Nibodhika

Depending on what you mean by casual, I consider Dead Cells a casual game, because whenever I'm bored I pick it up and play for a while, but it's one of the hardest games I've played, however because it's rogue like it doesn't matter if you die a lot. Another similar example would be Factorio with enemies turned off, just go there, fix something, add something new and quit the game near the next thing you want to do so you remember it next time.

If you're looking for a more traditional definition of casual games I tend to play those in the phone, I really like mini metro and super hexagon (although again, this one might not fit your definition of casual)

The day number moves most frequently, so that should go first.

Are you German? How do you read 35? Is it 5 and 30? Or 30 and 5? Because the most significant number comes first, the one that moves most cones last.

What happened? Rust used to have a native Linux client a few years back (i.e. last time I tried it).

There is and it's completely hackable, so you can set your own css if you prefer.

Never had an instability problem with Silverbullet, although I've only been using it for a year or so.

Sort of this: https://youtube.com/shorts/HHpwvXNtpBo

But also it was kind of depressive, because you would think "I wonder how X works" and that was that, you never learned petty stuff because doing so was too much hassle for a simple curiosity.

Before wiki you could still find answers on Google or Yahoo, but there was no source of truth and you could find any answer you wanted if you looked for it, so it was taken with a grain of salt. Before that, yes, encyclopedias or asking someone who knew about it, but then you could get wrong answers and not know about it.

Back then we used to think that people seemed stupid because they didn't have access to information, so if they had learned something wrong there was no way of convincing them otherwise.

Not what you're asking, but in case it helps. I don't use Obsidian, I use https://silverbullet.md/ it's very similar, markdown files with the ``[[other note]]` syntax (as well as some querying mechanism that I believe Obsidian also has), in short it's almost an open source version of obsidian but it has some advantages IMO:

• It is open source
• It provides a sync mode, where you download the text to your device and it's accessible offline to get sync afterwards.
• It's hackable so you can write your own functions and styles

I'm surprised almost no one has heard of it, the main developer is here on Lemmy, that's how I found out about it. BTW I also use syncthing to keep backups of my data, and even specifically to not sync a work folder outside of the work computer even though the rest is synced, so I can access Silverbullet from localhost on the work computer and get everything there and any changes to non-work stuff get synced to my home server, and from my personal server get everything except work stuff.

It's complicated, for me personally having one or two extra properties you're providing a service, not everyone wants to buy a house at every moment, e.g. I recently moved to another city and wanted to live in a neighborhood for a while before buying something. The more you have, the more part of the problem you become, because when someone wants to buy somewhere they now can't because people own it for renting. Also, again personally, if the value of rent is higher than the value of the mortgage, then you're ripping people off, because you're essentially buying the house with their money while they can't buy a place of their own. As an example, I want to buy a place of my own, but every place here is so expensive because people buy them to rent, because the rent is higher than the mortgage so if you have the initial money buying a house is essentially free money, however rent is so high that getting the initial money is really hard and people are stuck with paying more to own nothing.

Steam also offers DRM-free games, and they don't hide them behind a closed installer. I don't like installers since they're yet another moving part that can break, e.g. an installer built for windows 95 might not work even though if you were to extract the game binary from it it would work, so having an installer could make a game less compatible.

The ideal form of distributing games is compressed folders, I recognize this is less user friendly, but it is the format that most preservation effort uses (e.g. zip of a ROM, instead of an installer that installs the emulator+ROM like what GOG is doing).

I'm also not shitting on GOG, I believe they're a good company, although I'm not their target audience since they refuse to sell me games I can play on my Linux machine. I'm all in favor of DRM-free and wished they would be more strict about it, that could convince me to buy some stuff from them. I did bought games from them in the past until I grew tired of almost no game having Linux compatibility and them not offering an official client, plus I noticed that some games had DRM and that was the last straw for me, because of I'm going to be buying maybe DRM-d games, might as well do it while giving money to a company that cares about my use-case.

I think GOG should be praised for some of what they do, particularly by their anti-DRM stance (even though they're not 100% behind it). But what annoys me is that people seem to praise them as if they were doing this amazing work that no one else is doing, when most of the stuff people get overly excited about is just a marketing move and Steam is usually doing much better work in that regard, but is usually cited as the bad guys by the people who drank the GOG Kool-aid.

preservation efforts that allow me to run the games I know on the hardware I am running will mean more to me.

You mean software, your hardware is perfectly capable of running Linux+Wine. But again, this is a very personal response, my personal computer is Linux, therefore what GOG is doing means less to me by your own definition, which is why I don't think it makes any sense to try to bring platform into the table. In fact, since apparently they're responsible for the DOSBox version that a game uses, and there is a native version of DOSBox for Linux, this means that the decision of the game not being available on Linux is entirely on GOG.

Imagine Valve was financing an emulator, and GOG was compromising themselves to keep a binary updated with the latest version of that emulator whenever problems appeared on the old version, which of them is doing more for the preservation of games? The only difference is that the "emulator" Valve is financing is not the same as the one that GOG is using.

I'm not saying that there isn't value in what GOG is doing just because it doesn't affect me, but as is they can only help preserve DOS era games, so investing in DOSBox and hosting the ROMs would be a much more valuable approach (half of it they're already doing, they do in fact host the ROMs, you just get 50 extra copies of DOSBox in the process). What I'm saying is that I don't understand why everyone thinks they're so great for doing what they're doing, they could be investing in getting wine to run on windows which would be a much better effort for the preservation of games for your platform.

Proton is essentially just wine, but:

Backward compatibility in Wine is generally superior to that of Windows, as newer versions of Windows can force users to upgrade legacy Windows applications, and may break unsupported software forever as there is nobody adjusting the program for the changes in the operating system

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

Valve's has been financing the development of Proton (and wine), so their efforts are to improve an open source tool that can be used and enhanced by anyone, which among other things provides excellent compatibility. That is a much better commitment to preserving games than choosing a handful of titles and updating their compatibility layer when the old one breaks. In other words, GOG is choosing a couple of games to update their emulator periodically, Valve is financing the development of an emulator for old games. The two things are not even in the same league for how much they help preservation of old games as a whole.

As for the question of windows users, I don't think wine runs on Windows natively, but I assume one could use WSL as a stepping stone. In any case GOG's method also doesn't address Linux or MacOS users, so I don't see how bringing platform into the mix makes any difference.

Yes.... But actually no. For these games, sure, they're committed to update the dosbox, but for more modern games there's nothing that can be done on GOG since if the binary breaks for windows lack of backwards compatibility, they're done because they don't have access to the code. This works for these games because they're being emulated, so they can maintain them by extracting the ROM and updating the emulator.

IMO what Valve is doing is leaps ahead, Proton can be used to maintain even broken binaries by providing compatibility with older versions of binaries from Windows. Not to mention the runtime library shipped with Steam for native titles.

It's always mind boggling to me how GOG does something which Steam is already doing (sometimes, like this, they do a worse job at it), yet they get all of the credit as if they're revolutionizing the way the industry works. Allowing people to download a game they bought, even if delisted, is the standard, and Proton is a much better preservation tool than whatever GOG is doing behind the stages, because it's open source and if Steam ever goes under it will continue to exist, whereas on GOG solution you depend on GOG for it to keep working.