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Quoting: StellaIts a cool game but i lost interest after i could not beat Fungus on normal difficulty after trying at least 7 times. It was just to difficult for me and was blocking progression to all the other pathogens.

Yes, I agree, Fungus is probably the hardest one, and least fun, of all types

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Thank you for your response.

Quoting: HamishThe changelog just mentions it was "rebuilt using futureproof libraries" so I don't think there were any internal bug fixes and the newer libraries might actually be counterproductive on a retro system.

It's still a commercial game, and I don't know what they fixed with many of these patches. You can't access a bug tracker anymore, and it's one of the companies that tested their games on much older systems. You can see the software requirements, which aren't demanding.

I understand that you don't want modern features released many years later, and I played older versions of games myself for fun. However, it could be an interesting tidbit for other users if you want to include it.

I think it's still the retro version of the game if LGP created patches for older systems. Of course, they did it many years after releasing it.

Quoting: HamishIt reminds me of when I tried installing my Desura version of the Penumbra Collection on a period system that did not have SDL 2 built for it. The original binaries would have ran fine but not the update.

I had to upgrade my system to play the first version of Penumbra many years ago. Some companies focus only on the current distributions, which is bad.

I played some other games when the installer was much more modern than the game.

I won't reveal any details because it could be a subject for your articles. For example, I played the LGP game from 2005 on a Linux distribution from 2003, and the other one was from 2009 running on a system from 2006 with patches from 2012.

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Switched to librewolf today.

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i have been using firefox since it was netscape... ok i skiped firebird, but im pretty sure i use it since the version 1.0 or close to it.
now i think i will ditch it for good.

so long and thanks for all the fish.

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So, Ive been testing Brave and Vivaldi and both seem usable and fast, but I read where Brave is more open source.

Are either of these better than the other? are there better options out there?

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Don't take this game lightly. I played it on mobile awhile back, and after 15 minutes, I fugued out, and woke up 3 days later in some seedy motel in Philedelphia with a dead sheep and a bunch of headless Barbie dolls surrounding me.

I dunno what happened, but it was probably the funnest 3 days of my life.

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But it can easily be turned off....if you root around in about:config that the system explicitly tells you *not* to do and change a bunch of stuff. This will be enough of a barrier to stop most people from doing it, particularly the less technical minded.

As someone on Mastodon said, "I don't want a virus on my hard drive even if it's turned off".

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You lost me at MOBA. lol

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I already said it in the past - Mozilla would LOVE to be Google instead of just being unofficial Google subsidiary IF they had the chance.

People thought just because they're the non-Chromium alternative that they're noble, forgetting ALL the stuff they did or tried to do for the last ten years.

I never forgot nor forgive the Mr. Robot fiasco.

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Opt-out or opt-in won't matter much if it's rife with vulnerabilities.

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I really hope the AI crash comes soon. Cannot believe this anymore...

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Quoting: emphy

Quoting: KimyrielleDid anyone read that before reaching for the pitchforks?

AI should always be a choice

Who cares as long as it's optional, really?

The people who understand that mozilla likes to bury such "choices" under dark patterns and/or hard to find, undocumented, settings.

Can always ask the AI how to turn it off. :p

Also, maybe it's just me, but as a person used to Android smartphones and the scavenger hunts it usually takes to find settings Google doesn't want you to change, I don't find Mozilla's dark patters particularly dark. I guess everything is relative.

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Its a cool game but i lost interest after i could not beat Fungus on normal difficulty after trying at least 7 times. It was just to difficult for me and was blocking progression to all the other pathogens.

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So a browser requiring tons of RAM to run AI locally, but unable to do so because RAM prices skyrocketed to run AI remotely.

What a time to be alive...

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Quoting: snowI installed Librefow a few months ago in my main pc

Librefowl is a much better name than Librewolf ngl

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The Force Engine Roadmap:

Towards Version 2.0
Estimated Release: Late 2025
Support for enhanced features from Outlaws in the editor and in Dark Forces mods (such as slopes).
Outlaws editor support.
Outlaws single player support in TFE.
Outlaws multi-player support in TFE

So hopefully soon...

https://theforceengine.github.io/Roadmap.html

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Already a free expansion?! Great I guess! 😄

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Tired of this shit...

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Quoting: KimyrielleDid anyone read that before reaching for the pitchforks?

AI should always be a choice

Who cares as long as it's optional, really?

The people who understand that mozilla likes to bury such "choices" under dark patterns and/or hard to find, undocumented, settings.

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I'm tired (of cards), boss.

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Not much of a surprise, Fx has been shit for years.

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Quoting: DevlinI would agree with the "number of users" problem if they only had support for Windows, but they support MacOS too, I don´t think that the number of Linux users are so far behind those on MacO

I agree, I think the reason is mostly historic. They added macOS support when Linux gaming was indeed smaller. Today I'd argue Linux gaming is way bigger than macOS gaming.

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Perhaps we can use AI to program a completely normal web browser?

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Quoting: ShmerlI buy games only on GOG lately. I wish it was bigger. Catch 22 creates a problem that their Linux users focus is very minimal, since Linux users are only a small part of their total user base that's already quite smaller than Steam's. That doesn't give them a lot of incentives to back efforts like Galaxy for Linux, which is easy to understand.

The other side of it are developers like Hellish Quart's, who pull their games from GOG, saying that all their users are on Steam. It's very annoying for actual GOG users.

I would agree with the "number of users" problem if they only had support for Windows, but they support MacOS too, I don´t think that the number of Linux users are so far behind those on MacOS, if we go by Steam numbers they are even ahead, although I understand that things like the Steam Deck might increase the number of Linux users there, but event taking that into consideration I don´t think that the difference is so big to justify that.

And if we go with the GOG stated goal of "DRM free" games I'm sure that the average Linux user is much more interested on that difference from Steam than someone that uses Apple's ecosystem to chose it over the alternatives.

Right now there are 3214 MacOS games and 2549 Linux ones filtering on their website, if we exclude newer games that support the former but don´t have official support for Linux that would be even less, and if we add games that run through Proton on Linux we would have more Linux executable games on GOG that MacOS ones. I run quite a few "Windows only" games from GOG using Heroic.

They probably cannot do things like maintaining Proton, and much less building something like the Steam Deck, but they could delegate some support to the community collaborating with projects like ProtonDB or Heroic to mention some of them, I don´t think that anyone is asking them to be Proton maintainers as Valve, and Linux users are already used to rely on the community even for Steam verified games.

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Did anyone read that before reaching for the pitchforks?

AI should always be a choice

Who cares as long as it's optional, really?

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Being able to turn it off isn't good enough. Companies pay undisclosed millions of dollars on a regular basis in order to become the default option in software. If that didn't do anything to create engagement, they wouldn't be spending money and time to make it opt out instead of opt in.

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AI AI AI Everything is becoming AI
And all I can say is Why...AI? While letting out a big Sigh, because again it's about AI.
So now I have something else to Try because of this freaking AI.
When will the time come when this all reveals as a big Lie?
Please let this AI be blown out of the sky.
So I can get cheap memory again from Best Buy.

The end.
Not made with AI.
But it will probably be ripped by it.

😭

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Quoting: toru9999about:config
browser.ml.enable -> false
problem solved

Just checked, this is the default in Librewolf. I switched to it a few months ago, and it was relatively painless.

I've also got Pale Moon, dillo, and NetSurf installed. The last two are really no more useful than lynx, but work well with older websites that don't use javascript/html5.

Pale Moon I keep around for their forks of 3.X (multi-threaded, choose my-own-blasted-destination-directory) downthemall and flashgot (no modern Firefox equivalent, as even VideoDownloadHelper just discontinued their companion app). My old browsing flow made heavy use of both, before WebExtensions ruined that. The forums aren't very welcoming, but the browser works "fine".

Chromium I only use for gmail and shopping. Manifest V3 should burn.

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IF YOU ARE NOT THE CUSTOMER YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.

YU WILL UZ ZE AI AN YU VILL ZIKE ITZ

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