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donio

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  • [Discussion] Happy New Year! What are you playing on your Deck? - Jan 2026

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  • Picked up Yoku's Island Express during the sale. A unique 2D platformer/exploration game that seamlessly incorporates pinball mechanics. The world feels big with a lot of variety. The pinball stuff is fun and works better than I though it would. Great production. Very happy with the value so far.

    Another new one to me is Downwell. This is a neat little game and it's good at what it does but can't help feeling that that it could have been a lot more if it got the Isaac treatment with more items that combined in fun ways. It was very inexpensive so I am happy with this one too and will keep it in the rotation, especially for short play sessions.

  • Valve employee Pierre-Loup Griffais talks more about anti-cheat support for Linux/SteamOS on FPS Podcast #83

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  • I thought that they would come to their senses after the CrowdStrike fiasco.

  • Are there any guides on the most efficient way to set up a low-spec system?

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  • To help narrow it down I'd try streaming a low-end game that runs very well locally and doesn't tax the system. If this doesn't stream well either that would suggest that it's something specific to the streaming setup, perhaps a networking issue.

  • Great games you would recommend from before 1990?

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  • (the first batman game)

    Sorry to nitpick but there were several Batman games before that. The first one that I know of was Batman (1986), an isometric exploration game on 8-bit micros. It's a very good game for its time and the engine later evolved into Head Over Heels (1987) which uses a different theme.

  • Great games you would recommend from before 1990?

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  • Laser Squad (1988) was among my favourites growing up, they are the precursor to UFO/XCOM (the original from 1993).

    I will add Rebelstar (1986) on the ZX Spectrum, the granddaddy of them all. Technically there was Rebelstar Raiders beforehand but that version didn't have a computer opponent. I feel that Rebelstar is where the design elements that defined the later games came together.

  • Recommendations for the current sale

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  • Great list! I will add Wildfrost and LONESTAR on the roguelite, "there's gotta be a way to survive this turn, if only I could figure it out" side. Wildfrost is at the historical low, LONESTAR is not quite but close.

  • F-Droid TIL thread: What's your favorite obscure feature in an F-Droid app?

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  • That's crazy, I almost always have my screen locked into portrait, I would have never found that feature!

  • F-Droid TIL thread: What's your favorite obscure feature in an F-Droid app?

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  • It's fun to try to make it recognize your own sounds as a bird call. I was able to get an 82% as an Eurasian Collared Dove. I feel like one of the flock now.

  • F-Droid TIL thread: What's your favorite obscure feature in an F-Droid app?

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  • Yeah, the ability to use the bluetooth or android auto forward/backward jump buttons to skip a few seconds instead of entire tracks makes AntennaPod nice for audiobooks or other long form audio.

  • F-Droid TIL thread: What's your favorite obscure feature in an F-Droid app?

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  • Here is mine: In AntennaPod you can add a local folder as a "podcast".

    This is a great way to add audio files from other sources to your pod listening schedule. Files copied from your computer, drm-free audiobooks, audio tracks extracted using NewPipe etc.

    It is also possible to have the files deleted when you are done playing them.

  • F-Droid @lemmy.ml
    donio @lemmy.world

    F-Droid TIL thread: What's your favorite obscure feature in an F-Droid app?

  • FOSS alternative to google lens: offline translator

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  • Yep, I think in those situations it's best to write in a language you are comfortable with and let the reader use the tools of their choice to figure it out. That way if their first try gives them garbage they can use other methods to figure it out.

    I have yet to see a machine translator whose output I'd trust to send out as my own.

  • FOSS alternative to google lens: offline translator

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  • There is a PR to allow the use of the translation engine by other apps. Once this lands I would love to see Fedilab have this as an option for its inline translations as an alternative to external services.

  • Is secure boot actually bad ?

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  • It depends. If it's under your control with your own keys then it can be beneficial. If it's under someone else's control (as it is for most people) then it's a step towards the walled garden.

  • Building blocks for idiomatic Go pipelines

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  • I was skeptical at first (uh, another one of these?) but the small algorithm illustrations charmed me enough to look at the repo and I think I like it. Well organized repo, straightforward code and a good example_test.go, something package authors often neglect. If nothing else it can be a useful source of ideas if you decide to roll your own version of one of these operations.

  • Found something on the attic

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  • I am only guessing and extrapolating based on how this usually goes:

    • It's probably possible to get it to run but would take a lot of work
    • It's probably much easier to just run the windows version under Wine

    While the Linux kernel usually maintains long term backward compatibility very well unfortunately the userspace (libraries) is a different story.

    Looking at the game's faq the main dependency seems to be SDL. There is no OpenGL or other 3D library requirement. It might also depend on which version was shipped on the CD according to the faq there was an earlier statically linked version (which I am guessing might be easier to get to run) and a later dynamically linked one.

  • Thoughts on @brave and Brave Search over and @duckduckgo? Looking at #privacy and #foss alternatives to #bigtech. Educate me please.

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  • One reason I've been sticking with DDG is the amount of UI and feature customization it offers. Not just the number of settings but that they are sensible ones: it's stuff I care about. They also have a privacy-friendly way to save and restore these settings.

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Started playing Wildfrost, a deckbuilder with some unique mechanics. I slept on it for a long time because it had somewhat mixed reviews early on with some players complaining that it was too luck based or that it was too difficult to evaluate game state. To me this hasn't been a problem and the game was a very pleasant surprise. Thankfully it doesn't try to be a "better Slay the Spire" since nobody seems to get that right but goes on its own way. There is no mana system, instead you pay for cards with time: playing a card (usually) takes up your turn. Some of your cards will stay on the board and periodically trigger based on cooldowns and other triggers - and so do enemies. It's all about timing, sequencing and positioning.

    These mechanics make the game flow very smoothly and the turn puzzle is satisfying. The implementation and art are great too making it a very pleasant overall experience.

  • Which is the best way to learn Go?

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  • I'd add the language specification. It is well written and Go is a relatively small language so the spec is not difficult to digest:

    https://go.dev/ref/spec

    And pretty much everything from the official documentation page is a good read:

    https://go.dev/doc/

  • If Linux market share on Steam were counted for English only users, it would be 5.75%, compared to the overall Linux market share

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  • Sales numbers ($) by platform would be interesting to see too.

  • Arch Linux @lemmy.ml
    donio @lemmy.world

    Experience with sdl2-compat?

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
    donio @lemmy.world

    A new tool to forward evdev input events between Linux hosts

    codeberg.org /imarko/evfwd
  • Reddit @lemmy.world
    donio @lemmy.world

    We're all living on r/MadeMeSmile's Internet Now

    www.garbageday.email /p/were-all-living-on-rmademesmiles
  • Reddit @lemmy.world
    donio @lemmy.world

    the replacement mod search for r/thingsforants is going great!