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Apparently iDOS - the ios port of Dosbox - is back in the iOS app store after Apple amended it's policy to allow PC emulation software.

Apparently iDOS 3 was released in August 2024 and should still be available unless Apple had another rethink!

Edit: it's still in the store but it might be a different dev who has uploaded it. It's just a port of open source software but it's being sold for $3 - such is the way with a closed ecosystem like iOS I guess?

It's freeware on all systems and can be played using ScummVM which has builds for most major platforms - the game files are free to download from ScummVM.org (as well as some other adventure games that have been made freeware like Flight of The Amazon Queen)

What is skydrv?

I wasn't aware you could play with MT-32 music and the speech together, would love to give it a try.

I love BASS - excellent choice in a game to play!

Edit: also your collection of adventure game classics in their original boxes are great. I have almost all those games from my childhood and love them all.

In terms of your connection, LAN and WAN isn't really going to be the way to go except for some very specific scenarios.

The Steam Deck and almost all multiplayer games connect via Internet servers and your steam accounts. Some games you can host and your friend connects directly via the Internet - games are designed to support that so you often don't need to resort to local LAN/WiFi play.

It doesn't matter that you're next door to each other - you might as well be miles away from each other for all it matters - you both just need good stable internet connections to the remote servers, with decent speed and your Internet routers not too restrictive on your connections (firewalls not blocking access, relevant ports open).

So basically ensure you have a good WiFi connection. Even better you can also get USB c ethernet dongles or a dock for your steam deck with ethernet to connect to your router directly and avoid WiFi.

I play with my steam deck docked under the TV, ethernet connection to my router, hdmi to my TV and an xbox controller and Bluetooth headphones. I play on the couch with all the benefits of the steam deck.

Both of you docking your steam decks with ethernet connections to your Internet routers may give you a better experience.

Edit: In terms of games to try:

• Phasmophobia - you can cooperatively try and hunt ghosts, horror game but can be a lot of fun

• Keep talking and nobody explodes - coop game where you diffuse a bomb, hectic but not needing fps reactions

• Divinity: Original Sin 1 & 2 - RPG games which can be played in Co op mode, with tactical combat

• Baldurs Gate 3 - similar to above, same makers but hugely popular and highly regarded game

• Valheim - coop survival game - explore and build a base, defeats bosses etc

• Stardew Valley - super cosy farming sim, with simple combat. It's a very chill multiplayer experience - can just chat away (or not) while building up your joint farm

There are loads of co-op type games that work well on the Steam Deck.

Food prices aren't high; the value of money has fallen - it's called inflation.

The real problem is wages have not increased so the purchasing power of consumers remains low. So food becomes relatively expensive - consumers have had pay cuts.

It's an interesting perspective but I'm not sure the Scots perspective would be putting south at the top?

Magnets still point north and the pole star is roughly north. Also it doesn't seem culturally right that the Scots would out England "above" them on a map?

The mercurator projection also benefits Scotland making it look larger although it's a marginal benefit within great Britain itself.

KDE doesn't control what packages are released on a distro? That's Aurora that chooses not to have point releaes version, and instead seems to have a rolling release from your description.

Bluefin GTS is based on Fedora 40 while Bluefin is based on Fedora 41. Fedora doesn't do rolling release outside it's Rawhide rolling dev branch. It does point releases and bug fixes.

There are plenty of KDE based distros that are also point release and not rolling release if that's your preference. I'd also recommend feeding back to Aurora if you think they should alter there KDE release schedule; they chose when to feed KDE releases into their distro.

I was driving to work yesterday and a cyclist skidded off his bike while in the bike lane due to black ice despite gritting. Poor guy.

Be safe out there this time of year.

Are hood mirrors a substitute for side mirrors? Like do they have the full field of view so you can see the same things as you see on a side mirror? I'm doubting it myself.

It's also kind of irrelevant. It sucks that the window was broken but the driver should have gone to one place only and that was the shop to get the truck repaired (without duct tape on the window). Even then it's arguable if even that should have been attempted as it was probably unsafe to drive either with duct tape or without duct tape in the Canadian winter and actually the truck probably needed towing or working on at the site of the accident.

If they went off working then I'm really not surprised they got into legal trouble. They'd be facing manslaughter charges if they accidentally killed a cyclist because they couldn't see them while delivering amazon packages or whatever his lorry/van does.

I get that it's the guys livelihood but these safety laws exist for a good reason, and he's probably put his commercial license in jeopardy by his actions.

You have so many options because your system has a lot of audio output options available. Presumably your mother board or your graphics card display outputs given the "Navi" label.

As others have said, from that section of the settings you should be able to click on the "proaudio" drop downs on the right and disable any you don't want to see.

The Navi outputs are the audio available via your hdmi and display ports - you may want to keep those on if you ever want audio from the screens directly but if you don't ever use audio from your displays you can disable the audio outputs. Most people don't use screens with integrated audio output but some may plug headsets into their screens via 3.5mm cables so may want it. But that's an usual use case - most would plug into the PC itself.

The starship/matisse HD audio is your audio jack on the front of the PC (often USB provided) - I'd keep that one available if you ever plug in your headphones. Personally I have my noise cancelling headphones plugged in via audio jack - you get perfect uninterrupted audio and longer between recharges as the headset doesn't have to use Bluetooth. However may not be desirable if you're using a mic on your gaming headset too.

You then have your Bluetooth device itself which is the gaming headset.

The other devices below that are your microphones. Again you will have multiple inputs which you can disable if you don't use them.

Just remember in the future if you ever want to plug in something that you've disabled these devices here.

Sanders decided to throw his weight behind Biden relection, helping shut down criticism of the choice at a time when it was needed. That was not the right decision - including at the time not just in retrospect.

While I have a lot of respect for him, the party needs a new generation of leaders to step up. He's 83 - and I don't mean it's time for the 65 year olds to step up. Its time the 30 and 40 something year olds step forward.

"United Healthcare - healing health care, by turning off ventilators one by one"