MentalEdge

MentalEdge , 5 days ago

Same here. No trouble with sddm.

MentalEdge , 7 days ago

Signalis.

It's good. Very good.

MentalEdge , 7 days ago

I've kinda ruined scary games for myself.

I've been leaving my guns in the stash because so far, kiting around enemies is just more efficient, and it frees up inventory space.

Last time I properly shat my pants was the giant baby in REVillage... The dollhouse was pretty cool, too.

I'm just loving the crap out of the atmosphere, art, mystery and lore in Signalis.

MentalEdge , 11 days ago

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/5dd226c0-055a-44f4-a3cc-b21dc21e297b.webp

Sweet, sweet Razira, wearing your heart on your sleeve like this, is why you lost.

MentalEdge , 12 days ago

I would swap out Manjaro for Endeavour.

I started off with Manjaro, and updates kept breaking shit. Only reason it was usable for me, was that I kept timeshift going so I could recover from an unbootable state if updates borked something.

Especially if OPs system is unusual, I wouldn't trust Manjaro. I've yet to need timeshift on my Endeavour install, while setting it up to do the same things was no more difficult.

MentalEdge , 12 days ago

No-one has commented on your mentioning VS and Flutter... I haven't used it but I think VS is available for Linux?

I contribute to the Thunder client for Lemmy from my system running EndeavourOS with KDE.

I personally use android studio for this. I hit a pitfall on installing the android, flutter and dart SDKs from the AUR, but that turned out to be the lesser method. It was much easier to just let android studio install them to a folder, and thereby have it manage their versions.

The one downside was having to add their folders to PATH, so terminal commands like adb, dart, emulator, flutter, etc. work, but that's not a big deal.

MentalEdge , 12 days ago

Dude writes code, that makes me a lot more comfortable recommending an arch install of some kind. Endeavour especially, as it sets you up at a very good starting point without doing messy shit like Manjaro.

Agreed on flatpak, it's fine.

MentalEdge , 12 days ago

Whoa.

You seem to be a lot more vehement about this than I am. Not to mention confidently uninformed on arch.

I don't think this is worth getting into further. You've already decided I'm some kind of elitist, deserving of insulting analogies thrown at them.

MentalEdge , 12 days ago

Good!

My main concern would be running terminal commands to control an emulator and dart and flutter commands, but as long as all that can interact correctly, it should serve.

MentalEdge , 12 days ago

In my experience, Manjaro breaks all the time.

Arch doesn't.

That said, Debian is great. Probably gonna ditch Ubuntu for just pure Debian on my server.

MentalEdge , 12 days ago

No, I'm simply standing behind my initial statement, and pointing out why your counter argument is bad.

It's not though.

Wat is arch? I only used it and its derivatives on multiple devices for multiple years in my 15+ years of Linux

Good for you.

If you think a hyperbolised analogy is an insult, take care of your delicate constitution and don't risk maladies by entering discussions on the internet.

I mean, if my assumption that you were being mean-spirited before was strenuous, this and linking that video makes it a sealed deal.

You can't get under my skin, but that doesn't mean you're not being shitty by trying.

MentalEdge , 12 days ago

Well the deck only gets updates once Valve decides they're good to go, and it's immutable so there can't be edge cases where system packages don't play nice with something user-installed.

Something similar is true for arch in general, package updates go out once they are good to go, and more importantly, when something really breaks, the fix comes in fast.

But manjaro tries to fix something which isn't broken by delaying arch updates by two weeks, meaning you sometimes gets stuck with broken things, waiting for the fix, or get updates that install versions of things that don't work together.

MentalEdge , 12 days ago

I have no idea. I think the claim is that as "arch is unstable", the delay allows them to make sure none of that "wild instability" makes it into Manjaro. But as far as I can tell, no such checking occurs and the delay is just a delay. I got into the habit of putting off updating because more often than not it meant an evening of timeshifting and troubleshooting.

But arch isn't really that unstable. On Endeavour (endeavours main repos are just the arch repos, they don't maintain their own) I update whenever my system notifies me there's new stuff, and the possibility that my system won't boot afterwards doesn't really cross my mind anymore. I still run timeshift, but I haven't needed it yet.

In fact, if you really want stability... Unless you need some upcoming security update, bug fix or feature, you can just keep using your system, only installing things when you need them. There's no real reason to impulsively install updates the second they are available. My system doesn't even check for updates more than once a week.

Then, if my system worked yesterday, it will do say today. And unless I decide to change something today, it will do so tomorrow too.

In that sense even arch's stability is "customizable" because you can voluntarily reduce how often you risk breaking something, while at the same time running a system with still more recent packages than most other distros.

MentalEdge , 11 days ago

I approve of both of those options. Personally I simply find the AUR the most convenient community driven way to install software.

MentalEdge , 11 days ago

Good. Did I claim otherwise?

MentalEdge , 12 days ago

Fuck this. I would have been STOKED to see another game by Tango.

MentalEdge , 13 days ago

Yeah but they're like three times the price last I checked.

I refuse to pay more for a smartwatch than a phone.

MentalEdge , 18 days ago

!foxes

MentalEdge , 19 days ago

I agree so much. Compared to the highs and lows of a good game, TV series and movies feel like background noise at times.

MentalEdge , 20 days ago

Fedora apparently has some functionality.

There is also an arch wiki page on the subject.

Linux systems are used all over for enterprise use cases, which means there is a robust user permission system. Usage won't be Googleable with stuff like "parental control" but more likely keywords like "user restriction".

Not sure if you mention your wife because she knows Linux and thinks it's a bad idea, or because doesn't know Linux, and still thinks it's a bad idea.

Of course, when your kid one day learns to flash an iso onto a usb, and install an OS, any and all parental control will be symbolic. Hopefully you've successfully taught your kid how to use tech safely by then.

You'll want to look into browser extensions and blocking websites on your router, as well.

MentalEdge , 20 days ago

Yes. And using restricting application access doesn't really work with normal package managers, but is easy with flatpak.

MentalEdge , 20 days ago

No.

But why would you want to?

All "virtual surround" solutions for headphones are absolute crap. You have two ears. The headphones have two speakers. Any modern game is already processing the 3D position of sounds and creating the appropriate stereo signal.

All any additional processing does is make it sound worse. At best these programs are just an audio equaliser that makes footsteps louder, that's not some fancy processing, and is arguably cheating.

MentalEdge , 20 days ago

That's what I said.

If someone else turns up footstep audio with additional software, you have to do it too.

But just use a damn equaliser then. Not some "surround gaming audio" processor that at worst does way more to hurt audio quality than help it.

These programs don't help you hear other players by using some magic 3d audio. They literally just make footsteps louder, because the audio is already 3d.

You can also get the same result by just lowering all the audio sliders in the game, except SFX, and then using a louder volume.

These "audio processing" programs are fake garbage.

MentalEdge , 20 days ago

Yes they do. They use the word "surround". That's a lie. They claim to improve audio across the board, for music movies and anything else. That's a lie. They claim to enhance immersion by making it sound more real. That's a lie.

Everything all of these programs do around achieving "surround" is fake garbage.

I said the only REAL thing some of them do is let you hear better in games, and thats arguably cheating.

It has more in common with wallhacks than turning graphics down.

MentalEdge , 20 days ago

Do you not know what the word "arguably" means?

They cannot magically make new information.

That's literally what I'm saying. They don't actually do anything useful.

These programs don't "enhance" anything. They just make some parts louder and some parts quieter, which "ARGUABLY" means you're using a third party application to modify the game to work differently than designed (allowing you to hear things sooner than their set loudness was intended to allow).

HRTF will do a lot more for you than an equalizer or compressor could.

No shit. Just turn up the relevant game audio, dump these POS audio processors that pretend to be magic.

MentalEdge , 20 days ago

Yes. That random android tablet with the atmos logo on it definitely does some totally real processing to actually improve the audio coming out of its lil tinny speakers.

If you have a stereo headset, the absolute best audio signal you can feed them, is stereo. Any and all spatial processing can and should already be in there, because no, you can't just "process" it in there afterwards.

Games and movies that support complex audio standards only work right when used on multi-speaker setups. You can't just "process" it down to a stereo signal in a way that recreates that. At best, the result is as good as a correctly created stereo signal would have been in the first place.

We're talking about stereo headphones here. Feeding them anything other than a stereo audio signal was never an option. No matter what processing you do, it's still just two speakers slapped onto your ears. If you have a stereo audio source that didn't generate the signal with spatial processing, you can't just add it back in. And if it did create the signal with spatial audio, no additional processing makes it more better.

MentalEdge , 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

No fucking shit.

That's not what I'm saying. These programs don't do virtual surround. If they do, they do it badly.

Game engines DO use virtual surround, and do so much better, using it to produce the stereo signal directly.

These programs, at worst, pretend to accept a 5.1 or 7.1 audio source, and then downmix it, badly, to stereo. They might slap on a shitty room effect for good measure.

At best, they just take the stereo audio from the game, which is either already in virtual surround, or a stereo stream without positional data, and muck about with the levels a bit.

That's all they can do. Because what they claim to do, which is add surround when it isn't there, or improve it when it's already there, isn't a thing.

These programs don't "enable" virtual surround. The real thing is already in every modern game engine ever.

And if a game engine isn't already doing HRTF, some random program isn't gonna add it by "processing" the stereo signal the game IS producing.

To do that, the game engine would need to be providing all the sounds and source locations, walls that the sound is to interact with, etc. But guess what, if it supports doing all that, IT'S PROBABLY ALREADY DOING HRTF.

MentalEdge , 20 days ago

I've never heard an implementation that sounded better than just a basic downmix to stereo that any old media player can do. Which is the other option.

And certainly not something that was better than using stereo audio to begin with. All the magic of hearing things from different directions can be fit right there, into the two stereo channels.

There are so many of these programs that claim all kinds of things, but even when they do just do HRTF based on actual surround sound signals, it's maddening how often they just fuck it up with some bs room filter on top.

These software application come with almost every gaming headset and it's the only context I ever see anyone use this stuff. And not once have I tried it and thought that using a headset in "plain" stereo sounded worse.

MentalEdge , 23 days ago

Did someone say !dungeonmeshi?

MentalEdge , 24 days ago

Because if good games from a decade ago are freely available, they can't shove a new overexploiting live service game down our throats when it pales in comparison to the entertainment that's available for free.

They can only sell less for more, by taking the previous option off the table.

MentalEdge , 29 days ago

It's kind of hit or miss. Depending on how full the partition is and how exactly the data is arranged, windows may not be able to shrink even a non-boot partition.

The built-in partition manager doesn't seem to be capable of rearranging anything, so you kind of just have to rely on luck for the shrink operation to be possible.

Hence why third party tools like easus are still in business on the windows side.

MentalEdge , 29 days ago

Depends on the task and the hardware. Disk operations can be anywhere between instant and hours.

In some cases, days. When I last retired some drives in my NAS, the task of moving the partitions onto new drives was a 48 hour process.

Like already said, unless you're sure something has gone wrong, don't interrupt. As long as it's still doing its thing, it'll get there.

MentalEdge , 1 month ago

To be fair, e-ink has been reinvesting hard into RnD. That's why there have continued to be new generations of panels, with color capabilities and faster refresh-rates etc.

And yeah, the larger panels aren't cheap, but small cheap ones have already been used for years as re-usable price tags and product information displays in stores. They don't even need a battery as the image will stay on the screen without power until the next time they need to be programmed to show new product prices and details.

They might be charging a lot for the panels, but they are also not a patent troll, sitting on a technology without doing squat with it.

MentalEdge , 1 month ago

Opening the pause menu will cause the traveler to immediately sit down, according to my sister who played the game religiously for a while, this is the equivalent to "BRB" among people who play a lot.

Each secret you find will add embroidery to the clothing of the traveller, meaning players can tell which one should likely be showing the other around, as well whether someone is a first-timer.

Sticking together is also not that important. The game will match you with a new player if you get separated.

People who play it more than once typically do it to show new players around, that's where the value of repeat playthroughs comes from.

MentalEdge , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I am so fucking jealous you've heard the ost live.

An orchestral performance cannot be captured by any kind of recording in a way that does it justice.

MentalEdge , 1 month ago

You're right, I recalled the pattern being more complex and showing the progress towards the white robe, but I'm misremembering. The patter simply show how many times someone has completed the game, up to three times.

MentalEdge , 1 month ago

It's not quite as feature rich as something like davinci resolve, which is straight up movie industry level software, yet it's free to use.

And resolve actually runs on Linux, too.

KDEnlive has also had some bugs over years. I personally started editing with it first, but ditched it for resolve due to a bug that would cause audio and video to gradually go out of sync over time, but only when actually rendering, and there was literally no way to work around It. I had no way to turn my completed edit into an actual usable video file...

I am back to using it, and it has improved a ton. It's extremely capable and has all the features most editing projects would ever need.

MentalEdge , 1 month ago

Do other games run?

I've seen steam proton get into a state where it won't run anything.

It was on someone else's PC and I didn't get a chance to solve it as they went back to windows.

But like others have said, running the windows versions of these games by using proton is the way to go.

What distro are you on?

MentalEdge , 1 month ago

Good. So you've confirmed that games can and do run on your system, both natively and using proton.

Next, I would try deleting the corresponding compatdata and shadercache folders for the games, to reset the games prefix and shaders. These are one folder up from the folder where the actual game files are, and the folders within have numbered names that match the ID of the game. (Which you can see in the update tab in game properties).

Simply delete the correct folders and steam will redo the proton setup for a game and recompile the shaders.

On a sidenote, I recommend installing proton-ge-custom from the AUR, it installs, keeps up to date, and makes available proton GE for you to use in steam and heroic, should you ever need a version with fixes that valve proton doesn't come with.

MentalEdge , 1 month ago

Darn.

At this point I'd be looking at logs. Two ways to go about this.

The first is to launch steam from a terminal (close it, then just enter steam in a terminal) and then try to launch the game. Steam will spew out lines about what is going on into the terminal.

The other way is to enable proton logs, which can be done by adding PROTON_LOG=1 %command% in the launch options for the game. Then when you attempt to run the game, a logfile should appear in you home folder.

I'm also assuming you've tried multiple proton versions? If you haven't, do that.

MentalEdge , 1 month ago

Archwiki on Vulkan. This information should allow you to verify that Vulkan is correctly set up and working.

If that isn't the problem, move onto proton logs, as they will be more detailed.

MentalEdge , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Forbidden West's PC release. They made some odd choices about how the mouse should work with the weapons select wheel, but it's a damn good game which I can't wait to get to the new DLC content of, which I've yet to play.

Still jumping into Helldivers 2 for an operation now and then.

MentalEdge , 1 month ago

What did you use to get there? My longest range ship is still a Viper mkIV I engineered for small worlds 2 at 35ly.

MentalEdge , 1 month ago

I don't think anyone uses Gimp for painting or drawing. It has the filters and extensions and tools which make it useful for cleaning up or editing photographic imagery.

If I'm looking to paint or draw, I fire up Krita, not Gimp.

There's Darktable for handling photos, as well, but that's an alternative for Lightroom, not Photoshop.

MentalEdge , 2 months ago

Opt-in only?

Also only really discusses outbound federation, how is inbound content going to work?

MentalEdge , 2 months ago

It is most definitely not an environment variable. The game doesn't see those.

They are a Linux thing.

MentalEdge , 2 months ago

Only the epic version has that DRM D:

MentalEdge , 2 months ago

Obviously. But people want settings they can set and forget, which will work in all situations.