I didn’t get a chance to see what long-term progression systems were available.

It looks like they were going with the Helldivers 2 Warbonds mini-battlepass system which has some mechanical unlocks (a silencer in the Server Slam) and some cosmetics. If they can keep adding new items and mechanics at a good pace then it can go a long way towards keeping the gameplay fresh.

Either way, I bought it so I’ll be playing on launch. :D

It was a sect until someone forked it, now it’s a cult

I had zero interest in Arc, I watched a brief video a year or so ago and not much else.

I grabbed the playtest for the server slam last weekend and I have to say that I’m pretty excited for the release. It looks amazing, it runs super smoothly and they’ve gone a long way towards polishing and updating the game systems so it is fun to play and dying doesn’t feel as punishing or unfair. (though, those flying rocket UAVs are the spawn of satan)

TLDR: Wayland is super broken, NVIDIA makes it worse,

Wait, what? I’m using NVIDIA and Plasma 6.5 without issues.

Ubuntu

Ohhhhhhh

I used one to play WoW too, now I use this with a gaming profile instead of needing a piece of dedicated hardware:

The profiles are done on the hardware, so it doesn’t need anything special from the OS except to support keyboards.

Bots pretending to be tech bros*

Twitter is basically millions of Groks in a trenchcoat at this point.

I don’t believe any kind of analysis that depends on measuring sentiment on social media given that it’s trivially easy to run hundreds or thousands of accounts on a 5 year old graphics card and some vibe coding.

I was just guessing (it’s how I’d do it) 🥳

Maybe each server shows up as a library. Like “Server 1 - Movies”

Kind of annoying but less so than swapping servers and search should work

I’m not trying to convince you to cheer for this, I’m just correcting a common math mistake.

0.3% overall.

.3 percentage points. 11.6% increase

Those are two different things

Yeah, unless they’re trying to use a laptop with some weird piece of hardware it should work.

Even the newest generation of graphics cards worked fine within a week or two.

Linux went from 2.59% to 2.89%, that’s a 11.6% increase in the number of Linux users.

If it shifted .3% it would have went from 2.59% to 2.5977%.

The article is confusing ‘percentage points’ with ‘percentage’

Another way of looking at it is that the Steam Linux user population went from ~3,418,000 users to ~3,814,000 users. So there are nearly 400,000 new Linux gamers.

Ah.

I’ve used a few distros that locked specific patch levels and that’s just one of the kinds of issues you deal with. Sometimes that version has a bug and you have to wait for the next major release to get the update.

I’m using a rolling release distro, which comes with a different set of problems. But, I have the latest drivers and Wayland updates and have not encountered any significant issues using high refresh rate, VRR, HDR even while gaming.

It’s also possible that Bazzite is using gamescope which does have significant issues with NVIDIA, even still. But the newest versions of Proton support using Wayland directly (instead of XWayland), so it’s possible to avoid using gamescope entirely without losing access to display features.

> nVidia drivers don’t work on Wayland

What?

I’m using Wayland with nvidia-open drivers and I don’t have a problem even using proton via Wayland for HDR.

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Welcome to the club :)

If you’re using KDE, look at KDE Connect: https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect

People have other options, but the easiest option is always going to be to let someone else do it. Their price is, almost always, your private data and a subscription.

Or, you can DIY and self-host. Home Assistant is free and supports many different standards so you can use just about any hardware. It runs on your own hardware and doesn’t report to anyone unless you tell it to. It requires more effort than swiping a credit card and installing an app, however.

OP didn’t update their repost bot to understand what it’s reposting.

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As an example, I used an old PC and purchased a PCI-E card with a bunch of SATA connections. So the cost was about $30 for the SATA card. The biggest cost was the drives, about $90 per 4TB (x5 because I’m using a ZFS raid setup).

I’m buying 10 more 12TB drives (and 2x 2TB NVME drives) for a future expansion which is when I’ll retire my current gaming PC to be the NAS and donate the current server to whoever needs it. If you buy a dedicated device it’ll be more expensive but you won’t need to install Linux on it or configure it, they’ll usually have easy to use software accessible via a web interface. If you’re comfortable with Linux you can use just about any hardware to get you started.

Like Xanza said, I don’t consider it part of my media server. It’s generic storage that I use for everything. Security system recordings, backups, AI models, self-hosted cloud services like NextCloud, storage for my various syncthing clients, etc.