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  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 22nd
  • Ive been obsessed with The Witness for a few weeks now. Some puzzles are so damn tricky but figuring them out is so pleasurable. This is one of the few puzzle games im actually trying to solve on my own instead of relying on walkthroughs so the experience is very fulfilling

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  • FMHY (FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH) switching to db0 - Divisions by zero
  • Im a beehaw user. My layout looks slightly different than yours.

  • Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, could charge all users subscription fees
  • I believe there is a browser extension that lets you block posts about rich people, in case you truly dont give a fuck about their endeavours. I dont remember its name but you could certainly use it

  • FMHY (FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH) switching to db0 - Divisions by zero
  • so thats what db0 stands for.

    im a slow fella

  • Women less likely than men to be given CPR in public places, research finds
  • I can only guess its because of the fear of getting sued for sexual assault. The details of the story unfortunately dont matter, many folks just read the headlines and theyll just remember "helping them will get you sued"

    The difference was far smaller than i anticipated, so im mildly relieved. Hopefully, should i be right, we manage to dispell these fears

  • Did we kill Linux's killer feature?
  • I dont understand how that comment spreads fud. If you think theyre wrong just say it

  • State of gaming on immutable Linux distros?
  • All my games work the same as a non inmutable distro. Steam, Lutris, Heroic, Bottles, Retroarch, all those apps are on flathub, so ive never felt limited in that regard.

    An annoyance i had with steam flatpak is when you configure multiple locations for installing games on the same drive. Steam will just show them all as "/var/cache/" no matter what youve actually set them to.

    From what ive read, Steam flatpak is not an option for you. Bazzite is a variant of Silverblue but it has set up an arch container with the latest version of steam. They did this bc they considered it to use too many undesirable workarounds. Maybe that could work for you.

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    [CLOSED] a Beehaw survey on some policy and the site's vibes
  • I see. Thank you for the clarification.

  • Locked
    [CLOSED] a Beehaw survey on some policy and the site's vibes
  • The following question:

    In your opinion, has Beehaw gotten less enjoyable to use since you joined?

    Has some answers that confuse me. The options:

    • No, the site has not gotten less enjoyable

    • Have not observed a difference

    Sound identical to me. I could see that the former implies its equal or better than before, while the latter states its just equal. But there is another option: "Actually, the site has gotten more enjoyable", which clearly states its better than before.

    If an option states no change, and another states improvement, I see no reason why there is an option which implies both.

  • what are you guys up to this weekend?
  • Amazing! Man its gonna be so magical for you, seeing her for the first time. Remember to take so many pictures of the little one throughout the first months cuz my god they grow FAST. Congrats to you both!

  • GNOME 45's Nautilus File Manager Gets a Modern Full-Height Sidebar Layout
  • It has the same options as right clicking on an empty space in a directory. Stuff like Create a new folder, Create a new file, that sort of thing. "Actions you might wanna make on this directory". When you start searching, there is another button that appears and that one is the one that let you filter search options

    I dont see the usefulness of that button tbh. Its like it assumes good ol right click isnt discoverable on its own. Idk anyond who has a mouse and hasnt pressed right click ever.

  • There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k)
  • Oh i wouldnt say its worse at all. I prefer nested replies all the way. Regardless, i still wouldnt say lemmy fits the forum format, again due to the way you access the most recent replies.

    In a forum thread, you go to the last page and youve found the latest comment. In a Lemmy post, even if the nested comments arent hidden, its not obvious at first glance which one is the latest comment.

    Also, if you "bookmark" a forum thread, youll get notified of any new replies in said thread. On Lemmy, you can check the latest comments from an entire instance or community. But not for a specific post.

    Again, id never phrase lemmys format as worse, for i greatly prefer it. But i wouldnt consider it a forum. It simply displays the information diferently

  • There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k)
  • Id say finding the latest comment is harder here. Sure, its not that hard when looking post replies. But comment replies? They can be nested, pretty much buried behind the "See more replies" button.

  • Political Compass of the Lemmyverse
  • Now do a instance logo tier list

  • Bazzite: An immutable Fedora-based OS optimized for gaming on any device, from desktops to laptops to the Steam Deck
  • been rocking silverblue and then its ublue variant for a while. This sounds very interesting and definitely worth checking out.

    I love how ostree lets you rebase to any other ostree image with no issue. The switch is just a matter of rpm-ostree rebase something something and its as painless as it gets

  • The ongoing survival of Beehaw may NOT be what you think
  • This is a tale of one individual that swooped in, during the recent Reddit blackout, to bolster our community.

    I read that as botched, not bolster. I thought weve been sabotaged from the beginning, and only now we were starting to pick the pieces.

    Very glad I misread that. Thank you guys for making this instance possible. Its been blissfully neat so far.

    But fr, i was like this when i misread that:

  • Cutscenes do not work in The Great Ace Attorney: Chronicles on Linux. Currently using Bottles.

    Would ask this on a LinuxCrackSupport community. Without it, the best choice is here, as i didnt buy the game on steam.

    TGAA uses wmv cutscenes during the first half of the game. They cant play properly, getting stuck on a black screen. While it could be circumvented by removing the wmv files, skipping the cutscenes altogether is detrimental to the story, as this game is sort of a mystery-focused vn. Cutscenes are important.

    The wmv files can be played with mf-installcab, according to this reddit post. The issue im having is that most online help refers to either steam, lutris or a raw ~/.wine folder. I use Bottles to run windows software, so if its possible to keep using that instead of Lutris, itd be appreciated.

    -I tried this command line from a "Kingdom Hearts on Linux" tutorial to run mf-installcab on the bottle and it seemed to properly run and install the necessary dependencies. However, the cutscenes still do not work.

    -I tried re-encoding the cutscenes as suggested here, but that did not work either, nor i expected it to.

    -Using the Bottles options, I installed the Media Foundation dependency. That did not work either.

    My situation is highly specific, even for a linux user, so i dont expect nor demand a solution. Apparently lutris works just fine from what i can read, so i might try that if nothing else works. Still, any help, no matter how small, will be appreciated.

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    Shower thought: Would it make sense to popularize having Instances dedicated to single topics?

    From what i can gather, it could be beneficial to, for example, have an instance which would become the main place to get videogame content on Lemmy. Most communities would be for specific games or AAA companies, but it could also have c/general for asking questions or topics which are non specific to any community, or c/meta, which would work as a place to discuss the state of the instance.

    Overall, nothing that different from the actual status quo, but this way, we could consider instances as hubs for certain topics, which would then specialize with the /c/s within said instance. Instead of having 7 c/technology across instances, we could have @Tech.no and subdivide it into c/topic1, c/topic2, etc. (was supposed to come up with smthing but came empty handed shut up i dont browse that sub) .

    What im mostly seeing here is that popular instances themselves are not different from reddit. The most popular instances on lemmy are beehaw.org and lemmy.ml, which have the same m.o, if you will, of reddit. Which is good, theyre popular for a reason, but in a way, theyre competing with each other. Not financially, but there will be overlap between certain /c/s.

    Of course im not asking if its possible. Its just a matter of running the server and having the right infrastructure. My question is if you think its feasible to decentralize lemmy from the main instances, or even a good idea in the first place. Maybe you think its ok the way things currently are? Or maybe what i said is supposed to be the goal and im just late to the party? What are your thoughts?

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    aka_oscar aka_oscar @beehaw.org
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