I have gotten back into non-patiently playing Helldivers, but I think I’ll spend the weekend playing Hex of Steel, CtA:Gates of Hell and Dawn of War:Soulstorm with thr Unification mod, same as I’ve been doing all week.

Well that, and watching the 24h of Le Mans race, this saturday!

I’d love a similar post with music production workspace setup tips.

Until Google realizes normal.people would rather use this than take part in their AI search, and block usage of it outside of businesses.

Bought it on sale earlier this year alongside Palworld and Helldivers 2. You might notice why I still haven’t started it.

I had a sudden urge to look into TERA Online private servers, downloaded 100GB of custom game clients… And that somehow resulted in me getting back into playing Grim Dawn. This time I want to play it enough to really learn it and actually finish the game.

They’re simple to get into for anyone with an introductory interest in Linux, although I haven’t liked Ubuntu in ages. My Mint setup took a bit of effort but it does game pretty well. Fedora could be a good recommendation too, I liked that when I tried it out. There’s some gaming focused distros like Bazzite or Nobara, but I feel like I can get a “normal” distro working to a similar state for games, and I don’t have to hope that a small team doesn’t fold and my distro loses updates support.

I’m trying out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed this week, wanna see if it’s a good alternative to Fedora.

I don’t dare try Arch yet, and thus I also wouldn’t recommend it to any new user.

No no no no stop talking about it, quick before the Nintendo lawyers show up!!

The golden days of Ultimate-Guitar uaer submitted tabs and pirated Guitar Pro 5 (which my guitar teacher gave to me on a burned CD) Good times.

Speaking of the state of piracy, how is the state of piracy on Linux? I usually only do that stuff on Windows, I’ve never tried installing Repacks and such on my Linux machines.

In my old laptop, Windows updates used to cannibalize my AMD graphics card driver literally every time.

This is a great list!

Yeah I tried actually joining a Foundry game because my friends wanted to use it instead of Roll20 for our next game. We only really played two sessions on it amd it was an absolute nightnare, so many technical problems that it completely soured the experience. The first session had a TWO HOUR delay because the thing wasn’t working and had to install a bunch of addons, and then I had to install a different browser because it didn’t want to work with what I had at the moment. Pissed me off, ngl.

I have never used Arch but I have had SEVERAL FUCKING TIMES Windows comppletely fuck up something in my system through updates. Thankfully it hasn’t happened in my latest machine running Win10, but in my laptops one ofthenm literally died trying to upgrade versions, and I had to block ut from ever attempting it again.Nowadayas that same laptop is happily running Mint and testing Fedora.

I actually had that realization yesterday. At this point I hope they keep doing it and making Win11/worse. I’m not moving out of Win10 and I have Linux on all my other PCs, and this should push more people into Linux too.

Can we go back to when every technology was just weaponized instead? No? This is somehow worse.

Yeah I know my internet craps itself out every now and then, it’s just a fact of life. I like my things on my machines to work regardless of that.

Anyway, that second explanation, doesn’t sound much better. Then again, I don’t think I’m going to use Windows again when 10 goes EoL.

And not being able to log into my own fucking machine if I lose internet access, or if Microsoft servers are on fire? Absolutely fucking not.

Will? Will? Think again. Cars are already the worst when it comes to data collection and privacy. Not just Teslas, anything with Android Auto or similar. They can literally tell if you’re banging someone in the back seat. BMW made people pay a yearly subscription to access heated seats. I hate the modern automotive market.

Oh good I had just checked them this week and aaw that they were coming back soon.

Ohh I’d love to ask you: which emulation handheld you think provides the best arcade emulation experience for vertical shmups?