I would like to see a federated (game, music, films, or otherwise) store. Something a bit like peertube, if you want... I might actually try to implement one one day (together with some novel ideas for payment processing).

In the meantime, why not ask the guys at lutris to add a few features for store integration on their website?

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Quoting: tamcculloughI'm one of the few who can't play this on Linux, which is sad because I've been enjoying it too. Wish it would load on my Linux system though. And I'd rather not have to re-download it.

Does anyone know of the fix?

I do not have this problem, but some peoople reported it not working with a joystick plugged in, or it not working without the "-nojoy" option.

shotm7, I had a bit of stutter as well in the beginning, while shaders were compiling... Performance has otherwise been rock solid :)

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That's a nice writeup, it pretty much sums up my impressions as well. However, I have to disagree on the ammo part as well. I really am against any increase, and it could even be reduced further, in my opinion (ammo types would be a nice addition, but might add too much complexity).

What I especially like about ammo shortage is that it gives you a chance to use your melee weapon, instead of it just being a decorative perk. This can sort of balance gameplay, as even if you don't have any gun, you can rely on ammo shortage to balance a fight. I won one against someone who was much better equipped than I was (automatic weapon and protective gear vs my piston).

We only had a handful bullets each, and I tried to avoid a direct confrontation. Then I realized we were both out of ammo, and killed him at melee combat. There's a lot of strategies you can use to push people to use their ammo before attacking them, and it makes encounters much more random.

I also sometimes have to choose between a better gun without ammo, or a worse one with, which brings many strategic options to the table...

I also like the way gathering ammo makes you vulnerable, so you really have to take the risk to do so. I sometimes leave a bit in, in case I find another gun, or to trap someone else...

I've been killed multiple times by the C4 explosion radius as well, I don't understand this beast. It looks like walls, rocks, etc. don't protect you from the blast, and the radius is ridiculous. I don't bother opening those safes anymore, I don't think it's worth the risk.

Regarding customization, I agree, as I would have liked to make my character a little bit unique. Can you get skins for free? I also like the little "X's hammer/knife/etc" when you pick up a used weapon, it's a nice touch!

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Quoting: MayeulCUnfortunately, last time I checked, there was only a curl | bash way of installing it (which is a big no-no)

Out of curiosity, why is installing via curl not recommended? I've seen this statmenet elsewhere, with regards to Pihole installation, but due to not being well-versed in the different methods of installing software on Linux, I'm curious as to why curl|bash isn't considered safe. Does it give elevated access for installation, or somesuch? Or that the source just isn't verified properly, like it would be via e.g. apt-get, with risk of malicious actors contaminating the source? And is the same true for e.g. wget?

There are a couple of issues I see with this:

• executing a script without reading it first


• bypassing the package manager


• (somewhat rethorical): directly piping to sh

Let's get the last out of the way: since sh/bash/other shells read scripts line-by-line, the server can detect this [External Link], and serve a different script. In practice, this isn't really one of my worries.

While the first point has obvious security implications, I would trust you to only run a script from a known source (also note that http-not-s is prone to hijacking), and you then have to trust that the source hasn't been compromised.

Regarding the second one, the package manager and its (signed) packages mostly solves the above concerns about hijacking and trust. But also, on a practical point of view, I really prefer my package manager to handle the packages, for the following reasons:

• easy uninstalling


• easy listing of the packages for backup/restore purposes


• easy upgrading, reinstalling, integrity verification, etc

I feel like the downsides are too many to bother, especially if you aren't even sure it will work on your distribution (without screwing anything up). I hope it's clearer :wink:

I can expand a bit on the security of package managers, which, while not bullet-proof, is quite good. Also, a lot of those scripts indeed ask for elevated privileges, and I have read a few that were actually quite badly written... If people bother writing one of those, they could at least provide a flatpak or an appimage instead, it isn't much harder :/

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I look forward to playing this with all of my friends :)

Otherwise, I agree that Civ II is very good, and runs quite well with wine, even on low-end hardware. There's also freeciv, for which I've been eying the "play-by-email" feature: https://www.freecivweb.org/ [External Link] :)

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Nah, still waiting on that achievement before playing again :P

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That pic on their website sure does make me think of Gordon Freeman:

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Nice thing, I'll make sure to try this out and discover what's all the fuss about Battle Royale games for :D
... When I have time to spare :/

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Quoting: Appelsin

Quoting: 14A bit off-topic, but it's rPi-relevant:
I was in the same boat, kinda. Had a Pi lying around, with no real use for it. Then a friend showed me Pi-hole [External Link]. Network wide ad-block. Highly recommended.

This is a cool tool, but it doesn't look unique to the Pi. I have a rack-mount server with quite a few virtual machines in my house, so the Pi doesn't really have an advantage here either. Cool suggestion though. Maybe I'd run that in a VM.

True, it's not something unique to the Pi, as there are many ways of achieving the same result, both via the router itself (at least LEDE/OpenWRT afaik) and a server/VM. But if we look at it from a general point-of-view, I would say the Pi does have an advantage in that it's very low cost, not to mention low effort. I also think "most" poeple are more likely to have an unused Pi lying around than having a server :)

I'm extremely interested in pi-hole, especially the statistics page, otherwise I would just configure a DNS server myself. Unfortunately, last time I checked, there was only a curl | bash way of installing it (which is a big no-no), or a full distro install (and I want to keep my other services)... Ideally, I'd use a docker, but raspbian has quite outdated software (incl. kernel), so I think I'll go with Arch or Alpine.

Regarding Steam link, has anyone tried to run that executable under qemu on a x86 machine? That could be handy as well :)

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I feel like what I wrote in the spoiler below is too negative. I was (and am) quite hyped by this announcement, although it not having been open-sourced was a bit of a letdown to me :/
Still quite cool!

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Slightly cool... Although a piece of software like this one ough to be open source...

I guess they cannot opensource it due to some licensing concerns, or for obscure reasons. However, if it was open source, it would be super hyper mega cool!!! With people able to chime in and implement more bits of functionality, like USB over the network, and other stuff (there's sort of a snowball effect I've noticed with open source software: you have to provide a big enough seed with already some momentum in it if you want to see it become a success story). Network transparency for Wayland app comes to my mind as well.

So, please, if someone at valve could either push (harder?) for it to be open sourced, or at least state why it is not, it would be greatly appreciated, on behalf of the whole community.

I originally gave the Steam link six months for it to be reverse-engineered and a third-party client written. Then I gave the steam link app two months for the same feat. I guess I was wrong on both counts. I give this one a couple weeks? Multiply by 10?

Quoting: pb"Since Valve are seemingly discontinuing their own Steam Link device, along with Steam Link applications for mobile devices"

Hm, did I miss something? The app seems to be alive, with the last update just three days ago? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.valvesoftware.steamlink [External Link]

More likely "With the steam Link app for mobile devices, along with discontinuing the steam link..." :)

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Quoting: oldrocker99an optical drive:woot:

I get the other specs, but I have to wonder if you really need this on a regular enough basis to carry it around everywhere? Wouldn't a USB drive you occasionally attach be more than enough for all of your needs? It has certainly been the case for me once USB sticks and HDDs started to come below optical media in the $$/MB metric.

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