Malix @ Malix @sopuli.xyz

The worst kind of an Internet-herpaderp.

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imo, the funniest part of the game is listening to the player(s) repeatedly stating things from the game like cavemen

"baba is you, rock is push, water is sink... what? ok ok, rock is float.. AARGH"

tbh, I prefer Cole's Law

you might want to check the exact laptop model's specs. Occasionally the display outputs are limited to 60 Hz for silly reasons (generally them being wired to the igpu instead of the stronger nvidia gpu).

At least some years ago this seemed to be a fairly common thing over at pcmr sub.

oh wow, my system had accumulated ~4GB worth of orphaned stuff.

And as a sidenote: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacman-log-orphans-hook - adds a pacman hook to notify the user if there are orphaned packages after an update.

Knights of Pen & Paper, perhaps?

Essentially, your party is literally a group sitting at a table, dressed up as their characters and.. you go trotting over a fantasy land. The combat is fairly simple and the game overall is quite tongue in cheek. You spend in-game gold to decorate your game room, add snacks/drinks to the table, etc - all of which nets you bonuses, IIRC.

I've only played the first game (the +1 edition), no idea if the sequel is good or not. Galaxy of Pen & Paper is a scifi version of the same, afaik.

The game was originally on ios/android, so it doesn't come as a surprise that it does have the option to buy gold. I sure didn't need it when I played the 1st game, but, I still think it's worth mentioning, in case you're entirely against it.

edit: FWIW: according to steam reviews the sequel is slightly better rated (according to user reviews), and is 60% off, so ~3-4 $/€

huh, turns out these moved to aur ages ago, as apps like gwenview and spectacle stopped using these. So "older" KDE/Plasma installations might have these unnescessary packages still laying about.

Thanks for the heads up!

Its pretty close, but ideally I'd want to have it fit fin/swe layout without using modifiers to type ö and ä, and have them more or less where they'd be on normie layout. (I can live without å, so that already gives 1 key more leeway).

So far pretty much no ortho split allows this, I think. Unless I move enter key to the thumb keys or so. But then again that might be the default for eego/split keebs anyway, I dunno.

Going to have to read up on these a bit more.

oh wow. I have preonic, but I've more or less given up on learning to type with it. It's way too narrow. I like the concept but a split ortho would be better, as I wouldn't have to "hunch down" on it so much.

Fairly common to use en/us-layouts with highend mechanical keybards, as parts for those are more readily available.

But outside of the mech keebs or other niches, yea, people use the regional keyboard variants. Because it's just easier if you can see the weirdo ümlâuts/etc regional characters on the keycaps when you're not a touch typist. Over here (finland) it's actually pretty hard to even get ansi/us layout keyboard unless you really go about your way and seek one out, basically all keyboards in stores are fin/swe iso layout. I'd assume the same is true to most euro countries.

probably true for ansi/english keyboards

for all/most (?) euro/iso keyboards altgr+4 for $. Shift+4 for ¤

never even heard of omen app, but seems like total bloatware laced with datacollection (because.. .what isn't nowadays?)

The enshittification of the windows platform is on full blast. :/

While you can toggle it off from bios, that switch defaults to on, and as I have an AMD board, I've had to update bios several times (early adopters, yay) so defaults get set and... yea. Hate it with a passion.

My concern is that since the installer doesn't fit on the bios image, it fetches it from the internet at some point on the boot process. To me that sounds incredibly risky, it's (possibly) just one bad dns record away from downloading and installing a malicious payload on boot, by default. And how sure can we ever be that the tiny installer snippet on the board is even legit asus installer, can a bad actor flash their own in there and then just sell the board forward?

Could we just... NOT have hardware automatically install stuff?

the game from steam also comes as a nes rom-image, you can use it any nes emulator. I used Mesen, got quite a bit more customization & scaling options etc... and save states because I suck at it :D

that one vertical up/down fall -flashbacks still haunt me.

Micro Mages? Essentially a modern nes-game, co-op for up to 4 players.

edit: while not really a platformer (but does include platforming sections, iirc) and soundtrack does slap hard with the chiptunes: Retro City Rampage

but what about programmers with problems hearing? An alternative of webcam video with sign language, pantomime and subtitles is needed!

edit: OOH! Use AI to generate the sign language videos. Could be wild, considering how good AI is at drawing hands.

Time to get a keeb with a solenoid