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Quoting: ChrisznixPerfect timing. The rightwing party of germany just claimed almost 20% in one of the lands...🤮

Quoting: Geppeto35Yesterday, the French municipal elections also saw a historic breakthrough for the far-right party, which openly aligns on nazis and fascists roots, helped (as right before the WWII) by the traditional right wing that fears a true left elected.

Sadly, it smells like our generation could be "all out of bubblegums" in the next decade in this mad world!

Has anyone ever stopped to ask those voting this way WHY? I don't follow European politics closely so I could be wrong about this, but from what I can tell the major voting point is immigration and the downstream effects (like increased housing prices as one example).

Add to this, people calling them Nazis for wanting something different than you might want will only exclude them and dig them into their positions. If you are an open-borders proponent (or whatever the issue might be), you won't change any minds calling people names and telling them they are wrong/dumb.

Extremism is created when there is a lack of communication, and I see this divide worsening as people seemingly refuse to engage civilly with one another. Futher, I am hesitant to call anyone extremist when they simply have a diffent opinion. Is it really extremist to want to stop immigration and deport some of the current immigrants? Compared to rounding them up and shooting them - an actual extremist view? You might not want that, but is wanting that (the deporting, not executing) really extreme? If so, can I argue that importing them is at the other end of extreme? That is an honest question. FYI I don't think either position is truly extreme.

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I never really got into FMV games or interactive movies or whatever you want to call them, but this looks like it might have a better balance of gameplay vs cut scene. And real actors inside a rendered game world? In my opinion that worked pretty well in Cyan's classics and of course the wonderful Tex Murphy adventures.

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So ML to unblur the blur added by the other pass of ML.

I wonder what the "next level" of this stuff is. I don't see a push for 8K - everyone I know is either happy with 4K or even lower. My monitor is only 1440 and while I'm sure I'll go to 4K someday, it won't be any time soon. So what I'm getting at is, if they've built a tech that is all about upscaling but we end up staying at 4K (forever?) what is the upgrade path? I can't see them shrinking the source much. I would doubt you'll see 360p rasters scaled _well_ to 4K.

Further, I wonder if you replaced all the "wasted" transistor space on these chips for raw raster, what kind of numbers would we be getting? It might not be more/much more, but I would expect similar results minus some of the *-tracing stuff. Which, everyone I know turns off anyway.

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Quoting: Serious_TableI am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.

Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!

How does it work on linux? My kids ask for and I see a lutris entry. Do we have to do tricks, cause it don't work with the Java edition?

As Liam said, it's available on Steam (which is where I bought it) and it works great with Proton. If you're using it on the Steam Deck, you'll want to login to your Microsoft account from desktop mode first, but it will then work just fine in Game Mode.

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It appears that they didn't replace the girl's face, so should be ok.

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Quoting: g000hLeave Meta platforms. Stop using WhatsApp, stop using Instagram, stop using Facebook.

Quoting: g000hUse Adblocking technology like uBlock Origin and Ghostery.

Done. Haven't used social media for over 10 years. Been using adblockers for even longer.

Unfortunately, where I live, the community is obsessed with Facebook.

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Quoting: Geppeto35

Quoting: Serious_TableI am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.

Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!

How does it work on linux? My kids ask for and I see a lutris entry. Do we have to do tricks, cause it don't work with the Java edition?

Just buy it on Steam?

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Quoting: Serious_TableI am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.

Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!

How does it work on linux? My kids ask for and I see a lutris entry. Do we have to do tricks, cause it don't work with the Java edition?

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I had to check to make sure this wasn't a Don't Starve sequel from Klei.

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Yesterday, the French municipal elections also saw a historic breakthrough for the far-right party, which openly aligns on nazis and fascists roots, helped (as right before the WWII) by the traditional right wing that fears a true left elected.

Sadly, it smells like our generation could be "all out of bubblegums" in the next decade in this mad world!

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Quoting: praz01Why is this even being done? As someone else said in these comments Flatpak Steam already works brilliantly with marked improvements in performance over native. I'm reluctant to invest in another container implementation when I'm so heavily invested in Flatpak. Is this another Snaps? Why can't they tweak the existing flatpak implementation?

LOL what on earth is this comment.

• flathub steam app is not published by Valve


• flathub steam app is not supported by Valve


• Valve themselves recommend using the native deb


• flathub steam app is WAY out of date (7 months ago was most recent update)


• flatpak steam has lots of issues and problems being reported by users


• your "marked improvements in performance" comment is misleading. I'm assuming you mean because of the libraries? This has a positive effect on some systems and negative effect on others. So it is DEFINITELY not an improvement for everyone on all systems.

using the flatpak steam app is fine, just please don't go around telling people this version "works brilliantly and performs way better" ... it's simply not true.

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Quoting: VerglasI am not tech-savvy enough to understand exactly what this is about, but that screen shot of TA Kingdoms brought a warm and fuzzy feeling to my stomach.

That screenshot made me want to start playing it. It has been sitting in my library for over 10 years and I never installed it.

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Flatpak Steam is crap, but I'm OK with people thinking otherwise.

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Perfect timing. The rightwing party of germany just claimed almost 20% in one of the lands...🤮

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I am not tech-savvy enough to understand exactly what this is about, but that screen shot of TA Kingdoms brought a warm and fuzzy feeling to my stomach.

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Quoting: Wolfgang RoseThese days I always checkout 'who owns' a particular software. I checked out 'Opera Norway' and noted that the company was floated on the NASDAQ, ergo it will have lots of American investors and will likely cater to US tastes and business norms. In my experience as a developer/tester/project manager, I know most US firms will make all the noises to comply with GDPR, but will often breech intentionally as 'part of business'. In contrast Vivaldi is still privately held (not floated) - so right now at least is still within GDPR.

I'm not being anti-US, I'm just taking precautions against a prevalent business culture that is actively hostile towards its customers. At the moment the only US tools I'm using are Steam (as I have such a large back-catalogue) and Lutris. I'd opt for Heroic Launcher instead, but it is just not as flexible as Lutris. I use CachyOS which is a Deutsch distribution based on Canadian Arch.

Still hoping to see GOG.com bring Galaxy to Linux, then I can remove Lutris from the equation.

Props for the CachyOS and Vivaldi love: what Opera started Vivaldi very much has improved upon.

But your Us focus confused me; isn't Opera owned by the Chinese now? [Link to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)

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A number of VBScript compatibility fixes.

I'm interested in this one actually due to a very very old app

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I am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.

Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!

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Quoting: praz01Why is this even being done? As someone else said in these comments Flatpak Steam already works brilliantly with marked improvements in performance over native. I'm reluctant to invest in another container implementation when I'm so heavily invested in Flatpak. Is this another Snaps? Why can't they tweak the existing flatpak implementation?

Why would anything run faster in Flatpak than outside?

As built/as tested! Unless you can match lib versions on your native OS with one tested by Steam/Lutris/Heroic or compiling wine/proton and fine tuning it, this is optimal. Most of the benchmarks out there are on Snap vs deb, but same holds for flatpak vs native.

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Weird, currently playing GoW: Ragnarok and have no PS-SDK issues with the earlier Proton-GE build.

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​This wine version use more space than 11.4, 11.5 once stay compiled use 4.1gb (around 32400 files) meanwhile 11.4 use 3.5gb (around 30100 files) in my case



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​this dxvk version in my case work with some old titles like this:

earthworm jim 3d







also this game need executable hex edit for fix font issue: in my case replace this value in hex E8 B3 0F 01 00 8B F4 6A FF for 66 90 89 E6 68 FF FF FF 00

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This is what i am really here fore. Linux has the potential to bring all the game eras together. I'm a huge fan of those little retro handhelds because they let you experience 40 year old games together with new ones with an interface that even my old mother would have understood.
Now, with GameNative and stuff, you can even use an 180 Eurodollar device as a mini steam deck, along with the old stuff. I've bought one of the cheapest android retrohandhelds that is feasible to do it on (the Anbernic RG 467H) and man is it cool to have a little steam deck in your pocket. It´s hit and miss on most games, but it is almost perfect for things like darkside detective, Ball X Pit and stuff like that.

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Nice light comedy series with no-nonsense adventuring gameplay. Glad to see the series thrive and develop

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Okay, the change with determining primary monitor is huge.

It was a huge pain in the back that Proton Wayland games did not respect my choice of a primary monitor. I guess that will no longer be the case.

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Quoting: praz01Why is this even being done? As someone else said in these comments Flatpak Steam already works brilliantly with marked improvements in performance over native. I'm reluctant to invest in another container implementation when I'm so heavily invested in Flatpak. Is this another Snaps? Why can't they tweak the existing flatpak implementation?

Why would anything run faster in Flatpak than outside?

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I had never heard of DORF but I love old school RTS. You always give the best recommendations Liam 😄❤️

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Quoting: shadowofwardThe last time i tried gnome i couldn't even make a short cut on the desktop has this been changed?

Oh... And suddenly, just like that, we have all forgotten, that there are GNOME Extensions and we can "extend" the functionality any way we like... 🤔
Like e.g. add the icons back to the desktop... 😁

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Why is this even being done? As someone else said in these comments Flatpak Steam already works brilliantly with marked improvements in performance over native. I'm reluctant to invest in another container implementation when I'm so heavily invested in Flatpak. Is this another Snaps? Why can't they tweak the existing flatpak implementation?

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Another comment about Age Attestation Laws - Fighting Back:

It is clear that Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) has been lobbying politicians in numerous U.S. States to require Age Attestation be inserted into Operating Systems. Meta are doing this in a very sneaky way so that most people are unaware that it is coming from them. Meta wants to "pass the buck" onto the Operating Systems to perform Age Attestation of OS Users, rather than have to pay fines for any children found using their social media platforms.

So, this is Meta's fault. And Meta should be punished. And what more fitting way to punish Meta than to do this:

1) Call them out. Shout from the rooftops, blaming Meta for this. Make other people aware.

2) Leave Meta platforms. Stop using WhatsApp, stop using Instagram, stop using Facebook. Delete your Accounts. Hit them where it hurts - In their pockets. Tell Meta you are leaving because of their lobbying and the impact it is causing to society.

3) For good measure, delete your browser cookies. Use Adblocking technology like uBlock Origin and Ghostery. Make it *harder* for these data mining companies to collect data about you. If you don't use their products (e.g. Facebook) then they are less able to target you for adverts.

4) Switch over to using Mastodon, Signal and other privacy software (instead of Facebook and WhatsApp). Get your friends and family to switch too.

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