Quoting: ArehandoroVideo-conferencing: https://meet.jit.si [External Link]

I first used Jitsi before Zoom and honestly prefer it, regardless of the open source angle.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyMan, suddenly I feel ahead of the curve. As a university employee my email is through work, I have a vestigial Facebook page which I visit maybe once a year, I don't have files in the cloud. I do buy stuff on Amazon some, but not enough that I'd have any big worries if I was somehow locked out of it. I do have some kind of Google ID, but I only use it for, like, if I'm reading articles with certain fairly common comment systems and want to comment I'll use the Google ID.
All in all, the only online service that would make me even bust out a few cusswords if they dumped me would be, well, Steam. I haven't downloaded all my games, only the ones I've actually played . . .

I'm kind of the same. I don't have a work email account; I'm still using the one my ISP provided when I signed up 15 years ago (and yes, I'm seriously considering something more “portable”... but for once, procrastination paid off, because five-ten years back I'd probably have gone to GMail, like almost everyone else did). I bought maybe four or five items on Amazon last year, and most of them in the run-up to Christmas. I've never used any cloud or “social media” services at all, and while I did create a Google account for Android, I finally installed LineageOS on my phone a few months ago.

Losing Steam would certainly suck, but I think of all of that type of thing it's the... least untrustworthy, let's say.

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Old love never fades with lots of classics like Theme Hospital and Baldur's Gate

Slime Rancher? :huh:

(Just above Broken Sword 2 Remastered in the default “Recommended” order. You might have to scroll down a bit.)

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicIt will still take years to happen but I believe it's already started.

I agree 100%. Blender was “never” going to challenge the likes of Maya for ages until, really quite suddenly on the great scale of things, it became almost the default choice. It's certainly respected as an equal peer to the commercial offerings, at least. I can absolutely envisage the same thing happening with Godot.

(Incidentally, with just a few additional features - some of which are already here - I can also imagine the same for GIMP. It's taking longer because development on that project is slower, but Blender shows that it's possible.)

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Quoting: kneekooThe game still needs plenty of features and refinements to match expectations by comparing it with Minecraft,

I may have said this before, but there's more content in Mineclone2 now than there was in Minecraft when I first started playing it. So, yeah, it's not comparable to current Minecraft, but it's not a bad game by any means. Definitely closer to the “real” experience than any other voxel game I've played.

Quoting: SeegrasWhat I really would want is the possibility to exchange data with minecraft. It won't perhaps be possible with whole worlds, but mabye in the form of schematics, so I could load specific builds at least.

It is possible, but not simple. I can't even remember how I did it. I definitely recall sending an email to a Minecraft-obsessed friend with some pictures of “his server” and the subject line “This is not Minecraft”. :grin:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo if this USB thing is oriented towards, and pushed as, a pure gaming experience it's not gonna tempt a lot of Windows users--they already have that, it's the general purpose OS experience that's a PITA.

One way I can see it being sold is that you can take your games with you. Back in the days of physical media, you could go to a friend's house and take your games along. Not so easy nowadays. (Sure, it's theoretically possible, if you log in to your account and wait to download them, but unless your friend has a fat connection it's hardly practical.) Then again, I'm not sure enough people want to do that.

And it also assumes that you're allowed to visit peoples' houses. :cry:

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It's an intriguing idea. Back in the days of physical media, it occurred to me that you could ship a game with a live distro on the disc. The OS would always be optimised for the particular game, and you weren't dependent on Microsoft. Yes, you'd have to take varying hardware into account, but Knoppix was surprisingly good at that back in the day. That said, this was probably one reason that publishers never tried it: working on 99% of the PCs out there still leaves you with an angry 1%.

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Ah, but does it have split-screen multiplayer? :tongue:

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Quoting: GrimfistBut I have my fair share of criticism for SystemD and that's why I startet experimenting with other non-SystemD based distros (which rules out EndeavourOS for me) on my test rig. Void and Artix look the most promising to me.

Arch just hasn't felt as “Arch-ey” since the switch to systemd. It's not even about the merits or otherwise of systemd itself (I'll reluctantly admit it has its good points). But the old init system was glorious, and for me, since the moment I first used it, as much part of what made the distro special as pacman and the AUR. And they just dumped it.

Oh, I know they had their reasons, but still. I've been looking for an alternative for years. Nothing quite hits the spot.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOh, I'm sure it runs at 30fps (I'll have to install that overlay to check). the hiccups are part of the game though, I think.

Is it using Vulkan or OpenGL? As I recall, Mad Max was very stuttery on the latter.

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Quoting: GuestThat game sounds fun though but what i mean is in 1984, computers were already more capable than what this game suggest.

Yeah, the Amiga was only a year away, after all.

Quoting: GuestThe "C" was first thought as Consumer. But the name "commodore 64" stuck very soon. There would be the C64 for the masses and the "P" (Personal) and "B"(Business) series of computers. The P and B ended up as disasters.

Wow. Every day's a school day. It's been nearly 40 years, and I never knew that. I mean, I knew of the P and B series, but never made the connection before. It makes perfect sense, of course.

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