[-] million@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Performance art in 2024

[-] million@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

People treat it like a mistake but not be able to use the mouse while it’s plugged in is the entire point of the design. Right or wrong the Apple designers thought a cord drag was a bad experience and designed to prevent it.

They probably looked at their target audience and realized there was a certain percentage of folks that would just leave the mouse on the cord 24/7 and wanted to prevent that.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by million@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

Does the community have any thoughts on Bazzite for a desktop gaming machine?

My primary use with be mouse and keyboard, but the deck interface looks nice for the 10% of the time I want to use a controller. I also hear that HDR and VRR work better under it then most of the DEs.

Anyone out there using Bazzite for a similar use case? I'd also be curious to here about other ways people are using it.

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submitted 1 month ago by million@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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This is one is very confusing, which probably speaks to the current UI in Heroic. I just want to say, run this game in gamescope, so I can use HDR.

I have the latest version of Heroic, installed via Flatpak as the devs recommend. If I go to configure the game in the UI it has an entire settings page dedicated to Gamescope but nothing that says "enable gamescope".

Anyone get this working?

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Under Windows this is an option in the AMD control panel. Not sure how to enable it.

Specifically, this is for a non-native Proton game with FSR support built in. I am not using GE as I need the latest code in Proton experimental to run this game.

[-] million@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The same is true for blue states.

If your vote is not important because your state is locked in on a presidential candidate, local issues / candidates are worth voting on. They can have a more direct impact on your day to day.

[-] million@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Good quote. Here is more of it for context:

Fable was profitable - "highly profitable", Lionhead's Simon Carter told Eurogamer - but in a now too-familiar story, it and its genre was seen by Microsoft as just not profitable enough. "That category is not the biggest category on the planet," said Robbie Bach, who was the President of Entertainment & Devices Division at Microsoft before Don Mattrick assumed the role. "It's not soccer. It's not American Football. It's not a first-person shooter sized category. So at a commercial level, I would say it was successful, but not wildly so."

Wildly successful was what Microsoft was after. A pitch for Fable 4 was rejected. "It was like, you've reached your cap of players for RPG on Xbox and you need to find a way to double that, and you're not going to do it with RPG," Fable's art director John McCormack told Eurogamer at the time. "I thought, yes we can. I said, look, just give us four years, proper finance, give us the chance Mass Effect has, Skyrim has, the games at the time. They're getting four years and a lot of budget. Give us that, and we'll give you something that'll get you your players. Nah, you've had three shots and you've only tripled the money. It's not good enough. Fuck off. That's what I was annoyed about." (Worth noting: Skyrim went on to sell 63m copies, as of June 2023, The Witcher 3 over 50m.)

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by million@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

Hey Folks,

I had Diablo 4, the Battle.net version, running perfectly fine under Lutris Flatpak. Then randomly one day it just stopped working, I didn't download a new version of the wine runner I was using, I didn't make any configuration changes it just broke. Specifically it boots, the screen goes grey for a few seconds, and then it loads up super slowly, like 1 fps and makes the game interface and Plasma becomes unusable, so I have to drop to a TTY to kill the process. Nothing really interesting is show if I select "show logs" in Lutris.

I was thinking some Flatpak Lutris update broke it, so I tried to install the game using Bottles, also a Flatpak, but ended up with exact same problem. Now I am thinking this may be a Mesa problem since that is a dependency both of these Flatpaks share. I am using the same Wine GE version on both, but it's a version from February and it worked just fine a few weeks ago.

Any recommendations on what I could do or what I could look at to debug further?

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I have 2 drives in my machine. Linux right now is installed on 1/4 of the first drive and I am going to start moving parts of my 2nd drive, which is just games on Windows, to a 1/2 combo of NTFS and BTRFS. Essentially giving Linux more space as it replaces Windows as my gaming daily driver. With the eventual plan to move that entire 2nd drive over to BTRFS, and allow Windows to have 3/4 of the 1st drive for games that only run under it.

Curious how folks have set this up. Currently I have Steam, Heroic and Lutris installing to ~/Games. So it may make sense to mount my new drive there, but I am not sure that in home folder mounts make sense. I also realize I could potentially use BTRFS to make it look like my space is all one mount point vs multiple, but given the complexity of that filesystem I am worried there is a downside I am not aware of.

Any suggestions? What has worked for you for your setup?

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I am using the Steam Flatpak on OpenSuse Tumbleweed and when using the Steam interface, specifically when I get a chat message or try to respond to one, the Steam UI will hard freeze, as in a I can't type or move windows or interact with anything and then 30 seconds or so later everything goes back to normal. Plasma is still response when all of this is going on, it's just the Steam UI that freezes.

It's super odd and I have been running the Flatpak in the terminal to see if I can chat any relevant log messages but haven't seen any yet. It's been a little bit since I used the OpenSuse package and I think I remember seeing these freezes occasionally, but they seem much more common on the Flatpak version.

Anyone else get this behavior?

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Not sure what happened but I've been running Steam games using MANGOHUD=1 gamemoderun %command% and it's been working fine with Mangohud. Suddenly, no Mangohud. Mangohud still works with Lutris.

I am using the Flatpak version so I looked at my history and there haven't been any updates to the Steam or Mangohud Flatpaks when the breakage occurred. Nothing relevant is logged out if I run Steam using flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam. Inside Steam there have been a few updates, including an update to the common redistributable and that may have been around the time this broke. The only other thing I see is that Gnome updated some Flatpak stuff recently as well.

System wise I am on OpenSuse Tumbleweed using KDE Plasma 6. Any tips for debugging further?

Relevant Flatpak packages

Name                              Application ID                                Version  Branch       Installation
Valve Corporation                 com.valvesoftware.Steam                       1.0.0.79 stable       system
Mesa                              org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default           24.0.3   22.08        system
Mesa (Extra)                      org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default           24.0.3   22.08-extra  system
Mesa                              org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default           24.0.3   23.08        system
Mesa (Extra)                      org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default           24.0.3   23.08-extra  system
Mesa                              org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default         24.0.3   23.08        system
Mesa (Extra)                      org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default         24.0.3   23.08-extra  system
MangoHud                          org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.MangoHud 0.6.8    21.08        system
MangoHud                          org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.MangoHud 0.7.1    23.08        system
gamescope                         …g.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.gamescope 3.14.2   23.08        system
Freedesktop SDK                   org.freedesktop.Sdk                           23.08.14 23.08        system
GNOME Application Platform versi… org.gnome.Platform                                     45           system
GNOME Application Platform versi… org.gnome.Platform                                     46           system
i386                              org.gnome.Platform.Compat.i386                         45           system
Breeze GTK theme                  org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze                      6.0.3    3.22         system
Adwaita theme                     org.kde.KStyle.Adwaita                                 6.5          system
KDE Application Platform          org.kde.Platform                                       6.5          system
DXVK                              org.winehq.Wine.DLLs.dxvk                     2.3      stable-23.08 system
[-] million@lemmy.world 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is a good step but I still feel like it's pretty obscure where a package is actually coming from. "by Google" or for the Steam package "by Valve" is really confusing and makes it sounds like it's coming directly from the company. Unverified tells the user to pay attention but there is no hover over to say what it actually means.

[-] million@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

I am using B2 now - I started using it before they added the encrypted buckets and am using restic to encrypt everything. It's nice because I don't really have to trust Blackblaze at this point aside from them not losing my data.

I've since additionally turned on encryption on my buckets, but as far as I know they store the key for you, so in terms of privacy it's not the best.

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submitted 8 months ago by million@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

New Humble Bundle supporting child’s play and the Trevor project

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by million@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

As the title asks, how does one actually use HDR for games after upgrading to Plasma 6?

This was the feature I was most excited about, and I can hit the HDR button on my display configuration and it looks like the desktop is going into HDR mode, but so far I have had zero luck enabling the HDR feature in games. Every game I've tried had the HDR toggle disabled with no way to enable it.

I am running these games under Proton and I've tried both 8-GE and 9 Beta. Any tips?

Edit: probably important to note that I am using an AMD GPU under Wayland

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I was going to going to ask this question because Steam Flatpak was listed as last being updated May 2023, but they just updated it yesterday. That's still about 9 month between updates.

In general if I am on rolling release like OpenSuse Tumbleweed is my Steam package and Mesa drivers going to be more up to date then what the Steam Flatpak provides or are they updating the Flatpak and dependencies more frequently then the Discover app is suggesting?

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submitted 8 months ago by million@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

I've done some Googling on this topic and some folks are saying it should just work and that distro I am on, OpenSuse, used to patch Firefox with support for global menus or that the Plasma extension should give you support but I haven't been able to get anything to work.

Anyone know what is needed / if this is even possible with current Firefox?

[-] million@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Quiet quitting refers to a phenomenon where employees, particularly in the United States, increasingly prioritize work-life balance over excessive workplace engagement. Instead of going above and beyond their job duties, these employees simply fulfill their basic responsibilities and are often reluctant to work overtime.

I don’t know if there is objective definition on quiet quitting but this one feels off and a little gross to me. You can work your agreed upon hours with no overtime and still do an amazing job. This definition paints folks working full time jobs as slackers because they aren’t doing overtime, which in most cases is going to be free overtime.

[-] million@lemmy.world 160 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Refactoring is something that should be constantly done in a code base, for every story. As soon as people get scared about changing things the codebase is on the road to being legacy.

[-] million@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

What handbook?

[-] million@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Out of the loop, what happened to Lemmy.one?

[-] million@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I’m a huge fan of open source but saying the only people saying Gimps UI is bad are astroturfing is insane.

It’s famously controversial and uses UI paradigms that don’t exist in any modern desktop environments.

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