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What "unique" or single-game-genre games have you enjoyed?
  • To be clear, that's Cataclysm:Dark Days Ahead or CDDA. It's quite removed from the original cataclysm by whalesdev, and is more focused on strict realism. There is also Cataclysm Bright Nights which is closer to the arcadey feel of the original. Both are great and are open source.

  • Technically, almost all video games are puzzle games.
  • Going to submit my probably-not-a-puzzle-game-game: rhythm games. The game tells you exactly what to press and when you're supposed to press it, it's just up to you to actually press the buttons. See: DDR, Rhythm Doctor.

    Note that there are rhythm games that have more decision making like crypt of the necrodancer (rhythm roguelike)

  • Resin Printing: Good for a Beginner with Limited Space?
  • Yes, it really is that bad. We have a resin printer at work and it has been banished to a different room due to the resin fumes. The table it sits on is perpetually sticky, and we go through twice as much IPA postprocessing the prints than we use in resin

  • What is your favourite Open-Source game?
  • Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. Zombie survival roguelike, forked from the original cataclysm by whales. Also check out Cataclysm: Bright Nights which is a fork of CDDA that makes it more gamey like the original, and less like you're playing 2d arma.

  • NAS + Jellyfin + Sunshine/Moonlight?
  • Sunshine and moonlight are open source implementations of nvidia's game streaming protocol they created for the nvidia shield. You can use it to remotely use your computer from your phone, not just for games. But of course the primary application is game streaming. As long as the game can run on the host (sunshine) computer, you can remotely play it on the client (moonlight) device. I've used it to just launch steam in big picture mode and then select what I want from steam.

  • Nuclear fusion reaction releases almost twice the energy put in
  • Powering the laser takes 300 MJ but the actual laser power (the energy in the light) is only 2.05 MJ. The rest of the energy is lost to heat and other inefficiencies. If the laser could be created with 100% efficiency then the input energy would also be 2.05 MJ.

  • Alright boys, I've been converted to the light side and have installed F-Droid. Now what?
  • You have to add them manually, either by url or with the built in search. For example, you can add newpipe by searching sources and checking github as a source to search. It will then show you repos that match newpipe, which usually is the regular newpipe repo and then a bunch of forks of it.

    Obtainium isn't for finding FOSS apps, it's for installing them. To find them, you can check out existing repos such as f-droid or izzy, or you can ask around. This post has a bunch of recommendations in the replies

  • FOSS Games are actually pretty good!
  • Hyperrogue is not quite a top down hexagon world, it's a top down heptagon world. The premise is that it is a roguelike set in a hyperbolic world, and different regions teach you different weird properties of a hyperbolic space. For example, the crossroads feature an infinite amount of parallel lines and yet there are still forks in the pathway.

    Even though it's foss, it is also for sale on steam if you want to support the dev

  • Upgrading our folding wagon to carry 100 pounds worth of kids
  • Near the bolt holes joining the two halves, you can see thin strips going across that overhang gap. Those eliminate local sagging without needing support material. The part could have been flipped 180 instead, but then the outer edge rim would be unsupported.

  • Need help getting this MIDI keyboard open
  • Those deep holes in plastic parts are always the worst. If you have a dremel you have 2 options. Either cut away enough of the top plastic that you can get at the screw to dremel a slot into the top, and unscrew it with a flathead screwdriver. Alternatively you could try dremel just below the head of the screw to cut the screw in half.

    if you have a soldering iron you could also try heating the screw to melt the boss it's screwed into. You might have to cut/melt away plastic to access the screw and then apply light rension while heating so that it opens once the screw is hot enough.

  • Bin Chicken

    cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/3942359

    > > You've all been waiting for this one. We're going to have a look at Australia's most infamous bird in recent years, the Australian white ibis. They've earned a reputation for bin banditry and being a general nuisance but unfortunately we have created this monster. Whether you love them or hate them, they're an icon. > >

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  • If you really don't want to spend money, there's always GNU Octave. Sure, it doesn't have the thousands of matlab toolboxes, but if you're running code from 40 years ago it shouldn't need those anyway. I wrote a couple of scripts recently and then rewrote them slightly so that they would be compatible with octave.

  • Any place cataloguing or reviewing FOSS mobile games?
  • Puzzles (40 single-player logic games) I recommend this package on f-droid for puzzles. As for an organised list, f-droid is pretty lacking in terms of subcategories within it's categories, but I have skimmed that whole category a couple times just to see if anything is interesting. There is also a solitaire package in there. Simple Solitaire Collection (Solitaire game collection with 17 games)

  • InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)AL
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