MrScottyTay @ MrScottyTay @sh.itjust.works

An just 30-something Software Dev that enjoys gaming, woodworking, electron

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NVIDIA GTX is still a crapshoot if you wanted to play games on an older system (at least with modern desktop environments that use wayland) and RTX is going to be fine for most things unless you wanted to use Steam Gaming Mode on bazzite (because it was built with AMD in mind and uses APIs that the equivalent in the nvidia drivers are buggy - but they seem to not matter when in games because devs make them work on both cards or have just accidentally avoided those APIs - I'm guessing that's the reason - I think it's vulkan related iirc)

It's a non issue for most games, which is great but every now and then there's a game that's too tightly integrated into windows (like phasmophobia and it using the cortan API of all things for voice chat) or one that relies on an incompatible anti cheat system.

The Linux community need to figure out a new friendly standard to ensure anti cheat without out needing to act like a backdoor to the root kernel. I wish I was smart enough to help with that sort of stuff.

All of my devices except my work one are now Linux.

I have an old surface go 2 that good a massive new lease on life from using arch plasma. Double the battery life and everything. It could no longer get updates from MS because there was no longer enough space on the main drive to download and install the next update.

Then I have an old retro gaming pc that used to be for XP gaming but I ended up sticking bazzite on it for a test and it's stayed that way and because of that when I built my girlfriend's latest PC we decided to go bazzite desktop for her. And after getting past a few growing pains at the beginning that made it look like we made the wrong decision (due to an old 10xx gtx gpu - now on 3050) she's been enjoying it and now it's just standard.

Then I have my proper gaming PC that I use like a console so I put bazzite-deck on it as soon as I got an AMD card. And I've never felt better. HTPC console like gaming on windows was a fucking arse-on, even with steam big picture mode, because it doesn't get all of the cool bells and whistles that let you control basic system settings right from steam like you can on steam os and bazzite deck.

For work I've started moving away from visual studio to VS Code (i know it's still MS but I do C# .NET work and rider is too expensive, I don't want a subscription for an IDE) to allow me to easily transition to fully working on Linux if the opportunity ever arises. Whether it be with my current employer and me convincing them to let me to install Linux on my laptop or with a future company. We'll see which comes first ;)

Now it's time to get and decouple from Google. Currently figuring out with android auto maps app I want (waze won't run for some reason, my current winner at the moment is tom tom amigo). Then it's on to getting a password manager, then a new browser (preferably way more lightweight than chrome) and potentially a Google pay replacement(?).

Any suggestions and opinions from anyone here - even though this is tangentially off topic - would be greatly appreciated.

And cess since he came from a pool of one

It was made by a different studio though. This isn't stopping a new ES game from being made. Instead it's allowing them to onboard new devs better so they can help make the next game either better or faster.

I imagine it's just the items you select from a menu not the scannable ones

Oh right, I definitely misread and my smooth brain just assumed it was per month. That's mint actually

With Smarty in the UK I pay £6 for 8GB monthly and my partner pays £7.20 for 16GB

Only issue I have is that it uses the 3 network and we both get shitty reception in the Yorkshire dales whenever we visit there

That would be insanely expensive in the UK. Geez you guys are eating bad

Which company?

Wooooosh

https://youtu.be/AV59O9H7-KM

This video by Jimmy The Giant explains it better than I can in words.

Issue with healthcare IT is they cannot just upgrade willy nilly. They have to make sure that whatever computer they're changing isn't responsible for something big and they have to make sure everyone who uses it can use it. You still have some critical system PCs in hospitals that run DOS and sometimes even older.

Linux mint is another really good windows refugee friendly distro. And if you want a gaming COVID one then bazzite is the one to go for (it's basically steam OS, but there's a full fledged desktop version too)

Yeah I've never had a great time with it when it involves moving the screen you're using ie the switch, vita and wii u. But still find the precision much better than stick alone.

You've got to remember that the gyro is just for precision movements, not the wide spread sweeps (outside of occasional reactionary ones). The stick should still be the primary way to move the camera. Like, stick to position to the enemy, then gyro to precisely aim for the head, kind of deal.

And just like mouse and stick sensitivity, everyone will have their preferred sensitivity for gyro to, which can take a little bit of experimenting to begin with when trying it out properly for the first time.

Don't strike it out completely yet. You might just want it to be at a lower sensitivity and still prioritise the stick and just use the gyro for those small readjustments.

Don't be pedantic, if you're not an idiot you'd have known exactly what they meant.

You can hone in on its sensitivity too by the way. I know find it hard when I pay a console game without gyro. Ever since splatoon I've not looked back. I don't understand why people are so averse to trying it. In my eyes it's better than using a mouse, because then you still have all of the other benefits of a controller like analog movement etc.

The only ones i know of are the top end Xbox and PlayStation controllers which are exorbitantly expensive, especially when all you want is extra buttons.

I also have had issues with my standard dualsenses Bluetooth not acting great when using my Bluetooth headphones at the same time (which are also made by Sony)

Because they're all shit, each current controller has some kind of downside when wanting to configure it for games.

Either Steam input doesn't recognise extra buttons, or the ones that do have issues with being Bluetooth only.

I've tried the vader 3 which was great, but unrecognised so needed extra software to remap for each game which was never as simple as steam input and required me to use a mouse and keyboard which isn't great with a htpc setup.

And then recently I've tried the horipad for steam, this is almost perfect except for only two back paddles, the face buttons being weirdly shaped so the some of them stick when pressing them and the Bluetooth is shitty.

If steam input allowed the full use of generic controllers instead of ones that have been explicitly set up, I'd have no issues, I'd be able to find the one for me. But because they don't do that, I'm waiting for the steam controller 2 because a full layout just like the steam deck would be the dream.

Where did you get that from?