Quoting: randylI'm playing through it casually. Overall, I like it.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm sure he'll be fine with the mechanics of the game - he's played a lot of challenging games already, and I can always take over for any tricky bits. It's moments of unexpected sadness that I'm wary of.

For example, we were watching Universe together a while ago. Pictures of stars, and planets, and interesting satellites, and Brian Cox wandering round the arse end of nowhere and it's all very jolly. "...Oh, and by the way, life will be gone forever when the sun explodes." Tears and existential dread before bedtime. That's the kind of thing I'd like to avoid before he's ready for it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I'm still waiting on my little one being old enough so that we can play through this together. I'm thinking maybe 7? If anyone that's played it has insight for guidance, that would be appreciated.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: tuubiThe 5.11 HWE kernels, as well as 5.13, are available in the kernel manager app. Are the HWE kernels installed by default on Ubuntu LTS?

In previous releases it was different for whether you were using the original iso or a later one - the .2 release and later would put you on the HWE kernel by default but the first two wouldn't. With 20.04 they switched it so that the installer would decide, regardless of iso, whether you should be on the HWE kernel or not; I don't know what method it uses to decide.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

QuoteWe now disable user-added PPAs, as they often cause upgrade issues for users.

I'm really surprised they weren't doing that before. Upstream Ubuntu has been disabling PPAs prior to release upgrades since PPAs were invented.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

QuoteWith this release you're getting Kernel 5.4, a packaging base of Ubuntu 20.04

That seems really weird. Most Ubuntu 20.04 users are going to be on 5.11 already because of Hardware Enablement. If you're going to go through the effort to make a new downstream release based on that, why wouldn't you pick up the newer supported kernel from upstream?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: M@GOidWhich would be a good thing. The ones I bought from them, were the only ones to survive under my mother and sister usage.

Yeah, we've got a couple of Anker external batteries here, and they're solid bits of kit.

Quoting: GuestThose bags are pretty ubiquitous, so it's not surprising to see Valve using them.

It's the same. Same material, same closing toggle, same label. They could just be using Anker's upstream bag manufacturer and getting someone else to make the power deelie, but why bother?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

The drawstring bag is exactly the same as the one that came with my Anker battery. I wouldn't be surprised if Valve have hit up Anker to provide the power cables.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quotethe addition of a microfiber cleaning cloth

I strongly suspect that the top model needs that cloth. Certainly other similar etched glass needs a specific type of cloth to avoid polishing away those expensive grooves.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

The linked blog post says

QuoteThis trait inherited from the early days of Clutter...

so it's been affecting X11 things, and

QuoteThis unthrottled event delivery only applies in the direction of Wayland clients

so they're only fixing it for Wayland. I don't know if that means it'll also be fixed for XWayland.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: ZlopezIt's sad to see that most of the big companies are giving more money to marketing than actual development. I understand that you need marketing so the market is aware of the product, but the product itself should have some quality and not only good advertisement.

I would say that if they spent less on marketing and more on making the actual game, it will be much better for their revenues. But I didn't saw any actual numbers, so it's just my opinion.

Sadly the data does show that good marketing leads to good sales, and that good games don't necessarily lead to good sales. There's quite a big analytics industry that's looked at it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments