FreeLikeGNU

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[–] FreeLikeGNU 5 points 1 week ago

AMD is far ahead in the performance/watt here. Intel seems to have lots of trouble providing even stable drivers for their XE/Arc graphics on Linux. Maybe their Battlemage generation will have better support but it's not something I'd count on. So many of these handhelds try to shoehorn Windows into this form factor but MS business practices are anti-user at any opportunity to extract personal data or money.

[–] FreeLikeGNU 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Minetest engine and its games are great fun. It's super easy to mod with Lua scripts and there is awesome documentation. ContentDB has an abundant selection of games and mods for anyone to customize their play.

 

TES4 a.k.a Oblivion on OpenMW is looking better every time cc9cii posts a new video!

Arch-Mage Traven's sacrifice was not in vain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBJF9x0oCf4

[–] FreeLikeGNU 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Heh that is annoying, then I learned about alt-rmb. They really do need a way to allow for larger grab areas easily, if not already possible.

I found this solution to border theme for increased grab area and will try it as well:

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=54045#p54045

[–] FreeLikeGNU 7 points 2 weeks ago

I feel the same, though having more options for lightweight DEs is better. I came from gnome 2 after Ubuntu switched to Unity DE back in the day. Xubuntu ran nice on all of my kids low power devices and it became my desktop as well ever since. It's just as happy on my work laptop as well as Ryzen thread ripper with 3 rtx4000s and 3 magewell hdmi capture cards we use for visualization at work too. It really feels like a solid DE with less fuss than most.

[–] FreeLikeGNU 3 points 3 weeks ago

Passengers being treated for scurvy, news at 11

 

Maybe we'll see some AI generated dad jokes.

[–] FreeLikeGNU 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Me boarding a 777 on Friday after a very long week of business travel, a true story:

Pilot: "Looks like we'll get to San Jose 30 minutes ahead of schedule"

10 minutes later...

Pilot: "Just waiting for some paperwork before we can leave the terminal"

30 minutes later...

Pilot: "Sorry we can't leave until the maintenance records are updated".

30 minutes later...

Pilot: "We're still waiting for sign-off"

5 minutes later..

Pilot: "By law, we have to allow passengers off the plane as it's been over an hour at the terminal"

I de-board looking for any other flight, but it turns out there are no seats on any other plane in this airport...

Terminal attendant: "They have the paperwork now you can re-board if you wish"

What would you do?

Me: YOLO

[–] FreeLikeGNU 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not unlike the species of it's creators, go figure.

[–] FreeLikeGNU 2 points 3 weeks ago

Immerse us in dlc and micropayments no doubt. We pay for PSN to have multi-player and they kill servers beloved by many. RIP LBP series

[–] FreeLikeGNU 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess this means that not having to rely on dkms for hardware means being able to run the latest kernels without the hardware being disabled.

[–] FreeLikeGNU 2 points 1 month ago

The EX30 is currently manufactured at parent company Geely's facility in Zhangjiakou, China

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a45723828/2025-volvo-ex30-drive/

[–] FreeLikeGNU 8 points 2 months ago

I found PROTON_LOG %command% insightful.

[–] FreeLikeGNU 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Look up Dr. Ronald L Mallett. This astrophysicist has some interesting takes on practical time travel. There's a great interview with him by Fraser Cain of Universe Today.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by FreeLikeGNU to c/linux_gaming
 

This thing is tiny and coupled with XReal or Viture glasses it makes for a very portable, very powerful (Ryzen 7 7840U with eight Zen 4 cores and an RDNA 3 Radeon 780M, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) game system that is much faster than many handheld systems without the weight and neck strain. In contrast, with the Steamdeck I found myself preferring a kb/mouse or pairing another controller and it was hard to find a comfortable position to play from without hooking it to a monitor.

Debian Xfce testing (Trixie) works really well though I had to install some packages such as joystick and blueman and a few steps to install Steam, the effort was well worth it. I did not want a SteamOS distro because I'd prefer Debian's package management and I like the support and versatility this distro has.

Weak points of using the XReal is that the edges are a little out of focus and one might need prescription inserts (I do not). Otherwise, they are very lightweight and I can be comfortable anywhere. They are also great for watching movies plugging into a phone that has display port capable usb-c (though I recommend a dongle that allows charging the phone while viewing). The glasses also have 3DOF that can be used to move your view (as a mouse or joystick would) while gaming but that requires a driver . Coupled with SideBySide 3D mode on the glasses and in Minetest it's very immersive!

Setup:

Packed bag vs Steam Deck case:

Bag Contents:

 

I think this is really the way going forward with portable gaming.

  • Lighter and smaller handheld
  • A large screen experience in a portable package
  • Privacy
  • Not having to hold the handheld device oriented to view it
  • Replaceable battery is a big plus too!

There is no mention of Linux as the OS but it looks as friendly to Linux gaming as any other AMD based handheld device beside the Steam Deck.

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Goblins - Update (lemmy.world)
 

Goblins update with many bug fixes for Mineclone 2 and Mineclonia support and emotes for goblin trade reactions!

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To Romance (www.youtube.com)
submitted 10 months ago by FreeLikeGNU to c/music
 

Awesome minimalist synthpop from Jess Brett!

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