This game sort of looks like the Viking version of Conan Exiles. Which is a blast by the way, and seema to work well enough on Proton! Though I play it without Battleye.

I will have to get this one!

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Quoting: sciroccoManjaro Xfce provides the best gaming performance out of the box atm, atleast on my hardware. And being arch based its easy to keep it up to date with the latest software for best performance, and installing a custom kernel for performance in games like Xanmod-cacule is easy. And Ubuntu and pop OS uses snaps and flatpaks which makes them a very bad experience for a new user to linux, they dont follow system theme and crash alot and dont flat out start and brake very often.

Pop_os uses neither by default. Which is why it is on my laptop. They also have a more integrated way of dealing with nvidia hybrid crap than any other distro I have tried.

I was however debating if I should set up Arch on my newly built 'for the big tv' setup, maybe put Gamehub on there along with Steam and Launchbox / big box.

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Quoting: tpauI still hope for some better graphics. Never winter still felt a bit outdated when I first looked at the new release.

Luckily for me I am in the crowd of people that think if it plays great, graphics don't matter much.

These are the type of game that even when they were new, they didn't have earth shattering graphics, but the stories were rich and that is why they are still loved today.

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It is a shame the source for Icewind Dale II was misplaced. Could use another game in the series.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThere are plenty Atari VCS's on ebay last I looked. A lot of people ordered multiple units hoping Atari Fans would pay a premium...

I've been looking, but they're not quite to the price level I want yet ($250+ for a dual core with hyperthreading?). In addition, most are being sold with controllers. I'm actually glad attempts to scalp this product seem to have backfired.

The controllers are pretty nice. Though it does seem people are finding odd issues, like slightly angled left analog stick on the 'Modern' controller, and some have found the metal bar missing in the 'classic' I couldn't help but wonder if someone on the assembly line was just like 'whatever, just ship it!' As they had said one of the reasons for the latest delay was there were some parts for the joystick they were having a difficult time sourcing.

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Nice! This may give me the reason to finally beat these games! I have bought them enough times! Even own them on the Switch.

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Quoting: BasianiI wonder when WINE developpers have time for sleep?

It's a little known secret, but the WINE developers live on Kaluha. It's the only way that can work around all the weird design things that Windows uses. :grin:

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Quoting: drlamb

Quoting: ArehandoroI'd be more than interested in building a mini server with the AMD Ryzen 7 5800U 8C/16T Up to 4.4 / 1.9 GHz 20MB Cache and 15 DP Watts. Trying to reduce my energy footprint while still enjoying most of the new features, but I guess there won't be a generic (mini itx) MoBo for that kind of mobile CPU :(

You and I share similar goals. I've seen the ASUS PN50 barebones units with the 4300U/4500U/4700U/4800U with price ranges between $300-$600 but even that is out of my budget for my use case for such a system AND that's without storage/ram. It's easy to believe newer and similar units will come with the 5000 series.

I lucked out and found a DFI industrial itx board on ebay for $100. The Dual core 15W R1505G [External Link] isn't going to win any awards but it's still Ryzen and serves just fine as an always-on machine. Currently rocking 20GBs of ram and a 500GB NVMe + a 1TB Sata ssd. It's the control plane (master) of my cluster.

The 8 core 35W 4750GE enticed me but I cannot find one for sale at a reasonable price. I'd likely have put such a CPU in an itx board or the Asrock Desk Mini. Right now I'm hoping some Atari VCS's will end up on ebay so that I can have more (hopefully cheap) ryzen machines to cluster.

There are plenty Atari VCS's on ebay last I looked. A lot of people ordered multiple units hoping Atari Fans would pay a premium...

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Quoting: NanobangI'm simply not wired to listen to someone as calm and tranquil as this for even ten minutes, let alone forty-four, so I haven't watched hardly any of this video. I wonder, then, if he mentions GamerOS having, or having plans to include, media playing abilities, streaming Netflix etc., or playing local video and music ... features I saw introduced during the life of my X360. (Without these standard console functions, I think SteamOS was sort of doomed from the start.)

I'm perfectly happy with my current Linux living room/TV computer at the moment, but my other one, my Windows 7 box, its days are numbered --- and will not be extended by "upgrading" to Win10. It seems like a perfect candidate for a future version of GamerOS.

An exciting project, to be sure!

I find it funny seeing the arguments on the Valve Index discussion group on Steam of some guy whining that he'll never upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 simply for the Index, as it won't work on 7 (though I thought I saw somewhere that someone did get it to work). I couldn't help but suggesting if he really doesn't want the telemetry, etc of Win10 (which they backported to Win7 anyhow) that he should just upgrade to Linux where the Index does work :)

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: aokamiNah, the rendering is done by the browser and through the compositor. You'd likely have to run a rogue application or a very badly designed rendering application that'd run arbitrary code. I'll try to go get some more information.

Fun fact: simple stuff taken for granted like jpg libraries had countless vulns and exploit in older versions, and carefully crafted image files could have been detrimental.
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/97856/can-simply-decompressing-a-jpeg-image-trigger-an-exploit [External Link]
Not to even mention ImageTragick.

Interesting, thanks. While my question was a bit hyperbolic, I'm glad to learn about things like this. :smile:

I remember first reading about that and couldn't help but wonder how one would not notice a corrupted image with a payload, but ehen looking into it, sure enough it was possible simply because of the way jpg worked. Crazy.

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