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I'm looking forward to this till it was announced (I finished the first game multiple times and yes I'm a WH40k fan :-D ). I played demo of Mechanicus 2 on Steam Deck and it was great, but it had some performance issues on Steam Deck. We will see if those are fixed in full game.

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Quoting: CatKiller

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Imagine Baby Shark, for example, had been stuck in a significant chunk of all films, TV programs and computer games for 75 years because it's "funny." How would you feel the next time you heard Baby Shark?

I had to Google Baby Shark. I guess this is like how my one friend hates "DJ Airhorn" or whatever. lol

I agree with (uhhh) CatKiller. It just rips me right out of the movie. I bet it's... Actually no, it can't even be fun putting that into a movie at this point, it's completely played out. It's one thing if a particular sound from a particular library gets a ton of use as these things happen organically, but deliberately putting a particular sound in? Just. Stop. Already.

But. This use I like.

Anyway, back to media people/reviewers treating the items they receive for review as personal gifts which is then used by the manufacturer for marketing purposes.

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Now if Discord would make it so that Pipewire audio could be captured that would be nice. I think that might be the reason why on FF based browsers the desktop audio doesn't work.

I personally wouldn't want to use the app, but would like to use Discord in a web browser cause it's in a nice browser tab instead of a separate app.

Or maybe it's some other issue. Would need to test it out.

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The "coming soon" is probably one with an extended definition. The description of the video says next year. Talos 2 released in November, so if that's the case here as well it's still 18 months away. But that would give it four years of development time, which sounds reasonable.

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I was wondering why the UI looks much nicer now, gj

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Quoting: LinuxwarperProblem I see with the statement "Year of Linux" is that people dont consider the negatives of increased userbase. Users can also be a detriment. Ideally you would have just enough percentage to ensure platform is supported and doesn't get neglected, whether that be 5% or 40% is irrelevant.

No, ideally it would be everyone, because how do you want to protect your data if the data leak is not on your PC, but on your friends PCs?

All the people care for freedom etc will not disappear. Do you really think Debian or Arch will change with a bigger Linux user-base? As long these two distros are clean, I do not fear the future of Linux.

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Is this made by the same people as Magic The Gathering Arena, or maybe the same engine? It looks and sounds almost identical!

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Quoting: PhlebiacNice to see a government investing tax revenue in public benefit open source, rather than wasteful things like bombs (where most of the money goes to rich corporatists and/or shareholders, and if the thing actually gets used it has even more negative economic impact, not to mention the human impact).

Germany does indeed both: building real bombs (one of the biggest military producers in the world) and buying big tech bombs (such as Palantir in 3, soon 4 of 16 states), but also support free (as freedom) technologies. I expect the country to invest more and more in both kinds of technologies. The explanation is easy: different actors doing opposite things.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyIn my wardrobe, I have both the PlayStationVR and the PlayStationVR 2. The original model had loads of support, but has such a low refresh rate and resolution that you can't play for more than fifteen minutes without severe headaches (which seems to get worse with age). I don't have that problem with the PlayStationVR2 - but there's virtually no support for it!

Ignorant question here: does the second model not offer improved gameplay for the games made for the first model? Or do the two models run on different console generations?

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Quoting: Linux_Rocks

Quoting: LinuxwarperGoogle is increasingly a great example of a company that used open source like a cheap prostitute, excuse my vulgarity, and now they are shutting down Android.

One could also argue the same thing with Apple and macOS. As at the start, Apple were touting the open source origins of Mac OS X.

Not really the same. Apple butchered Darwin, sure (never mind CUPS, OpenGL support, and probably others), but it never covered anywhere close to what was under AOSP. All Apple cared about with Darwin marketing was attracting whatever Unix fans they could.

My bad, I just remember them being all like "*BSD this" and "open source that" with Mac OS X and software. I also remember there being a thing with the Yellow Dog Linux people at the Apple Store near me too. I was really surprised about that, even back then.

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Nice to see a government investing tax revenue in public benefit open source, rather than wasteful things like bombs (where most of the money goes to rich corporatists and/or shareholders, and if the thing actually gets used it has even more negative economic impact, not to mention the human impact).

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Quoting: KimyrielleAm I the only one who thought Solo wasn't THAT bad?

I didn't think it was bad. It was by no means great, but it wasn't bad either. It caused Disney to pull back on their overly ambitious plan for a new Star Wars movie every year, which probably would have made people totally fed up with it. But the fact they dried up almost completely, when they had so many announced as in development, is also sad.

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Quoting: elmapulwait this game was not from ubisoft?

They were the publisher; Steam is currently listing the developer (Reflections) as a Ubisoft studio. Unclear if they are still involved at all, or if all rights and source code are now with the new publisher (Atari). I'd guess the latter.

now on GOG in the GOG Preservation Program

Nice to see they haven't ditched the Linux build on the first game (yet?). But I doubt it's covered by their preservation program. That Linux build is a pretty good sign that Ubisoft was mainly just the publisher, as they don't do Linux (although they did for Stadia; too bad that didn't transfer to the wider ecosystem).

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Quoting: elmapulwait this game was not from ubisoft?

It was, but Atari bought the rights last year.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/atari-acquires-the-rights-to-five-classic-ubisoft-titles/

EDIT: Says so right in the first sentence of this article. :D

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Quoting: GerarderloperNow Valve just needs to connect this to the Steam Achievements page for number of times controller dropped.

A lot of industrial devices do have drop counters in them, and I bet it does play a factor in some warranty claims.

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The year is not here yet, I'll celebrate once we hit perhaps 10% of the desktop market share. At least according to Steam we're doing quite okay.

Already exceeding 10% there, if you only care about English.

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Quoting: LinuxwarperGoogle is increasingly a great example of a company that used open source like a cheap prostitute, excuse my vulgarity, and now they are shutting down Android.

One could also argue the same thing with Apple and macOS. As at the start, Apple were touting the open source origins of Mac OS X.

Not really the same. Apple butchered Darwin, sure (never mind CUPS, OpenGL support, and probably others), but it never covered anywhere close to what was under AOSP. All Apple cared about with Darwin marketing was attracting whatever Unix fans they could.

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in Israel where it would attempt to play a loud siren and wipe your filesystem.

I certainly don't condone targeting civilians who may even disagree with their government (I very much disagree with a whole lot of what the current government of my country [US] does), but I guess that's better than getting bombed? Civilians in Lebanon and Iran (or Ukraine) would surely prefer damaged computers to what they get now.

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Quoting: CaldathrasIn fact, I've noticed that fewer and fewer products actually have Amazon as a seller anymore. Most items are sold by marketplace sellers, often as "fulfilled by Amazon". Their software often promotes the marketplace item over their own (which is, admittedly, more expensive). This kind of suggests that they are in fact facilitating and benefitting small business.

To add to what's already been said: Amazon definitely does not benefit small businesses. They take a 15% cut of all sales, which is fine for companies like Apple that build obscene margins into their products, but is half or more of the profit on many physical goods. If you add in "fulfilled by Amazon", that brings even more Amazon fees for the seller, as they charge for warehousing the products, moving them between warehouses, etc., even if the product never sells. They will even charge for destroying the product, if they decide they don't want to sell it for you (all at their discretion). It all revolves around Amazon maximizing their profit, not supporting third party sellers.

On top of all that: Amazon has very strict rules about customers; they make it very clear that the customers belong to Amazon, not to the actual seller of the products. If the seller includes any kind of marketing material in the shipping box or in customer communications ("hey, check out our other great products on www.ournicesite.com"), Amazon revokes their ability to sell. They funnel all emails through their own platform, so they can snoop for such things - sellers do not get actual email addresses.

Edit: So why does anyone sell at Amazon? Because that's where so many customers go first. Comparison shopping sites (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, and so on) used to be a thing, but between Amazon and Google they got wiped out. Google had free product listings until all the comparison shopping sites were gone, then they started charging for them. They had big plans to be more of a shopping front-end, but abandoned it when they realized too many people just went to Amazon instead. So the current situation is partly Google's fault, but their market manipulation ended up benefiting Amazon more than it did them.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyI just want to buy the original again... But strangely, they never sell it; only Doom.

Sure, I've almost certainly got a copy or two of this around here somewhere - but it would be nice to have a 'prepackaged' version from GOG.com or Steam.

You mean this one?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/9010/Return_to_Castle_Wolfenstein/

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Quoting: GustyGhostForecasting a drop back to the high 3~% range next month. This kind of sudden change certainly looks anomalous along the greater trend. Glad to be a part of this growth though. 🐧

You were wrong. Only a drop to 4.53% occured.

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• Implementing Factory Reset Functionality for KDE Linux

I have asked for this for AGES. This should just be standard in every Linux! I shouldn't need to reach for a separate usb flashdrive to fix things! It's not like the concept is new - PopOS has been doing it for ages, they even have a whole GUI to make sure the recovery drive uses the most up-to-date ISO.

I just want a nice GUI to soft reset settings and packages without touching the rest of my files, with an option for a more thorough factory reset, and ideally could maybe work as a recovery environment but we can talk about improvements after the basics been implemented.

It still frustrates me that immutable OS would have all these fancy protections and not have, like, the most simple fallback option that every other OS have, of which has been implemented on Linux on a non-immutable place, despite immutable OS theoretically already having an entire image of the system.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyMy year of the Linux desktop was somewhere around 2000, I can't remember exactly. The Linux desktop sucked really hard back then, but so did Windows 98, so.

That would be more in line with my opinion. I'd say the year when a normal Linux desktop as daily driver was viable. I switched in 2002 and it was viable for a least a little while before that.

I'm gonna split the difference with you guys and say 2001, cause that's when I started using Linux regularly for the first time. I dual-booted, but I did everything but gaming (and a few other things) in Linux.

Quoting: LinuxwarperGoogle is increasingly a great example of a company that used open source like a cheap prostitute, excuse my vulgarity, and now they are shutting down Android.

One could also argue the same thing with Apple and macOS. As at the start, Apple were touting the open source origins of Mac OS X.

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Quoting: elmapul"Curiously, the malware was designed to steal passwords and security keys but not just that - it had a special payload if it detected you're in Israel where it would attempt to play a loud siren and wipe your filesystem. Ouch."

wich make it obvious who is behind that shit, the list of suspects is quite small, i mean, nations that could be behind that

Food for thought - it could have been Israel in an attempt to garner support in a rather Israel-hostile world. Like when, and there have been tons of cases, a Jew paints a swastika on their car/house/dorm door in an attempt to garner sympathy.

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Imagine Baby Shark, for example, had been stuck in a significant chunk of all films, TV programs and computer games for 75 years because it's "funny." How would you feel the next time you heard Baby Shark?

I had to Google Baby Shark. I guess this is like how my one friend hates "DJ Airhorn" or whatever. lol

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Quoting: Linux_Rocksbut_why.gif

Imagine Baby Shark, for example, had been stuck in a significant chunk of all films, TV programs and computer games for 75 years because it's "funny." How would you feel the next time you heard Baby Shark?

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Quoting: CatKillerI really hate the Wilhelm scream. Kudos to Valve for the little joke, but I really hate the Wilhelm scream.

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I backed Mina the Hollower on Kickstarter, but I'm getting the Switch 2 version. lol

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Quoting: CatKillerAlso of note for the Germany/KDE connection is [Blue Systems.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Systems)

Also, Matthias Ettrich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Ettrich, founder of the KDE project) is german 😊

Here's a transcription of the original announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/announcement/

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Yeah the name is a bit odd but I don't think calling it the INDEX 2 would work either since the Index was very different to how it worked and people would certainly get the requirements mixed up. (like needing PC, tether and tracking stations)

Even tho the Frame is still technically needing a PC. It has been said it should be able to play Quest-3 tier games no problems standalone if you can install the APK.

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