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Quoting: Xpandernice.
though theres [gamma-launcher](https://github.com/Mord3rca/gamma-launcher) also that with few commands sets up everything easily

You can even use GUI to do that... [cough] [cough]

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Quoting: Anza

Quoting: F.UltraNote that this is not the old Microprose from Sid Meier fame. This is an Australian individual that bought the rights to the Microprose logo in 2018. The last original Micropose studios closed shop in 1999 and the brand/ip have travelled through Spectrum HoloByte, Hasbro Interactive, Infogrames, Atari Interactive, Cybergun Group, Tommo and then finally to David Lagettie from Australia who AFAIK only bought the name and not the IP.

Out of curiosity, I did some digging and there are few things to add. It's bit more than just the name, "Wild Bill" Stealey joined the company unofficially to help out. Which maybe makes more sense as I think he was more the military simulator guy and Sid Meier is probably busy doing something for Firaxis anyway.

Also David has been buying all the IP that he has been able to buy. I can't list all the Microprose military simulations by name from memory, but there seems to be quite a few of them.

There's an [article from several years ago](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-resurrection-of-microprose-and-return-of-wild-bill-stealey) that opens up the situation lot more.

Oh, I did not know that. Paints a far better picture and here's to hoping.

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Well, I expect prices will go down after the AI crash. Which really doesn't seem like it's gonna be all that long now. I mean, the guy from "The Big Short" who cleaned up on the 2008 financial crisis is shorting AI stocks, and the Dark Lord . . . uh, Peter Thiel . . . has sold his. Seems like the music is starting to grind to a halt.

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Dunno about a lot of the rest, but Tactical Breach Wizards is practically worth £35 on its own merit. Throw in CoreKeeper, Ixion and the Warhammer title and this is a steal!

I need to get back to Dungeons of Hinterberg too. Fantastic style to it, but I got distracted by something else and never went back to it!

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​This wine version works with mangohud 0.8.2 released today in my case, test new dx_api option appear in upper left




in other thing in my case with wine 10.19 some titles dont start (previously working on wine 10.18) case f1 race stars, sonic all stars racing transformed back to work and plus bullet witch dont run in my case in several wine versions but now back to work (curiously dx_api option in dx11 title in my case appear like DX?)




bullet witch is a special case because cinematics stay in wmv3 with audio in wmapro (very problematic video format for playback in wine) in my case encode some cinematics with h264 magic (encode in h264+ audio in mp3)






other issue of this game stay related to audio, in my case need some dlls as native using winecfg however on new wow64, 32bit app profile stay in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Wine

and in my case appear like this:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Wine\AppDef aults\witch.exe]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Wine\AppDef aults\witch.exe\DirectSound]
"EAXEnabled"="N"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Wine\AppDef aults\witch.exe\DllOverrides]
"d3d9"="native"
"xactengine3_7"="native"
"xaudio2_7"="native"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Wine\AppDef aults\witch.exe\FileOpenAssociations]
"Enable"="Y"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Wine\AppDef aults\witch.exe\X11 Driver]
"GrabFullscreen"="Y"

Also before cited situation occur in some titles in my case like:

Red Faction Guerilla Steam Edition (d3d9 - xactengine3_2 - xaudio2_2) - Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing Transformed

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Quoting: mr-victoryWhat is "ID", an internal UUID or the name I pick on the UI?

Looks like a UUID that gets used for their auto-generated and managed X.509 certificates that encrypt the connection: https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/blob/4e53bcdd5d4c28bd9fefd114b807ce35d7b3373e/core/kdeconnectconfig.cpp#L375

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Quoting: scaineI'd LOVE to see an Arch-based distro that give us a store-like experience for updates and software installs. It's frustrating that Arch is so obtuse that even tools like Discover (KDE's appstore) is "not recommended for use with Arch-based distros".

I'm on CachyOS now and it ships with Octopi, but that has multiple problems - the interface is probably worse than Synaptic, a thing I didn't believe possible. It doesn't handle the AUR, and it doesn't know about Flatpak. CachyOS does provide a one-stop "upgrade" tool (open a terminal and type "upgrade", ha!), but no GUI exists.

It's a problem, and one that's hand-waved away by dedicated Arch users who say "just use the terminal". I'm fine doing so, but it means that I wouldn't recommend an Arch distro to anyone, ever. You try Arch, tentatively, after years of Linux exposure, and you might still bounce of it because of this.

So, yeah, so frustrating. Powerful software, like Arch, shouldn't be (this) difficult to use.

This is the reason why, while not perfect by any means, I just stick with Fedora over Arch based distros. Everything generally works without much fucking around and it feels like a more polished and integrated experience.

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On the Deck in November I finished up Hades, started Röki, and played some Minecraft.

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Quoting: MichelN86Arch or arch based is not meant for you. It’s not hard to use the terminal at all or do a package search online.

Also the article is about endeavour os, not about your problems about a store or cachy os.

Yeah, I should have said, I actually got into Arch because of Endeavour. It's a great O/S. I mentioned CachyOS here because it attempts to fix the issue of non-GUI software-centres by including Octopi, which isn't ditro-specific, but is pretty limited in what it can do address this lack.

Why do you say arch-based isn't for me? I've spent several years on Arch. But I'll ram home my point again, cos it looks like you missed it - powerful tools don't have to be obtuse and no-one befits from elitist attitudes that would prevent unlocking those powerful tools.

So it would be super-cool if someone took the idea of paman and actually presented the power of Arch in an approachable non-distro-specific way.

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I've been using Endeavour for a while now. I like it enough that I started to install it on other computers in the house. Its not perfect by any means, and you still get the occasional Arch packages breakage. But considering how my older Ubuntu boxes keep breaking all the time because that distro is now an absolute mess (aw snap!), I can live with the occasional Arch problems.

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So can the GoG solution run on Linux, or is dravenus' installer still needed?

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I remember paying $100 for a 4MB stick in 1995.

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Looks like the Google Play version's already updated for me, and there is an option for allowlisting specific Wifi networks rather than the default 'any'.

However, it looks like Arch hasn't caught up just yet ( https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/kdeconnect/ )

EDIT: While grabbing the PKGBUILD to see about manually building the update for now, it looks like they're backporting the patch in the already-available 25.08.3-2.

From the article-linked advisory:
https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/commit/4e53bcdd5d4c28bd9fefd114b807ce35d7b3373e
->
https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/commit/1d757349.patch

And then in Arch specifically:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/kdeconnect/-/commit/08ea078c37bccf36079b7b76e876104618c5e586

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nice.
though theres [gamma-launcher](https://github.com/Mord3rca/gamma-launcher) also that with few commands sets up everything easily

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Arch or arch based is not meant for you. It’s not hard to use the terminal at all or do a package search online.

Also the article is about endeavour os, not about your problems about a store or cachy os.

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I got my 32GB kit of 6000MHz CL30 for about 135€ a year ago, now the exact same kit in the same store is 468€. Absolute madness. I'm glad I won't need to upgrade for a long while.

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Very nice.

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I'd LOVE to see an Arch-based distro that give us a store-like experience for updates and software installs. It's frustrating that Arch is so obtuse that even tools like Discover (KDE's appstore) is "not recommended for use with Arch-based distros".

I'm on CachyOS now and it ships with Octopi, but that has multiple problems - the interface is probably worse than Synaptic, a thing I didn't believe possible. It doesn't handle the AUR, and it doesn't know about Flatpak. CachyOS does provide a one-stop "upgrade" tool (open a terminal and type "upgrade", ha!), but no GUI exists.

It's a problem, and one that's hand-waved away by dedicated Arch users who say "just use the terminal". I'm fine doing so, but it means that I wouldn't recommend an Arch distro to anyone, ever. You try Arch, tentatively, after years of Linux exposure, and you might still bounce of it because of this.

So, yeah, so frustrating. Powerful software, like Arch, shouldn't be (this) difficult to use.

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Right now I'm into some Kingdoms of the Dump on my Deck, and Outer Worlds 2 on desktop. I bet I'll finish up OW2 before christmas, then I think I'll take a short break from desktop gaming and do some reading instead. Get back into a proper isometric turn based rpg next year.

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I can see that the market prices are rising which is bad for consumers but on the other hand I just checked what I paid in 2016 for my stick of 16GB DDR4 2400 MT/s and it was £66 then or equivalent to £92 in today's money accounting for inflation. Even with the price hikes DDR4 is still cheaper now than 2016. Sure if I was building today I'd rather buy DDR5, but I'm not building today as I'm still very happy with my current rig so DDR4 can't be that bad.

Maybe if the AI hype crash happens prices will plummet.

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Quoting: LachuOnly we wait for quantum wireless network, so people would not buy normal PC, but only displaying device and pay subscription. Maybe world will go in this direction? I do not joke. Imagine how many resources will be preserved - only one kernel for many devices, only one code for each program loaded into memory, only one copy of constant data loaded into memory, etc.

Current wireless technology already massively uses quantum effects.
Also it would only worsen the base resources problem.
There is a reason why better chips often means smaller transistor distance.
The more volume a signal has to cover the more the second law of thermodynamics will get involved.
Besides that the cloud providers haven't really shown they can be trusted with, so much control over people's data(not your hardware, not your data)

Still you're probably right that this will happen.
After the end of the AI bubble, all that cloud compute infrastructure will still exist and start to compete with other cloud computing infrastructure.
This will drive down the price of cloud subscriptions. Bringing people to do more and more in the cloud.

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Quoting: StellaI fast-tracked my planned upgrade to AM5 (previously 13600K) because of the RAM prices, I got a nice Crucial 6000-36 32GB kit for 177€, but 2 months earlier it was listed at 90. And now it's listed as 269€ on Amazon, WHAT THE F.
Anyways, I'm very happy I bought the RAM when I did. In half a year I expect 32GB of DDR5 will be a thousand euros/dollars or more.

Same here, though I'm not quite happy about it. Needed to be done, managed to do it before it'd bankrupt me. So, I'm relatively stocked up, but I'm not jumping on those GPUs until enough of them melt due to 12vhpwr issues for that connector to get properly figured out or replaced. Not that AM5 boards toasting those CPUs isn't an issue, but still probably better than buying into the sinking ship that is Intel.

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Some of the phrasing and issues addressed. You could add "finally, ffs" to a few of these. Like the security fixes. Maybe it's just me projecting the drama onto these - also possible.

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Only we wait for quantum wireless network, so people would not buy normal PC, but only displaying device and pay subscription. Maybe world will go in this direction? I do not joke. Imagine how many resources will be preserved - only one kernel for many devices, only one code for each program loaded into memory, only one copy of constant data loaded into memory, etc.

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What is "ID", an internal UUID or the name I pick on the UI?

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So nothing I'm playing currently, with Halls of Torment and King is watching being my two top games right now on Steam Deck.

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Note that it has a regression affecting Cyberpunk 2077: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9605

For now before the fix is merged, the workaround is to use this:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES=icuin,icuuc=n

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Quoting: suchHeavy ex-GF vibes in these notes.

???

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Quoting: SzkodnixLuckily I upgraded my RAM before rising prices.

I hope GPUs aren't next on the list...

You know they will be. I feel akin to "Old man yells at clouds" but it really does seem like business has encroached all playtime. Third spaces should refer to public locations, not our ability to own entertaining things!

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