Dude (i assume you're a dude, right?), please show me a single government that has enforced "forced acceptance", or where the more conservative to far-right were so completely singled out of the public debate as you're trying to portray. i'll wait.

Great Britain

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI watched the trailer. Sure looked like the main character was killing a bunch of actual cartoony Nazis. But if you see your "side" in that . . . Ehhh, tough. Meanwhile, games where the enemies are Communists are so common it's not even really remarked on.

I was talking about the reactions of the commenters. Also I was thinking about previous post. No one in the comment section reacted to it as if it was a game about historical nazis. So that's not me seeing things or interpreting them. Also I don't really remember any game that's comparable and about killing communists anywhere. I don't know what you`re talking about, sorry.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyFar as I can tell, this site's position is an insistence on common decency. It just so happens that a lot of things the modern far right like to say violate that. That's on them. But I don't see what you have to complain about here except that commenters disagree with you. That isn't a site policy. People rubbishing nonsense is not a free speech violation, it's the other people also getting to speak.

So I would reiterate, that common decency (in my taste) is lacking with such postings. Then you blame the "modern far-right" for being in violation and then you talk about free speech as if I'm trying to shut anybody here. Just... what? Is this the case where we call out someone on being indecent to then do such indecency ourselves? I don't get your point at all.

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Quoting: voxYou can't have read much from us over the years then. We've never been apolitical.

Just remembered some closed comments in a discussions before. Oh well.

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I would kindly ask to stop promoting games with "killing nazis" tagline, that's not about actual nazis and more about killing political opponents that extreme left calls nazis. And all of the comments reflect exactly that. We had one such killing in recent times IRL of the man who werent a nazi, but was named as such by his political opponents. If there's a problem in a modern politics - it's this rhetoric. Also I think that this "game" is a lazy shitpost in gaming form and personally, I'm not interested in such content. This rule will also apply to any "sucking off Adolf simulator 5000" or "kill many communists", just in case.

Also I was under the impression that this site's position was somewhat apolitical. But those types of postings (this is second of such case in my memory) generate "political discussion" that I would consider faux pas and maybe even extreme. It's not nice in any way, shape or form.

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Quoting: scaineI'd LOVE to see an Arch-based distro that give us a store-like experience for updates and software installs. It's frustrating that Arch is so obtuse that even tools like Discover (KDE's appstore) is "not recommended for use with Arch-based distros".

I'm on CachyOS now and it ships with Octopi, but that has multiple problems - the interface is probably worse than Synaptic, a thing I didn't believe possible. It doesn't handle the AUR, and it doesn't know about Flatpak. CachyOS does provide a one-stop "upgrade" tool (open a terminal and type "upgrade", ha!), but no GUI exists.

It's a problem, and one that's hand-waved away by dedicated Arch users who say "just use the terminal". I'm fine doing so, but it means that I wouldn't recommend an Arch distro to anyone, ever. You try Arch, tentatively, after years of Linux exposure, and you might still bounce of it because of this.

So, yeah, so frustrating. Powerful software, like Arch, shouldn't be (this) difficult to use.

Frustrated by the limit of likes I can give to this post.

I love EndeavourOS and use it for some years now. I recommended it for several people over the years because of their frustration with ubuntu or some such and EVERY goddamn time I am confronted with the jokes and concerns about it being Arch-based. Not because of the terminal or some fear of editing configs, but because Arch had developed a reputation of being the most hardcore acne-infested redeyed autism-plus technical extravaganza, that they are afraid to even consider using it in a VM just to see it with their own eyes. Not even THE Arch, mind, but another distro that's based on it.

And every time I have to do this song and dance explaining to them that there's a cult surrounding Arch, of people who made installing it the benchmark for their technical existence and that we should just be nice to them and ignore them otherwise.

And every time, even here, we see comments that even wanting a GUI for something as trivial as package install is somehow a heresy that must bring you great shame and you should be expelled from our brotherhood of no-bloat-arch-installers.

OH, THE PAIN!! I CAN`T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!

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Played the demo for 16 hours and was very invested. Played in a slow pace, but I like it that way. The demo covers first two chapters of the game (Prologue and Chapter 1) which are considered tutorial-type handholding experience where you are met with different mechanics and challenges one piece at a time in a more controlled environment. Then you advance to Chapter 2 (not available in the demo), where the proper game sort of starts. You have everything you've built at that point, just no more handholding as far as I understand. It's considered normal for a new game to start at Chapter 2, according to dev.

Having 16 hours of entertainment for free is good, but some people would be shocked at the idea of having a 8 or even 4 hour tutorial. I would say that it was long because I was engaged and interested: I read everything, pondered at things, calculated my moves and not because I was held hostage by the game with it's drip feed of information about WASD controls for 16 hours (as sometimes happens in this day and age)

So, naturally, I would advise anyone to try the demo, where every core game mechanics are covered and then decide about buying. It's a very unusual game, very experimental in the good sense. There's something from AI WAR, Syndicate, 4X games and RPG indeed. One android went on a mission to steal money, while the other went to study cats (of all things), I was busy building water treatment infrastructure and orchestrating a military operation with air support to steal toilet paper from a warehouse. Sounds insane? Yes, frankly, when spelled like that, but it was fun and unusual and engaging. That's extremely rare in my experience.

Play the demo!

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Just in case you want to use it on one of the handheld retro-games gadgets (Anbernic and the like), you might consider using knulli [External Link], which is a fork that targets such devices.

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Having Linux on a mobile phone gives you a lot of advantages compared to Android

I think that there's no one that will argue against it. The real question is - is there a linux phone to be found? And can it run anything except the most rudimentary applications? Librem is overpriced and was marred with allegations of scamming people, Volla makes (AFAIK) good devices and the OS, but it's linux-based, and I'm not sure how open it is. Pinephone (first) is a well-rounded and fairly open device that supports linux, but the specs are low as hell. Pinephone pro has better specs, but inherent bugs that will not be fixed, it seems. Some devices claim linux support, but it means some closed version of the 4.xx kernel or some such, not mainline. postmarketOS and ubuntu touch has reportedly full feature set on like 1-3 android devices from 2018! The software stack may be ready as hell (although I would argue that it's undercooked still), but there's no proper hardware support or availability across the board. And it's cultist territory! The amount of effort to get the device and then integrate it in your own life is a challenge in itself, even if you're good with linux.

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The Pinephone is getting there...

Is it though? I watched closely for the Pine company to deliver for years now and all the energy seemed to dissipate in the last couple of years. They can't even bring themselves to make a monthly newsletter a yearly occurrence. Such a shame.
I own couple of their products and the support for Pinebook Pro is meh at best - sleep functionality is broken still and no news about it being fixed apart from some obscure hacks that ultimately don't work. Same should be true with the second Pinephone, which has the same hardware, basically.
But I'm not here to badmouth and the question is legit - are they doing something, anything really with the Pinephone (the original or the second one)?

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Vesktop (or Vencord - I forgot which is correct now) (Discord wrapper application basically) has working screensharing on wayland. But it doesn't have Push-to-talk because of Wayland not having global shortcuts and Electron being itself.

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