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Developer of popular noise suppression tool NoiseTorch has dev machine compromised
22 May 2022 at 9:37 pm UTC

Quoting: 14Stolen private keys... So, if they were password protected, that would buy you time to make a new private key and revoke the old ones.
Unless, keylogger on the system?

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16 May 2022 at 9:08 pm UTC

Quoting: EikeIs there anything to do for me to make it show up here, after registering an Patreon?
There should be a "Patreon Linking" link in your User CP.

art of rally is getting another big free update with Indonesia
13 May 2022 at 9:12 pm UTC Likes: 1

Indonesia, lovely! They really should add some Proton cars with the update to complete the Southeast Asia experience!

Some sort of mod support is planned for the future too, but I don't think anything has been announced as to what exactly. User created stages or cars?

Proton Experimental bumps minimum driver version, more playable on Linux and Steam Deck
13 May 2022 at 11:55 am UTC

Quoting: damarrinThat version bump is brutal, these are really recent drivers.
Yup. And not really recommended:

"Mesa 22.0.0 is a new development release. People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait for Mesa 22.0.1."
https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/22.0.0.html [External Link]

Proton Experimental bumps minimum driver version, more playable on Linux and Steam Deck
13 May 2022 at 11:52 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: jordicomaWhy anyone would play on proton "Beneath a Steel Sky"?. "Beneath a Steel Sky" its freeware and it runs perfectly with scummvm (is where I played this game).
And the sequel "Beyond a steel sky" it has native support.
Well I supose if someone wants it could be run.
The version on Steam is not native, and Proton/Steam Deck does not use Roberta or anything similar to run these games through a native ScummVM.

The Windows version of ScummVM Beneath a Steel Sky ships with was apparently using some text-to-speech API that wasn't supported in Proton previously.

Humble put up a 'Handheld PC Power Bundle' of games ready for Steam Deck
11 May 2022 at 7:28 pm UTC Likes: 4

I had to do a double take as I misread that as "Handheld PowerPC Bundle of games".

fheroes2 for Heroes of Might and Magic II improves hotkeys, cursors and languages
11 May 2022 at 7:45 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: CyrilI know... one day Heroes III will have the same treatment, I believe it!
There's VCMI [External Link] - but it seems to be a stalled project.

Linux user share on Steam hits second highest percentage in years
3 May 2022 at 9:42 am UTC Likes: 16

Quoting: LNXfor killing native linux games development
It might, but it haven't happened yet.

Check the stats for native releases by year on Steam. It's pretty constant, even with the arrival of Proton.

Good Old Games Week is live on GOG with a sale
29 Apr 2022 at 2:52 pm UTC Likes: 7

RV-GL [External Link] is a modern open-source rewrite for ReVolt with Linux support. Recommended!

Linux distro Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS from System76 is out now
26 Apr 2022 at 9:18 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy"Added support for laptop privacy screens."

What exactly is a "laptop privacy screen"?

They only ones I've ever heard of or seen are those things you physically stick to the display... But I don't know why you'd need software support for that, so obviously they're referring to something else here.
Yeah that is odd.

There are actually built in privacy screens in some laptops, HP SureView for example. But it doesn't seem to need any sort of driver support (it's a pure hardware feature).