I did enjoy the spooky stories. But I would prefer a bit clearer disclosure (preferably on the same page there) - whether these are likely hypotheticals or actual testimonies (with light editing for catchiness and mentioning the specific software). Does anyone know? I wouldn't want to share them with others under the wrong guise 😕.

I mean factuality changes the emotional impact of the stories significantly (for me anyway).

Doh, I didn't read to the end before commenting. It became more obvious later which one these are...

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In addition to performance optimization, I would guess for the category of "enormous effort": poor readability of UI elements or spotty controller support in menus. Or maybe they were using some part of their tech stack in an unorthodox way.

Or maybe they were joking around. 🤷‍♀️

Either way - I would give them a lot of good faith.

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Quoting: JarmerMan I don't know how on earth Crider does it. Not only is he innovating in a space that's seeing crazy fast development, but he's also maintaining an ENTIRE distro (basically himself?), doing new releases for GE constantly all the time, and now forming new coops and launching totally new tech. All while doing his day job at red hat. Damn.

I felt good the other day when I sent a few emails and got the yard work done. lol.

You absolutely deserve to feel good about that! We easily talk about lacking resources like time or money to do something, but we are sorely lacking in language habits related to talking about the equally or more critical mental resources we might not possess (temporarily or permanently) - among others:

• motivation,


• energy,


• capacity to focus,


• stress buffer,


• severe lack of stimulation,


• severe lack of joy,


• severe lack of social connectedness

And why Crider can manage what we don't? I believe he is lucky in the categories that matter in software development and activism. Which might or might not come at the expense of some other categories. In my country, we have an old related saying (to someone who lost a game): "One who is not lucky in games is lucky in love"

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I linked it before and I'll link it again (though Ubisoft is horrible to its employees and customers):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYG368ilWoA [External Link]

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The game seems appealing, although the reviews say the VR version is less good than the non-VR version. From the trailer, I kind of feared and assumed it was more of American perspective of the world forced on me, but after looking it up, the developing company seems to be Polish. 😅

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Quoting: 14I enjoy a campaign you can finish, but I enjoy them the most when they're co-op. So, I liked Portal 2 more than Portal (and I did enjoy Portal, too).

Offtopic: Your name is real cool, but can be tricky. I was a bit overwhelmed just now since I thought for a moment that I have 14 new messages on this thread. 😄

14 replied to Portal 2 project lead wants Valve to return to single-player games

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I'll be a data point of a different demographic in this discussion here and share that I have played several of them and I don't care much for Portal, Half-Life, etc 😄. I enjoy high-replayability games much more - whether they're multiplayer or singleplayer or hybrid.

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I know they're a shitty company in work conditions and consumer experience, but I do have to give them the credit for doing a good job on the history part with this one. Can't say I'm not tempted to buy it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYG368ilWoA [External Link]

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Quoting: AronMy bigest problem is, that my steam index always crashes 3 seconds after start it, then I need press "restart healmset", start steamvr again and then it works. It taked me ages to figure it out. I am pretty sure, that not all users have discovered the trick to make it work.

My Valve Index starts without issues currently. Sometimes rarely I have gotten an issue requiring restarting of some stuff, but more often than not my cable is not plugged in properly (since I disconnect and reconnect it for each use).

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Quoting: EagleDelta

Quoting: CyrilTL;DR: so it's much of an Ubuntu problem than anything else...

No, this is an issue with any LTS-style non-rolling release distros. RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Linux style distros are even worse. In most of my jobs over the last 5-7 years, the system packages are only used now to run the system itself. Everything else we need to run these days is largely built in Go or Rust so we can just deploy a binary OR (more often) it's run in Docker/Kubernetes or a platform like Heroku where we don't have to deal with the fact that distros simply don't keep things up to date enough for the features that we need many times. Things like unable to use libraries that solve performance or security issues simply aren't available on the backported versions of Ruby, Perl, even Python sometimes.

EDIT: I just realized I wasn't clear in what I am saying here. I don't necessarily think that every distro should be rolling release. My point is that system packages are best for running the system, but not always for running applications these days. While I can use whatever Tmux is in the repos for example, I cannot use whatever version of Neovim is provided as my config requires at least version 0.10.0 which I don't believe is in any repos yet. And as for games, if they are primarily multiplayer, like Xonotic, than Flatpak is the best as you can't play with other players that aren't on the same version as you.... hence the limits of mostly static system packages.

Perhaps EagleDelta is talking more about the server/CLI space and Purple Library Guy about GUI apps distributed by a non-rolling distro?

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