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Caffeinated_Capybara , to gaming in I finally got a Switch! What now?

I really enjoyed metroid dread and hollow knight. I also played a fair bit of hades and going under. Dredge is also really good. I wouldn’t worry too much about sales unless it’s a first party game. It’s really the first party games that don’t really go on sale often.

girl , to nostupidquestions in What goes into writting books?

Anyone can write a book! It may or may not be good, and even if it is good it nay not become popular. A good editor will help correct any mistakes caused by your dyslexia. Writing without a plan can be very hit or miss. I believe Stephen King writes by the seat of his pants for most of his stories. He’s an incredible author and has become wildly successful, but he is known for his poor endings because of his lack of planning.

Writing a book takes years when it isn’t already your job. My dad has been casually writing a book for 7 years. It will go faster the more serious you are, of course.

QuietStorm OP ,
@QuietStorm@lemmy.fmhy.ml avatar

thank you for all this info, i hope someday i can finish a project or something involving writing.

Caffeinated_Capybara , to gaming in I finally got a Switch! What now?

I really enjoyed metroid dread and hollow knight. I also played a fair bit of hades and going under. Dredge is also really good. I wouldn’t worry too much about sales unless it’s a first party game. It’s really the first party games that don’t really go on sale often.

Caffeinated_Capybara , to gaming in I finally got a Switch! What now?

I really enjoyed metroid dread and hollow knight. I also played a fair bit of hades and going under. Dredge is also really good. I wouldn’t worry too much about sales unless it’s a first party game. It’s really the first party games that don’t really go on sale often.

Veraxus , to android in Favorite 2-factor authenticator?
@Veraxus@kbin.social avatar

Anything that works with 1Password is fine by me.

ciko22i3 , to android in What are some decent media players?
@ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz avatar

MPV

Hazdaz , to nostupidquestions in Do I understand correctly that I have to subscribe to 5 different NoStupidQuestions on 5 different instances?

For real? I didn’t know this is how it worked. I don’t even know how to find those other instances. Do they just come up automagically or do you have to specifically search under those other instances?

This is bad.

smoregooseboard ,

Not bad, different :)

C4d ,
spacedancer ,

Federation works a little differently. Having said that, it’s not too far from reddit either. For example on reddit, as a basketball fan, I visit r/nba often. But then there are also other subs like r/nbadiscussion, r/nbatalk, and other subs that have overlapping content as r/nba. That’s the same case here, except they are on different instances rather than subreddits. You can do the same as what you do on reddit and subscribe to the most popular instance community and that’s it. Eventually as time goes by, the most popular community will become the “default” so you won’t really miss out on content. If you really have FOMO, then subscribe to all of them; same as what you would do on reddit; but obviously you don’t do that right?

entropicdrift , to linux_gaming in Yume Nikki doesn't work
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Have you tried multiple versions of Proton? Try an older version that matches one of the reviews on ProtonDB

eldritch_lich OP ,

The window doesn’t even show up on an older version of Proton.

entropicdrift ,
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Have you tried the latest Proton-GE?

eldritch_lich OP ,

Yes. I tried Proton GE, Proton Experimental and Proton 8.0-2

entropicdrift ,
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Have you tried running it under X11 instead of Wayland? Some games get messed up by Wayland

eldritch_lich OP ,

I tried it a few hours after I made this post but for some reason, Gnome on Xorg kept crashing and going back to GDM as soon as I moved the cursor. By that point it was getting late and I stopped debugging. I have no idea how to debug that anyway.

havokdj ,

Better yet, do you have XWayland enabled?

eldritch_lich OP ,

Yes

havokdj ,

Damn, I am stumped then, it works fine for me on steam.

You could try installing it in lutris perhaps? The game doesn’t have any achievements or enhancements on steam so you wouldn’t be missing out on any extra features besides possibly cloud save (though backing up wine prefixes is amazing, I copy fl studio to a flash drive to sync with my various computers).

eldritch_lich OP ,

Alright, I’ll try that. I wanted to use Steam because then I can use my controller with Steam input but I guess it’s fine.

havokdj ,

Add it as a non-steam game!

eldritch_lich OP ,

Okay this is extremely weird. No matter which version of wine/proton I pick in Lutris, I get the exact same issue where the window doesn’t show up but the game is running. The only difference with Steam here is that I can hear the game audio.

I am almost certain this is an issue because of Wayland but I can’t seem to figure out why Gnome on Xorg keeps crashing for me.

havokdj ,

This one is more of a bandaid than anything but have you tried using gamescope?

Also, for testing purposes you could see if you are able to run another X window manager and see if it is a problem with X rather than Wayland. dwm is very small and in the AUR, if you install that and xorg-xinit, you can jump over to a getty and create .xinitrc in your home folder with the line exec dwm and run startx. You’ll need dmenu as well to run things and that can also be found in the AUR.

eldritch_lich OP ,

I figured out why Gnome on Xorg was crashing. It was because of libinput-config. I noticed because it wouldn’t actually crash until the moment I moved the mouse. The game seems to work perfectly on Xorg.

I already tried gamescope. The results of that attempt are in my original post above.

Still, while I can finally play the game now, it’s a bit annoying having to remove a package and reboot everytime. I don’t even know if this is a Wayland issue or a Gnome issue but I don’t have the disk space to install KDE or anything.

Ideally I would like to figure out why this is happening in the first place and maybe report it upstream, but I have no clue how to even get debug logs out of this.

Anyway, thanks for the help. I appreciate it!

havokdj ,

No problem!

Sounds like that may actually be an issue with a config file somewhere. You could check the wiki on libinput and poke around the configs if you think it may be necessary to keep the package.

comedy , to nostupidquestions in Is there a Decentralised Spotify / Music Platform Alternative?
@comedy@kbin.social avatar

If you're looking for podcasts, and you know the ones you are looking for, many have RSS feeds you can subscribe to. I don't know if there is an open-source podcast player with discovery features, but there might be?

SamXavia OP ,
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Yeah that’s a fair point, I sometimes forget RSS feeds are a thing.

merde ,

there are some. I tried all and ended up keeping AntennaPod 👉 f-droid.org/app/de.danoeh.antennapod

it has search and discovery too.

merde ,

and unlike other players, it downloads podcasts with their names which helps when you want to archive (or share) a specific podcast

Kurt ,
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AntennaPod is pretty great. Apparently it’s compatible with a synchronizing service called gpodder, which I believe you can run yourself.

olorin99 , to android in App to update apps from GitHub, fdroid, etc.?
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Doesn't fdroid automatically check for updates already?

AtaraxicMegatron ,

It does.

neoNgEcho , to android in Favorite 2-factor authenticator?

I always use Aegis. No problems so far and easy backups.

bmck , to youshouldknow in YSK: How to Budget
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If you’re a bit on the techy side, take a look at plain text accounting.

I’m not overly familiar with how things work financially in the U.S. for day-to-day things, but here in Australia, I run everything through my debit card, so at the end of the month, I import all my transactions into Hledger, allocate them to their appropriate expenditure account (i.e., food, gas, utilities, dining out, etc.) and then I can run a report on where my money has gone. I’ve been doing it over the past 2 years and it gives some really good insight.

Although it’s retrospective, it helps me understand what I’m spending my money on and can help forecast and budget.

marito , to android in What are some decent media players?

VLC.

gabriele97 , to selfhosted in Advice/poll on switching away from Ubuntu for my VM host.
@gabriele97@lemmy.g97.top avatar

I started with proxmox and I’ll continue to use it because it’s very nice to use. As backup I use an rclone mount that is shared via NFS (everything inside a container) and I set that NFS share as a backup storage in proxmox. I think it is a bit convoluted but works fine enough for now.

SeeJayEmm OP ,
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Convoluted just means you built it with care. ❤️

edgemaster72 , to nostupidquestions in Would a cat-toy laser pointer distract a pilot in broad daylight?
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

Now I’m wondering how hard/easy would it be to successfully aim a laser pointer to put a dot on a plane at 35,000 feet (assuming the beam isn’t scattered/dispersed completely along the way)

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