Quoting: PyrateDoesn't the welcome screen for every new Plasma version mention donations and such? I don't think the "if you're not a follower of those [...]" bit is being genuine here.

Nate Graham covered that in his post. The moment that you've just installed a desktop isn't the right time to ask for donations - you have no idea if you're sticking with the distro or desktop. Also, most welcome screens are quickly dismissed, never to be shown again. Various other ideas of where/when to do this were mentioned too.

Quoting: Piejacker875I'd like an "I've already donated" flag that can be set somewhere in a config file

Your distro can disable it from ever showing in the first place. Or you can disable the kded module. Or you can simply right-click on your system tray (the down arrow) and turn off notifications for this app.

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Quoting: rambo919I dislike the idea of history becoming an amorphous fantasy plaything.

Gotta say, that's a weird take for a gamer. There are swathes of alternate-reality franchises: Bioshock, Wolfenstein, Battlefield, pretty much any Steampunk game, it's a big list. I can't see how fiction is "disrespectful", but maybe you only meant in the context of the Civ games directly? But even there, the entire premise of Civ is to allow you to build alternative histories, YOUR history, YOUR perfect civilisation. It's hardly going to be historically accurate.

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I rarely make it to endgame in these games anyway, or if I do, I just start a new character, so very excited for this one.

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Quoting: scainebut it's definitely triggered by Steam

What happens if you start a game without Steam?

True story - I don't have any games installed outside of Steam!

But I have both a GOG account with about 50 games, and loads of freebies from Amazon Prime, so I downloaded Heroic and gave it a shot. And... goddamit, it still happens! I get the exact same errors!

So it's not Steam, it's Plasma (probably). In fact, it looks like a weird clash between pulse and pipewire, but given that I was convinced it was Steam before... I'm doubting everything! :grin:

I suspect part of the problem is that because Siduction is a rolling release, there's a few upgrades that need additional work, but I haven't noticed. For example, when wireplumber upgraded from 0.4 to 0.5, they ditched all the Lua script support, and moved everything to a new json format. So I've changed all that to support the newer 0.5 version... but what else have I missed?

I'll dig into the legacy pulse support a bit, and see what I can find.

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I wonder if that bluetooth fix is related to what I see on my Debian desktop - every time I start a game, my bluetooth headphones disconnect for a moment, then reconnect. Every game. Every launch. Native, proton, every time.

I wouldn't mind, but if I have a Discord chat running when it happens, Discord goes wonky which means disconnecting and reconnecting.

Aug 16 17:03:58 Groovy plasmashell[4583]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "bluez_output.B0_F0_0C_06_C9_B0.1"
Aug 16 17:03:58 Groovy plasmashell[4583]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "bluez_output.B0_F0_0C_06_C9_B0.1"
Aug 16 17:03:58 Groovy wireplumber[4193]: pw.node: (bluez_output.B0_F0_0C_06_C9_B0.1-110) graph xrun (0 suppressed)
Aug 16 17:04:00 Groovy plasmashell[4583]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "bluez_output.B0_F0_0C_06_C9_B0.1"
Aug 16 17:04:00 Groovy wireplumber[4193]: pw.node: (bluez_output.B0_F0_0C_06_C9_B0.1-110) graph xrun (0 suppressed)

It's likely a wireplumber problem, but it's definitely triggered by Steam.

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Quoting: ambrosia_enjoyerThe game recording is really nice for people that want a solution that just works OotB, but I do hope they implement functionality for the replay feature to write to RAM instead of directly to disk. That's one of the killer features that still puts gpu-screen-recorder on top for me, despite the initial messing around in config files you'll need to do to get it set up in a desirable state.

Yeah, sitting here with 32Gb, rarely go over 20Gb or so, so that would be a sweet option. It's more messing about, but a /tmpfs in RAM is pretty straightforward to configure, then you just automount it on login and tell Steam to use that location. I've not actually tried that, but it sounds pretty straightforward!

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Excited for the future of Steam game recording, particularly once they get games integrating it natively, so that in-game events are marked/saved accordingly. But I've had it switched off for weeks now, as it's largely useless until it can record my microphone. Given that Valve acknowledged the problem weeks ago and this is the second big update since, I'm guessing it's not an easy/simple fix.

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I'm smart! I'm good looking! I need to play to play this game!

(and then leave a review)

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This is an absolutely superb metroidvania. The "bullet hell" tag is seriously misleading. Yeah, there are bullets, but it's hardly "hell". In fact, the difficulty is perfectly judged, I think. The movement is sublime. And the upgrade system that lets you change your build at the drop of a hat? Amazing. For some reason Steam isn't telling me how I played this for, but again, it's a perfectly judged length, albeit there's a series of "final" bosses which aren't actually the end of the adventure, and I did get a bit bored at the "door challenge" bit - but that's well past the final final... final boss.

Great game. Highly recommended!

Edit: My steam profile says that I played for 14 hours. No regrets!

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This is incredible.

He does say Open Source a lot in the video, but the repo's license opens with "This is NOT Open Source". As the article states, if course. Just a bit funny and jarring.

Still incredible though.

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