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Quoting: ElectricPrismThe amount of time required to research addons and configure Kodi is too much of a entry barrier. I would rather save my time and throw money at something to save me my time. I would even buy Kodi Plus or something if it meant a system that went toe to toe with SmartTV functions without the nonsense in a FOSSy way. It's totally okay to sell FOSS @Kodi. (Eg: Redhat, Ubuntu, Linux Autos, etc..)

Since I found Plex and now Jellyfin, I have no use for Kodi anymore. My experience is the same as yours, a lot of configuration and plugins and the controls are bit hard.

I have to agree. I like Kodi, but Jellyfin has been a breeze in comparison. The WebOS client on my LG OLED can be a bit fussy with some file formats, but otherwise it just works.

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Quoting: dpanterA couple of really good games in the mix, your call if the 300+ € savings was worth 20 bucks.

Your math is faulty. You only saved money on the games you'd have bought anyway, and only if you'd have spent more than that 20 bucks on them. But I suppose it doesn't matter if you're happy with the purchase.

Personally I don't see why I'd ever buy one of these "mystery" bundles.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismNow that HB is a subsidiary of IGN, does anyone remember who HB's copycats and lookalikes were?

I would prefer to keep an eye on the Indie and side market. HB is kindof like going to the mall.

I don't know if GMG ever did any bundles
https://greenmangaming.com [External Link]

I might have been thinking of Fanatical (Bundle Stars), looks like SS is 17.99 there at the moment
https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/system-shock [External Link]

There was the one that shut down. And there might have been another one, help me out if anyone remembers.

IndieGala maybe? That one's still around.

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Not the kind of game I usually buy, it looks silly and fun. I'd like to enter.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: The ArticleI imagine most of you gaming are likely at least on the 560 series

I rolled back from Linux Mint 22 because I felt it was too early for it to take over from LM 21.3 as a gaming platform.

Did your problems have something to do with your Nvidia hardware? Or did the switch to pipewire mess with your audio somehow? I haven't noticed any regressions myself.

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Quoting: nnohonsjnhtsylayYou probably already had its dependencies downloaded and built.

I downloaded the LACT 0.6.0 source tarball, ran `rustup update` (I haven't touched rust in a long while), installed libgtk-4-dev and blueprint-compiler (the only dependencies I was missing) with apt and ran "make". I'm pretty sure that was a full build. In fact, I extremely rarely install anything from source on this machine.

I'm obviously not disputing that Rust can be slower to compile than C. Worth it in my opinion as a developer, but I see how that can annoy users of source based distros.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: nnohonsjnhtsylaySadly its written in rust so it takes forever to compile on my computer, even with my cpu with 24 threads

Took less than a minute for me on my eight cores. I suppose that's pretty long but not quite forever.

Just for reference, it took 3 minutes 41 seconds to build on my 5950X (16 core).

That's weird. According to benchmarks, your CPU should be slightly faster than my 9700x at compiling software. Maybe it's got something to do with how the arch package is set up?

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Quoting: nnohonsjnhtsylaySadly its written in rust so it takes forever to compile on my computer, even with my cpu with 24 threads

Took less than a minute for me on my eight cores. I suppose that's pretty long but not quite forever.

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5 new playable characters Squiddy, ...

Did they add this particular character just for you, Liam? :grin:

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Quoting: LoudTechieMy secondary anecdotal evidence is the persistence of religious themes in Japanese media such as manga and anime. Reincarnation in the form of those Shonen stories, gods and even the occasional kami, the common theme of slaying and becoming Gods(uncommon in western media, since in western religious practice gods are supposed to be immortal(has its root in the early days of Christianity and greek philosopher discussions), while in Shinto one can become and kill a god), the mention of Ki(although more in Korean media, but that's the most neighboring country to Japan so some cultural overlap is to be expected), etc.

Norse/Germanic gods and mythical beings feature prominently in modern Japanese popular fiction, but that doesn't mean they're all believers in the Æsir. (Who are not immortal by the way, even though they're Western gods.) There's also a plethora of demons, angels, golems, genies and other creatures from Christian, Jewish and Arabic lore. And Greek and Egyptian gods and monsters obviously. Religious myths are simply a goldmine for storytellers worldwide. I doubt that says much about the religious beliefs of the authors or the fans.

Quoting: LoudTechieIt's at least big enough in Japan: to rebel against [External Link].

This is of course no proof, but now you can see how I came to a contrary conclusion to you.

The same Wikipedia article provides the statistic that around 70% of Japanese have no personal faith (which is a higher percentage than most Western countries I think), although about the same percentage follow some Buddhist and Shinto traditions and rituals. So who knows. Maybe it's like many people around me who go to church for weddings and funerals, but only identify as Christian because they consider it their culture or heritage. By that I mean that if you asked which religion they identify with, they'd say Christian, but if you word the question slightly differently, they'd answer "not religious".

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Quoting: BlackBloodRum

Quoting: Mountain ManWith all this doom and gloom talk about the end of Manjaro, I have to ask, what's the best alternative?

(Of course every Linux distro seems to be surrounded by pronouncements of its impending demise, but it rarely comes to pass.)

Gentoo.

I know that feels like a meme, but it's really not. This thing is rock solid stable like a mountain, and man switching to it was the best choice I ever made. I don't even get all those little "odd bugs" you normally get on other distros.

You compile all the packages yourself which means you can patch out forced telemetry yourself or disable it at compile time (I do this for KDE). Binary packages are available now, but you lose some customizability.

Anything done in a way you don't like can basically be changed, no questions asked.

I ran Gentoo many years ago and found it to be rather labor intensive and too easy to break even with a routine update. I imagine things have changed in the past 15 years, but I also have no compelling reason to abandon Manjaro at the moment since it has always just worked for me. I suppose that's boring to people who like to constantly tweak and tinker, but these days, I really don't mind boring!

Same, but I suppose I've ended up drifting even further to the other extreme. :grin:

Gentoo was great fun for a couple of years though, back when a full stage 1 install took a whole weekend on my Athlon Thunderbird 750, with a stack of printed A4 sheets for an installation manual. It was a good learning experience for a relative Linux newbie such as myself in the very early 2000s. Still miss portage and ebuilds. But not quite enough to go back. :whistle:

To be fair, I've read that Gentoo provides binary packages these days and stage 1 and 2 installs haven't been a thing for a good 15 years. The distro must have changed quite a bit since those halcyon days of yore.

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