I like this a lot, well said

Often in dystopian books/stories, most of society is just living their average life, unaware of how bad things really are. It’s usually the main character that is different, and begins to realize what’s really happening; they then act as a catalyst to convince people to see what’s going on (but usually only when it gets bad enough). And even then, some people will still choose to be blind. That’s essentially what’s happening in reality now, and why people don’t really care about privacy (along with many other rights that are being eroded)

3 is totally underrated, and my favorite. Everyone hated the future shooters back then but I loved it and it still had a strong playerbase despite that.

I played BO 1, 2, and then 3 and never moved on after 3. I still boot it up occasionally and if the moons align I can find a server

I had the same way of thinking you do when I switched. I eventually landed on LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) because it just worked. Debian itself was too old to do some gaming stuff I wanted and Arch is too bleeding edge for my taste and amount of free time I have to throw at it.

LMDE gives you the rock solid experience with just enough updates to have an easy time with updates or occasional tinkering

I just started Kigdom Rush: Vengeance, the fourth game in the series. I really enjoyed 1 and 2; 3 was ok, and I’m enjoying 4 so far. I like that you can mix and match towers in this one. So far the sand worm is my favorite tower.

Overall I still like Kingdom Rush Frontiers (second one) the best, as the balancing was really well done and I absolutely loved the pirate/beach part. I also really like the necromancer tower and having an army of skeleton minions

Lowest I can go is 20fps, anything below is too nauseating. I learned to cope because I modded Skyrim to the point of no return, and I could only get max 20fps with a decent rig and a ton of optimising. Hair physics and 4k trees definitely worth it 👍

Ahh yes the inner workings of the RCS protocol

This is interesting to observe. Quite a while ago I caught a lot of hate for discussing CalyxOS, now Graphene is getting flak. Both are great, it’s strange that there’s so much drama over good software, especially considering the lack of alternatives in mobile OSes.

Same thing just happened to me. I dug up my old psp from my childhood and the battery was crazy thick. I’m glad I caight it before it committed a Note 7.

Would this affect android-based OSes like lineageOS? Or can they patch something like that?

Great watch, thanks for the rec

OpenMW has an android port. You still need the original files but it does work if you have a someone capable device

With wine you just need to know what winetricks to use, e.g. like if a game needs dotnet 4.0 or another windows runtime/prerequisite. Winehq has a similar premise with different compatabiltiy ratings and steps others have taken to troubleshoot. You wont get installer scripts but you will get good directions most of the time. Any game rated platinum or gold is a breeze to set up

Bottles works much in the same way, and I always prefered it to Lutris. It’s also pretty easy to use plain old Wine if you’re comfy at all in the terminal. Pair it with winetricks and you can run most games with little hastle

I bought one of my favorite star trek items from Morgan Gendel, the writer of Inner Light and Starship Mine from TNG at a convention one year. He hand made replica flutes from The Inner Light and was selling signed ones. It was cool to have not only the flute but the fact it was hand made by the guy who wrote the episode is so cool

This being lemmy, you might want to try the open-source alternative, Grana Padano

Can confirm, I tried doing exfat for a Steam install on an external drive, and it just didn’t work at all. Ext4 and btrfs both have simlinks (although simlinks in btrfs are kinda weird) and work with Steam and emulation. Ext4 is the tried and true stable filesystem, and btrfs supports more modern features. I’ve always prefered stability to bleeding edge, so I use ext4, but it really is up to personal preference and what you need.

I wrote/played an instrumental for my mom and she didn’t like it, despite it being high quality and well practiced. Not in a mean way or anything, I just don’t think it’s a good gift in retrospect and it wasn’t her thing. And if you generate it with AI, it might seem effortless/cheap on top of that.

Everyone is different, but I think people like having something in their hands, like a work of art, or a written letter, while a song is more abstract than that.

I personally use Lemmy for 2 things really, tech/foss/privacy news & discussion, and as a social media replacement (memes). When I used to be on the crappy socials, I would only really use them for memes, and left when I started to care more about privacy rights. The very first community I followed was 196 when they migrated away from reddit, so it was essentially what I came here for initially, and then found that the whole platform was miles better for discussion as well.

I love doing this in my TRPGs. Nine out of ten times an event was memorable was because of a horrible failure rather than a successful win. My table eats it up. I wish more games did this too