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Quoting: _wojtekAlso: all those Firefox "forks" would probably cease to exist once Firefox is gone so keep that in mind…

Of course, but I'd say the odds Firefox being gone are pretty slim. Plus, there will always be other options. I'm glad you're happy with Firefox. That doesn't mean others can't disagree with the way Mozilla does things. That is the reason for forks. Linux Mint exists because not all users agree with Ubuntu's focus or direction. Vivaldi exists because there are those that don't like Google's focus on advertising and data-harvesting. There are (and should be) options for everyone.

Keep in mind that Firefox won't be around once Firefox is gone, either... 😏

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Nice :) Hoping this release was what the cachy maintainers were waiting for ... so I can get on 26 and try out that sweet rt stuff people have been talking about for forever

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Nope, doesn't change a thing... The second I'm asked to verify my identity for social media - even an account where I use my actual name - the second I delete said account.

The Internet should be a place of Free Speech without fear or persecution; not a bucket full of data to harvest, where people can be persecuted if they choose to share their opinions, which is often the case (irrespective of your views)(this of course, is why a lot of people hide behind a screen name).

I am old enough to remember the world before the Internet; if I need to go without some or all of it, I feel confident that I'll be just fine.

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Quoting: ItsRainingSomewhereI started off with Lutris for my GOG needs. For the most part it worked fine but I would have issues with certain games failing to install due to the install scripts that get used. I eventually tried Heroic and have had no issues, both on my Steam Deck and on my Fedora KDE machines.

I'm glad there is the choice of both for folks but Heroic gets my vote for a reliable and simple GOG installer.

I agree. Lutris is far more versatile but Heroic is by far the more polished experience. Plus having support for GOG cloud saves so I can play between my desktop and Steam Deck is a huge point in Heroics favor as well.

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I'm curious what the issue is with that? It's so they can ensure people actually buy games they want and actually redeem them, instead of sucking up cheap keys to put up on a reseller.

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Quoting: memvirusshould have not upgraded.. can I install the 0.5.20 version of lutris again via flatpak?

You can install specific versions of packages with both apt and flatpak.

With flatpak you can find all available versions (or commits) of Lutris with the command:
flatpak remote-info --log flathub net.lutris.Lutris

Copy the commit hash for the version you want to install, then run:
flatpak update --commit=[commit hash] [app id]

Or, just copy-paste the following into your terminal to roll back to 0.5.20, at your own risk because I haven't tested it:
flatpak update --commit=19516c28a17c7beb7dd3505322ee451eb4ae2be55ce7a8a61a99487e81d2ff45 net.lutris.Lutris

For what it's worth, the 0.5.22 deb from the Lutris github works fine for me on Mint.

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Quoting: LampWe already have ID verification sorted out digitally in Sweden without ever giving the service our ID, we rely on a thing called "BankID" that is like a 2 step verification with an app on our phone
First we have our identity verified at the bank with a valid ID like a drivers license, passport etc, get a BankID token connected to our person verified by the bank and the state, this has been a thing for many years now

Using this for discord would sort of work like this: Discord could ask for you to verify your age using the BankID api, I scan the QR code with my phone, use my secret code on the app to verify that I am who I say I am, the BankID system verifies my the token on my phone and identity in their system in conjunction with the code I typed in, and then tells Discord that yes, this person is an adult and who they say they are through a trusted system
Discord never needs to see my ID, they never get any more info than needed, only that yes, I am of adult age, let me use the system

At least that is how I think it would work

Sadly I have started seeing whispers from (so far very screw-loosey sources) that BankID does have Palantir and Pegasus code in their newer versions of the code. (Some unhinged dude did some reverser engineering on the binary blob, not very spread confirms yet)

But why not, they law enforcement uses it, why wouldnt the private banking sector use such tools?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOr is it an older sibling that died and is being resurrected?

You're thinking original Steam Machine buried in the nearest pet sematary way back in 2018 lumbered back into Valve HQ? If so, let's hope sometimes, dead isn't better... 😜

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Happy four year SteamDeck!

Been playing on mine more or less daily since I got it three years ago! 😃

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Quoting: Molton Brownfingers crossed they can get the younger sibling out this year at a decent price.

Here's an odd question: Is the Steam Machine a younger sibling? Or is it an older sibling that died and is being resurrected?

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All these people talking Swedish, Finnish, EU solutions . . . don't you non-North Americans realize that doing verification without letting Palantir et al. spy on you is socialism?!

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Quoting: AsciiWolf"Connect Your Steam Account

To purchase Steam game collections, you need to connect your Steam account for verification purposes."

Seriously?

I won't be doing that. Didn't Humble try something like this years ago?

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Fluxer? Shouldn't we focus on making matrix the decentralized goto place for former discord users? I don't think we need a reimventuon from scratch once again.

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Quoting: CaldathrasThat's how Flatpak works. All supporting "tools" have to be in Flatpak as well. While more knowledgeable types might disagree with my simplification, Flatpak is essentially like running an operating system on top of your base operating system. That's why I stopped using flatpaks. The extra space they eat up annoys me. I prefer to stick with the repositories, AppImage files or downloadable installers (.deb, tarballs, etc.),

You'll probably have to install a Flatpak version of GOverlay as well. (FYI, GOverlay is also available in an AppImage. It works with my apt version of Mangohud -- I don't know if it will work with the Flatpak version.)

Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your pulseaudio latency fix issue. It could be a Flatpak container permissions issue or it could be something else.

thank you very much!
I just can't find a pulseaudio version for flatpak.. and also made sure that pulseaudio socket is activated for lutris in flatseal...

anyway, I have a bigger problem now :S :(
after updating lutris via flatpak update to 0.5.21 it is now not working anymore, at all, not even starting and when

flatpak run net.lutris.Lutris

it shows me:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/bin/lutris", line 68, in <module>
from lutris.gui.application import LutrisApplication
File "/app/lib/python3.13/site-packages/lutris/gui/application.py", line 37, in <module>
from lutris.api import get_runners, parse_installer_url
File "/app/lib/python3.13/site-packages/lutris/api.py", line 20, in <module>
from lutris.util import http, system
File "/app/lib/python3.13/site-packages/lutris/util/http.py", line 41, in <module>
class Request:
...<160 lines>...
return ""
File "/app/lib/python3.13/site-packages/lutris/util/http.py", line 46, in Request
stop_request: threading.Event = None,
^^^^^^^^^
NameError: name 'threading' is not defined. Did you forget to import 'threading'?

also after uninstalling the flatpak lutris and installing it again, still the same..

should have not upgraded.. can I install the 0.5.20 version of lutris again via flatpak?

*EDIT:
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okay, seems to be no problem on my end, phew
https://github.com/flathub/net.lutris.Lutris/issues/523
https://github.com/lutris/lutris/issues/6497

but when trying to rollback flatpak lutris (after figuring it out)
sudo flatpak update --commit=19516c28a17c7beb7dd3505322ee451eb4ae2be55ce7a8a61a99487e81d2ff45 net.lutris.Lutris
it just tells me I have net.lutris.Lutris not installed
I guess I need to wait for 0.5.22
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also I have a problem with nvidia-driver-580 after it has been automatically upgraded via sudo apt upgrade
but it seems like I just cannot install anything else anymore, if I do sudo apt install nvidia-driver-565 (which was working amazing for me) it just installs 580.........

this kinda sucks, I feel like I have no control over my linux..

are there better options for software version control?
I also like just backing up .deb of different versions.. is this the best practice?
can one downgrade flatpaks?

or do I need another distro? maybe NixOS? or what can you guys recommend?

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Quoting: geckofish52Just to add another voice here...

I'm happy to see responsiveness to the community and what seems to be a measured middle ground. I've been a happy Firefox user for a long time and will continue to do so.

Syncing my browser data across devices and powerful extensions on Linux + Android, love it.

This, very much this. For better or for worse AI is here to stay with us so adding it here and there is not "the end of the world", especially now with global killswitch.

It seems that there is no pleasing of some but Mozilla/Firefox has to care about a broader audience than a tiny yet super vocal minority.

Also: all those Firefox "forks" would probably cease to exist once Firefox is gone so keep that in mind…

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"Connect Your Steam Account

To purchase Steam game collections, you need to connect your Steam account for verification purposes."

Seriously?

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I don't think I would be gaming on Linux without the SteamDeck. Not only that Have 4+ Linux desktop systems in the house. Happy birthday. fingers crossed they can get the younger sibling out this year at a decent price.

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At this point it's a standard QOL feature for Square ports. Ideally, you flip that on to avoid excessive encounters, but leave it off otherwise. Hacky, but does the job.

Suikoden had a very elegant solution for this back in the day: if you moved in a perfectly straight line (i.e. "I know exactly where I'm going") you'd get fewer encounters along the way. I think the rate lowered further the longer you stuck to that straight line. It's basically been a solved, but widely ignored problem since the 90s.

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Been playing mine pretty much nonstop since I got it on the sale last year

It really is a fantastic little device, now I really want an oled model lol

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Quoting: StellaI'm looking forward to 6.6.6😆

We need to start a petition for a 2026-06-06 release date! 😈

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Happy Linux Gaming Day everybody! 🥰

Established in 2022:

Quoting: Liam DaweI'm also putting a flag down into February 25 (the Steam Deck release date) as Linux Gaming Day every year.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/2022-is-officially-the-year-of-linux-gaming/

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I own Steam Deck LCD and it is great, but I prefer PC mode. I buy Vampire Survivors and Hollow Knight: Silk Song lately and try to find time to play.

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On Polish WWW there are information, that RAM prices are get smaller now.

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Best gaming device since the original Switch (that I actually sold after purchasing the Deck)

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I'm looking forward to 6.6.6😆

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Quoting: ItsRainingSomewhere

There's fixes for the Discover software centre with Flatpaks

I've come across random weird issues with this on my Fedora KDE boxes. Sometimes the Flathub source is listed under Settings, sometimes its not, sometimes its not listed and packages still update normally. It's hit or miss. Noticed it first on 6.5, but seems to be better/normal/fixed now on 6.6.

What distro are you on? The issue I had with any distro that wasn't Arch-based was that Plasma was typically at least one major version out of date! Even Siduction, which is based on Debian Sid, tended to be months behind the release schedule.

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I like the idea of no having random encounters... but how are the story event battles adapting to user level? Or do you level per story event battle and go from 5 to 15 in one go all of a sudden?

As for the crappy port Square Enix has done... What a shame, really.

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Valve has played a huge service in bringing Linux validity into the consumer mind... love to see it!

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I think we might see an ARM based Steam Deck 2. No need for 64gb of ram when it's baked into the cpu and, thus 10x faster. As an example, the Snapdragon 8 nails it quite well, from what I've seen. I wonder what Valve could do with a custom chip, if they decide to follow the Apple path.

Still, there is the storage issue.

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I started off with Lutris for my GOG needs. For the most part it worked fine but I would have issues with certain games failing to install due to the install scripts that get used. I eventually tried Heroic and have had no issues, both on my Steam Deck and on my Fedora KDE machines.

I'm glad there is the choice of both for folks but Heroic gets my vote for a reliable and simple GOG installer.

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