Quoting: tonRGood news for portable Linux computing and gaming on-the-go. Bad news for Nintendo as it may be use for "unofficial" purpose. Hopefully that person not getting sued for this exploit like PS3's OtherOS lawsuit last decade ago.

I really wish a truly portable open-source devices/smartphones are exist or at least I can install Linux distros on any Android devices. Closest thing I have right now is Samsung Galaxy Note II running on LineageOS and without Goggle apps.

You might want to have a look at PostmarketOS (it's not ready for a daily driver yet, but it's getting there).

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Quoting: Guestthey really should have release xen and then worried about bug fixing the game

it's not good practice to bug fix games before everything is released for said game since they still have no idea if xen might cause new issues

I would actually argue the opposite. And as they improve their engine for Xen (which should be just a new map drop-in), I get that they might want to release their bugfixes and performance improvements. The good practice would be to have a beta, but that's probably the case already :)

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Quoting: mirowell I had zero crashes there when playing the first chapter. since then I've been waiting for the second (Xen). The game is surely worth the money and as far as I understand it, xen will not be 100% the same as it was in half life 1, but even longer and a little different, as the first chapter of the game.

The reason Xen will not be 100% the same as it was in half-life 1 is that the original Xen was horrible, it was the part that made Half-Life not be a perfect game. Suddenly a wonderful FPS-adventure turned into a dull 3D platformer with teleporters. The developers are very well aware of that, and I, for one, would be satisfied even if the new Xen has nothing whatsoever to do with the original, provided it is fun to play. I suspect that it is for the same reason that they are not shipping it yet for bug fixing and balancing - they might be reserving the "right" to make big last-time changes which breaks previous savegames.

I agree, though the Xen environment was quite imaginative and nice to look at. And it seems that The Crowbar Collective is trying to capture that impression of a lush and vivid, organic alien world, all for the better!

I am prepared to wait, a couple more years if I need to. I've been following the project since the very beginning, and it's not like I don't have other games to play (and not enough time) in the meanwhile :D (/r/patientgamers has some pretty good suggestions :P)

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Quoting: slaapliedjeIs this DRM though?

According to mobile operators it is. They also used to lock devices that prevented users from switching to competing networks. You can argue it's not DRM, but they actually threatened those who tried to break that with anti-circumvention. That's why DRM has nothing to do with rights. It's quite proper to call it Digital Restrictions Management, it's exactly what it's used for - to restrict the user.

In case of Switch and most incumbent consoles - they have tons of such restrictions.

I just want to point to others that R in DRM technically stands for Rights, but yeah. Wasn't that kind of thing ruled illegal, at least in Europe? Or what is the driving force behind virtually every phone manufacturer providing a way to unlock the bootloader? (which usually deletes the encryption keys used for DRM from the device, couldn't they do something similar with the switch?).

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Well, this is all very nice.

It's not really an exploit, though. The bootloader is "just" accessible, if I get this right (though discovering it was probably quite hard, It might even have been left here on purpose, who knows?)

Fascinating stuff really, as an owner of a Switch it's not exactly something I will be doing (my son would never forgive me), but it's very cool to see nonetheless.

This just allows you to boot from an external media, say an SD card. As long as you don't tamper with the internal storage, everything should be fine.

I would refrain a bit from using it right now, though: you can easily fry stuff if the kernel asks for the wrong voltages, etc... But it shouldn't be too risky, and I would give it a few months before it's 99.995% safe.

Regarding games and stuff you can run: of course, most open source software should run right away (no word on its usability, though). 0AD, SuperTux*, OpenMW and other engine reimplementations, *DOOM, various emulators, sc-controller.

Touching on that last point (sc-controller is python), visual novels on Steam are typically python, IIRC, so these should work without a hitch as well. The same can be said about those languages targeting an architecture-independent virtual machine: Java (minecraft), asm.js/Webasm games (there are some on humble bundle, among which Dustforce, Osmos, FTL...)

Now, on x86{,_64} software, you could always use QEMU, and I would be surprised if some QEMU wrappers for popular games didn't surface sooner than later.

The selling point is probably emulators, though. From NES to DOS and later, everything should run pretty much flawlessly. I hear some Wii U titles run pretty well as well? I am waiting for the day we'll have a switch emulator running on the switch itself, though :P

Many thanks to nVidia for their continued open source support on the Tegra platform!

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I was thinking about this game today... It was really hard to find. How about editing the title so that we can easily find it later? Including ASCII, Retro and Roguelike in the title would make the search function behave better, I think ;)

Or maybe we need a better way to search trough articles?

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Hi Stranger, thank you for chiming in! This game totally looks like my cup of tea! I will probably it at a later date, when my PC gets an overdue upgrade (look at those GPU and RAM prices :'().

I must say that I really like to have the convenience of steam and the freedom of GOG. It looks like the GOG release is not up to you, but is the Steam version DRM-free? Ideally, the game would be accepted on GOG and I could purchase it once to get it in both stores (did you think about HumbleBundle?).

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Did you guys actually read the GDPR? It's actually clearly written and understandable: https://gdpr-info.eu/ [External Link]
Some people seem to write stuff that they read from some random clickbait article. (I'm not aiming at anyone in particular, please don't take offense).

The bottom line is usually: protect you user's data as if it was your most invaluable business assets, don't collect anything you don't need, and don't store it for longer than it is needed for processing. There are multiple interesting discussions of it on Hacker News [External Link].
An interesting point is that you can't refuse a service to a user because they didn't consent something actually unneeded for the service.

Quoting: EagleDeltaDatabase backups come to mind with the right to remove all data from all time.

I actually disagree with this. Backups are as important as live databases. If you have a breach in your backup system, you don't want to leak information you didn't even need anymore in the first place.

On the other hand, I am not sure stuff like public postings actually need to be deleted, even if the user decides to delete his account. The choice is probably up to him, though.

Quoting: EagleDeltaFar worse than backups (I just thought about this) is the Right to Erasure in something like Git.

Git being a distributed system used by many FOSS projects and Companies to version source code, simply cannot easily adhere to the right to erasure, if at all.

That doesn't seem necessary as per https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/ [External Link] unless I am misunderstanding something there.

I find the GDPR really well written, forward-thinking, and it is obvious that a lot of thought by technical people has been put into it.

@liam: about Twitter, isn't any way to include a mastodon feed widget instead? (Plus, this sounds like something that could be "easily" written: fetch the atom feed, then parse the content from the resulting links; display).
a quick search gave me https://github.com/AzetJP/mastodon-timeline-widget/blob/master/README_en.md [External Link] Thank you for taking the time to perform those changes :)

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Wow so much content given away for free but seriously, stop spending your time on free stuff and start with your next game they have already given so much stuff away for free and i dont want a devloper/indie studio with talent like this go out of business.

Well, that kind of support is mostly what drove me into buying this game. And I won't throw rocks at developers because they are passionate about their game :)

Moreover, it could be... I don't know, maybe a team that banded together to make this great game... There would be no point in releasing another one if so.
Who knows? Maybe these tweaks are actually worth it financially, not taking much time, and keeping the community engaged, the playerbase active, and people recommending it to their friends, and they could already be working on their next title.

As far as I remember, it has been less than two years since release. It's really a pity that most developers stop caring about their games ~ 40 days after release, while in the past that kind of support was not unusual. A developer that values experience over raw financial returns/profit/margin, I will value as well!

Thanks a lot Cherry Team for this great game <3 (which I yet have to finish after putting more than 30 hours into).

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I tried it after the previous giveaway, it gave me an AOE II vibe, where you would be a small villager (for starters, at least). Overall, it was great, but with a few fatal (to me) flaws:

• Does not appeal to "casual gamers" -- ie, the ones that play occasionally, as there is some investment needed in the persistent world, and you can lose all of it if you don't play regularly
• I think it might be a bit too monotonous/difficult for solo play. Joining a multiplayer guild is probably great!

It looks like a game I would enjoy playing with some friends, if I could afford to regularly spend some time in.
Does anyone know if custom servers are supported? I don't recall, as it was quite some time ago.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI actually would be happy if there was a limit on the # of units -- say 30 or 40 just like chess or rock paper scissors.

What THE HELL are your rock paper scissors rules?

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