Certainly a cool idea, and I hope it succeeds and turns out to be what it seems.

No price listed on their crowd fund page, so who can say what this might cost? Uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W for the brains and a STM32 for the cartridge board.

Like someone’s “agent” is just running amok.

See also how some AI group is trying to set up astroturf accounts on the Fediverse (and has successfully done so on Bluesky and Xitter):

https://lemmy.world/post/51947593

Saved monitor brightness: GNOME now remembers your monitor’s brightness level across reboots and HDR toggling.

I don’t have an HDR monitor, but I guess it’s there…?

I think it’s shortsighted. The Linux gaming market is growing, and anyone with business foresight would be putting systems in place to capture that market. Apple is bound and determined not to be compatible with anyone, and Microsoft is not doing gamers any real favors lately, so it’s likely to continue to grow even further as people look for alternative(s) to both.

Been a minute since I heard that name

To be clear, I believe you are talking about kernel-level anticheat?

I once read that kernel anticheat is the lazy option. Devs can supposedly combat cheating without that, but it takes effort (meaning $$$).

So Fortnite could come to Linux, but Epic would have to fundamentally change how they deal with cheating, and the CEO doesn’t seem the type to give a shit about that.

Probably just a waiting game, then. Epic is bringing their client to Linux (supposedly), but it’s unknown when.

As a second option, have you considered dual booting, with Linux as the default? Then you/he can still have the benefit of Linux most of the time with Windows as a backup for the problematic games.

1. I wonder if Noctalia 5 already has a desktop widget for this
2. I wonder how hard it would be to write one, if not

The middle one. Wild setup, I like it!

There was something weird with the menus locking up. I tried the pacman package and the flatpak, and both had the same issue.

It was a known issue that was going to be addressed via the v5 revamp, but I can’t seem to find the original issue. Maybe it was a Qt thing, I dunno.

And to be clear, Niri is my daily driver, and I could probably figure out how those details work under the hood, but I don’t really have the drive to do that right now.

I love Niri, but it takes a lot of intentional configuration!

Truly the spirit of Linux. “I cobbled together these parts, and it works for me!” Love it.

Do you have a picture of your desktop you could share?

Oh, thanks. Seems like I have something to consider before jumping into the new version.

So, I came from Gnome to Niri + Noctalia, and one or the other of the latter read from Gnome’s settings. My calendar stuff works great, but that’s because I set everything up in Gnome first before later migrating.

I also had an issue with Pipewire video streaming not working on Niri one day (streaming to the internet, not from), and opening Gnome to see if that worked reestablished some xdg-portal config that had gotten lost somehow.

And so I keep Gnome for fear of losing those QoL things in Niri. I dunno if I’d recommend installing it just for that, but maybe that will give you some clues on how to solve your issue!

I’m out of the loop. Please enlighten me

Finally! I haven’t been able to use it due to problems with menus that stem from incompatibility with Wayland (…I think, it’s been a minute). Been using Tenacity instead, which has been a decent stand-in, but it will be nice to be able to use the OG again.

I would add “press the power button for 10 sec with everything unplugged.” That should clear any remaining power storing problematic settings. That’s about as fresh as you can get!

Thanks! I’ll keep that note about the XTX in mind. I have a 240Hz monitor, but I only play at 1080p, so that might be just the ticket.

I have a 302mm card in my case now, but I think it can accommodate a max of 330mm (with some maneuvering). Gotta keep those things in mind with ITX builds!

I recently had the power cut off suddenly, and the computer subsequently couldn’t find the boot drive. I went into the UEFI and tried selecting different partitions, hoping that some kind of boot process was stored there. I found one that seemed to have a boot record, and it dropped me into a Windows recovery prompt, despite me having nuked Windows long ago.

I was able to use a Linux install drive to mount the boot partition, drop the necessary boot files in the respective folder, and I could even clean up the leftovers from Windows. Drive now boots fine, and I learned something.

Let’s see Windows do any of that. Moving to Linux was the best thing I’ve ever done for my computer.

I read the “Why Odyssey” section, and the dev talks about wanting anonymity, then goes on to say that they accept donations on Patreon. I assume they also have that domain registered under their name. And while you say it’s a “team,” that section sounds like it’s a lone dev with patrons; that does not instill confidence in the long-term viability of the project.

On top of that, they sound like an edgelord (probably young). They talk about “no telemetry,” but then that means no Steam, no internet browsing, and certainly no taking payments from strangers.

And if that wasn’t enough, they hit us with this gem:

Artificial intelligence is an unavoidable tool, powerful and extremely useful, and it will shape the future of our species for the next thousand years. So yes, I use it, and I use it as an intelligent human being and, above all, a conscious one.

Unavoidable? Fuck right off. There isn’t some employer holding your paycheck hostage in return for “seeing what you can do with it.” The data consistently shows that it makes us dumber, and acting like it is inevitable (which I think is what they actually mean) is one of the most brain dead takes people say when pushing AI. They are choosing to use AI, and even if it’s local, the core functionality was built upon the mass theft of people’s work.

They do go on to say that they have an issue with who controls AI, which I agree with, but unless they built their own ML algorithm from the ground up or use one that wasn’t built with venture capital, they’re just reinforcing the same capitalist system that is ruining everyone’s future for the benefit of a few.

Overall, I think this is a very young person with a desire to do something good but who is ultimately naive. Coupled with the fact that they use AI without restraint, I expect this project to eventually flounder.