cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29568047

It’s been 5 days since I shared the last of these - where I share a roundup of all the interesting things I have spotted in gaming news. There’s a lot of different topics this week, but as always it remains Steam Deck, Linux, GOG, emulation, Switch and gaming in general!

My aim is to format these posts in a more personal manner than most gaming sites do now. Cozier? My ever-lasting inspo is the old, old video game sites, blogs and magazines that I never had the privilege of being alive for:

• image/gif/link heavy (I’m a big GIF fan – and I pronounce it with a hard ‘g’)
• personal voice (I can’t write professionally with hard-news style to save me)
• mostly news or articles or points you won’t find on normal gaming sites, these are the smaller, lesser things that I’m drawn to. I know you’ll have spotted the big news articles, so I’m hoping some of these smaller ones might have been missed by you.

So grab a c

I made a helpful graph to explain some of the differences between major linuxes.

As a Debian Developer, I can see that we need to get our skates on, we’re lagging quite far behind now.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60886715

Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/24573341

Same could be said about other distros, btw ;)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24273769

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/24467025

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22673014

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41570987

I was kinda surprised no one shared this here.

Konqi is KDE's mascot, lore here: https://community.kde.org/Konqi

Sauce: https://toot.finfur.net/@Neotheta/113074150288818364

🌈 🧦

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Ah.. I got distracted.

What if I drew Konqi in a similar style as Theo? Or both of them? Theo wouldn't understand anything since he lives in the wild but he would politely listen.

I been using KDE in the past year and been pretty happy with it.

Source: Furaffinity

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27784074

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27756512

(Apologies if the link doesn't work; Google are dicks)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27447560

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15137437

(not really pipewire itself but an interaction with wireplumber/libcamera/the kernel, but pipewire is what triggers the problem)

As seen in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/2669 and https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/4115

The camera's /dev/video file is kept open (without streaming), sadly causing the camera to be powered on what looks to be most devices. For some reason, this completely nullifies the soc power management on modern laptops and can result in increases from 3W to 8W at idle!

On Intel laptops it's a bit easier to debug because you can see the Cstates in powertop not going low but it also wrecks AMD ones. Some laptops can reach lower cstates, but the camera module wastes a few W anyway.

I can't believe this shipped in Ubuntu, Fedora etc without anyone noticing, and for so long. This bug is quite literally wasting GWh of power and destr

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/18702221

Hi all!

For most of my time with Linux I’ve just used vim on an ssh terminal from my MacBook. As such I’ve gotten used to the terminal management on Mac OS. Being able to cmd+c/v for copy, cmd+ for another terminal tab, etc.

However for doing graphics programming I’ve found it easier to just use my Linux box as a workstation directly. (I could use vnc or something but meh).

I could probably just set up my key bindings with a script but I thought I would ask if anyone knows of a good terminal emulator which has the MacOS vibes/keybindings.

(Post required photo so added cats)

Thanks!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17747926

Back in June the developers of Fishards put out a bit of an ultimatum: fight them in-game and win to make the game open source, or they will nuke the game from orbit.

Thankfully, the community came together, and won. So now Fishards has been made open source, and it's still free to play on Steam too.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18099780

Bazzite comes ready to rock with Steam and Lutris pre-installed, HDR support, BORE CPU scheduler for smooth and responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools for your gaming needs.

Would not recommend installing arch from scratch. It literally took me multiple hours and I still need to set my software up but I'm happy to get off fedora.

A new and bizarre issue has emerged on my Linux Mint server that seems specific to my Ender 3 and OctoPrint. Every night at midnight, regardless of whether a print is running or not, the USB connection to the Ender fails and restarts. (See screenshot from my Telegram OctoPrint plugin.) I’ve tried setting usb.autosuspend to -1 in GRUB, but that doesn’t seem to help.

I’m completely stumped and could use some advice. The failures are far too scheduled and predictable to be a random hardware failure. A relevant chunk of /var/log/syslog is included below for reference.

May 5 00:00:03 borgcube systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Succeeded. May 5 00:00:03 borgcube systemd[1]: Finished Rotate log files. May 5 00:00:03 borgcube kernel: [93921.837884] usb 1-5.4: new full-speed USB device number 9 us ing xhci_hcd May 5 00:00:03 borgcube systemd[1]: man-db.service: Succeeded. May 5 00:00:03 borgcube systemd[1]: Finished Daily man-db regeneration. May 5 00:00:03 borgcube kernel: [93922.059024] u