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Discord screen-sharing with audio on Linux Wayland is officially here
15 Jan 2025 at 2:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

I have been using screens haring in Discord Canary for the last month or so under Wayland and it has been working fine. I didn't even notice it got pulled since they fixed it so fast :) This is such a blessing. I was almost ready to switch back to Windows but thankfully I don't have to know.

Thanks Liam for being inhumanly fast on reporting about it :)

Stardew Valley hits over 41 million sales with millions sold during 2024
2 Jan 2025 at 3:25 pm UTC Likes: 6

And yet the "Labour of love" Steam Award, for games getting regular updates long after their release, went to two years old Elden Ring. Go figure...
Steam awards have always been a popularity contest more than anything. The actual award categories means very little. I haven't played Black Myth, though I hear it's good, but is it good enough for three awards? Hats off to the to the hoards of chinese fans.

Sony buy up KADOKAWA shares to become largest shareholder of the FromSoftware parent company
19 Dec 2024 at 3:49 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ZlopezR.I.P. From Software :-(
Why? It's a non-controlling share. They are one investor among many I would imagine.

Quoting: EhvisIt's 10% of the shares. Not exactly something that lets Sony control what's going to happen.
No probably more to ensure access on their platforms and discourage any future deals that would prevent releases on PS5/PS Plus/PS Now. They did the something similar with Epic and Discord for example.

The Illuminate have returned in a massive Helldivers 2 update out now
13 Dec 2024 at 1:33 pm UTC Likes: 1

Thank liberty! I thought the bastards had invaded Super Earth. Still colonies is bad but, you know, it's not red alert end times bad :whistle:

The Illuminate have returned in a massive Helldivers 2 update out now
13 Dec 2024 at 12:39 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: sudoer
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: sudoerlol they turned illuminates into zombies now? :grin:

consider me unimpressed.
That's just the hordes they turned, there's plenty of actual Illuminates.
Imo studios should be more creative than following the rather repetitive Left4Dead formula. It's been done to death already.
Left 4 Dead hardly invented zombies. I see very little resemblance between Helldivers and Left 4 Dead if any at all.

Anyway this patch looks absolutely MASSIVE! The Illuminate, vehicles and we get to fight on Super Earth? Looks like I will gather my friends to defend freedom this evening :)

Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) gets funding from Sovereign Tech Agency
11 Dec 2024 at 8:15 am UTC

Quoting: Adutchman
Quoting: no_information_here
Quoting: BrokattI had to google it. Apparently it's a german federal tech agency.
Yes, my first question was Sovereign to which country?

It would have been great to have more context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Tech_Fund [External Link]

Even their website avoids saying anything about Germany on most pages. Weird.
https://www.sovereign.tech/about [External Link]
It's not immediately clear, but they don't exactly hide it either: https://www.sovereign.tech/faq [External Link].
No they don't hide hit. This page is a little bit better.

https://www.sovereign.tech/news/stf-part-of-new-sovereign-tech-agency [External Link]

Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) gets funding from Sovereign Tech Agency
10 Dec 2024 at 12:56 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ArehandoroThis is the only thing that comes to mind each time I read Sovereign:

Me too :D I had to google it. Apparently it's a german federal tech agency.

MMO interplanetary crafting adventure SpaceCraft from Shiro Games (Northgard, Wartales) announced
6 Dec 2024 at 1:14 pm UTC Likes: 2

Shiro games have been cranking out great releases in recent years. Hope they can pull this one off.

Flathub to become a self-sustaining entity and they're looking to hire someone to help
6 Dec 2024 at 1:06 pm UTC Likes: 9

Flathub really needs to be a separate entity with backing from all major desktops and distros.

Manjaro Linux want your system info with their new data collection tool
6 Nov 2024 at 8:15 am UTC

Quoting: Klaas
Quoting: BrokattTruth is telemetry is really useful for developers and without it's way too easy to make the wrong assumptions.
And it is even easier to make wrong assumptions due to telemetry. Calling it a double-edged sword even with consent is putting it mildly.
I agree. That is true for all statistics though.