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[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 27 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This is basically the reason for one of the main characters being there in Stargate Universe.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 6 points 2 years ago

Personal thoughts - being about 15 hours in; the exploration part is far from exciting, the gunplay is not much improved since Fallout 4, the crafting systems have not really evolved at all, the outpost construction system feels very disconnected from any other gameplay - being a completely optional resource sink more than anything else, the ship construction system is clunky as anything and has a bunch of drawbacks to it, the usability of the UI is mediocre at best - probably slightly worse than the original Skyrim UI, the economy seems completely broken - you're very obviously meant to have 2-3 digits fewer in your credits than what the game awards you for regular play even without heavy looting, the characters are rather weakly written and seem strangely delayed in reactions to the story, your chosen backstory never has an actual role in gameplay - only been able to skip two 1k credit payments and a "put the cube in the cube hole" puzzle with it so far, etc.
It's very much a Bethesda game. I'm definitely going to finish the main story - and probably poke into a bunch of the side content as well, but this is definitely not looking like a game I'll have more than a single playthrough in.

I actually ended up bringing out a USB dancepad I've got laying about to play with, since I had to do a bunch of on-planet stuff, and standing and drinking tea while waiting through the traversal for those missions felt much nicer.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 4 points 2 years ago

ZZT-OOP is fun to work with though, definitely not meant for doing anything more complex than light gameplay, and yet people have done ridiculous things with it.

Though I personally did most of my coding in that vein in MegaZeux with their Robotic language, which is basically ZZT-OOP++.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Doesn't look like so in the beta at least, it will always launch in an SDL window - and doesn't link to the curses libs either, which makes some sense with it being a Steam game.
Though using dfhack and the remote interface could probably still be used to have a tty client.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 10 points 2 years ago

I use KeePassXC on the daily, so that's definitely going on the list. Spectacle does screenshots amazingly well. neovim is a great fork of vim, handles all my text editing and IDE work. GIMP is basically a given for image editing. And also a fan of LMMS for whenever I work with audio/music.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I see some of these have already been mentioned, but they do deserve repeating;

  • µBlock Origin - blocks ads, and does it well.
  • Privacy Badger - blocks trackers, rewrites some tracking URLs, etc.
  • Multi-Account Containers - for those places where you want to keep tabs separate, giving each container its own cookies/session/etc.
  • Consent-O-Matic - automatically handles a lot of pages that shove annoying (and often technically GDPR-illegal due to lacking a quick "reject all" button) consent forms in your face.
  • Imagus - shows linked images on hover, including support for galleries and scrolling through all the images contained.
[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Freelancer's installer has had some issues with Linux in the past, it actually uses a couple of really odd side effects of Windows API calls as part of its functionality - which has caused issues on actual Windows as well for some people.

If you're using Lutris, my suggestion is to use the add new game button in the interface - the plus in the top-left, and choose "Install a Windows game from an executable", then you'll get a perfectly clean prefix for that part.

And I'm also going to take the opportunity to add a link to Librelancer, an open-source remake of the Freelancer engine which has been going on for a while, not quite yet to the point where it can play the campaign though.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Tyskarna var tydligen mycket tidigare ute med att få igång sin flagga.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 5 points 2 years ago

The only widget I've found in any way useful as a detached window like that has been the sticky note, and even there the usability is limited compared to just opening kwrite - or any other simple text editor.

It's definitely an interesting - if quite useless and potentially confusing - feature, but it makes complete sense to drop it from core and instead let it live as an extension instead, since it's quite literally just a krunner runner anyway.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Basically, you can open some widgets inside a standalone window instead of attaching them to a bar/desktop, making them act like some kind of standalone application instead - including losing all their state as soon as their window is closed.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Personally using Dex, it's about as lightweight as you can get, it can be configured with a single configuration file on disk, and it runs entirely stateless as well.

It only deals with authentication delegation though, unlike larger systems like Keycloak.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We're moving towards more btrfs - or at least LVM+ where there's no btrfs support - on as much of our server fleet as we can, since the lack of snapshotting on the other filesystems is making consistent backups way too expensive resource- and time-wise.
With LVM it's at least possible to take a block-level snapshot - which is really inefficient compared to a file-level snapshot, but it at least provides a stable point for backups to run from, without having to pause all writes during the backup or risk running out a sliding window if allowing writes to continue.

For a home user (especially one who's not as well versed in Linux or don't have tinkering time), I'd personally suggest either ext4 - since it's been the default for a while and therefore often what's assumed in guides, or btrfs where distros include it as a default option - since they should be configured with snapshots out of the box in that case, which make it much harder for the system to break due to things like unexpected shutdowns while running updates.

I'd personally stay away from ZFS for any important data storage on home computers, since it's officially not supported, and basically guaranteed never to be either due to licensing. It can remain a reasonable option if you have the know-how - or at least the tinkering time to gain said know-how, but it's probably going to be suboptimal for desktop usage regardless.

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