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  • Project 2025 group wants huge changes to policy to encourage more kids

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  • They want us to breed while not paying us enough to live and gaming our healthcare to massively increase the odds of bankruptcy and homelessness.

    Evil.

  • Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is now available for Download

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  • Yes, but a user would need to be experienced enough to know how to uninstall the previous desktop environment components they don't want, otherwise their application menu would have both DE's applications (2 file managers, photo viewer's, text editors, terminals, etc), which can feel a little cluttered.

  • Valve registers a "STEAM FRAME" trademark for new computer hardware

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  • Probably more brand recognition with Steam than Valve, I assume.

  • The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning

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  • The gnome people have no profit motive to encourage enshittification.

    Gnome 3 was sluggish when it came out, but it's perfectly fine nowadays. Just avoid it if you don't like the workflow.

  • Former Linux user looking for stable distro

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  • I'd recommend MX Linux KDE edition. The new version based on Debian 13 should be released this month.

    It's basically just Debian with some added convenience utilities to make life easier, one of which was an nvidia driver installer that works a treat. Great little distro.

  • Former Linux user looking for stable distro

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  • KDE on mint is a little jank. It doesn't integrate well with the mint tray utilities, and is using a fairly old version of KDE 5.

  • Simplest way to make a "Link to the Past" like game?

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  • Even in that link, there are just as many people praising it as there are damning it, which is fairly common for all languages, due to how opinionated people can be on that subject.

    Based on the fact that you're downvoting all my comments in this thread, I would wager you are amongst those highly opinionated people 😅

  • Simplest way to make a "Link to the Past" like game?

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  • No prob! Hope it works well for you ^^

  • Simplest way to make a "Link to the Past" like game?

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  • I've personally never seen that sentiment toward Lua. It's also used in Pico-8, and that's quite well regarded.

  • Simplest way to make a "Link to the Past" like game?

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  • If you want to make a 2D Zelda style game, there's the Solaris engine, which is purpose built for that very task.

    It's open-source and completely free to use.

  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Piracy is for Trillion Dollar Companies | Fair Use, Copyright Law, & Meta AI

  • ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks

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  • There's a pretty massive item market for this game to use real money for in-game items, where the seller will meet you in a match and drop the gear. So there's a big financial incentive for people from third world countries to hack so they can quickly acquire valuable items to sell on that market.

  • ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks

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  • Ah! My bad, it'd been a while since I saw that video.

  • ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks

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  • The cheating problem is off the charts. There was a really good video of someone who investigated how bad it was, and found that about 50% of players were using wallhacks. of matches will have a hacker.

    I played it for a couple months. The gunplay was pretty impressive, but the cheaters made it incredibly frustrating, and after seeing that video, I uninstalled and never looked back.

    EDIT: The video in question.

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Call of Duty: Ghosts – Power, Paranoia, and Orbital Tungsten Rods | Folding Ideas

  • Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs As Now "Externally Maintained" - Phoronix

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  • Lead developer couldn't work well with others, is what it really comes down to. The kernel is run that way for a reason, and if the lead Dev just had some patience, it wouldn't have ended this way.

  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Developers Detail Clever System That Increases the DLC's Difficulty Based on How Much of the Base Game You've Played

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  • I feel the sane way. It had very uninspired, well trodden gameplay (with some aspects quite poorly done) along with a passable story.

    The highlight for me was just taking in the scenery in the jungle section, almost felt like virtual tourism. But I was hoping for something more original, since I enjoyed the first wolfenstein game from machine games quite a lot.

    Overall I didn't feel it was worth the price, even on sale.

  • Colorado governor stands by endorsement of RFK Jr. to lead America's health systems

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  • Dude is demonstrating his absence of a spine and eagerness to prostrate himself into a bootlicking position.

  • CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States | The country’s largest pharmacy chain said it needed a C.D.C. panel to recommend the shots before it could offer them nationwide.

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  • All the restricted states listed by law follow the federal recommendations. The states not affected can make their own decisions. The governors of the restricted states could pass new legislation that allows them to act independently of federal recommendations, hopefully they do so.

  • Help! Looking for a new distro

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  • The Rolling preference mostly conflicts with the 'doesn't require intervention' preference. You can mitigate it somewhat by using a snapshot system like timeshift or snapper, but rolling distros by their nature are more likely to have potential problems.

    Alternatively, immutable distros are kinda like a more (potentially) reliable rolling distro with built-in snapshots. Since you don't want redhat or openSUSE based distros, that pretty much leaves perhaps Vanilla OS, but I'm not aware if they offer a headless install option.

    Overall, I personally think Debian 13 checks the most boxes. It let's you choose no DE during install, is rock solid, easily installs steam (after you enable the 32bit repos), and can be upgraded to newer major releases easily and reliably.

    The only downside is it isn't rolling, but with flatpaks and appimages for newer versions of software, the potentially older repo packages aren't really much of an issue nowadays.

  • Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age

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  • I think the only two areas left where Linux is still lagging behind is 3D CAD software, and maybe some aspects of the adobe suite?

    In all other areas I can think of, it's pretty damn good. For reference, the tasks and apps I use on Linux:

    • Photo editing and art: Krita
    • Video editing: Kdenlive or Davinci Resolve
    • Documents and spreadsheets: LibreOffice
    • Creative writing: Novelwriter
    • Pixel art: Pixelorama
    • Vector art: Inkscape
    • Desktop publishing: Scribus
    • Music creation DAW: Reaper

    All of those apps are either open source or have no anti-consumer subscription features, and are what I would personally use even if I was stuck with Windows, so Linux had no real downsides for all of my specific needs.

    I'm also fortunate that I had never built up any muscle memory in some proprietary app that doesn't work natively on Linux. Soneone deep in the Adobe suite may have a harder time transitioning.

  • Uplifting News @lemmy.world
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    Residents cheer as Tucson rejects Amazon's massive Project Blue data center campus in Arizona

    www.datacenterdynamics.com /en/news/residents-cheer-as-tucson-rejects-amazons-massive-project-blue-data-center-campus-in-arizona/
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    US Labor Day Rallies Planned to Protest 'Trump's Authoritarian Anti-Worker Agenda' | Common Dreams

    www.commondreams.org /news/trump-labor-day
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    PSA: If you use AMD graphics and experience frequent system freezes (especially on gnome), you're not alone

    gitlab.freedesktop.org /drm/amd/-/issues/4141
  • Game Development @programming.dev
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    Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025 | (Interesting talk that showcases how Thief: The Dark Project did things differently in 1998)

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    GamersNexus News - Linux Gets MFG Alternative

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Oolite, the FLOSS spiritual successor to Elite, just got a graphics overhaul with 1.91, and it looks good

  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    Is Suzuki right that it's 'too late'? We are in an era of simultaneous wins and losses — Seth Klein

    www.sethklein.ca /blog/is-suzuki-right-that-its-too-late-we-are-in-an-era-of-simultaneous-wins-and-losses
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    How are RDNA 1 and 2 (AMD RX 5000 & 6000 series) cards on Linux nowadays? EDIT: Apparently they're quite good :)

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    2 gamers, 1 cpu, NO Virtualization! Using the power of Systemd's Multiseat feature to share a single powerful gaming PC with multiple people in the same house, at the same time.

    www.apalrd.net /posts/2022/multiseat_intro/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    "This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven

  • Game Development @programming.dev
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    Murder - an open-source pixel art ECS game engine

    github.com /isadorasophia/murder
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    How to Increase Battery Life on Linux with TLP or auto-cpufreq | Michael Horn

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    auto-cpufreq: An Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux

    github.com /AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq
  • Comics @lemmy.ml
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    The Black Order Brigade - a 1979 graphic novel about a group of veterans from the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil war getting back together to hunt down Ex-Franco fascists

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Black_Order_Brigade
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

  • Game Development @programming.dev
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    Can I Write an Amiga Game? Trying Blitz Basic in 2025

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Tavis Ormandy ports 1998 WordPerfect for UNIX to Linux

    www.theregister.com /2022/07/20/wordperfect_for_unix_for_linux/