Videos atmur • 2 weeks ago • 83%

This entire channel is great if you're interested in video game animation in general.

Taskmaster atmur • 3 weeks ago • 90%

I'm trying to use Youtube's clip feature for this. If it goes to the full video, skip to 1:30.

Music atmur • 2 months ago • 85%

One of my favorite songs of all time.

Linux atmur • 3 months ago • 98%

So about 2 months ago I made [this post](https://lemmy.world/post/14704130) about looking for an iPad replacement that runs Linux. I said I wasn't in a rush, but after thinking about it ever since and seeing the Minisforum V3 go on sale for just $1000, I pulled the trigger. My impressions are still very new (I have used it for a total of 2 hours at this point), but I'm super happy so far. Installed Fedora 40 and almost everything works out of the box (including a Wacom MPP stylus). As [mudkip mentioned in this blog](https://mudkip.me/2024/04/14/A-Brief-Review-of-the-Minisforum-V3-AMD-Tablet/), the volume buttons don't work when the keyboard is detached and auto-rotation doesn't work. The former isn't a big deal and the latter doesn't affect me in the slightest, but I can confirm those issues are still present on a stock Fedora install. Anyway, there's not a lot of information about this tablet running Linux out there, is there anything anyone wants me to test or any questions I can answer?

Linux atmur • 5 months ago • 90%

The last device I own that doesn't run an open source operating system is an iPad. I basically use it as a laptop most of the time with a keyboard case, but I do like being able to take just the screen to use as a drawing/note-taking tablet. I treat it more like a "convertible" device rather than a tablet alone. I'm not in a rush to replace it, iPadOS is, eh, usable, but there are things that get on my nerves often. I definitely wouldn't be upgrading to another iPad model if this one died. I'm curious on what kind of hardware is available out there with good Linux support that I can keep in mind for the future. My only requirements would be that it runs normal Linux distros (ideally Fedora) and has a pen/display that supports pressure sensitivity. The Minisforum V3 looks pretty damn cool. There's also the Microsoft Surface devices that ironically seem popular with Linux users. Anyone have any experience with these kinds of devices? What do you think? What's your favorite device in this class?

Music atmur • 5 months ago • 100%

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I cannot get enough of Health, everything they've worked on since Death Magic has been so damn good.

PCGaming atmur • 5 months ago • 94%

Hey, here are a couple Steam keys leftover from the latest Humble Bundle. I'm not sure if bot scraping is a problem here like it was on Reddit, so they're base64 encoded. WRC 9: MzBOQk0tUEZDMkotRVpaQ1I= MudRunner: QUJOVDgtRllaNzMtVDVKMFk= Inertial Drift: M1EwVDQtNjJUSVgtVkZMVDc= WRC 10: NDJHQUgtM0U0TU0tUEVaOEc=

Android atmur • 6 months ago • 96%

Long story short: I don’t like iOS but have been using an iPhone for a couple years due to lack of personally viable hardware options on the Android side of things. I’ve gotten tired of waiting and found a good deal on an open box Pixel 8 Pro which arrives in a few days, I’ll be installing GrapheneOS on it. I’ve used GrapheneOS before on a Pixel 3a. I’m familiar with some must-haves like F-Droid+Aurora Store and AntennaPod, but are there any other apps I should check out once the phone gets here that I’ve been missing out on during my time on iOS? Or just any recommendations at all for cool/useful apps that most people wouldn’t think to search for? Bonus question for *sonic/Navidrome users, what’s your favorite Android client? I used Substacks last time I daily drove GrapheneOS, but it looks like it might not be actively maintained anymore.

Videos atmur • 8 months ago • 87%

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It’s baffling how few views this has.

linuxmemes atmur • 8 months ago • 98%

this image comes to mind every time i use man pages

Patient Gamers atmur • 9 months ago • 98%

Back on the other website, there used to be a sub called r/12in12 where people would try to beat 12, 24, 36+ games per year. I never really set myself any specific target like that, but the end of year reviews were always fun to read/write. Considering that I don't think a single game I beat came out this year, I think this is the right community to ask this. What games did you beat this year? What did you think of them? For me: *January:* Nothing! *February:* **Spider-Man: Miles Morales 7/10** When I first played Spider-Man on a PS4, I didn't like it. The 30fps cap made the swinging feel clunky and nothing about the rest of the game made up for it. The PC release finally comes around and at last I get the hype, the web swinging is so good. The combat is very Arkham and it's fine, the story is fine, but the web swinging is just so good. Spider-Man Miles Morales is just more of that. **The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection** ?/10 This game is responsible for Steam thinking that Solitaire is one of my favorite genres of games. There are multiple versions of the game here, most of them are fine but Fortune's Foundation is probably my new favorite version of Solitaire. I don't know what I'd rate this out of 10, but I got 90 hours of entertainment for my $10. *March:* **Split / Second** 8/10 The PC port sucks, you have to use a fan patch to remove the 30fps cap, the controller support is terrible, but there's nothing else like it. It's a fantastic arcade racer with a super unique premise. The rest of the industry seeing this and Blur bombing financially is probably why racing games are so goddamn anemic now which is such a shame. *April:* **Rakuen** 7/10 I've never really gotten into any RPG Maker games like this, but it had great reviews and I needed something battery-friendly to play on my Steam Deck. Rakuen was pretty darn good, the characters are well written and the environments outside of the hospital are pretty. The story is a little predictable, but I think that's fine what it wanted to tell. *May:* **Hotshot Racing** 6/10 What's here is fun, but there's almost nothing here. I beat the entire campaign in about an hour. The AI rubber-banding was a bit annoying at times. Also re-reading the Steam page, apparently it has always-online DRM? The fuck? *June:* **Universal Paperclips** ?/10 I was in the mood for a clicker game. I tried Cookie Clicker first but the pacing is just so slow. Universal Paperclips is a clicker game that can be completed in a reasonable amount of time, and it scratched the itch I was looking for. *July:* **Wilmot's Warehouse** 8/10 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ai4NZnjOdUE/maxresdefault.jpg **Super Meat Boy** 5/10 I've forced myself to start this game so many times over the years, I finally completed it and I just don't like it. Way too janky/buggy for a simple 2D platformer. I beat the final level 3 times and couldn't figure out what to do at the end, only for it to turn out that the final cutscene wasn't activating because my frame rate was too high. Ugh. It just made me want to play N++ again. **Ape Out** 9/10 Ahhh it's so good. The soundtrack and sound effects and visuals, it's just perfect. A little on the short side (only took 1:40 to beat), but it's pretty replayable. **Neodash** 7/10 It's basically Distance but worse. Distance is one of my favorite games of all time and is firmly a 10/10, so that's not necessarily a bad thing. Any levels that rely on the mid-air controls bring down the experience a bit, but luckily there aren't a ton of those. *August:* **CrossCode** 10/10 A top-down RPG with a ~50-hour story? I should hate this, but everything clicked into just the right place. The puzzles are fun (maybe a little too long), the combat is great, the characters are great, the story is great, I did not expect to love this game as much as I did. **Sayonara Wild Hearts** 6/10 It's basically a 1-hour music video. It's very pretty and the songs are good, but the gameplay just kind of... exists. **Mad Max** 6/10 It's a beautiful looking game and the vehicle combat is fun, but everything else is pure mid-2010s generic open world game, complete with Arkham combat. **Riptide GP2** 6/10 It's fine, but there's absolutely no reason to play this over Riptide GP Renegade unless you're really board and looking for a grindy podcast game like I was. Renegade is just this but better in every way. It is a bummer that there are so few boat (or boat-adjacent) racing games coming out these days. **WRC Powerslide** 4/10 It's insanely repetitive and the driving physics are really floaty. The power-ups are awful but luckily they can be turned off in settings. The damage model is actually really good though, which is bizarre for a top-down racer. This got delisted from Steam years ago, if I didn't already own it, I would not go out of my way to play it. **The Vanishing of Ethan Carter** 7/10 It's a fun little walking simulator mystery game, I don't remember much of the actual story right now lol. I played the remastered version which was very pretty though. **Quantum Conundrum** 7/10 It's a 6/10 puzzle game brought up by a full point because of John de Lancie's character. *September:* **Hotline Miami** 8/10 I know it's technically kind of a mess, but like everyone else I really loved it anyway. The soundtrack is excellent and clearing rooms is super satisfying. Raycevick's video really makes me want to play OXTO next. **PowerWash Simulator** 8/10 The perfect podcast game. *October:* **Cassette Beasts** 8/10 The Pokemon games have always sounded interesting to me, but I've just never been able to get into any of them as an adult. Cassette Beasts finally scratched that itch for me, and this works way better as a concept than the Pokemon games do for me. As a bonus, the story is surprisingly good as well. Also it's made in Godot! **Sonic Generations** 5/10 I don't like the Sonic games, but I've always heard this is one of the good ones so I decided to play it. A couple of the levels were fun, but most were just frustrating and/or buggy. For a character who's entire thing is going fast, the levels sure like constantly slowing you down with obstacles that cannot be seen coming. **The Witness** 6/10 90% of the levels in this game are good and clever, where finding the solution is fun and satisfying. The remaining 10% includes puzzles where the entire screen is flashing to make it hard to look at, puzzles where the answer still makes no sense even after googling it, and puzzles that cannot be solved unless you solve a different puzzle first with no indication of where that's the case. The story is also nonsense but luckily it's easily ignored. [This video was so cathartic after finishing the game.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZokQov_aH0) **Doom Eternal** (& The Ancient Gods) 8/10 ["Doom Eternal is a game with so much testosterone dripping from its orifices that it caused me to create a son via mitosis"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKPYOfZpegc) *November:* **Superliminal** 8/10 My primary complaint is that it isn't longer. It took a little over an hour and a half to reach the end, but what's here is fantastic. *December:* Nothing again, lol

linuxmemes atmur • 12 months ago • 98%

I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

Ask Lemmy atmur • 12 months ago • 96%

I’m curious what people here listen to, and I’m also looking for new ones to check out. I’m personally a big fan of Linux Unplugged, MBMBaM, Lateral, and Twenty Thousand Hertz! I also cannot get Lemmy’s search to work, so apologies if this was already a recent topic. EDIT: I have so many new podcasts to listen to now.

Linux Gaming atmur • 1 year ago • 98%

I’m glad to see this community picking up, the old sub is probably the community I’ll miss the most from Reddit. How about a discussion topic? Native Linux games! Gaming on Linux has absolutely never been better. I’ve been using Linux for 6+ years now, and I’ve been daily driving it since Proton first launched. I don’t even check ProtonDB anymore, I just buy games and they work. It’s amazing. However, it feels like native games almost always have an extra step, forcing Proton. A lot of people predicted this when Proton launched, but the moment it got really bad for me is when I switched to Wayland. Native games that used to work under X11 suddenly stopped working never to be fixed, but the Windows version with Proton continued to work just fine. I skimmed through the native Linux games in my library to get examples. In all of these cases, forcing Proton fixed the problem. The only two games with functional Linux ports that came to mind are Stardew Valley and Zachtronics Solitaire Collection. * CrossCode – Controller didn't work. * N++ – Crashes on startup. * NeoDash – Controller didn't work. * Bioshock Infinite – Awful performance, possibly still broken because of 2k launcher thing? * Hexologic – Game breaking level bug in Linux port. * DiRT Rally – Awful performance. * Drawer – Crashes on startup. * Super Meat Boy – Last level runs too fast and the game breaks. * I also remember having trouble with DiRT 4 and one of the Tomb Raider games, but I can’t remember what was happening. It’s gotten to the point where if I experience a single issue with a native game, I just immediately force Proton instead of wasting time troubleshooting, and that strategy hasn’t failed me yet. --- So, here are some discussion questions. You don’t have to answer all (or any) of these if you have a more interesting thought to add! 1. **What do you think of the state of native Linux games? Has your experience been different from mine?** 2. **More and more developers are choosing to officially support Proton rather than maintain a native Linux version. This is resulting in a better experience in the short-term, but will that have consequences in the long run?** 3. **In the above cases, the community seems more accepting of indie developers going this route due to their more limited resources. Do you agree with that, or do you treat these cases the same as larger studios doing the same?** 4. **Do you think this will change in the future? Linux market share is slowly but surely ticking up. Do you think there’s a threshold where studios start putting effort into native ports again, or will Proton be the way forward indefinitely?** EDIT: Formatting improvements