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What is general practice for installing games from outside Steam? (kbin.social)

PC/Linux/Steam Noob here. I just got a game from GOG and I’m seeing tutorials mention Heroic, Lutris, and Wine via ProtonUp-QT as methods to get non-Steam games installed and running on Deck. Which method would you consider the easiest and most reliable for content from GOG, Ubisoft, Epic, etc…

Nilz,

I use Heroic if the game is from GoG or Epic and Lutris for the rest. I wouldn’t bother with using just Wine since it’s a lot easier to configure compatibility settings for each individual game with Heroic and Lutris. Both can use the same compatibility layers anyway.

Nilz,

When I fkrst read this I thought this was a joke post of someone not being able to start the game on their PC.

Nilz,

With diamondback nozzles you need to reduce the printing temp compared to what you had on your brass nozzle. I have the same exact setup as you, mk3s with 0.6mm diamondback nozzle and it’s working fine with stock settings but a bit lower temp . Stringing is really an issue for me though.

What layer height are you printing? I usually go for 0.4mm.

Nilz,

The Nokia 3310 had voice recognition…

Nilz,

I was going to upvote your comment but I didn’t because you didn’t ask for it. Sorry.

Nilz,

This is basically what an LLM does, making up stories that might seem correct.

Nilz,

This is my biggest frustration as well. I usually use Onshape because it’s browser based but it doesn’t support a 3D mouse sadly.

Nilz,

Or Gnubuntu to trigger people

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Nilz,

Why? The fact that people are buying it now that it is on Steam already gives the message they didn’t want to buy it when it was an Epic exclusive. If people don’t buy it on Steam after it’s available then it doesn’t encourage devs/publishers to release on Steam at all either.

Nilz,

But also one of the worst options in terms of privacy.

Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately (arstechnica.com)

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, the company whose 3D game engine had recently seen backlash from developers over proposed fee structures, will retire as CEO, president, and board chairman at the company, according to a press release issued late on a Monday afternoon, one many observe as a holiday.

Nilz,

Who wouldn’t want to supervise themselves?

Nilz,

It’s a shame we aren’t seemingly taking them into consideration in the whole energy transition crisis we are in.

But rather let’s just keep sending people into hazardous coal mines while ignoring nuclear energy until the solution to all our problems magically comes to us.

Nilz,

I’m not trying to say nuclear is the definitive solution, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction. Progress is progress, we don’t have to find the final solution in one go.

proxmox: Do you use a headless Linux OS as a VM or one with a GUI?

Hi. Since yesterday i selfhosted all my stuff with a raspberry pi and two odroids. Everything works ok, but after i read about a few apps that are not supported by the arm-architecture of the SBCs and about the advantages of the backup-solution in proxmox, i bought a little server (6500T/8GB/250GB) to try proxmox....

Nilz,

This indeed. To OP: if you use LXC containers using templates that Proxmox provides, they are headless by default. A Gui is a waste of resources.

Nilz,

Factorio is a pretty demanding game as long as you play long enough

Nilz,

This is actually everyone’s complaint about the game. It’s frustrating because the game has a lot of potential otherwise.

Exploring the available CAD software (faulty.equipment)

Hey there! As a 3D printer addict I do a lot of small parts in CAD to print and use around the house. Lately I’ve been exploring all sorts of CAD software since finding out there’s a more around than just Fusion360 and Onshape so I started exploring what’s out there and jotting down my impressions....

Nilz,

I really don’t understand FreeCAD. I have used SolidWorks, Inventor, Fusion360 and OnShape for personal use and we use Siemens NX at work. I’m not an expert at any of them, but I get the job done. My colleagues and I often joke how unwieldy, slow and difficult NX is, but it’s nothing compared to FreeCAD. It’s just so different and unintuitive.

Even when applying good design practices when creating your models, everything will collapse into a giant mess once you try and change/remove an earlier feature. Or possibly I am taking a wrong approach since it’s so different.

The FreeCAD devs know this, and criticisms about how it’s so different from other CAD programs isn’t allowed on their forums (I understand their reasoning for this rule though). I really just don’t understand why the devs of the only free open source CAD program feel the need to do everything so different than anything else that’s out there. It’s not even like they need to find their niche to fill, it would be wildly more popular if it was more in line with commercial CAD programs.

I can’t remember ever reading about someone liking the program but I often read people struggling with and complaining about it.

Nilz,

I don’t agree with you and this is pretty much frowned upon at the company I work at. As long as you follow good design principles, minor changes to features would trickle down without much issue. Sometimes things indeed break but they shouldn’t be too hard to solve. It’s not a good habit to keep adding, changing and removing bits to the same area with new features as if you are carving a statue; the history will become unmanageable at some point. Especially in a professional setting where someone else might need to work on your design it would make sense to have a logical build up of your model. For a hobbyist this doesn’t matter that much and I can see how your argument for preserving history makes sense to you.

But an example of my frustration: With most CAD programs, sketches are usually put on faces and if you make a change elsewhere, the sketch will still be attached to that same face. With FreeCad, sketches seem to be assigned to a face number. This means that if you make a change earlier in the model that adds or removes a different face, your sketch will no longer be attached to the same face it was before because it has a different identifier. At least that’s my experience, but maybe I was doing wrong. It’s certainly not as I expected it to work.

Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster (www.theverge.com)

Remember that these were estimates from more than three years ago and before Microsoft completed its acquisition of ZeniMax in March 2021, so there’s always the chance that some of these plans have changed dramatically or been scrapped entirely. But they may provide an early look at some of the games we can look forward to...

Nilz,

Hopefully a better UI for Oblivion, with the included ability to actually remove spells.

Nilz,

We have come full circle. Hurray?

Nilz,

That’s quite a lot of nozzles.

Nilz,

The fact that the Pro (or any device) supports a newer USB protocol doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be able to take advantage of the full speed. It might just be as slow as the non Pro with USB 2.0.

Are Internet boards and Forums dead

i started using the internet in the late 2000’s and still remember when you search for something most of the times it would return with a forum post … now its just random websites … if you ever need real and concise answer you have to add site:reddit.com at every search and since discord or twitter are not crawlable by...

Nilz,

That app already exists and is called Tapatalk. I think almost every forum I’ve visited in the last decade has a banner on mobile that suggests using Tapatalk.

It’s not very good though it seems.

Nilz,

Apparently it’s close to the performance of the AMD 3200G and 3400G CPUs

Nilz,

Yes, that would make sense, but why does the UI show a mouse with a scroll wheel then.

Nilz,

The only conclusion to make is that the video game industry has matured to a point where only masterpieces are released. Bad games just don’t exist anymore.

Right??

Nilz,

Gamespot did 55 hours and IGN started NG+ at 60 hours according to their respective video reviews.

Nilz,

“By the end of the 2 year term, you can’t upgrade to a new phone with Pixel Pass.”

They’re not honoring that part of the deal.

Nilz,

Modding classic iPods is such an awesome rabbit Hole. You can exchange the mini hard drive with anything from regular SD cards to quad micro-SD cards to even MSATA and M.2 SSDs. This also creates extra room to install a giant battery if you want to.

I am currently trying to find a way to embed a Bluetooth transmitter so I can use my Bluetooth headphones with it.

There’s even an alternative firmware called Rockbox that allows you to just plug in the iPod using USB and put MP3s on it instead of using iTunes.

I also own a Creative Zen Vision but it’s sadly not as customizable and there’s no Rockbox firmware for it.

Edit: before posting I didn’t see the link to the original post which talks about most of the above.

Nilz,

Good luck! I’ve been using Linux on my main rig since December when I challenged myself to use it exclusively for an entire month. I only boot into Windows to play Valorant every now and then.

Nilz,

When I see a perfectly reasonable comment with -50 downvotes within minutes of posting … it makes me laugh at everyone who just can’t hit that downvote button fast enough.

I think it’s safe to assume that those 50 people who downvoted that comment thought it actually wasn’t perfectly reasonable

Nilz,

I work in semiconductor industry where machines need to have sub-micron positioning accuracy and even we don’t generally design parts with 10 micron tolerances, unless it really needs to.

Nilz,

Have you played Divinity Original Sin 2? How does it compare?

Nilz,

Steam makes Wine prefixes for every game so they don’t interfere with eachother.

To answer OP: each new version of Wine and especially Proton introduces changes to fix one or more game that can potentially break other games. That’s why if a specific Proton version has been known to work for a game, your best bet is to use that version for that game. But as always with Wine on Linux though, YMMV, so trying out several versions to see which one works best is a good idea. I’ve found that most games work well with latest GE.

Nilz,

If you’re going to the trouble of learning a new OS, IMO you might as well just go straight for Linux. Gaming is a lot better on Linux than on OSX as well.

Nilz,

Jeez, thanks for this blast from the past. I remember a lot of these from my early Linux experiments over a decade ago.

Nilz,

And a spark plug box as a GPU holder. This person is ingenius.

Nilz,

Also if people pirate a game they can potentially still buy it through official channels later. If they have bought it through grey or black markets then that opportunity is lost.

Nilz,

Which DE? I am using Plasma and notice some weird things like flickering screen when I am playing YouTube videos in Fullscreen with VRR.

Nilz,

A PSU will be most efficient if the load is close to what it’s designed for. A PicoPSU doesn’t have as many components as say a full ATX PSU and they are all sized for tiny loads.

I have used Pico PSUs on several occasions, more so due to their size than their effeciency. So I don’t think I’d swap a normal PSU out for one. With the difference of just 10 watts you’d probably have to run it 24/7 for years to break even in the cost of purchase.

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What's a good, cheap, no external power GPU to buy for VMs? Want to chuck a few in my Dell R730 server to make my desktop VMs more usable. Right now have an old K620 for a Windows VM, seems like 1030s are a good bet since I have a bunch of low profile slots I otherwise have no use for.

Nilz,

1030’s can be both low profile and passively cooled. They are cheap but their performance is quite low. I think it’s slower then modern integrated graphics. 1650’s are also available without external power.

On AMD’s side you can go for either a Radeon 460 or a Radeon Pro WX 5100. I think those 4 are your best options.

Edit: I think as someone else commented the RX 6400 might be the best option nowadays.

Nilz,

Does this mean I’m allowed to bring my asciiquarium? https://robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/screenshot.png

Nilz, (edited )

But still, if I understand correctly, with NAT you can just use one firewall for your router and with IPv6 you’d need a firewall for each of your devices. This seems like a lot more to manage, right? But maybe I still don’t understand the concept of IPv6.

Edit: Apparently I don’t understand the concept of IPv6.

Nilz,

Tried both and Connect seems to make a bit more sense to me. But more options is more better!

Nilz,

Boomers: “We had hot days in the 60’s and 70’s as well and you didn’t hear us complain”

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C:/documents

Nilz,

Here you go.

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