fast paced action game like this won't be playable at 30.

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Unreal Engine 6 should come in Early Access at the end of 2027. A full release they expect 12-18 months later.

So they are announcing an engine update that won't be ready until 2029? A lot can happen in 3 years...

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Finally, the team put a great deal of work into optimization, resulting in better performance and lower power usage for CPU-rendered apps, many full-screen windows, and integrated Intel GPUs.

I have to test this on my laptop, simply watching a 1080p60 video puts the GPU usage on %60. Do you have any recommendations for watching local video files with best battery life on Intel HD?
Also I already use Oxygen, I will try Air too

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Apidya! 😍
I'll buy this just for the remastered OST alone.

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I am looking into getting back into an RTS and many have said this is already the GOAT RTS in the genre that's still in development and that's continuously getting better. Great times!

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Oh man. I had 2 of those infected packages installed, but one week before the attack according to the package manager. So I should be safe ?

I really have to reduce my amount of AUR packages. What do I really need from AUR ? Hmm... Some emulators mainly... Yabridge...

Definitely looking forward to the new "KDE Linux" immutable distro but I may miss a couple of packages.

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$238,621 / 3,538 = 67,445 USD basically an AAA game. Wow.

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> What's the right way to configure it? Sounds like you need some DPI setting in the wine prefix in addition to actual scaling setting of the actual Wayland compositor.

The MR says the opposite of that. The DPI setting in the wine prefix is now independent of the compositor scaling.

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What's the right way to configure it? Sounds like you need some DPI setting in the wine prefix in addition to actual scaling setting of the actual Wayland compositor.

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A few more, I guess.

Type or Die (Proton) - Typing game with cool medieval style. A bit awkward since you're hitting enter after every word rather than space, which can really trip you up if there's a long series of them. Pretty fast paced and gets quite tense after a while, although it's hard to tell if some buffs actually stack or not. Movement being out of your control put me off a little, but it's not too bad.

Toem 2 (Native) - Charming little black and white town exploration game, which has you taking photos of a wide variety of things. Couple clever little wrinkles on the camera mechanic too. Plays very smoothly and none of the puzzles, if you can really call them that, are especially difficult. Kinda got lost in the ambiance, if we're being honest. The full game is probably going to be full of music to collect and things to keep track of. Also hats.

Locktale (Native) - Fairy tale game told in ciphers of various sorts. Not too tough, at least to start out, but I could see how the later ones could get diabolical. Each time you solve one, it links to a Wikipedia page about the history of each one, which is a nice touch.

Little Herbal Baker (Proton) - Game sells itself as a cozy bakery sim, but then has everyone expecting you to explore the forest and give you a pickaxe. Why does a baker need this stuff? Character portraits are good, but in-world art seems awfully stiff. Controls very clunky and there are a lot of rough edges in the mechanics. The bread baking minigame, arguably the reason you're there as a baker, is extremely unintuitive and I never did figure it out. Give it a pass for now, maybe it'll get better in time.

Island Keeper (Proton) - First person game with no FOV settings, bad bad bad! Devs go to jail one thousand years! In any case, it's a game about a robot tasked with cleaning up garbage and pollution, recycling it, and crafting equipment to re-establish nature. Extremely janky and fiddly controls, which is especially annoying given you start by picking up the trash piece by piece by hand. Small trash is very hard to target. The inventory and crafting systems are also awkward. Runs well for an Unreal game, but that's the best I can say about it.

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Quoting: Slaxer

Quoting: Jarmer

• Arch is not a clownshow (lol who says stuff like this? I mean?)

Just replying to a guy that said that it was? K there bud. Chill out.

Edit: Actually, I owe you an apology. I misread the quote, and thought you were replying to me. Sorry about that. I owe you a beer.

All good my friend, I thought your comment was spot on. I'll have whatever you're having! cheers :)

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@tarmo you should probably stop while you're (not) ahead. This will get you nowhere on this site. There was zero ai-hate in the original article posted by liam - you just made that up.

HOWEVER, that said, I'll gladly take up the ai-hate side of things and run wild with it weeeeeeeeeee!!!

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This is the single biggest headache for non-gaming Wine usage for me, and it's finally fixed!! No more blurry applications on my 4k scaled display, and no more setting DPI for X11. Now if we can get the Wayland driver to use server-side decorations and use the system mouse cursor, the Wayland driver would finally be complete for my non-gaming use-cases! But those are wishlist items, the fractional scale issue has been bugging me since I could enable the Wayland driver and it's the sole reason I've felt it off for my system Wine prefixes.

I am ecstatic that this is fixed and I cannot wait to try this out.

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Oh! Oh! SteamOS 3.8.10 released to all... Is that the smell of the Steam Machines (maybe not)? 😁

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As much as these aren't really my games, I'm glad to see em working well on Linux! I played a little bit of Genshin and decided "That's cool, but I'm not gonna sink money into this." I've got enough money-pit games as it is. I know they've been pretty iffy on Linux support historically, so it's nice seeing Linux support.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut we could instead talk about how Google and Amazon are effectively toll booths for every company in existence making every product more expensive, if you like.

Just cause I feel like finding common ground, and because it's more relevant, I'll give you my opinion on those 2 companies. I don't like them. I avoid them whenever I can.

As for the stock market stuff, if you were really interested in challenging your ideas on that, I'll admit, there are much better people than I for that conversation. Plus, I just don't feel like it. It's a lot. I'll tell you one thing though, having a Tesla is pretty awesome. I'm a happy customer, it was worth the money.

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Quoting: Slaxer

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: SlaxerI mean, their salary comes from the money that they take from you every year.

CEOs' salary comes from the money they take from me every year, but I didn't get to vote for them.

They tax you? When did they do that? Buying a Tesla doesn't count btw.

Well, actually, funny you should mention Tesla. So, Elon Musk just did a massive IPO of SpaceX, with Twitter and a few of the little money-losers rolled in. The IPO has a ridiculous valuation. Musk has successfully leaned on the people who define things like the S&P 500 to change the rules to include it in them. That means that despite it not having a track record, it's in these key indices. So if my retirement fund buys "safe" index funds, the new Spacex stock will be in there at its ridiculous price. Then, when the insiders who started with a bunch of that stock for free, such as Elon himself, start to sell and it goes down from its ridiculous high, all the retirement funds and municipal funds and so on will eat the loss. So yes, I'd say he's taxing me.

But we could instead talk about how Google and Amazon are effectively toll booths for every company in existence making every product more expensive, if you like.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: SlaxerIn Canada if you're loud enough, our politicians will freeze your bank account, get you fired from your job, and throw you into a cage if they don't like your opinion. If you honestly believe that these people care about your kids, you are on fucking crack.

Please provide examples because, unless you are a criminal, I never heard or witnessed any of this. You seem to live in an alternate reality.

I presume he's talking about the Ottawa convoy. Which, I mean, while it was pretty incoherent, the core people were calling for the dissolution of the elected government on their say-so. That is, they wanted to overthrow the government. And they were taking donations from the US to aid in this endeavour. So some of them got their bank accounts frozen, I just find it hard to consider this an overreaction. We should also do that to the Alberta separatists who met with White House officials, stole the voter information on every citizen of Alberta, and again are almost certainly taking money from the US. Goddamn traitors.

Exactly as I tought. This particular case may have been mishandled by our gouvernment (personnally I tought it lasted way too long considering they took the Ottawa citizens as hostages), but manisfestations are common things in Canada. When its pacific and legal, they let them express their griefs. The maga proganda likes to take edge cases and make you believe it is the norm. Absolutely no perspective. That's how they work.

The americans took that bait, look where it's leading them. Someone doesn't like the actual situation? Fine, I get that, but it can be worse, we have a practical proof of that coming from the "freedom defendors" themselves.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: SlaxerI mean, their salary comes from the money that they take from you every year.

CEOs' salary comes from the money they take from me every year, but I didn't get to vote for them.

They tax you? When did they do that? Buying a Tesla doesn't count btw.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAnd some of them were threatening and racist

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut their official manifesto thing called for the government to disband various parts of itself and for the prime minister to resign on their say-so.

If this was true, then it would've been legal to use the Emergencies Act then, wouldn't it? But it wasn't legal. It was illegal.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI followed the thing at the time, all the way through, and I followed the inquiry

I don't think you did. But whatever... that's enough.

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Quoting: SlaxerI mean, their salary comes from the money that they take from you every year.

CEOs' salary comes from the money they take from me every year, but I didn't get to vote for them. And their salaries are in the millions and tens of millions, not the couple hundred thousands.

Quoting: SlaxerRemember a large chunk of the 338 MPs sitting in our parliament are the "eat the rich" types

What are you on? I'm arguably an "eat the rich" type, and I can tell you basically none of my people are in that parliament.

So, there are Conservatives, presumably you're not talking about them. There are Bloc Quebecois; I suppose in theory one or two of them might be "eat the rich" types because the party isn't defined by economic ideology but by putting Quebec first. There is Elizabeth May of the Greens; even she isn't really an "eat the rich" type. There are five centre-left New Democrats; the new leader of the NDP probably wouldn't be upset to be called an "eat the rich" type but he doesn't have a seat--the NDP MPs actually in parliament are not. And then there's the Liberals with a bare majority; the Liberal Party of Canada is an economically centre-right formation. There is exactly zero chance any of their MPs are "eat the rich" types except maybe Steven Guilbeault now that he's remembered his principles.

Really, the Conservative echo chamber in Canada is an exact imitation of the American one, and its most ridiculous overarching theme is that the Liberal party of Canada (or in the US, the Democrats) are some kind of raging socialists, when in fact they're the (second) most corporate-friendly assholes in history.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI guess I'd be happy if MPs made less than $200k/year (Canadian, let's not forget). But I'd be more happy if CEOs made less than $200k/year, Canadian. They're the ones really driving the escalation. It's all fine for MPs not to make much, but you have to pay the unelected deputy ministers and other top people running huge government departments something vaguely resembling the going rate or all the talent will leave for the private sector, and it looks silly for cabinet ministers to be trying to tell subordinates what to do who make five times as much as they do.

I mean, their salary comes from the money that they take from you every year. If we're the ones providing their salary, that makes us their boss, doesn't it? Do you believe their performance deserves a pay raise? Remember a large chunk of the 338 MPs sitting in our parliament are the "eat the rich" types, and here they are paying themselves $200k a year because they feel like it. Our dollar is worth half of what it was in 1995, but your salary probably didn't go up to match the inflation. If you're wondering why everything has risen in price, this is one of the main reasons why. This is caused by inflation, and inflation is caused by printing money. There is only ONE group of people that are legally allowed to print money: the government.

If you like the idea that they're going to be consolidating control over the internet, starting with the deployment of age restrictions, then maybe you think their pay raise is deserved. I personally don't.

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Quoting: Slaxer

Quoting: Purple Library Guythe core people were calling for the dissolution of the elected government on their say-so. That is, they wanted to overthrow the government.

I don't wanna get into that here, but that's not true at all.

Yes it is. Was it a credible threat? Probably not. Were all of them even aware of what was going on? Absolutely not. A lot of them just thought they were complaining about a policy forcing truckers crossing the border to the US to do something US policy was forcing them to do anyway, which is moronic but there's nothing wrong with it per se. And they were annoying and loud, which isn't a crime. And some of them were threatening and racist and the people in Ottawa found them intimidating, which in some cases probably was a crime and it would have been good if the Ottawa cops had just enforced the law about that, the whole thing might not have got so out of hand, but that still does not an insurrection make.

But their official manifesto thing called for the government to disband various parts of itself and for the prime minister to resign on their say-so. The leaders pretty clearly hoped the whole thing would snowball, there would be more and more of them, and the cops and maybe even the military would refuse to do anything about them, and then they'd be able to displace the elected government of Canada. I followed the thing at the time, all the way through, and I followed the inquiry, and I am not entirely in agreement with its findings, some of which seem to be telling me not to believe my lying eyes because cracking down on traitor Albertan assholes isn't politically expedient.

And, bringing it all back to the issue at hand, half the reason cracking down on traitor Albertan assholes isn't politically expedient is . . . social media.

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