🤍🤎🧡🫀🎔💓💕💖💗 Happy Birthday GOL. 💘💙💚💛💜💝💞💟

Still the only gaming community worth my time, even if life has kept me away from games lately. I'll be back though, sooner or later.

Quoting: GroganI'd give you a thumbs up emoji, :thumbsup: if there was one :-)

You can! But you'll have to resort to unicode symbols: 👍

Spoiler, click me

Either copy-paste from a character map application like gucharmap, or "simply" type ctrl+shift+u, then 1f44d and hit enter.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: ShmerlColor syncing reminds SailfishOS ambience idea. Cool concept and it's nice to see.

Waiting for Debian testing to finally get Qt 5.15.4 to be able to switch to the KDE Wayland session and avoid that nasty monitor sleep bug.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qtbase-opensource-src [External Link]

Man, I wish I could have enjoyed owning a SailfishOS device... I really miss being able to use my N9 or even N900.... now that 3G is essentially dead.

Sailfish OS [External Link] works fine for me on my Sony Xperia 10, with official support from Jolla. But unless you're in "the countries of the European Union, UK, Norway [or] Switzerland", you're out of luck.

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Quoting: Free_gamer

Quoting: tuubiIs there a good use case for exclusive full screen these days besides working around DE/compositor quirks? I tend to always pick borderless window if it's available. I haven't seen a downside yet on my system.

Frankly, I can't think of one, quite the opposite to be honest. I can remember back in the day (2005-2010) it was way worse than nowadays, because games would pretty much always change the resolution of the screen, alt-tab was not possible, when the game crashed the screen resolution stayed at the wrong resolution, etc. Back in the day I used to launch games in their own X11 session/server because of these issues.

Borderless fullscreen windows pretty much fixed all of these issues and I can't think of a game where I don't use borderless when it's available.

Yeah I remember the old days as well. That's why I qualified my question with "these days".

Quoting: Free_gamerIt's only strange in the case of this game, because they mention exclusive fullscreen in the options, but it's not available.

Sounds strange indeed.

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Quoting: Free_gamerBut yeah, it's strange that they don't offer real fullscreen (only borderless and window), but I'm not sure if that happened with the latest update or if the release version also already had that issue.

Is there a good use case for exclusive full screen these days besides working around DE/compositor quirks? I tend to always pick borderless window if it's available. I haven't seen a downside yet on my system.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PublicNuisanceNo privacy kill switches; no Coreboot support; looks like closed source firmware required on the GPU and wifi. If I was getting a new laptop i'd spend the extra money and get a Librem 14 or if I was spending the same/less i'd get suped up T440P from Vikings. I can see the appeal if wanting an AMD CPU/GPU is a dealbreaker for you but seems like a lot to give up on the privacy/security front.

A lot of people gave up on privacy long ago. I know I pretty much have; I can either spend a ton of time being obsessed with it and still probably not really succeed, or I can accept that the only reason there probably isn't anyone who knows that much about my really private stuff is that nobody cares, but all the information I generate that has any use for targeted advertising is applied in ten seconds flat and that's just how it's gonna be until the revolution comes.

Be the change you want to see. If you don't care about privacy then that's one thing but if one does care; does nothing to achieve what privacy they can; and then complains how they have none; then they get no sympathy from me.

I don't do nearly all that I can, but I do several things that I find convenient enough: I've never had social media accounts; I avoid devices, operating systems and services by google/amazon/apple/microsoft/insert-megacorp-here; I prefer local and self-hosted software to alternatives in the cloud; I block ads and most cookies; and so on. None of that costs me much time really. In fact, in some cases it saves me a lot of it. And I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything important or even interesting.

I have no desire to fake my death, wrap myself in tinfoil and go live in a cave, but I don't think that's a reason to give up on my privacy completely.

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Quoting: mphuZ

Quoting: RussianNeuroMancerand honestly wish Ukrainians death

You have a false idea about the Russian people and who the war is being waged against.

Your vague allusion to some non-specific hidden knowledge do not change the fact that as long as civilians are dying, any and all reasons and excuses ring hollow.

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Quoting: chelobakaBusiness cannot be run on emotions and it shouldn't touch politics as well. Does cancelling of this DLC help one side against the other in the conflict? Highly unlikely. But it will surely hurt the developer.

Politics and emotions affect the buying decisions of their customer base. We're not machines, and we have our own (political) opinions and personal biases. Therefore you simply cannot separate business from politics and emotions. That's obvious from consumer focused marketing for basically any product ever.

Besides, businesses are run by human beings with their own opinions and ethical standards, as they should be. These people are free to make business decisions based on these standards, at least within the confines of relevant laws and regulations, balanced with the needs of stakeholders in case of a public company. And SCS is still a privately owned business, so no pressure to satisfy indifferent investors.

In this case, I'd argue the decision was driven by the market as much as it was influenced by politics. The Russian Euro Truck Sim community isn't likely to be totally insignificant, but SCS's customer base is likely to be overwhelmingly on one side of this particular issue. Positive messaging pertaining to Russia (even in a context like this) isn't likely to go down well right now, or in the near future.

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Quoting: LNXDirt 4 was my best driving experience ever using keyboard (no wheel). It's discounted as well. While Dirt Rally was my worst (wheel is mandatory here :angry:)

I can see how Dirt Rally would be horrible using a keyboard, but I have to say I got hundreds of hours of entertainment out of it with a cheap gamepad. Thumbsticks and triggers can't beat a wheel and pedals obviously, but they do the job. That said, it's a hard game to master no matter your control scheme.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: kit89DRAG is also on sale with 75% off and has native Linux support.

While I adored that one when I played it, since the sale they've not really announced much of anything and it's a little worrying right now.

Yeah I was wondering about this as well, but I bet it has something to do with the acquisition of the developer by iRacing [External Link].

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Quoting: Woodlandor

Quoting: slaapliedjeSerious Sam 4... like the only Croteam game that isn't Linux Native (yet?). Was saddened when they stopped their awesome trend...

I might be in the minority, but I’m just happy it works at all.
I look at it like:
I want to run cars on pickle juice but most manufacturers only make gasoline cars.
Someone (Valve and others) made it so I can run my car on pickle juice.
I’m okay with that 🤷‍♂️

It's still sad when a manufacturer stops producing pickle juice powered cars.

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