Sounds help a lot. For most enemies it’s either sound or literal visible movement. The rest is just learning after getting hit i guess. But just these two things will take you far.

Expedition 33. Most sustained fun I’ve had in a long long time

I’m not using a VPN though

You want to run it on the phone itself? I don’t think any phone would be good enough for that. The issue with AI assistants is not just privacy. It’s also the resource consumption (and of course stolen content). It’s so high and only these big companies with huge server farms can do it.

If you just want a voice assistant for simple commands, I’ve heard of an open source local assistant called Dicio. But I don’t think you can talk to it like ChatGPT or something.

What do you mean suck up to? They’re our mentors in genocide. And collaborators

Been playing Avowed mostly. As much as I miss a lot of features from general RPGs, it’s been pretty fun. It’s colorful, combat is reactive and fast and exploration is nice. But time and again I’m reminded of annoyances that take me away from the experience.

I remember trying all this on GNOME before finding the extension. But I’ll check again, thank you

Display & Monitor says Built in Screen. The brightness slider here doesn’t work either. What else can I check?

But Solus is rolling release.

Similar thoughts and after hopping a bit I’m liking Solus really well. It’s rolling release but what they call “curated” rolling release. They take a little bit of time to iron stuff out. There’s a weekly update cycle.

The installation is through live ISO and was pretty easy, took only a few minutes. They have a Plasma ISO too, since you mentioned wanting KDE.

As a plus, I’ve not once used the command prompt in the past couple of months since I installed (GNOME first and then since the last week, KDE). I’m not averse to commands but I do want something that I can recommend to my less techy anti-capitalist friends. My games have all been working fine too.

Edit to add: I think they’ve also mentioned that their aim is for a personal desktop.

Omg unrelated but I just saw your none/use name tag and felt so nice. I do prefer that too but I haven’t seen that with other people much.

I don’t think some games costing $80 makes $50 for a 20 yr old game any less atrocious. Plus, they added new asdons just to increase that more. So even calling it a $50 game is incorrect. Bethesda/Microsoft is still a shit company. Nothing has changed.

All I’m seeing is how easily people get used to being scammed because there are so many youtubers and influencers play the role of manufacturing consent by calling it a “good deal”.

And do not bring in developers getting paid enough. The issue is never the price for something this high selling. It’s always the hierarchy and wealth distribution in the company. Even if the game cost $100 those people aren’t gonna see much of it. A $20 game when so many people (in the hundreds of thousands or even millions) buy it can still pay the developers enough if they were actually paid their share.

Ohh I found one. There’s a Linux repacker who does script installers that you just have to download and run. And it even creates an application shortcut. No other tweaking necessary as long as you’re using a distro that’s pretty up to date.

The downside is that there’s very few seeds so downloads might be slow. And since it’s one person, they don’t keep around all the games they’ve done, so when I get older games I sometimes have to just let the torrent be active in the background for some random seeder to show up days later.

The name is LinuxRulez.

Great! My current setup of Linux+Piracy has been hard to find support and community for. Glad to see at least the major part of the issue is a non issue here.

Love to hear it. I’ve been pirating pretty much everything for the past year and been hard to find discussions and community.

I’ve been meaning to ask. Is this community okay with piracy? Desperately need space to discuss stuff but it’s been hard to find

Some stuff that works great with Lutris or Heroic on Fedora, just wouldn’t even start up on Debian. I tried a couple of things but nothing worked. I thought it might be a new parts issue stable is 2 years old at this point.

I’m going to see if I can first try kernel+mesa backports (after trying the games again just on stable). If that doesn’t work I might give testing a go.

I want to know what kind of setup would avoid issues with games. I know I can run Debian with KDE from the installer. I had issues with games on plain stable so I wanted to know what can be done

I will try that, thank you. Are those just two packages I need to get from backports or are there dependencies and stuff that will come up?

Makes sense. Thank you!