Quoting: setzer22No wonder why this laptop looked familiar! The chasis for this is identical to the Slimbook PRO X15 I'm using right now! :huh:

This led me down the rabbit hole of research and turns out there's a bunch of laptop manufacturers (including Tuxedo and Slimbook) are selling the same computer from a Chinese manufacturer called TongFang: https://www.hk.tongfangpc.com/thin-g-series-2/ [External Link] (Note that their SSL certificate seems to have expired, so your browser may freak out when you click that link). I've also come to learn System76 is doing a similar thing with a company called Clevo.
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I don't know about the others, but Tuxedo does have a relationship with their OEM so they feed back into the BIOS for updates. I am pretty sure there's more going on that just sticking a different logo on the lid.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumI know this goes against everything the linux community is pushing for at the minute, but it's my opinion and my choice.

I'm not sure if it is what, "the Linux community," is pushing, rather the vocal minority of 'value added' OS developers.
People with a financial interest speaking for us and, in many instances, not giving us a choice.

My hope is that there will always be some distros who stick to the package managing way, probably Debian and Arch, but we all know Ubuntu will get rid of .deb for anything outside of the core system as soon as they can!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThat video says "Flatpak is the future". Well, I'm willing to believe Flatpak is (the future of proprietary software on Linux). I don't think it would be such a good idea for every damn application and utility, the open source ones, the main Linux software ecosystem, to be using Flatpak instead of normal package management.

While I understand the push for this in response to 'RPM Hell' but the packaging system of GNU/Linux is one of its core strengths. I welcome options, but 'the future' fills me with dread.

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Someone please tell me that we can control the sword-arm like we could in the Treyarch game, Die by the Sword? As crude as it was, and as lacklustre as the story was, that game was a piece of art.

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Quoting: JSVRamirezI hope they're smart enough not to advertise it as working on the SteamDeck; it's a first class ticket to Nintendo sending a C&D.

While I absolutely agree, Nintendo has shown an intentional disregard for the legality of their actions when it comes to emulators and fan projects (see AM2R) and similar scenarios.

This was more where I was coming from. Emulators are legal here, too, but Nintendo has form on these kinds of things and fan projects, even where they were entirely new games with a respectful nod to a Nintendo project.

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I hope they're smart enough not to advertise it as working on the SteamDeck; it's a first class ticket to Nintendo sending a C&D.

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Quoting: jarhead_hI owned Streets 1 on the original Genesis when I was a teenager, and to this day I have never beaten it or any of the sequels. Always run out of lives on the elevator up to the last level. I feel wrong playing this when I haven't even beaten the first one.

Just do it. If you need an excuse, then your logic dictates you play through all three games first, but the third one was just silly and doesn't count... so you may as well skip to four. :wink:

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPYou know what game I'd love to get a "sequel" to?
The Movies.

Oh yes so very this!!!

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Quoting: MnolegWe use a different UltraStar fork at home: https://github.com/ultrastares/ultrastar-worldparty [External Link]

Instead of usb microphones, I built a cheaper setup with a jack mono to stereo adapter.

We also use World Party. It is pretty good, though. I might check out Plus, mind... I read their git tracker some time ago and it sounded like a nice technological step up.

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Quoting: denyasisFrom my plays of Zeus, to me, it almost felt puzzle-like as creating a good layout is the main challenge to be solved.

It's a really cool idea. I hope the devs here keep up the good work.

The puzzle mechanic was massive in Emperor where you needed to balance the feng-sui, as well as meet needs, for housing to evolve. It was rather tedious at times!

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