ClassyHatter

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I wish the Steam Controller used AA batteries in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

One of the nice things with Xbox 360 controllers were the rechargeable battery packs. By default, the controllers used 2 AAs, but you could instead use a battery pack. Just remove the AA battery cover, pop in the rechargeable battery, and that's it. You could then connect a cable to the controller to recharge the battery. And, if the battery happened to be empty (or dead because of old age), you could just replace it with 2 AAs, and continue playing. Some of 8bitdo's controllers uses (or used) the same design, but they come with a rechargeable battery pack in the box.

Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week ago

There is a fix coming for the Nvidia performance problem. It's going to take some months for all the pieces to fall in place. See this video for more about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpXINAMaljA

YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Put them in the fridge and they’ll last for weeks. They might turn brown after a few days but inside they’ll be fine. Put them in an airtight container and they’ll last even longer in the fridge.

Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the link. Tried to find the article before posting, but couldn’t.

Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 48 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I mostly agree with that, but the problem with Bazzite and CachyOS is that they are made by small teams. Distributions made by small teams might die because of some small problem, like a key member of the team being unable to continue with the project. Bazzite team, for example, earlier this year said that they would stop maintaining the OS if a proposed change to Fedora would go through, because their team wouldn’t be able cope with the change.

SteamOS on the other hand, being developed by a company with a lot of money to throw into things, is much more resilient OS, and I think that makes it better for larger masses of users.

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Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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In an IGN interview, Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais said that "[they] want [SteamOS] to be at the point where at some point you can install it on any PC". Below is a transcript of the interview. I tried to clean it up to my best ability.

Just like Steam Deck paved the way for Steam OS on a variety of third-party handhelds, we expect that Steam Machine will pave the way for Steam OS on a bunch of different machines in either similar form factors, different perf envelopes, different segments of the market, and get to a good outcome there. We definitely want to encourage people to try it out on their own hardware. We'll be working on expanding hardware support for the drivers and the base operating system. Just last week, we fixed something that was preventing us from booting on the very latest AMD CPU platforms. Last month, we added support for the Intel Lunar Lake platforms. We're constantly adding support and improving performance. We want it to be at the point where at some point you can install it on any PC, but there's still a ton of work to do there.

If the embedded video doesn't take you to the correct part of the video, the correct timestamp is 5:37.

EDIT: Here’s the written article of the video:
https://www.ign.com/articles/valves-next-gen-steam-machine-and-steam-controller-the-big-interview

Whays the closest thing to drinkable pizza? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca
[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Pizza smoothie.

Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Will he use his new trillion dollars for betterment of humankind?

I know a guy in c/futurama@lemmy.world
90 percent of all Windows games now also run under Linux. (German) in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago

I’d say there’s a big difference between “90% of all games” and “90% of top 1000”. 90% of all games might be playable but if the top 1000 are unplayable, that’s not very good.

90 percent of all Windows games now also run under Linux. (German) in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess I just wanted to add a couple data points to the discussion. One is that even though the article is about "all games", it so happens that "top 1000 games" (measured in some way) happen to share the same number. And I didn't want to round it because that would have been a reporting error.

The other point being that out of the "top 10 games" (measured in some way), only 6 are playable on Linux. What I didn't say is that one of the other 4 games cannot be played at all. Those are not numbers I want to see. I want all top 10 games to be playable.

90 percent of all Windows games now also run under Linux. (German) in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 27 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

"All games" type of lists aren't necessarily very useful, considering the amount of shovelware that exists. ProtonDB's Dashboard visualizes the data they have. You can change the category to, for example, "Top 10" or "Top 1000" games measured by peak concurrent players. Out of the Top 10 games, 60% gets a silver or better rating, while out of the Top 1000, 89% gets silver or better.

Bazzite or Fedora for Skyrim modding in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago

MO2, in this situation, is just another Steam "game". You just add MO2 as a non-Steam game to your Steam library. Set your favourite Proton flavour as the compatibility tool for it, and then figure out how to configure the Proton prefix to make everything work.

Another possibility is to use Jackify to install a modlist for Skyrim. Will be easier, but costs one month's Nexus Mods Premium subscription. Jackify also supports flatpak versions of Steam.

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Jackify - An easy-to-use Linux tool for installing modlists (github.com)
 

Jackify is a tool to install Wabbajack modlists on Linux and Steam Deck. Wabbajack is a Windows tool for installing modlists, but using it on Linux was painful. Jackify is an automated solution to downloading and installing Wabbajack modlists and configuring Proton prefixes for them. To download modlists, you need a Nexus Mods Premium subscription, which costs about 10 euros a month.

It's still in early phase, so some features are missing, but it seems to be actively developed. It supports the following games:

  • Skyrim Special Edition
  • Fallout 4
  • Fallout New Vegas
  • Oblivion
  • Starfield
  • Enderal
  • Other Games (Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, and more - Download and Install only for now)

To use it, you need the game installed on Steam. Then just launch Jackify, choose your game and a modlist for it, configure a couple fields, and finally hit the Installation button. After that, just wait while Jackify does everything for you. At the end, it creates a new Steam shortcut, and the game/modlist is ready to play.

I don't have Nexus Mods subscription, but I tested Jackify with the Nordic Souls files I had on my disk. Nordic Souls is a modlist for Skyrim, which consists of about 1500 mods. Jackify successfully did what it said on the tin. I had to change ENB to Community Shaders, as ENB didn't seem to work on my machine (it's a Windows app), but I prefer Community Shaders anyway. With that tweak, the game seems to be fully playable. I don't know how many hours I spent on my previous play through getting ModOrganizer2 and Wabbajack to work and install Nordic souls, and then fixing other problems like audio issues.

In another recent post, I wrote a guide for modding Skyrim on Linux, but it got lost in the comments. Part of it is Linux/Jackify specific, and part is general Skyrim specific information, that also applies to some other Bethesda games, like Fallout. Here's a copy-paste of it:

Guide to modding Skyrim on Linux by using a modlist

  1. You need Nexus Mods subscription to download modlists.
  2. You most likely want to have Anniversary Edition of Skyrim, otherwise modding will be challenging because many mods requires it.
  3. Launch Skyrim normally, and if you have Anniversary Edition, let it download all Creation Club Content (CC Content). Do not Alt-Tab out of Skyrim, or it will interrupt the download. The game will claim it downloaded everything, but you'll miss some of the CC Content. If you get any errors about files that have the letters "CC" in them, this is your problem.
  4. Once the CC Content is downloaded, close Skyrim.
  5. Head over to Jackify Releases. Download the latest Jackify.AppImage.
  6. You might need to give it executable permission. You can typically do this by pressing the second mouse button over the icon, go to Properties -> Permissions and look for the option that says executable. Or use chmod +x /path/to/Jackify.AppImage.
  7. Place Jackify.AppImage where ever you want to and launch it.
  8. Go to Modlist Tasks -> Install a Modlist.
  9. Select Skyrim as the game, and pick one of the Modlists. If you are out of ideas, and you have a decent computer, try Nordic Souls. Note, that you cannot combine modlists, but you can install more mods if you want to.
  10. Change install and download directories, so that they have the name of the modlist in them (create new folders, for example).
  11. Under the Nexus API field, there is a link. Click it, scroll to the bottom to Personal API Key section, hit the Request API Key button and copy-paste it to the API Key field. You might want to read the warning on the Nexus site, and decide yourself if you want to trust Jackify. Jackify team is planning to implement a better way to do this, but it is what it is for now.
  12. Click Start Installation button, go brew some coffee, make a dinner, wash your clothes and come back to see if the installation is finished.

Once the installation is complete, Jackify adds the modlist to your Steam Library and configures the proton prefix. Make sure you are using Jackify 1.6.2 or newer, or the prefix configuration will likely fail. When you start the modlist, it will launch ModOrganizer2. Hit the big Play button to launch the game.

Nordic Souls defaults to ENB for its graphic improvements. On my old Nordic Souls, it doesn't seem to start, or it takes a very long time. Nordic Souls also comes with Community Shaders, which does the same thing. In the latest Nordic Souls version, there is a separate profile for ENB and CS. Change it from top left corner of MO2.

If you get "too many open files" error during modlist installation, you need to edit /etc/security/limits.conf and add this line to it: your_username hard nofile 524288 and then relogin, or restart.

Once you start a new save file, avoid changing the mod and plugin load orders (left and right side lists) in MO2. Doing so might break your save file, and fixing it will be difficult, because you probably won't remember the old order. Also, never uninstall or upgrade a mod, unless you are sure doing so is safe. This too can break your save file. Re-installing a mod once something has broken might not fix it.

You can install more mods using MO2. Always read the instructions given by the mod author, and follow them to a T. Pay attention to things like dependencies, incompatible mods, load orders. If the mod author doesn't mention which of the two load orders they mean, it's most likely the mod load order (left side).

If a mod comes with different versions for AE and SE (Anniversary Edition, Special Edition), you most likely need AE version of it, if you are using AE. Otherwise, SE and AE are the same, and both should work for AE.

Some modlists, such as Nordic Souls, will downgrade the Skyrim version to something like v.1.5.97. If a mod has versions for different versions of Skyrim, pay attention to this. Check the Skyrim version from the main menu of Skyrim.

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FBC: Firebreak - Coming June 17 (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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FBC: Firebreak is a 3-player co-op game set in the Control universe. It's Remedy Entertainment's (Finland) first ever multiplayer game and first ever self-published title. It will be released June 17 for PC (Steam, Epic), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Steam Deck support is one of the priorities for the devs. Unless they pull off some nonsensical shenanigans, it should be playable on desktop Linux as well.

The game costs €39.99 for Standard Edition, €49.99 for Deluxe Edition, and it's included in the game passes for each platform from day one. Deluxe Edition contains some cosmetics, and you can upgrade Standard Edition to Deluxe for €10.

There will be free content upgrades and paid cosmetics. Two major content updates are scheduled for this year alone. According to the devs, the game will have none of that FOMO crap that is so prevalent in the gaming world currently. If something is available now, it will always be available. Also, if you have limited time available to play games, this should be a good option for you. There are settings to adjust the length and difficulty of a game.

They streamed a Developer Update yesterday. It has some live gameplay, among other things.

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JustWatch has a genre for "Made in Europe" movies and TV shows (sopuli.xyz)
 

JustWatch is a kind of search engine that helps you find out which streaming services has particular movies or TV shows. It supports many countries, so if there are local streaming services in your country, they might be included in JustWatch. JustWatch is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

JustWatch has a genre called "Made in Europe". You can find it by first clicking Popular at the top of the page and then Genres in the filtering section. Somewhat confusingly, it includes movies and TV shows not made in Europe. The banner image at the top of the page says "Co-funded by Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of European Union" which might explain why non-European shows are included. But it does contain many European movies and TV shows, and you can filter and sort them to find content that interests you. Check the production country under "About the movie/TV show" section if you want to be sure it's produced in Europe.

PS. This is a direct link to Made in Europe for UK users: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/made-in-europe. It's better if you go through the front page so that the page can detect your country and provide you content tailored to your country, such as the available streaming services.

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