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Quoting: ChrisznixA late question to those who played and have read The Invincible: should i read the novel first? I am in the first hours of that game (thanks to your recommendations) and its absolutely great so far. But it made me wonder if i should read the book first.

I'm not going to spoil anything game or book related, but just PLEASE trust me when I say this:

1- finish the game
2- immediately start the book

you will be happy :) Also, if you like scifi at all and haven't done Lem's other greats, he's a genre defining genius. Check out Solaris, Cyberiad, and Memoirs in a Bathtub. Cyberiad is prob my personal fav.

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I think this is the death knell for this product line. They're into the phase of "fuck it pricing" - just trying to get rid of them and shut down the project. AI garbage continues to destroy all that it touches. Yay.

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This would be fantastic to have on a laptop to remotely via lan control your audio mixing for band practice or stuff like that.

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This would be so nice to have, i will try this out. There are a lot of great tools out there, but in the heat of the moment, i often struggle to find the correct settings.

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It would be very nice if we can really report unknown/unrecognized sensor chips to the project.
I have a Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro X3D ICE (with a Ryzen9 9950X3D) and coolercontrol found two unknown ITE sensor chips: 0x8696 at 0x2E and 0x8883 at 0x4E.
I managed to have the 8696 working adding "options it87 ignore_resource_conflict=1 force_id=0x8696" to "/etc/modprobe.d/it87.conf" but "coolercontrold detect --load" still says "Unrecognized Super-I/O chip at 0x4E id:0x8883 - please report for database inclusion" and I can't find a way to report it.

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looks promising! will give it a go, do appreciate their reasoning for using a web UI too.

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A late question to those who played and have read The Invincible: should i read the novel first? I am in the first hours of that game (thanks to your recommendations) and its absolutely great so far. But it made me wonder if i should read the book first.

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Quoting: clatterfordslimdo people actually use their computers, other than playing games and watching YouTube? Do they make spreadsheets, create stuff, open as many tabs as possible, push their systems to the limit, by having Steam games open whilst rendering or editing video, watching YouTube, browsing the web all at the same time, whilst using Wayland?

I have tried some image generation models (EDIT: I mean local models) which pushed my system to the limit (both in terms of VRAM and regular RAM), and I had no issues. Programming, slicing up videos using ffmpeg, image editing using Krita, and any other 'actual' use of my PC seems to work perfectly fine regardless of my using Wayland.

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It looks quite esthetic but reminds me of Xbox Series S a bit too much

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It is in my library but I haven't played it yet. But I definitely will, Stardew Valley-likes are my jam

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Quoting: omfgnutsNo sponsorblock? Not touching youtube without it. The best way to use youtube on steam deck remains a kiosk mode youtube webpage with all the modern and configurable adblocks and sponsorblock and a gamepad preset from community templates

Popping in here in 2026 to inform any future individuals who come across this article - VacuumTube now has SponsorBlock, DeArrow and dislikes!

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Quoting: chrNice. I'm still dreaming about using different desktop backgrounds for each virtual desktop (which I was reminded of when hearing about this virtual desktop update).

Can do that easily in Xfce. It's what I do to remember which workspace I am on, as there is no way to display numbers on screen, like there is in KDE and Cinnamon. Can only show numbers if you have workspace displaying on your panel and rename them from there in Xfce. I will have to try out KDE in VMware and see how Wayland behaves itself now, as all I keep hearing is how good Wayland is, but do people actually use their computers, other than playing games and watching YouTube? Do they make spreadsheets, create stuff, open as many tabs as possible, push their systems to the limit, by having Steam games open whilst rendering or editing video, watching YouTube, browsing the web all at the same time, whilst using Wayland?

I'm just curious that's all, as that is how I spend my time in Xfce. If I feel happy enough with KDE Wayland in a virtual environment I will install it onto real hardware and see how it performs in the real world. I've been on the fence with Wayland, as heard nothing but good things, then the horror stories of it not liking OBS-Studio and other app installs.
Every time I tried Wayland session with either KDE or Gnome, they kept crashing. Though that was some time ago, so does anyone here use their Wayland Linux like I do in X11? Is Wayland really that good now that it does not crash when put under load?

Wayland has been the default for KDE for a while now and most people don't switch back, so it's safe to say that it largely works now. I have have used it even before that and it works like a charm.

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oof. that's sad. 😟

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Quoting: scaineWayland remembering where windows are positioned is the last feature missing from X, for me. It really annoys me that all windows open in the centre of the screen.

Agreed!
But funilly enough, I actually set them on purpose to open centered in the screen, as having windows open in seemingly random places was quite annouing to me 😄

Quoting: scaineExcept Steam. It doesn't care about desktop managers or theming or whatnot. Does what it likes. 😅

Also agreed 😁

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I remember seeing a Crusader Kings II video where the person made the most inbred family line that they could. It ended up breaking down somewhere and they were forced to marry outside their family. lol

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It's a bad time to be launching new computer hardware, so best of luck to them.

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I really hope one day that preservation becomes more of a goal for all developers.

I think it's a safe bet that developers of live service games are not much concerned with preservation.

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according to the code in Github this is a implementation of the old Free in the dark engine (FITD) with a coat of AI upscaled and AI generated images on top

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Quoting: chrNice. I'm still dreaming about using different desktop backgrounds for each virtual desktop (which I was reminded of when hearing about this virtual desktop update).

Can do that easily in Xfce. It's what I do to remember which workspace I am on, as there is no way to display numbers on screen, like there is in KDE and Cinnamon. Can only show numbers if you have workspace displaying on your panel and rename them from there in Xfce. I will have to try out KDE in VMware and see how Wayland behaves itself now, as all I keep hearing is how good Wayland is, but do people actually use their computers, other than playing games and watching YouTube? Do they make spreadsheets, create stuff, open as many tabs as possible, push their systems to the limit, by having Steam games open whilst rendering or editing video, watching YouTube, browsing the web all at the same time, whilst using Wayland?

I'm just curious that's all, as that is how I spend my time in Xfce. If I feel happy enough with KDE Wayland in a virtual environment I will install it onto real hardware and see how it performs in the real world. I've been on the fence with Wayland, as heard nothing but good things, then the horror stories of it not liking OBS-Studio and other app installs.
Every time I tried Wayland session with either KDE or Gnome, they kept crashing. Though that was some time ago, so does anyone here use their Wayland Linux like I do in X11? Is Wayland really that good now that it does not crash when put under load?

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Quoting: TriasParadox's DLC classification is a bit confusing, yes, but "Major" expansion is considered to be bigger then a "Core" one.

Ah, that would make more sense, then. I guess what got me was the last dev diary talking about By God Alone, and also the order in which they were presented today.

That means I kinda got my wish. More depth for trade, and more depth for playing in Europe.

And it seems the issue that regularly drained my treasury is fixed (or I just had a very lucky streak). On the downside, my 61yo character now looks like a shriveled grape, and I had to give up 6 of my 15 holdings due to the domain limit rebalancing. Ah well, it's not like I was attached to most of them anyway.

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Source? Link to confirm use of "AI"?

If you pay attention to the video you can defiantly see the static lighting in a room's background change by the camera angle
Even if they didn't, I wouldn't put it below Spacefarer to use AI in their remasters. They once took someone's demo off of Itch "Zera: Myths Awaken" reskinned and sold it on the Nintendo E-shop as "Lotzo and Ray of Light" as a full game in broken form.
[Gamesradar article](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/platformer/dev-accused-of-stealing-spyro-the-dragon-inspired-platformer-recoloring-it-and-selling-it-on-the-nintendo-eshop-for-usd15-with-ai-generated-art-wonder-if-theyd-give-me-a-free-key/)
[Rerez's (E-slop) video, skipped to relevant portion.]((https://youtu.be/8nRo9nxq1TI?t=1547))

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Quoting: kaimanSilk & Silver on the other hand feels like it's deserving to be a core expansion, and so will likely end up too shallow and too separate from existing systems and mechanics.

Paradox's DLC classification is a bit confusing, yes, but "Major" expansion is considered to be bigger then a "Core" one.

Yes, it's also confusing and not reassuring that developers left only two month for a major expansion after the previous one but still, the "trade" expansion is at least planed to be of the same scale as tournaments and Asian expansions (both were "Major" expansions too). And "By God Alone" is supposed to be of the same scale as Khans DLC (another "Core" expansion).

Anyway, I'm very hyped so far. Mostly for trade system but united Chalcedonian Christianity from BGA also scratches my "historical accuracy" itch very much. Will definitely play a campaign at the end of the year.

:).

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Quoting: sarmadAnd it's also upgradable, so you can upgrade the memory if you like, though I don't think you'll need to if you're just using it for gaming.

Depending on the game genre 32GB could be necessary. But these are more likely games people would want to play on desktop to see more details than on a far away screen.

I still wounder how easy it is to upgrade since steam machine is also just a common PC, but you do not have any graphics card other than Steam Machines own proprietary design solution. RAM and CPU, sure (on Batch 2 there is only one of two slots used), but how is graphics card build in an how is it cooled? And with Ryzen 5500 the best you can upgrade to CPUs of the same generation. And cooling will be an issue in general for such small devises. You have build in a CPU with 65W and a GPU with 160W. Doubling that amount is possible with 600W quality PSU, but cooling is probably not at that point. And if that is true what @nebadon2025 said, then I would also switch the PSU when upgrading requires more power (I would not even want to run a no name PSU in first place).

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Added to my library and downloaded! I'll have to find some time to give this a try. Maybe find someone to play through the co-op campaign again. 🙂

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While I am on team "don't "verify age", you probably should look deeper behind the story of systemd. Listen to [the person who actually implemented age on systemd](https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=8bAN4Jam974). Companies that want to make business in USA HAVE to implement it, if they agree with laws or not. That means all the distros maintained by companies do not have much choice. The systemd implementation should keep the control by users and should make sure to implement it in the best way possible (otherwise may 10 companies create 10 different solutions while some are probably worse). And at least on my daily used distro (Debian) the related systemd packages are not even installed by default. It's a package for all kind of personal information. It was weird anyway that such an entry was never implemented (and if so, nobody would have spoken about these days).

You still don't need to agree with that action and personally I think it was not smart to do it right now when laws are still discussed for free software. But I also think there is more drama made then the action actually was. Just pick a distro that does not ship that package (community distros) or uninstall it and your system is as clean as it always was.

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You can do that with activities, that's essentially what they're for, workspaces where everything is unique to each space. To be honest, I'm not really sure why KDE sidelines them. They do everything people complain about workspaces not doing. They're intended for workspaces to live inside them, but that's never how KDE presents them.

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Wait, that's actually a pretty powerful machine; more powerful than the PS5 Pro if I'm not mistaken. And it's also upgradable, so you can upgrade the memory if you like, though I don't think you'll need to if you're just using it for gaming.

But, why does it look like a portable electric stove? 😁 Still look nicer than the PS5 though in my opinion.

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Quoting: RTherenI've sent it to a friend of mine who's a huge AitD fan.... he wasn't happy with the quality of this AI slop, at all.

Quoting: dpanterIt is quite AI sloppy indeed. With properly remade assets, it would be pretty sweet.

Source? Link to confirm use of "AI"?

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There aren't many high graphical fidelity, professionally developed multiplayer space sims/shooters native for Linux. This is a real loss.

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Hm, I'm happy for the patch to be out (and hope it actually fixes the issue I have with my ongoing campaign), but neither of the two expansions have me reaching for my wallet. I guess By God Alone may enrich gameplay in Europe and perhaps some of the changes to the Faith mechanics may apply elsewhere, too, but it's not on the same level as, say, Tournaments or China.

Silk & Silver on the other hand feels like it's deserving to be a core expansion, and so will likely end up too shallow and too separate from existing systems and mechanics.

I'd rather have liked seeing something that deepens an existing system or region (like By God Alone apparently does), with more events, more choice, more variety.

But I'll follow the dev diaries (at least those are almost always fun!) and perhaps let myself be convinced that my fears are unfounded and there's tons of exciting stuff included. No pre-ordering this time, though.

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