stupid canonical being stupid.

who use package managers in 2023 anyway? we have steam!
seriously, shit like this will only harm canonical and linux in general, the only consistent way to install things on linux is using proprietary softwares like steam.

i think its time to find another distro, im tired of distro hopping, so i sticked with ubuntu for a while, but my patience have limits.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: whizse

Quoting: elmapuleven purchasing used games seems more usefull to me, at least you are giving money to an consumer that might use it to purchase another new game that is still being produced.

Too risky! They might use that money for drugs, or worse, mobile games with ads and micro-transactions!

i dont care if they use drugs, but please, dont spend on mobile games with ads/mtx! that is way to dangerous indeed, thanks for clarifing.

btw im not serious about the drug issue.

I'd say like 90% people on the planet use some drug or another at this point (sure I'm pulling that number out of thin air). Granted most are told to take the drugs by their doctors. But it's really crazy to think about how dependent we are on medications these days.

dude, 100% of the mobile gamers use drugs, they are called "mobile games".
those 'skinner box' mechanisms are an form of drug in my opinion.

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i dont live in one of the covered regions, but i would like then to install the drive for me, maybe even sell the deck with the driver already installed, instead of just selling then.
am i the only one?

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: elmapulim already at the point that i read news like this and think:
of course it does, why wouldnt it?

Because many...don't or have serious issues. I've blogged about quite a lot of issues over the last year.

i know but we already are at the point that when an big game is announced, it supporting steamdeck/linux is an rule rather than an exception, at least that is how im feeling =D

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: elmapulif we buy those games, those companies will make more games like those? no? so what is the point?

Well...
* owning the games you love(d)?

i understand this feeling of ownership, but this is just that a feeling, having an drm-free/pirated copy is a better feeling.

Quoting: Eike* maybe - depending on what they agreed upon decades ago - sending some money to the people having made these games? (This might be unlikely.)

the companies will, the developers? very unlikely.
i rather not fund companies who sold their soul, if the company still make similiar games, then its worth supporting. (as long as its not predatory)

Quoting: Eike* making those who sell it dig up more treasures from the past? (People keep talking about "abondonware" and how they totally unselfishly rescue these games from vanishing - how about doing the same in a undoubtedly legal way?)

* playing the games?!?

in my experience with official emulators vs unoficial, the unoficial ones are better.
i mean, how many official emulator have shaders to simulate an CRT? and how many do it right?

even when they do, sometimes the emulating aspect is worse than free/free (price, freedom) emulators, and even when they are good companies keep recicling the same games again and again, seling the same old games as if they were the only ones instead of selling more stuff.
i rather support an "we sell the rom, bring your own emulator" model than an crap one, i have KOF from GOG but their emulator is so bad that i barely play it.
i wish companies started funding emulators and distribute their roms with then instead, at least it would give me more incentive to purchase.

as for pc games that no longer work, paying again for then may incentive companies to use tecnology that will be deprecated soon rather than later, so when the game stop working due to changes on how windows/consoles/hardware/drm/game engine work, people have to purchase their games again.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: elmapuleven purchasing used games seems more usefull to me, at least you are giving money to an consumer that might use it to purchase another new game that is still being produced.

Too risky! They might use that money for drugs, or worse, mobile games with ads and micro-transactions!

i dont care if they use drugs, but please, dont spend on mobile games with ads/mtx! that is way to dangerous indeed, thanks for clarifing.

btw im not serious about the drug issue.

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if we buy those games, those companies will make more games like those? no? so what is the point?
even purchasing used games seems more usefull to me, at least you are giving money to an consumer that might use it to purchase another new game that is still being produced.

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Quoting: TermyI don't think so, the magnets are permanent magnets that produce a magnetic field whose change the hall sensor picks up.

there is a thing called electromagnet, quoting from wikipedia:
is a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by an electric current.

maybe it could be used to create stronger magnetic fields or weaker, to create a force feedback?

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im already at the point that i read news like this and think:
of course it does, why wouldnt it?

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Quoting: TermyI'm still amazed those high price controllers still use potentiometer sticks.
After trying out the Gulikit Kingkong, hall effect sticks just are on a whole other level and there is no excuse to not use them on anything that costs more than 30 or 40 bucks. If only the Kingkongs would work better on linux :/

this is like the dreamcast controller that use magnets to "work forever without drift" ?

i wonder if you can use the magnets to make the stick harder or softer to move without wearing it out, it would be a cool haptic feedback feature.

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