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Valheim testing a Unity upgrade with lots of optimizations
30 October 2023 at 2:07 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: nwildnerValheim has an annoying bug that when playing in any higher than 1080p resolution, it produces some weird inventory location errors, and mouse is misaligned with the inventory. Worst case mouse will not be able to reach your inventory because it expects your pointer to be way inside the right border of the monitor.

It happened to my son, its related to alt-tabbing and switching from windowed to full screen. It keeps the windowed resolution for pointing and everything is off, go in the graphics configuration and set the resolution to the real one. It fixed it for him instantly.

Begin your industrial revolution in the latest Minecraft Snapshot
20 October 2023 at 2:42 pm UTC

Instead of adding more random things with wildly different theme and feel to make Minecraft more of a mess, they should have added this a looooooooooooong time ago instead. They also really need to fix the awful combat system.

Even so late, its a plus, I don't remember the last time I checked the changes to Minecraft and thought something was great.

Harebrained Schemes and Paradox Interactive to split
19 October 2023 at 1:58 am UTC

Ah cr*p, does it mean they can't make any more Shadowrun games because Paradox still own the license?

Check out the demo for Beacon Patrol based on the popular board game
20 September 2023 at 12:34 am UTC

Nice, never heard of that one before... going to buy it for my son, the board game version that is.

These custom Steam Deck buttons look awesome
7 September 2023 at 5:14 pm UTC

Quoting: LoftyCan't we just have nice things. The amount of plastic these things use is fractional compared with other products available on the market. Not only that but buying these is supporting an individual with a cottage industry and not some giant mega corporation.

I'd agree with you if the new controls brought new functionalities/features, or were significantly better than the old ones... but its only for looks. The correct way to do this would be for Valve to allow you to customize your Deck from the factory (yeah, yeah, I know its not that easy...), ideally using the parts from the small business as an option.

These custom Steam Deck buttons look awesome
7 September 2023 at 2:26 pm UTC

Quoting: hardpenguin
Quoting: DrakkerThey look great, yes, but its still more plastic waste for the planet... no one is going to re-use your old black controls...
I keep repeating we should go back to using wood for electronics!

I don't know about durability, but it would sure look great haha.

These custom Steam Deck buttons look awesome
7 September 2023 at 1:07 pm UTC

They look great, yes, but its still more plastic waste for the planet... no one is going to re-use your old black controls...

Budgie 10.8 desktop released with plenty of new features
31 August 2023 at 12:53 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Pengling
Quoting: AustinBut when I want a simple modern desktop out of the box, and I just want to get my work done, I would go with Budgie.
Just curious: How does Budgie stack up against Xfce for this use-case?

If you want an honest opinion from a long time XFCE user... I moved to Budgie a few years ago. For a while in Xubuntu a lot of things were broken, notably the damned keyboard switcher applet that kept breaking every few years, to then be ignored and not fixed for years at a time. I don't remember what other problems I had, but XFCE was getting neglected badly back then. I tried Budgie, it wasn't instant love, it needed a lot of tweaking, but it was every bit as fast as XFCE and didn't get in my way, just like XFCE. Every once in a while I check the progress on XFCE and hope to get back, but I keep Budgie because it just works, even though its not perfect.

Honestly, I think XFCE's pretty much done, there's little development efforts going on (only a few very dedicated devs who have no way of keeping up with modern desktop development pace). Unless a lot of people decide to work on it, or a lot of funding magically materializes, its not likely to be in any usable state on Wayland soon, and that's probably what is going to kill it.

So, there you have it. In my opinion Budgie is not better than XFCE at all. It just happens to be in a better working state.

Budgie 10.8 desktop released with plenty of new features
30 August 2023 at 5:59 pm UTC

There are plenty of options in Budgie, but they are scattered around in multiple places. For some tweaks you must use dconf too. While I've been using it for a while and got used to it, I think it could use a settings overhaul.

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty new trailer live, plus big free update coming
23 August 2023 at 12:59 pm UTC Likes: 6

Yeah, the game has been fixed, bugs were rare in 1.6x and the game crashed on me only once in my over 60h play time. Glad I waited to buy it, hopefully the expansion won't be so buggy, but I'm going to wait until its a bit cheaper, it will give them some time to bugfix it. :)