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[–] yhvr@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

~~Lsen -> "Listen [,]"~~

OlsenFish -> "I'll send fish"

Edit: No, it's just the OlsenFish. The "Lsen" I thought I saw at the top was part of "Olsen", my vision failed me again >_<

[–] yhvr@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

I think what was meant here is that it won't run apps designed for the Oculus Quest lineup (which is based on Android), not the actual Facebook application

[–] yhvr@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

I believe the name is using Unicode Regional Indicators for something other than their intended purpose. Not sure of the specifics though

[–] yhvr@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

It's not exactly the same, but I can vouch for StreetComplete being an incredibly good/similar game. You walk around the real world, and the app points out missing data in OpenStreetMap that you can fill in easily. You get the dopamine of a number going up, help dethrone proprietary map dominamce, and get some good excercise in in the process.

[–] yhvr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have an external monitor that runs at 144Hz, but a while ago I realized because it was connected over HDMI, it was limited to 60Hz (for some weird reason). So I bought a DisplayPort cable, and after plugging it in the screen was flickering/artifacting in some weird way that I haven't seen it do on X11 or Windows with the same cable. So as a result I've had to reluctantly switched back to i3 for daily use

[–] yhvr@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Yep, Nvidia gpu. At the time I bought it I wasn't aware of their reputation for Linux support, and I bought my laptop from System76 (with Pop!_OS, because Nvidia drivers are more "just works" on it). I've had a fairly good experience with all of it, but the next computer I buy will definitely have an AMD GPU.

I think this is the first time I've been fully unable to get the dgpu working. Every other time it's just worked or worked with tweaking

[–] yhvr@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The first game mentioned was Bille Bust Up. I liked the demo that was off of Steam (and it ran fine using the proton-call command), so I subscribed to the developer's Patreon (which gives a Steam key) and it wouldn't use my dgpu.

The second game was A Hat in Time.

[–] yhvr@lemm.ee 83 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I love Linux. I have it installed on 3 machines, have been using it for over 3 years, and would install it right away if I ever got a new computer.

A couple weeks ago, I was feeling pretty exhausted and just wanted to play a game thru Proton on my laptop. I got it running, but it was unplayable because it was using my integrated GPU instead of my discrete one. I spent the night switching compositors, cables, and drivers, but none of it fixed the issue.

The next day, feeling exhausted from fruitless debugging, I tried to launch another game via Proton that I knew had worked in the past, but it crashed on launch. I spent the whole day going thru the same steps I did the day before, but also consulting ProtonDB and trying software that would force usage of the dgpu.

The next day, I installed Windows 10 to an external hard drive and spent the day debloating it. Drivers got installed automatically, I downloaded both games on Steam, and they just worked. So I guess I now dual-boot Windows just for the games that don't work thru Proton. Loading game worlds and booting up take ~75% longer, but that's to be expected because it's running on a 4 year old HDD connected over a USB cable.

As mentioned earlier, I love Linux a lot, and if all games had native binaries or Proton worked 100% I'd format that god-forsaken hard drive. But when real life has got me down, I don't need Linux to get me down further. I don't like Windows, and I feel incredibly dirty whenever I press F7 on boot to get to Windows. But when my choices are "spend 8 hours on fruitless quest to get >2fps" and "press play button", I'm going to take the path of least resistance.

[–] yhvr@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yhvr@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, this is hands-down the best Minesweeper experience I've ever had, not just on mobile. Huge props to the devs

[–] yhvr@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, their posts were about Arch Linux.

[–] yhvr@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The instance blocking in .19 only blocks posts from an instance, not comments.

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