If it works and the user is happy, why not Judy go with it?
There’s nothing wrong with Judy using a distro that works well for her. ;)
There’s also nothing wrong with sharing information so others can learn, identify patterns, and perhaps find something that works better for them.
If you post your system specs and the distros that had that problem, it might help someone else who runs into the same thing. Or it might even hint at a cause more specific than “wasn’t running CachyOS”.
CachyOS claims performance improvement by compiling its packages with CPU-family-specific optimizations. Okay, but most games are not CPU bound, and even those that are mostly spend their CPU time in game code, not distro package-provided code.
CachyOS claims interactivity improvement by using the BORE scheduler. Okay, but that’s unlikely to help games unless you’re running other tasks that compete for CPU time while you play games.
So for most gamers, I wouldn’t expect CachyOS to offer much improvement in either area.
The best one I know is https://web.archive.org/
Unfortunately, no archive site manages to archive every article before a paywall goes up. I’ve had the best luck on archive.org by selecting the earliest snapshot they have.
Even if you get past the loop, the fact that archive.is is now using third party CAPTCHAs means that their provider can track your interests: They can correlate the page you came from, the archived content you wanted, your browser fingerprint, your IP address if not using a VPN, etc. If it’s a big provider like CloudFlare or Google (spoiler: it is) they can also correlate all that with a significant chunk of your non-Lemmy web browsing.
This is why I no longer use archive.is.
My understanding is that lutris is a program whereas as Plasma is a desktop environment
Yes, that’s right.
so I guess I would be looking for plasma to start regardless and if connected to a ps5 controller then open lutris to big picture mode.
Plasma (like many other desktop environments) can automatically launch whatever you like when you log in, if you create an XDG Autostart file for it in the $HOME/.config/autostart/ directory. (Hint: It uses the .desktop file format.)
You could write a script that checks for a Playstation controller and launches Lutris if one is detected. You could then reference that script in the autostart file’s Exec= line.
The simplest way I know of to detect a Playstation controller in a shell script would be something like this:
#!/bin/sh
udevadm info -t |grep -q DRIVER=playstation && echo "Hello, Playstation!"
You would have to make the script executable, and replace the echo command at the end with a lutris command line, of course.
Terminology correction to your original post: Booting is something that a computer does when you power it on. Launching a game or game launcher (on a machine that has an OS) is not booting.
Fair enough. I didn’t recommend those because:
The spec is far more detailed than necessary to get started with the language. Having to slog through it just to get the basics would have put me off, so I was relieved to find the Tour.
While the documentation page’s articles might be useful, I was disappointed with their writing. As an experienced programmer, I found the ones I read immensely boring and disrespectful of my time, because they have a lot of plodding verbiage explaining already-familiar concepts and often restating sentences from just one or two lines earlier. Meanwhile, other ideas are illustrated using (for example) C pointer syntax instead of explaining, which is clear to me, but would likely frustrate someone unfamiliar with that syntax. The authors seem unable to decide who their target audience is.
This could use some clarification. Do you mean that you want…
The possibilities really depend on what you’re after.
If you already know at least one programming language, you might start with the official Tour of Go. I appreciate its succinct simplicity. Along with a few official blog posts and the standard library docs, it was enough to get me writing useful code.
https://go.dev/blog/slices
https://go.dev/blog/strings
(To be fair, I’ve been programming for quite a while. Someone unfamiliar with the concepts that Go uses might need a more substantial tutorial.)
“The current Early Access version also falls short in terms of content volume.We are deeply disappointed by the former leadership’s conduct, and above all, we feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them by our fans.”
This statement seems manipulative to me. As a Subnautica fan, I have always been interested in quality of content, not how fast it gets created. I can wait for a good game. Krafton is trying to disguise their own profit-driven expectations as if they came from me and others like me, deceptively using us as pawns in guilt-laden psychological warfare against the people who have been developing the game.
Dear publishers,
Please don’t be like Krafton.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250714145528/https://www.404media.co/deportation-tok-is-taking-off-2/
Thank you, Internet Archive.
(I hope people who can afford to will send money to 404 Media and the Internet Archive. I think both deserve it.)
avoid older office PC’s with AMD graphics though, since none of them are going to have Navi graphics.
The key word here being older. These days, AMD CPUs have a couple of Navi graphics cores built in, and they’re good for both office tasks and video encoding.
Has anyone had any luck replicating their Proton setup outside of Steam? Or simply just running a Proton game outside of Steam after getting it set up using Steam?
I have run many Windows games outside of Steam.
I prefer to set up each one manually: Create a Wine prefix, install the game (or copy it from an existing installation), install a few key libraries like DXVK and a Visual C++ runtime, make a launch script with game-specific environment settings or launch options. Tools like Lutris and Bottles can automate much of this, in case you need a little help or just find a GUI more convenient.
This is my usual approach to non-Steam games (especially GOG), but even Steam games can be convinced to work offline with the help of a Steam emulator. It wouldn’t work with a game encumbered by DRM (e.g. Denuvo) unless a cracked version could be located, but in my experience, that’s a minority of Steam games that I categorically avoid in the first place.
So, I’m not worried about my game library vanishing if I ever lose access to Steam for whatever reason. Most (if not all) of it could be recovered with a bit of effort.
I’m with atzanteol. This obvious and predictable irony doesn’t make me think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.” (See Rule 4.)
I wonder if a personalized reputation system based on your votes of other people’s comments, and influenced by votes from folks who have earned enough upvotes from you, could be developed without turning your feed into an echo chamber like Facebook.
Sort of like PageRank, but for fediverse users instead of web pages, and with each user keeping (and seeing) their own rankings of everyone else.
Interesting. Judging by that option’s name, it seems to refer to use of the HTML <meta> tag to refresh a page.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta/http-equiv
Neither this tag nor using it for refresh is new at all. I don’t think I’ve seen it used to detect bots, though. I wonder what Anubis is doing here.
Sorry; I shouldn’t have written Cloudflare specifically. Their CAPTCHA page now contains scripts from Google, not Cloudflare. I have corrected my comment.
How do you know this?
Because a couple months ago, archive.is/archive.today started showing me CAPTCHA pages instead of the archived articles when I use Firefox with scripts disabled. The current page contains scripts hosted by Google, which I won’t enable, so I can’t read the archived articles.
What about https://ghostarchive.org/?
I haven’t used that site enough to have a consistent picture of what it’s doing. When I tried it a few minutes ago, it directed me to a CAPTCHA wall when trying to submit an article, but not when searching for an archived article. I’ll try to remember to look at it again periodically, to be able to answer this question in the future.
She told me she’s […] also thinking about a version that doesn’t require JavaScript, which some privacy-minded disable in their browsers.
As someone who is keenly aware of the privacy and security problems that come with allowing web scripts, I hope she prioritizes this soon. It’s really disappointing to find sites that were formerly readable without javascript suddenly inaccessible since adopting Anubis. The more sites that do this, the more people are pushed toward enabling scripts by default, exposing them to a great many trackers and web exploits that would otherwise be blocked.
Thank you for including the text as text.