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Re-re-enable Bluetooth Wake for Steam Deck LCD

So…they enabled it, disabled it, re-enabled it, disabled it again, and are now re-enabling it for the second time? 🥴

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The duration does make things interesting legally. I mean, hypothetically there would be two avenues for going after OpenTTD: Copyright and Trademark. Copyright lasts forever but it's pretty specific . . . infringement requires verbatim copying of extensive amounts of stuff; the mere fact that you called it Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe, for instance, wouldn't be a copyright infringement, so it would depend how much specifically TTD stuff was still in the game. Trademark on the other hand is short duration and requires this sort of ongoing maintenance thing. OpenTTD would surely violate any trademarks involved, but the mere fact that it has existed all this time without being bothered could quite likely invalidate the trademark if I'm not mistaken. And it might have lapsed after all this time anyway. Not that the merits matter much when someone with money takes someone without money to court.

Probably better that everyone's playing nice.

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I highly recommend Chained Echoes for anyone who hasn't played it yet. SO GOOD.

For me, out of this list specifically, Cassette Beasts looks like it might be a fun Deck game ...!

Outside of that, from my wishlist & browsing:

• The Last Spell - turn based rpg - 90% off !!!


• Black Geyser - crpg - 50% off

I'm trying not to overdo it lol. My backlog isn't even a backlog anymore, it's a backforest

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Is this something the Flatpak could take advantage of?

I don't think I'll move away from Flatpak because it deals with litter inside the home dir (forcing everything under a ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam prefix; some games otherwise write saves and config files in random places), and Steam presumably won't try to prevent that when existing saves have to remain visible.

If it at least makes Steam easier to contain (with the embedded chromium properly sandboxed), it's good for security.

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From the picture, not my cup of tea, but I very much like this aspect of their FAQ:

The demo will also be updated later on to reflect the new standard, as we are planning to keep it available for download.

More developers need to do this instead of deactivating the demo when they go into early access or final release.

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D.O.R.F. has been on my wishlist since June 2023, says here on my wishlist. Why must you make me suffer, Liam? Why must you dangle it in front of me like that?

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Man this is awesome! People have been asking for this forever. I'm pumped for this to come out of beta!

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this rts looks amazing! Thank you for the rec, wishlisted :)

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Quoting: Geamandura

Quoting: tarmo888

Quoting: Nagezahn

Quoting: CharlieTheMadHatterAlso, don't forget that Atari has the legal power to shut down OpenTTD completely.

Do they? On what basis? I'm honestly curious, because this is a different game, and while the origin or the spiritual connection is obvious, there are so many games out there with clones that coexist. Just look at all the Minecraft-like games.

Because it's not different game, it's based on IP they own.

As long as OpenTTD doesn't redistribute or monetize TTD or include code output from reverse engineering TTD binaries they are untouchable.

Actually untouchable, or untouchable under the current US administration and court system?

Because they seem to side with corporations an awful lot these days...

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Quoting: Geppeto35Some returns about this game? I kept good memories about the gameplay of Desert Strike being a child.
Is it repetitive?

It resembles Desert Strike but is not a copy of it. Basically you are a mercenary flying missions for the good guys. And you can upgrade your helicopter and/or buy a better one with the profits of your missions.

It is a bit repetitive yes. But is not different from any other game where you do the same stuff in different scenarios, with increased opposition and better weapons.

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As someone who appreciates, but can't be arsed to play Slay the Spire often: Vampire Crawlers borders on mindless slop and that's exactly right.

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My kids love this game!

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Quoting: tarmo888

Quoting: Nagezahn

Quoting: CharlieTheMadHatterAlso, don't forget that Atari has the legal power to shut down OpenTTD completely.

Do they? On what basis? I'm honestly curious, because this is a different game, and while the origin or the spiritual connection is obvious, there are so many games out there with clones that coexist. Just look at all the Minecraft-like games.

Because it's not different game, it's based on IP they own.

As long as OpenTTD doesn't redistribute or monetize TTD or include code output from reverse engineering TTD binaries they are untouchable.

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The most frightening game in this selection is not The Medium, but 5D Chess.

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Wow, what a BANG!

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Quoting: vic-baythe issue with the new reload system, you just delete partially empty mags from the game instead of pocketing them for later. i think it should be fixed.

Yeah that's ideally what should happen, pocketing I mean. I understood why mags get deleted from existence in say, Battlefield 2142, but CS2 is a monumentally more modern game. They have the technology.

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Nice! Can't wait to get it :D

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Is this Valve counting to three... 😇

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Opus Magnum is quite tasty and visually pleasing. Looking forward to the DLC!

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Quoting: Nagezahn

Quoting: CharlieTheMadHatterAlso, don't forget that Atari has the legal power to shut down OpenTTD completely.

Do they? On what basis? I'm honestly curious, because this is a different game, and while the origin or the spiritual connection is obvious, there are so many games out there with clones that coexist. Just look at all the Minecraft-like games.

Because it's not different game, it's based on IP they own.

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US intellectual property law, and especially copyright law, have been quite difficult to apply toward software issues. The changing technological landscape and the short shelf life of code means that many of the protections built into the law don't seem to apply.

There also isn't a presumptive abandonment provision with a sensible duration to it, such as twenty years. There also isn't a provision like adverse possession in property law, where you lose the rights if someone openly uses your work but you don't enforce your rights.

And, lastly, the legal costs for enforcing or defending intellectual property cases is huge. There is no equivalent of "small claims court" that could provide an adjudication on the rights.

So much of US law has its roots in English civil law, especially property law, and its hoary fingers continue to grip legal precedent. Huge swaths of intellectual property law need to be revised, but as you can imagine, not only do experts disagree what that should look like, but moneyed interests prefer that things stay the same.

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Of course they owe a lot to the original TTD.

They don't owe jackshit to Atari.

It should be criminal to be able to buy the "rights" to a game that's more than 30 years old and start charging people for it just because you're a corporation that can afford to buy so-called Intellectual Property.

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I wonder if GNOME will ever have a stable API for extensions so they don't break every other update. It would also be neat if they could merge settings, tweaks, and gconf into a single application so users don't have to scour around quite as much for the setting they want to change (especially if they want to set the keyboard shortcuts to something that makes a lick of sense). I'll probably always remain a KDE fan first and foremost (menu bars >>> hamburger menus), but having those two issues solved would make GNOME a lot more attractive for me.

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worky now but ...

bwrap: execvp /usr/lib/pressure-vessel/from-host/libexec/steam-runtime-tools-0/pv-adverb: Too many levels of symbolic links

its the application tray that is broken.

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Finally! They had controller support in the Switch version 3 years ago, but were dragging their feet on having the same in their PC version.

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No worky for me :( I am using flatpak to devorce away from the frequent breakage with ~arch gentoo

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Quoting: CharlieTheMadHatterAlso, don't forget that Atari has the legal power to shut down OpenTTD completely.

Do they? On what basis? I'm honestly curious, because this is a different game, and while the origin or the spiritual connection is obvious, there are so many games out there with clones that coexist. Just look at all the Minecraft-like games.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: scaineThis sounds absolutely incredible. If they've genuinely created intra-distro consistency, that's a HUGE win for Linux as a gaming platform. Now, Valve, what are you going to do about that shitty kernel-level-anticheat problem?

Thinking on this somewhat. Perhaps this could be a way towards it. Have everyone run Steam inside a container, Valve can verify nothing in the container has changed. Perhaps this could help towards ensuring a secure environment?

Interesting thought. As it is, it's not enough, as external programs can still poke at he memory and code. But add to that encrypted memory and secure attestation (SGX enclave verifying the hash of the code, memory decryption keys only available inside the enclave), and it could be pretty bullet proof, no need for a kernel driver, "just" a recent CPU with recent microcode (and hopefully you will not be locked out of your game just because a security bug has been found for your CPU model).

I don't like this idea in general (imagine your bank wanting you to use an approved web browser on an approved OS), but I could see it working for anti-cheat in games. I wonder what the perf impact would be. And of course, it would require cooperation from anti-cheat providers.

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Quoting: tgurrYou probably still need to install 32bit graphics driver on your host for as long as you want to play 32bit native games. Maybe they could add an option like "Always run the windows version of the game (through Proton) for games which only have a 32bit native version" to be able to really get rid of the need to have to have 32bit libs installed. As (old) 32bit native games won't magically go away any time soon - if ever.

Well, it sounds like it's time for a new API compatibility layer, then ;)
Couldn't a shim work? A 32-bit library that calls into a 64-bit driver. Or would it require additional IPC mechanisms & overhead?

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"Female-fronted games"... I got the wrong idea for a moment 😂 Cancel me now 😊

All these sales and bundles later and I've hardly bought any games. There was a time when I got excited for new games but I've accumulated so many I haven't yet played, it's crazy.

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