To this day I still wonder why they manage to do a reliable GPU reset on Windows but not on Linux.

With every timeout there’s a 90% chance that it takes the whole system with it on AMD.

Luckily I’m on Plasma and the timeouts have gotten really rare on a 7900 XTX. Most of the time my cause is exceeding the VRAM limit, which eventually causes a freeze, pretty much every time.

I now challenge somebody from the UK to put googly eyes on their dick and make it pass.

The marketing was pretty streamlined, even when I was a child. In fact, everything looks exactly the same as 20 years ago. I do remember their owl bottles though.

I always wondered why they don’t have an owl in their logo.

We have Gorilla glue here as well but I rarely see it used over the German alternatives.

Fun fact: There’s a German glue manufacturer named after the Uhu which is large enough in some parts of the EU that people ask for a “Uhu” instead of a “glue stick”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHU

And the voice quality is also terrible.

That’s the thing that surprises me the most.

There are some great open source TTS engines/models out there, and they decide to go with Microsoft SAM.

In case you didn’t know, you can actually use Course World via https://opencourse.world/ on modded switches and on emulator.

Well, they also lost all my future DLC sales.

Not because I mind the censorship but because it insults me that their PC playerbase is not even worth a simple toggle for the censorship.

Ah, that makes sense. Probably doable since I already run LineageOS but with the missing features, there’s not much point yet unfortunately.

Cool, didn’t know you could dual boot on a phone.

It seems like postmarketOS is not quite ready yet on the FP5? https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp5)

Ubuntu Touch seems to support everything but I really can’t warm up to their UI.

It almost runs on the Steam Deck. So, not much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RczQta2AU2w

Fedora Kinoite, because it fits my workflow the best and has a nice mixture of stable and leading edge.

Everything I run was containerized either way (Flatpak, Docker or Podman) long before I switched to an immutable distro.

I have lots of different development environments for various versions of different programming languages that are incredibly easy to setup, throw away and recreate with toolbox without having to dive into the language specific tools for creating virtual environments (venv, conda, …). On regular Linux/Windows systems I end up at a point after a few years where there is junk laying around everywhere from 6 different PHP versions, 7 gcc variants and 8 .NET versions.

I was on Fedora KDE before that and the main reason for choosing it was that Ubuntu/Debian/Mint were too old to include firmware for my GPU. Arch and derivatives are on the opposite side of the spectrum and are too new for my taste, I’m fine with waiting a few weeks for .1 versions to release with bugfixes.

As for why not Bazzite or Aurora: Because I wanted to be as close to the original (Fedora & KDE) as possible. The modifications those distros make (and I need), I can do myself in a few minutes.

I do recommend Bazzite or Aurora for less experienced people though, they have a lot of tweaks that Kinoite is really lacking. Kinoite, just like the Fedora KDE variant has a lot of polishing issues that quickly become gigantic obstacles for beginners (Nvidia drivers, Flathub repository, H264/H265 codecs, missing udev rules, …)

And one dude that really wanted to play Nier Automata on Linux.

If it’s for C#, I’m doing pretty well with VSCode/VSCodium on Linux.

WPF and Forms does not work but I also have a Rider license from work which I use occasionally to maintain one of our old WPF applications, which we converted to Avalonia XPF. It works great and we now also have a Mac and Linux version.

I loved my Lumia 1520, but it just doesn’t hold a candle to a modern Android phone with LineageOS installed. Both in functionality and in privacy.

once I’ve mastered how to dodge everything on the way and if it’s not too far of a distance.

It certainly was fun to perfect the sprint to the boss in a few Souls games.

I guess it just grew old with every Souls like doing it. Some games do it quite well but most are just annoying.

Demon’s Souls was probably the worst culprit for brutal runbacks of all the souls games I’ve played.

Even Dark Souls 1 is pretty bad by today’s standards. Luckily it has gotten better with each release, with Elden Ring essentially spawning you right back in the fight.

Definitely a pure souls like, a pretty polished one as well. Trailer makes it look pretty epic but it’s generally fairly slow and methodical, stamina management is key.

In addition to the normal souls gameplay, it also has 3 stances you can switch between depending on if you want to play offensive/defensive or if you want to dodge or parry.

It also has “Ki”, which you can use to regenerate a part of your stamina after each hit. Essentially after an attack you can either attack again or time a Ki pulse. If your timing is right, you get back some stamina. Pretty neat system actually.

There’s also quite some inventory and skill management. It’s overdoing it a little bit in that department but I have seen worse.

The running back to the boss is my biggest gripe with souls games, just let me try the boss on repeat. I get 0 enjoyment out of running the same route over and over again, so I’m happy when games skip it entirely.

Finished the Lies of P DLC, it was great. Started Nioh 1 now since it was on sale for a few bucks.

I sort of ignored Nioh up until now but Iron Pineapple keeps raving about it so I thought I should check it out. So far I really like it, aged surprisingly well.

Once again, the music goes hard in this show.

Didn’t quite warm up to the new voice actors yet, especially Panty.

Is the system completely automated in the US? We still have people from that department going through each picture, checking if there is indeed a violation. That person will then type out your license plate and a letter is sent to you.

If you pay, it’s done. If you don’t pay you will have to show up to court and make your case, while they will show up with that picture and date/time as proof.

The accuser in that case is the person that read the license plate from the picture.