stewie410

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[–] stewie410@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I had the same problem with Fallen Order the first day; the workaround in that particular case was to launch the game's executable directly; which let me play that one, single time. A few days later and both the original workaround (and others) & no-workarounds caused the game to launch in the background, with no way to force it to the foreground.

In Fallen Order's case specifically; there appeared to be a launcher-specific wrapper executable, and the game itself. When the workaround stopped working, the launcher-specific wrapper is what was getting ran in the background; but the game itself never actually appeared. Additionally, reinstalling the game several times did not resolve any issue; nor other troubleshooting steps from EA.

Origin was also a pretty crap piece of software (compared to Steam, anyway); but this is a new low from EA, imo. Its a shame too, because I liked what I got to see in Fallen Order, especially recently getting into souls games.

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Had the displeasure of using the modern EA app the other week -- completely refuses to launch my copy of Jedi: Fallen Order in the foreground after a single play-session (Steam -> EA just doesn't work for some people).

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Its less that it's complex, moreso that there's basically zero onboarding.

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you also managing AD or other services in Linux to make PS more viable, or just in general?

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Alternatively, you could set rustdesk to run on startup/login, so neither you nor the user needs to manually start it.

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately yes, the RP community still likes him for some reason...

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

We didn't get a video, but my first employer (Food Lion, a grocery store) did give us almost an identical spiel about once a year as "mandatory training".

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

May be worth building a default config to "install" for those setups; that's saved me quite some time when configuring new/spare machines at work.

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For me, once I prove the username/password and tap "Login", a third box appears asking for the MFA code

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

Part of the difficulty may have also been because it was my first foray into Android... at the moment I don't have a specific example, but I seem to remember setting defaults was straight-forward; but either they were not always respected by certain interaction prompts, or some similar behavior.

As for GMail, I'm also no longer using the app and instead have opted for Spark (personal mailboxes) & Outlook (exchange, work)...

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've just recently switched from a Galaxy S10 to a Pixel 7 as I wanted to see the "vanilla" experience, as well as be closer to upstream for software updates. My S10 still works great, though the battery needs replacement (at the time, it had already broken the glue on the back glass and was still expanding -- didn't realize until I took it out of the case for cleaning)...

With my S10, I had to really fight to get it to let me use Google's apps over the Samsung ones; which whole annoying is doable. So far, the only things I really miss from Samsung (and notably the UX):

  • The sidebar/panel with an additional set of predefined apps
  • The volume/silent switch in the notification shade
  • The Bixby button (for custom actions)
  • Physically smaller phone, but that's not a huge deal

Overall, I'm happy with the experience so far; though I dunno if the "Pro" model of anything is really worth it.

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Not sure what MFA provider you're using, but worked fine for my account with GAuth. Though, I'm currently trailing both Sync and Boost (the latter was my preferred reddit client)

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