Being both adorable, and a treating Linux users well out-of-the-gate? I don't care how Hytale is to play, it deserves kudos!🥰

I instantly bought it after reading this with some rather luckily leftover spending money.

I'm a bit sheepish; I hadn't even heard of it before seeing a video about its troubled start last week.

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Quoting: toru9999about:config
browser.ml.enable -> false
problem solved

Just checked, this is the default in Librewolf. I switched to it a few months ago, and it was relatively painless.

I've also got Pale Moon, dillo, and NetSurf installed. The last two are really no more useful than lynx, but work well with older websites that don't use javascript/html5.

Pale Moon I keep around for their forks of 3.X (multi-threaded, choose my-own-blasted-destination-directory) downthemall and flashgot (no modern Firefox equivalent, as even VideoDownloadHelper just discontinued their companion app). My old browsing flow made heavy use of both, before WebExtensions ruined that. The forums aren't very welcoming, but the browser works "fine".

Chromium I only use for gmail and shopping. Manifest V3 should burn.

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If you're a fan of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on the PS2, Demon Stone plays almost identically.:grin: The game still looks great to me, 20 years later. God, I feel old.:dizzy:

It's definitely a 9.5/10 from me.

It also has a pretty good story written by R.A. Salvatore, set sometime after The Hunter's Blades Trilogy of books. Drizzt Do'Urden does appear during one level, but you needn't have read any of the Drizzt books to get what's going on.

Patrick Stewart voicing Khelben Arunsun, my favorite actor and second favorite FR character (after Elminster) respectively, is definitely a plus.:heart:

Yes I'm a major Forgotten Realms nerd. My only problem is that so many of the video games reuse the D&D standard Silver Sword of Gith :sick: as a MacGuffin, when there are plenty of Realms-specific ones to choose from. I get really tired of that. It's like no one cares to do the research, or at least consult Ed Greenwood.:cry:

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Thanks!:grin: this makes me feel a little better after we (my mother and I) had to spend a king's ransom to fix our air conditioning, which had been broken since October.

What finally made us fix it? Three weeks of 95°F/35°C, indoors! :cry: We couldn't take it anymore!

Never again shall I be so hot, for so long, God as my witness!

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I've owned Mordheim:CotD for several years from GoG and can highly recommend it, but fair warning:

If you think XCOM is hard, Mordheim will eat man-thing up and spit man-thing out like day-old Wyrdstone/Warpstone dust, yes-yes:wink::tongue:. It's also a much slower-paced game that punishes haste with total-party-kills.

The game stays reasonably close to the tabletop version, while being much less expensive. More-so than its relative Total War: Warhammer, even.

The DLC characters/factions do nothing to hamper the difficulty, merely giving you more options. I highly recommend waiting for a sale, and only if you like the game enough.

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Not to mention Bruce Schneier's blog about a new rootkit "discovered" (read: written) by ARMO:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/new-linux-rootkit.html [External Link]

ARMO claim that they have a product to stop this type of attack.

Or one can simply disable io_uring by running sysctl kernel.io_uring_disabled = 1 as root to disable it temporarily, or adding the following line in /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf:

kernel.io_uring_disabled = 1

and reboot to disable it altogether.

Edit: forgot kernel

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Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a goodnight.:grin:

Also, it's a shame about the forum:cry:; I'll pray that law gets fixed someday. Thank you for maintaining it for so long, Liam.

Blessed Be, and best wishes to all my fellow tuxedo-sporting pals.

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I mean, I kinda saw Ciri-as-the-protagonist of the next game coming a mile away, given some of the endings possible in III.

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

Quoting: WorMzyHopefully the user-facing packaging system remains as simple as it is currently. The PKGBUILD+makepkg way of creating packages is one of the main strengths of Arch.

Strongly Agree. PKGBUILD is amazing, I hope Arch doesn't do anything to complicate -- this is just like Prime Numbers and Exponents -- there is a optimal amount of complexity and a optimal amount of simplicity -- otherwise we would all program exclusively in assembly.

What I could get behind:

1. Optionally compile every package from source, and steal all the good ideas from Gentoo (Flags, Patches in etc)

2. LAN Mirrors. It would be nice if it were possible for Arch to ask LAN computers to also act as Mirrors -- then instead of downloading the same package 3-16 times it could be transferred locally similar to how Steam allows LAN to reduce bandwidth load and increase update speed on games.

3. Roll-back -- undoing the last software update in-case it has a problem or you just don't like it.

4. Set a target installation date where installed packages don't exceed X date and pull from the Arch Archive. (AFAIK this is presently possible to an extent)

5. More target architectures to compile against, ARM, RISCV

6. Warnings of new Arch News __prior__ to important updates which introduce breakage, eg: Pacman 6 => 7

I've run into some of the same problems, and found a few solutions, some clunkier than others:

You can already do #1 quite easily with the ABS [External Link] via pkgctl [External Link] (replaces the old asp tool) which uses the flags set in makepkg.conf.

#2 actually has an entire sub-section in Pacman tips and tricks [External Link] listing several ideas. I didn't know that before today that was and added as a feature in pacman 6.1.0! There really should be more documentation on this kind of stuff.:dizzy:

You can also easily roll your system back using the AUR package downgrade [External Link] which takes the guesswork out of using the ALA.

Several scripts and AUR helpers can do #6. For example, pikaur warns you by default; with a handy function to mark news as read before proceeding.

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Excuse me for lapsing into my native hillbilly:

Bless yer hearts Funko, you gol'durned IDJITS!

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