I'd recommend Ludus Mortis - it just got Verified [External Link], and it's a very good Dungeon Crawler

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Top tiers and aircraft in WarThunder are of no interest to me - once you go above 7.0, it's all "grind a tank with default HEAT ammo, against which all enemies have reactive armour, until you unlock APDS"/"grind a plane with no anti air missiles agains opponents who do have missiles" - no thanks. 3.0-4.7 ships, and 2.0-6.7 tanks are where the fun is.

The last interesting changes were the French ships (although the boats are still missing), and the great mid tier paper tank rebalance (all tanks with negligible armour got uptiered, but as compensation, fighters got a big nerf in their ability to hunt them down). This update doesn't have anything interesting.

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Legen of Keepers for free is really nice - I did have it on my wishlist! Might need to install Heroic to get cloud saves on GoG

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: PikoloThe patent office can't find prior art for those? How? They're all issued since 2019! The only one that even seems novel is AUTOMATED PLAYER CONTROL TAKEOVER IN A VIDEO GAME, and I'd assume someone more familiar with MMORPGs can find an example. ROUTE NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITHIN A GAME APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT is bonkers - we've had animated navigation lines for decades!

USPTO no longer looks for prior art since at least a decade back, the new regime is that they only do very basic checks and then any violations such as prior art is up for a court to decide in a future lawsuit.

That actually explains a lot. Though its very dumb

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The patent office can't find prior art for those? How? They're all issued since 2019! The only one that even seems novel is AUTOMATED PLAYER CONTROL TAKEOVER IN A VIDEO GAME, and I'd assume someone more familiar with MMORPGs can find an example. ROUTE NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITHIN A GAME APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT is bonkers - we've had animated navigation lines for decades!

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Quoting: PhiladelphusIntelligence agencies the world over must be salivating at the prospect of being able to make their own poorly-balanced games to tease out more classified handbooks on military hardware. 🤣

(That's not a dig at War Thunder, which on re-reading I see it could come off as; I haven't played it and have no opinions on its balancing.)

WarThunder forums have seen at least 3 cases of classified military data [External Link] released as justifications for rebalancing particular vehicles. So you're not that far off the mark

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Quoting: DMGHow can I install specific driver version? I somehow see only version 535.113.01
 
user@pop-os:~$ sudo apt search "NVIDIA driver metapackage"
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
mir-graphics-drivers-nvidia/jammy 2.7.0-0ubuntu3 amd64
  Display server for Ubuntu - Nvidia driver metapackage

nvidia-driver-390/jammy-security,jammy-updates 390.157-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 amd64
  NVIDIA driver metapackage

nvidia-driver-470/jammy 470.199.02-1pop0~1695931040~22.04~4c2d0ee amd64
  NVIDIA driver metapackage

nvidia-driver-535/jammy,now 535.113.01-1pop0~1695753528~22.04~0561f9e amd64 [installed]
  NVIDIA driver metapackage

user@pop-os:~$ 

It's not in the Ubuntu repo yet - production Nvidia drivers do break stuff, so on Ubuntu they go through phased rollouts. Additionally, for new major versions a new package will be created, and it hasn't been yet https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&keywords=nvidia-driver&searchon=names [External Link] It will be in Ubuntu in 3-5 days if it's not breaking anything for beta testers.

The nvidia drivers beta-testing repo got a build 4 hours ago https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa [External Link]

I strongly discourage updating Nvidia drivers outside of your distribution's preferred channel. It's not easy to fix your mistakes if you're doing this for the first time.

Edit: 535.129.03 is now in the Ubuntu Jammy repository - I think PopOS is built on Ubuntu LTS and Jammy is the current LTS. 545 is not in yet

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That's exciting!

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Looks like I might try Wayland again:
Added support for PRIME render offload to Vulkan Wayland WSI.

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The giveaway doesn't load in Firefox. Does load in Chrome.

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