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As far as I know, no one has ever gotten their account banned store-wide.

Like you mentioned, sometimes games with anti-cheats like Apex Legends or Overwatch will falsely ban linux users (from that specific game - not the whole Battle.net or EA store), but they usually undo those bans within a week or so for most users.

I was hit with one of the Apex bans, and it was overturned within a week or two. But there were a few people who I am pretty convinced did not cheat and are still banned, so maybe be cautious with that particular game.

For anyone curious, here's the link to the modlog for this user

I strongly dislike Epic as a company, but at least Heroic Games Launcher makes the experience tolerable. And free is free, but for anything paid, I'm always willing to pay extra to own on Steam/GOG instead

Christmas morning my phone broke (shutoff at >50% and wouldn't turn on at all). The day before a flight. When all of the stores to get a quick replacement were closed. And the only way I could get any info about my flight was by having my email's 2FA keys, which were on my broken phone, and the only backup was on my desktop, which was 500km+ away.

Had to walk our catsitter through sending me the backup, and then rush to a retailer this morning to buy a replacement before my flight. Was not a fun experience, or a fun way to spend all of my Christmas money 😅

Well-reviewed games you can 100% in less than 10hrs:

• Portal
• The Henry Stickmin Collection
• OneShot
• Stray
• Grimm's Hollow
• Any of The Room games
• Pineapple on Pizza
• There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
• Doki Doki Literature Club
• TOEM
• Finding Paradise
• The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
• CULTIC
• Gorogoa
• The Case of the Golden Idol

Well-reviewed games you can probably beat in around 10hrs, but not quite 100%:

• Portal 2
• Vampire Survivors
• Pizza Tower
• Katana ZERO
• A Hat in Time
• Resident Evil 2
• Hotline Miami
• The Wolf Among Us
• Undertale
• Papers, Please
• Baba Is You
• DUSK
• POSTAL 2
• Outlast

Edit: formatting is pain

Edit 2: I missed the part about low-end hardware, but it sounds like the only ones of these you may not be able to run are Stray and Resident Evil 2

Approval voting has a special place in my heart because it is such an easy transition from first-past-the-post (what the U.S. uses). You literally just change the ballot from "select the candidate you like" to select the candidates (plural) you like" and you're done, and it's such a significant upgrade from FPTP.

It's certainly still better than the US's current first-past-the-post system, but it has a critical flaw where a candidate who would have won can end up losing by becoming more popular, which could be abused by people trying to "game" the voting system. In reality, something like approval or score voting would be more representative of voter's desires.

See Nicky Case's excellent write-up on how that can happen: https://ncase.me/ballot/

I will always upvote that ncase ballot link, it's so well-written.

Lots of people here are arguing for Ranked Choice, but Nicky's write-up shows that even though it's still better than the US's first-past-the-post system, something like Approval or Score voting are much better options.

This is a form of score voting, and the specific form you discuss is the method used to elect the members of Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee (although they call it "Support", "Neutral", and "Oppose" instead of "Upvote", "Abstain", and "Downvote").

I was all-in for ranked choice voting (and even started working on an app for it) until I learned that a candidate who would have won can end up losing by becoming more popular, which is extremely counterintuitive, and a flaw that I don't think any voting system should have.

Nicky Case wrote a fantastic explanation about how that can happen, plus exploring many other voting methods: https://ncase.me/ballot/

I still think RCV (and really anything else) would be better than the US's first-past-the-post system, but I'd definitely prefer some type of approval, score, or STAR voting over it.

There are lots of Apex Legends and Halo players who do, but there are zero Counter Strike and Quake players who do.

Without specifying which FPS game, OP's post is kinda pointless.

If you mean for casual play, then use whatever you want.

If you mean for competitive play, then until you specify the game, this post is pointless. Lots of competitive Apex Legends and Halo players use controllers, but you would never in a million years catch a professional Counter-Strike or Quake player using a controller.

When you hit the "login" button in Voyager, it asks you to choose your account's server. The default is lemmy.world, but your account is on the sh.itjust.works instance. So when it asks for your server, you will have to hit "other" and type in sh.itjust.works, then enter your username and password.

I expect this is the issue, because I am also on CalyxOS without issues.

I've mostly been using Voyager, but Eternity and Thunder are pretty good too. Just try them all and pick your favorite.

Yes, a lot of games work fine without precompiled shaders. Others, like Apex Legends or Rocket League, are a complete mess (at least for the first few minutes of gameplay - it used to be much worse but DXVK 2.0 helped a lot with this). You've probably just only tried the games that work fine.

"Having to deal with pre-shader work" that you mentioned is a good thing. Without it, games will stutter more. And you always have the option to skip it or disable it entirely.

But otherwise, it's a classic delimma:

For Deck, you'll likely be using EmuDeck for your emulation setup, which will install PCSX2 for PS2 games.

You can see the other available EmuDeck emulators here: https://emudeck.github.io/frequently-asked-questions/steamos/#what-does-emudeck-install

On the Playstation side, RPCS3 is the PS3 emulator, it's great. There are some experimental PS4 emulators, but they aren't ready yet.

On the Xbox side, Xenia works well as an Xbox 360 emulator; it's not linux native though, but it might work well under wine. I'm not aware of Xbox One (or later) emulators.

On the Nintendo side, I would be surprised if a Nintendo game that couldn't be emulated exists. Even Switch games run very well on day 1 of release.

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FPIFX is a 2020 target date index fund, which is currently 50% stocks and 50% bonds.

VT is a total world stock market index fund - 100% stocks, 0% bonds.

The answer to this entirely depends on "how far away are you from retirement?" - if your retirement is 20+ yrs away, go VT. If it's like, 3yrs ago, go FPIFX.

For more info see the wiki page on glide paths: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Glide_paths