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Mojang give an update on the future of Minecraft development
10 Sep 2024 at 11:10 am UTC Likes: 2

I see a lot of Mod/Plugin breaking in Minecraft Java then. On Bedrock for the poor peasants that still use Windows, Microsoft is already doing some tricks to avoid function mapping making mods breaking on purpose after each release.

Imagine the same hell being unleashed on Java edition making modders to have to race head by head with Minecraft often releases. This way I'll have to spend more time helping my nephew setting up his controllers by using Controlify mods because of his small hands(can't play on mouse+keyboard).

Sad they come with this bullshit to make Minecraft Java players life even more miserable.

KDE Plasma 6.2 adding a pop-up for donations, plus they want to make a next-generation KDE OS
30 Aug 2024 at 10:46 am UTC

Quoting: LachuIt could be great idea if notification noted how to disable it, or contain button to do this. In my opinion, better be scarred about what community can do. Remember: community overthrow the king, deny need for exclusive games for Linux and force Microsoft to do not block Linux with UEFI.
Shouldn't be that difficult since the instruction from the merge request is "Disable KDED Module". I'm not a KDE user since KDE4 but, I believe that this is somehow located on the System Settings area of KDE. I might try KDE once again for it's Wayland support, just to check out how it is handling stuff related to nvidia Prime

And I got their intention here because, such notification being way too easy to disable will be meaningless, while having it popping-up weekly/monthly will piss the user so, it's a nice balance. I also have no hard feelings for a missing "dismiss" button which I think the "No Thanks" and further disabling is enough.

Time will tell with users providing more opinions on this.

NVIDIA driver with Linux kernel 6.10 causing kernel oops
28 Aug 2024 at 8:45 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: HaelikorLinux Zen 6.10.6 and NVidia 560.35.03 here on Arch.

I was wondering what the hell was happening, watching YouTube videos was suddenly either halting the video (keeps playing sound) at fixed intervals or crashing my web browser. I was gonna start diagnosing after my work week but lol
You're welcome.

At least you didn't got killed on Core Keeper :P

MudRunner and SnowRunner creator announced RoadCraft a heavy machinery construction sim
22 Aug 2024 at 11:59 am UTC

That is a neat way to reuse engine, physics and assets.

It is just kinda of Spintires/Mudrunner/Snowrunner, but with the road rebuilding features.

Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux
22 Aug 2024 at 11:55 am UTC Likes: 6

This brings back good memories when I was discussing that back at 2009/2010, when the first "Steam on Linux" and "Valve's Source Engine are coming to Linux" content was still kinda vaporware-ish and we used to launch Windows Steam client using Cedega, and afterwards when Steam for Linux was officially released back in 2013 and with the Steam Machines product launched I've said to one of my friends:

- "Imagine if Valve built-in something like Wine and made gaming experience transparent for non-Linux games?"

He laughed back then, and today he owns a Steam Deck :tongue:

NVIDIA stable driver 560.35.03 released for Linux with Wayland fixes
22 Aug 2024 at 11:43 am UTC

Extra-testing is cooking it on Arch Linux. Just waiting to try as soon as it hits Extra repo, and try once again to use sway as a substitute to i3wm and evaluate how Wayland support has changed in this new version.

Steering Wheel Manager oversteer adds support for more wheels and Flatpak
16 Aug 2024 at 1:45 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: dziadulewicz
If you install it via the new Flatpak package from Flathub, you still need to set up some udev rules from the GitHub.
Now this is not good again for normal users; why are these "udev rules" (whatever they are) not just included with the Flatpak?
The fact here is that Oversteer do have udev rules - https://github.com/berarma/oversteer/tree/master/data/udev [External Link] - but Flatpaks do not distribute/install udev rules and that is by design - https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/961 [External Link] .As @tfk pointed out on the previous comment, udev access requires operating system admin and there is no API/ABI for the user to manipulate it.

Flatpaks use a different philosophy and they don't install stuff around normal configuration directories like `/etc`.

Also, it is hard to track `udev` rules for every existing device and software on earth in a centralized fashion, and some of them fall into more generic rules like "USB Input device" and you have to make customization that would apply to your specific device. That's why there is no curated list of udev rules for every device that exists, and it is up to the Linux Distribution providers to create a packages with specific udev rules if you think those oversteer udev rules should be bundle on every distribution

Some distros provide a really good amount of Udev rulesets for different devices. Examples:

- retroarch-autoconfig-udev-git - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/retroarch-autoconfig-udev-git [External Link] - Rules to autoconfig usb and bluetooth gamepads for retroarch.
- nintendo-udev - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nintendo-udev [External Link] - Rules for joycons (and to fix controller ownership for steam). I can confirm this also works for Datafrog and 8BitDo controllers as well.

Udev rules can also be pretty destructive as well because it also depends on systemd changes. I had a 100% CPU usage experience in the past with OpenRGB keyboard backlight rules but the developer fixed it really quickly - https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/OpenRGB/-/issues/4166 [External Link] - I think this is a good reason to not bundle "by default" millions of udev rules that target specific devices.

Top-down Terraria-like 'Necesse' gets a huge graphics update on August 10
14 Aug 2024 at 10:05 am UTC

My main issue with Necesse is that there is something misbehaving when it comes to external monitors.

Every time I launch the game on my HDMI screen on my laptop, it crashes hard. Sometimes on the character selection screen, others when playing. If I'm in the middle of a combat, I get killed while the screen gets frozen so, kinda frustrating.

The LEGO Worlds Collide Humble Bundle is a shockingly good deal
7 Aug 2024 at 3:47 pm UTC

I love to play all Lego stuff that is adventure-ish(Batman, LOTR, The Hobbit, Star wars) and you need to collect stuff with my wife. We've finished some of them.

From a couple that also play Minecraft together until this day(after 15+ years together) Lego Worlds would be the best of 2 worlds, being a Lego franchise game with a Minecraft-like aura but we were wrong. Gameplay is boring and the "Survivor" DLC never came.

Also, too bad WB Games barely provided 1,5 years worth of updates and just abandoned it, like they also did with "Gauntlet - Slayer Edition".

Fox-girl platformer Kitsune Tails is a true quality retro-inspired good time - out now
7 Aug 2024 at 8:44 am UTC Likes: 1

Some Kid Chameleon with NES color palete vibes there. Would play.

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