DDLC has something similar as well.

FWIW, I had problems even with AMD GPU on KDE Plasma 5, but Plasma 6 is solid. So maybe stick with X11 until your distro updates to 6.

Inscryption

Yeah, it’s technically a deck builder, and that’s the gameplay loop throughout, but it’s not a rogue like deckbuilder like Slay the Spire (well, it kind of is at first). But it plays more like a puzzle game than a deckbuilder, but it’s not quite a puzzle game either.

But yeah, that’s the weakest of the bunch, and I only added it because Pony Island by the same dev is on there (which is technically a run-and-gun?).

Both have a popular genre at the forefront, but the game really wants you to look past that at what’s developing behind the game. And that’s what I think makes them unique. Labeling them as “deck builder” and “run-and-gun” don’t feel appropriate, despite that being the core gameplay loop.

So, is that just a remake of Oath of Felghana? Yeah it’s almost 20 years old, but it’s also already a remake itself.

Edit: Apparently this is a Switch game, so it’s getting localized for the Switch in western markets, and I’m guessing a bit of a remaster from the 2005 version. Still cool.

Yeah, I agree with most of those. Some of my favorite mentions from that thread:

• SUPERHOT
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• Baba is You
• Pony Island - and by extension Inscryption (haven’t played The Hex)
• Katamari Damacy

I’ll add:

• Perspective
• Manifold Garden
• The Bridge

And kind of the opposite, but I’ll list a couple of abstract genre games:

• 140 - platformer
• THOTH - twin stick shooter

Sure. I’m just saying storage doesn’t need to be overly burdensome. I just toss mine in a box and stick it in a closet. And if the drives die, you have the disks.

What is “handheld” here? It doesn’t seem like the Switch counts, and I doubt Steam Deck does, so is this this the old handheld-exclusive consoles like 3DS?

Also, it’s sad arcade is so small now, I loved arcades as a kid.

It’s not that big, the cases are much smaller than DVD cases. Each case is 12-13mm wide, so on a typical shelf, you could fit >60. You can easily make them two or three deep, depending on your shelf.

I just stick them in a box after ripping them to my HDDs.

The article specifies a JD Power study, which is an American institution. Seems obvious enough…

And it’s especially unnecessary for a big use case for EVs: commuters and grocery getters. It’s only needed for cars intended to do road trips.

And yeah, a phone app is more than sufficient. I do trips infrequently enough that it’s totally unnecessary to be built-in.

They have 38,000 kiosks. So that’s ~$10k/kiosk.

Honestly, that may be a fair price, assuming these machines are profitable. Vending machines make $4-10k revenue/year. Assuming that holds for RedBox, that should make >$2k profit per year, which would make aquisition reasonable. The question is, is that what they’re getting?

If I were in their shoes, I’d expand the options at the kiosks to include console games, and maybe a limited selection of snacks (e.g. popcorn), if it can be retrofitted.

Copyright is not a capitalist idea, it’s collectivist. See copyright in the Soviet Union, the initial bill of which was passed in 1925, right near the start of the USSR.

A pure capitalist system would have no copyright, and works would instead be protected through exclusivity (I.e. paywalls) and DRM. Copyright is intended to promote sharing by providing a period of exclusivity (temporary monopoly on a work). Whether it achieves those goals is certainly up for debate.

Long terms go against any benefit to society that copyright might have. I think it does have a benefit, but that benefit is pretty limited and should probably only last 10-15 years. I think eliminating copyright entirely would leave most people worse off and probably mostly benefit large orgs that can afford expensive DRM schemes in much the same way that our current copyright duration disproportionately benefits large orgs.

Do you really need a custom kernel for the surface devices?

I’ve kept Windows installed on a spare drive for years now. I don’t remember when I last booted into it on purpose, it was certainly more than a year ago, and was just to install Minecraft Bedrock to play with his friends (his friends bailed). My kids have only ever used Linux. :)

I could probably install Linux on my work MBP, but my boss would make me test on macOS, so it would kind of defeat the point.

At home, everything is Linux except my SO’s desktop, and that’s a job I’m unwilling to be fired from.

People think I’m nuts when I say Win2k was my favorite Windows. I switched to Linux before Vista came out. People say WinXP was good, but really, it was just tolerable.

Yeah, the only solution there is to buy better hardware.

Exactly.

Fortunately, my company doesn’t put ads in our product because it’s essentially a B2B product and customers pay a lot to use it, and our product being unusable could cost individual customers potentially millions if it blocks their day-to-day activities (we deal with regulations). We do use spyware though (e.g. fullstory), which makes sense given that lens, since being able to solve problems before they report them has a lot of value for our customers. If we did anything unethical, I would push back and potentially quit, since I’m not interested at all in manipulating customers (ads, dark patterns, etc).

I don’t think the tools we use to catch issues in the field make ethical sense in other contexts though. So yeah, I block a lot of the stuff we use in our product, and we don’t do anything to actively counter blocking in our app either (if you block it, you don’t get the pre-emptive bug-fixing).

Yup. If you use Windows, you need to accept what Microsoft does, because they control the OS. If you use Linux, you only need to accept what the software you install does, and there are a lot of options to select from.

Feel free to complain when Microsoft does something stupid, but don’t expect Microsoft to do anything about it. If you want control, use something that preserves that control.

So are you volunteering to install Linux on everyone’s machines when they get a new computer? And answer their tech support questions when they inevitably need that one program?