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But that's a choice made by Garry Newman, not a limitation of the platform

I use Linux because it's the better platform for my workload. Knowing that I'm using and supporting FLOSS is great, but ultimately I will choose to use the best available tool for the job. For playing games Valve has made the best platform to manage my library and run it on Linux, so it is the only option for the vast majority of the games I would like to play.

It's not a full game but check out shroom and gloom on itch.io

Hopefully the coming lemmy update will alleviate that a bit, users being able to block instances will be good.

Nope, I purchased "Reddit Sync" years before the redesign (which was not actually the first redesign) and the author did not introduce any new fees or make the improved interface a separate app that required purchasing or anything. Every once in a while major updates would come out at no additional cost. When the biggest update hit a small vocal subset of the community got upset because some people can't stand change and harassed lj. Sync is only even the price it is because when the original ~$5 ad removal fee was floated on discord during the lemmy rewrite the community voiced that they would be willing to pay more since many of us felt we got more than we paid for out of the reddit version.

Yeah that's what happens when you receive abuse from the community over a new version of the app that you built for free

You can just make a usb stick a boot drive with a linux install, it wont' be performant but it would work.

Sounds like it's not the game for you. Overcoming environmental challenges is kind of the name of the game, and if the baseline "cold bad but fire hot" thing isn't something you enjoy then I'm not sure you would enjoy trying to navigate any of the main story areas in the game.

So I personally use two computers on a daily basis, a personal desktop I use all day long, and a laptop I use during work hours. Both are running Linux with pipewire and the pipewire-pulseaudio extension. I do my best to keep everything work related on the work device and everything personal on the personal device, so discord chats with friends stay on the personal machine etc. I occasionally need to participate in work meetings and the like, so I would like my audio interface to be shared between the two devices. Turns out this is exceptionally simple.

On my "host" machine with the audio interface I always use I have a pipewire config file at /etc/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf.d/50-network-party.conf that contains

    
context.exec = [
    { path = "pactl" args = "load-module module-native-protocol-tcp listen=0.0.0.0" }
    { path = "pactl" args = "load-module module-zeroconf-discover" }
    { path = "pactl" args = "load-module module-zeroconf-publish" }
]

  

And on my work laptop I similarly just load the module-zeroconf-publish module. Once that's done all of my desktop's audio devices show up on the work laptop and I can set them as my defaults, and everything just works! Didn't even require installing any extra software or anything, both systems worked out of the box when I learned about this module.

As for using my desktop's audio devices for my phone, turns out pulseaudio also supports connecting android devices using a2dp and simply pairing my phone and computer had my phone streaming its audio to my desktop and using its microphone for calls. Honestly wish I'd looked in to this sooner, having everything going through my desktop's audio setup is so nice.

Pulseaudio's networked audio devices are sick, and similarly getting your computer's headphones/mic on your phone by just connecting your phone to your computer over bluetooth is fantastic.

And make hundreds of children grow up without a father?

On a ship nonetheless

Was wondering why this didn't work, thanks!

Games have been the same price for over thirty years, they've not changed with inflation and production costs have skyrocketed. To an extent the increased market has helped keep costs down for the consumer but it's not unreasonable to see prices shift upwards.

Major Linux contributors are payed by their employers to work on the kernel.

It can exist without ads, and does, but not everyone is willing to compensate his time and effort with money

I pull kernels from the Linux surface repo, so I would expect to have whatever's latest

I've got a Surface Laptop 3 running Fedora that is always dead after an extended sleep. Actual working battery life is not bad though.

They're competing for GotY, probably the only reason they're getting compared.