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MSI teasing a handheld gaming PC like the Steam Deck
6 Jan 2024 at 3:49 pm UTC Likes: 2

Apparently, if the PC can't compete with the consoles in the living room, it can win in the hands.

I miss my old PS Vita, but I still can't justify a handheld at this time. Despite enjoying Breath of the Wild on the Switch, I still have yet to complete it after all this time.

Deck news to me is like tech pop culture -- fun to watch... hard to resist.

Marvel's Midnight Suns and Two Point Campus headline Humble Choice for January 2024
6 Jan 2024 at 6:26 am UTC

I think I gotta get that Marvel one at some point even though I'm pretty tired of Marvel stuff specifically. A friend of mine told me how great it was, wrote a Steam review for it (he never does that), and put over 70 hours into it. I can't ignore it. I think he played it on the Deck as well.

4x space strategy game New Stars hits Early Access
28 Dec 2023 at 7:41 pm UTC

I'm surprised the developer didn't mention EVE Online as an inspiration to the galaxy and structures design. That's all I could think about.

Xorg is dead, long live Wayland - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) dropping Xorg
12 Dec 2023 at 11:34 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: 14
Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: 14RHEL distributions have got to be 95% headless (complete guess), so how big is this particular Wayland announcement anyway?
That's what I was asking earlier. Like how many people use it as their actual workstation. Likely the ones that due use it for nvidia cuda stuff... and since nvidia and Wayland still don't play 100% together... I guess Red Hat is wanting a more 'Red Team' friendliness?
People that use CUDA are using recent software, not RHEL... generally speaking of course.
Nvidia went through all the trouble to have repositories for 8 / 9 for RH, so I'm assuming 'someone' must be using it for that. I'd think most people that would buy Quadros would do such things.

People think "RHEL has old software", sure, but the vendor stuff is going to be packaged specifically for RH (and based systems) which is why EL exists at all. The software that these guys use are going to be perfectly recent, just built for a long supported base so they don't have random breakages.
Where I work, software developers and DevOps type people complain often of the repos having older software, and when they're not given a solution (they usually ask for Ubuntu), proceed to compile and then manually install from source. Heh. Annoying. So that's my experience.

Xorg is dead, long live Wayland - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) dropping Xorg
12 Dec 2023 at 2:20 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: 14RHEL distributions have got to be 95% headless (complete guess), so how big is this particular Wayland announcement anyway?
That's what I was asking earlier. Like how many people use it as their actual workstation. Likely the ones that due use it for nvidia cuda stuff... and since nvidia and Wayland still don't play 100% together... I guess Red Hat is wanting a more 'Red Team' friendliness?
People that use CUDA are using recent software, not RHEL... generally speaking of course.

You absolutely need to try Mechabellum during the Steam Free Weekend
11 Dec 2023 at 3:58 am UTC Likes: 3

Came back to say I played a few more rounds before the free weekend ended. I lost a couple more matches but the other players were either silent or nice enough to say "GG." And then I finally won a couple matches in a row. Like anything new, it takes several rounds to get familiar with which units are good counters to other units and all their possible upgrades. It kind of feels like playing with kid toys. "I'm going to set up my army this way!" "And I'm going to set mine up this way!"

"BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM!"

So what the heck is an 'indie game' nowadays anyway?
10 Dec 2023 at 8:53 pm UTC Likes: 1

Freelance journalists and private contractors are same as "indie" in the media world. Once you are not managing and paying yourselves, you're no longer independent, inherently.

Can you be considered independent if you don't self publish? Depends on the contract I'd say, which is private. To define the term in a strict sense, I think you have to self publish to be indie.

Xorg is dead, long live Wayland - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) dropping Xorg
10 Dec 2023 at 8:29 pm UTC

RHEL distributions have got to be 95% headless (complete guess), so how big is this particular Wayland announcement anyway?

KDE Plasma 6 - Beta 1 released
10 Dec 2023 at 8:28 pm UTC

I'm hoping the GA release will be a good time to try Wayland again.

Grand Theft Auto VI trailer is live but no mention of a PC release yet
10 Dec 2023 at 8:22 pm UTC

It looks like wicked fun. I played one or two of the GTA games many years ago before marriage. I played them to the end IIRC. This game is too famous though, so it's the only series I am not allowed to play. Kind of a bummer! But, I'm not asked about any other games I play.