I've just installed Garuda for testing, and it surprised me to learn that Debian is still on 6.3, while Garuda (being an Arch derivative) is on 6.4, which already has some really lovely quality-of-life features. Really excited to see what 6.5 looks like there!

Garuda does some funky stuff with desktop-enhancements that don't exist in 6.3, so it's actually a bit jarring and needs some toning down (bright purple outlines on windows, for example), but I love the welcome app on Garuda which gives me one-button installs of popular software like Steam, Spotify, Zoom and over a hundred more! Quite slick, takes a lot of pain out.

Not sure if I'll shift full time yet, but it's a step up from when I last tried an Arch-derivative.

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Incoming deluge to Steam (or the consoles' app stores, I guess, since that seems to be where this aimed) of AI slop. In fact, "AI slop" is the new "Asset flip".

Weird to advertise AI as a feature when its use will often be viewed negatively.

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I've spent 45 hours with this one, mainly two player with a mate of mine. We've really enjoyed it, despite the odd difficulty spike when you hit the next boss.

It doesn't hold your hand much, but it can also be reasonably chill - events are well telegraphed and give you plenty of time to respond. Village management is simple and not at all micro-managing. Bosses are fun. Exploring is fun. Mining is fun. It's a cracking game.

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Pretty infuriating to see another title fall to shitty anti-cheat updates... which don't actually affect cheating.

At least Farlight 84 is largely irrelevant. It took less than 12 months to reduce a 40K high in player count to just 2K. Another year in, it was around 1K. The past few months it only attracts around 600-800 players, although this new season caused a brief spike back to 2k.

But it's a trend in online gaming to block Linux players and I really wish Valve would say, or better still do, something to address it.

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Looking at the Unity support page, it seems like the native Linux version might never properly support the Dualsense controller?

Double frustrating, because setting lightbar and rumble via bluetooth is simply on Linux if you have dualsensectl installed. But the Dualsense is generally a bit frustrating on Steam regardless of O/S, because you'll almost always get Xbox glyphs in-game unless you turn off Steam input (ironically).

I thought Ryan C. Gordon (icculus) was working on better gamepad support in SDL3, but perhaps Unity doesn't use SDL? Or it hasn't filtered down yet?

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I wrote a piece on my blog about the (lack of) ethics in AI, but this piece about coding standards stands out in the context of Graf espousing AI code generation. Maybe it'll improve... but right now, all it does is slow you down.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ [External Link]

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If you have any feedback after trying the updated Demo, I'd love to hear it.

Only a couple of games in, but a few QOL pieces:

1. When placing a tile, it's jarring that I can't right-click to cancel placement (I have to press escape).
2. When viewing my deck, it's jarring that I can't press escape to exit (I have to press the "back" button).
3. I got a "forbidden" card who's name I forget, that occupied every outside tile, but was meant to have "ghost". But when I played it, it wasn't ghosting, so I kind of ruined that turn - it occupies so much of the moon that I couldn't play anything else! Also, I suspect I'm misinterpreting its effects - not sure I understood what "resonance" does, but since I couldn't play anything after playing it, I never got to experiment!

Loving the new cards, and the base character feels more rounded with lots more cards providing "Focus", which I love.

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Think I saw Chakotee and Janeway in one of the shots near the end of that trailer, so presumably you're playing her, as captain.

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Hell yeah - one of the more satisfying demo's I played recently. I'm giving this another go for sure!

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hear why I am underwhelmed

I get it - it's pretty laid-back music for Star Trek. But for me this is pure nostalgia. Monday night was about ordering our weekly take away - back then it was Pizza Hut, not Dominoes, and 8pm Voyager. Happy days.

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