HER0

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[–] HER0@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It says that it can accommodate glasses up to 140mm wide.

[–] HER0@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are a bunch of compromises for the (unknown) price point and form factor. It is clearly targeting the "relatively accessible living room gaming PC" market. At the same time, I don't think this is as restrictive as your comment makes it seem.

I don’t expect hdmi2.1 for over 60hz, but still a flaw

This is likely a legal limitation rather than a technical one, but the included DisplayPort can do 4k at 120 Hz. Most games probably won't be able to actually run with good performance with those settings.

then lack of ability to add extra hard drive, dvd, floppy (/s on this one)

The SSD is user replaceable, and other drives can be added through USB (even floppy drives). Micro SD is also a bit clever in that you can use the same cards for the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.

no output set for home audio 5.1+ set is already a thing for me

Back to USB, it has more connectivity than consoles, and works with more devices (because it is really just a PC). This includes USB audio interfaces and such if you need audio options outside of HDMI.

[–] HER0@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Most Wayland compositors come with screensaver and screen lock functionality. Some have an API for custom screensavers.

[–] HER0@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

I've been playing a couple new-to-me games lately, Plague Inc and Guntouchables.

I can see why Plague Inc is so popular. It has a bit of that "one more turn" feel to it for me, and it is interesting how you can employ different strategies to try to win. I find it to be a decent game for relaxing after a tough day of work (though it could also be frustrating when you lose).

Guntouchables I got for free when it first launched and just played it yesterday with some friends (who also got it for free). It is a fairly simple co-op rogue-lite top down shooter, but I think it is well executed, and I enjoyed the couple runs we had. I'll probably buy the supporter pack DLC for this at some point, because I do feel it deserves that.

[–] HER0@beehaw.org 9 points 4 months ago

I have a couple Dell laptops (from my work) with firmware in LVFS, and it is so nice how easy it is to use. I hope that this change encourages the biggest vendors to give some money to help keep it going.

[–] HER0@beehaw.org 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I agree and I'm sure many feel the same.

At the same time, this is the reality we live in. Some need to have jobs at companies that don't evaluate applications/materials as fairly as they'd like, and they will have to deal with this problem regardless.

[–] HER0@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago

It is fair to have a preference for exceptions. It sounds like there may be a misunderstanding on how Option works.

Have you used languages that didn't have null and had Option instead? If we look at Rust, you can't forget not to check it: it is impossible to get the Some of an Option without dealing with the None. You can't forget this. You can mess up in a lot of other ways, but you explicitly have to decide how to handle that potential None case.

If you want it to fail fast and obvious, there are ways to do this. For example you, you can use the unwrap() method to get the contained Some value or panic if it is None, expect() to do the same but with a custom panic message, the ? operator to get the contained Some value or return the function with None, etc. Tangentially, these also work for Result, which can be Ok or Err.

It is pretty common to use these methods in places where you always want to fail somewhere that you don't expect should have a None or where you don't want your code to deal with the consequences of something unexpected. You have decided this and live with the consequences, instead of it implicitly happening/you forgetting to deal with it.

[–] HER0@beehaw.org 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

For this example, I feel that it is actually fairly ergonomic in languages that have an Option type (like Rust), which can either be Some value or no value (None), and don't normally have null as a concept. It normalizes explicitly dealing with the None instead of having null or hidden empty strings and such.

[–] HER0@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

Remote Wayland, no, as it isn't network transparent like X11 is. You can still do remote desktops, though, usually with RDP or VNC. On the popular modern toolkits, this works out about the same, since drawing applications through X11 is not so common anymore.

[–] HER0@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Personally, the main thing keeping me on Xorg is support for global keybinds. Plasma and GNOME both have support for the XDG portal which mostly addresses this, but apps still needs to adopt it. Plasma also has a workaround for global keybindings, but I don't use that. Sway doesn't have any good solutions for this last time I checked.

Overall, I like Wayland more but I need support for global keybindings for at least a couple programs I regularly use.

[–] HER0@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

That is a massive nerf, but I don't think it'll stop me from picking it.

[–] HER0@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

Does the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer count, then? There are RPG elements, there are a bunch of playable women, and it is all about stomping hordes.

If this sounds appealing and you aren't already aware: this is not available in the remaster. Andromeda has a version of this, too.

 

Friendly Linux Players, or FLiP, is a gaming community I run. The last time I posted about this on Reddit, the reception was pretty negative, which I think may be because it was viewed as "too woke." I don't imagine will be a problem here on Beehaw, but hopefully this post falls within the intended spirit of the server.

I co-founded FLiP years ago, primarily motivated by the fact that no other specifically-inclusive Linux gaming community existed at the time, that I was aware of. Earlier this year, I created a bot which allows anyone to schedule a gaming event. Since then, we've had a lot more participation in the community, and I have been telling people about us publicly for the first times.

If this sounds interesting to you (even if you don't play on Linux), and you can abide by our Code of Conduct, details on the community can be found on the home page of our website. Of particular interest may be the events page, which lists upcoming events and how to join them.

If you still want to read more, we did a Q&A session with GitLab:

Building a more inclusive gaming community with GitLab

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