kuberoot

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[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago

I've been around, there's the technic launcher, ATLauncher (that one was the go to for making packa for playing with friends), the FTB launcher, as mentioned the curseforge launcher was part of the twitch app for a while (I think it was also something like the Curse app before that?), and then Prism Launcher is actually a fork of a fork of MultiMC, but the in-between fork was a little bit of a controversial mess that fell to a hostile takeover by one of the maintainers - which spurred the remaining maintainers to make what I see as the best launcher currently available. Oh, and I think modrinth might have a launcher now?

Oh, yeah, I also remember the old Minecraft launcher, I think there was a modded version of that with support for multiple profiles so you didn't have to switch mods manually!

It's funny how much history there is if you go digging into things like this, and I'm sure I missed a lot.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago

Right, but that requires somebody to find and document exploitable firmware revisions, create and distribute hardware/software to exploit them, develop the aftermarket software/hardware, and all that potentially separately for each car model. And then that just becomes a war with the manufacturers, who might try to update their firmware more aggressively, lock things down more, and threaten/sue people working on such things.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When I was a kid, my mom would just straight up blend the strawberries either without anything (for dietary reasons) or with twaróg (cottage cheese)

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago

I'm just gonna chime in to point out those are both realtime combat focused games, requiring reflex and quick thinking, which is a notable departure from roguelike. On the other hand, Slay the Spire is all about careful planning, making decisions one step at a time, taking calculated risks. There's no turn time limit, no time-based combos or bonuses, or time-gated doors that give you extra items if you go fast enough.

Oh, and also meta-progression. Hades and Dead Cells are both built with a central system of grinding out unlocks and upgrades - in slay the spire, the only meta-progression I know is having to beat the game with each character to unlock the next, and having to complete a few runs with each character to unlock all cards... And then the real progression, where you can continue beating the game with increasing difficulty levels to unlock the next.

Ultimately, this might not matter for you, and even if it does, a slow strategic deckbuilder might still not be for you, and that's completely fine.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cooking is such a mood. It can be fun, and you get to eat something really fresh and hot, and just the way you like it. But sometimes the actual process is annoying, sometimes there might be a lot of waiting involved, there's the cleanup, the prep work, stocking the ingredients, you might need specialized equipment for good results...

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

My last phone upgrade was in part because my previous phone didn't have NFC, which is a significant technology nowadays. I wonder what's going to motivate my next one, if it's gonna be general performance, software support, or some hardware feature (like wifi... was it 7? That allocates a separate band for each device, so it doesn't shit itself when you use more than 1 device in a large area).

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

some of my games didn't launch, complaining about missing stuff.

I don't know Slackware, but I know on arch there's the standard steam runtime version, and then there's the unofficial steam-native-runtime, which uses system packages instead of steam's own bundled runtime. And if we're talking native Linux games, which is where the problem is, they tend to not work with steam's runtime, presumably because they weren't properly built to target it, and need to be launched with the native runtime (or switch to running the windows version with proton...)

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (8 children)

That's like pointing at an Android-based smart fridge, saying it doesn't run Skyrim, and saying it's a Linux issue, because android is based on Linux.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

I don't know what the source is, but I remember seeing the "AI" bit first, and then a bit later people started editing it more and more, escalating things. I'd check sites like knowyourmeme if I wasn't lazy right now.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Blaming AI for burning the planet is like blaming guns for killing children in schools, it's people we should be banning!

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

I use KDE, but for my file manager I stick to Thunar, which I think is from a fork of GNOME. Does cause me some issues, since Thunar uses gvfs for stuff like mounting USB drives, whereas plasma loads kio, seemingly with no way to disable it, and they fight for control over devices.

I remember one thing in particular that pissed me off about Dolphin is how it displays folders with 4 tilted miniature icons of files inside, with no way to turn it off, or even just make them not be randomly tilted. Such a minor thing, but when I was choosing it was between clean icons and a scrambled mess, I went with clean icons.

Ultimately, I wish gvfs/kio wasn't an issue, but I love to have the freedom to choose.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Larian has been adding free content to BG3 over time

I think they said the content updates are done, in the last content update?

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