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Pick up lots of kids games in the Humble Humongous Back To School Bundle
4 September 2021 at 3:25 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: fleskOne of them is even translated to Norwegian; Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds.
Swedish too!

(One of my first FLOSS contributions was sending in checksums for the data files from the Swedish dub to ScummVM!)

Developer of the cosmic-horror RPG 'Death Trash' shows off some sales per-platform
4 September 2021 at 11:43 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: TheRiddickHow long/big is this game meant to be? I've heard people say they beat the EA in around 4hrs which is ultra short even if its not full content yet! (heard EA was like 75% of the game).
The road map mentions these headlines:

* Story Chapter One (Early Access Start Content)
* Story Chapter Two (During Early Access)
* Story Chapter Three (For the full release of the game)

So I guess the content in EA is roughly 1/3 of the full game at the moment. The howlongtobeat.com entry for the game suggest 5-6 hours in the current state so something like the promised 20 hours for the full game do seem likely.

Linux continues to remain above 1% on the Steam Hardware Survey
2 September 2021 at 4:16 pm UTC

Quoting: posthum4nTo the moon!
What the cucumber! Over 1%!

Steam not working right on Arch Linux? It's an issue with FreeType and there's a fix
2 September 2021 at 4:03 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: DebianUser
Quoting: RaabenI kinda brace myself since some people love to point fingers at things like this and claim that Arch is a bad/buggy/difficult distro. I ran it for many years and something big like this happened maybe once or twice a year and always had a simple fix; it's darn solid. I am pretty sure I had more problems with my distro of choice's last upgrade than my entire Arch days..

I don't know Arch but tu put things into perspective, i'm using Debian, and they have broken grub two times this two last years (on stable), leaving users who have updated at the wrong time with an unbootable device without any warning (have to use another install or live cd, and reinstall grub on the disk).
Of course, this problem has been spotted in derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint...)
So yeah... sh** happens, even on the most stable distros (and on Windows too, of course).
Huh, do you have something weird there? I've been running stable for decades, and haven't had grub break. Also, I mean why would you reboot unless you've updated the kernel? :P
I'm not sure if DebianUser is thinking of the same bugs as I, but there where a couple of bugs over the last years where grub broke for some users.

One was if you were running a system without udev. Another where you ended up with an unbootable system if you upgraded grub non-interactively with an unknowingly broken configuration.

Both quite esoteric cases fortunately.

Super Woden GP looks like a promising upcoming top-down racer
2 September 2021 at 2:07 pm UTC

Quoting: leillo1975The game is now on Steam with a 40% discount at only 6.47€, and is really awesome. I think you Liam, must write about it.
Looks like a game that would be a good fit for the Steam Deck too!

Linux on the Framework DIY Laptop has been very popular
1 September 2021 at 8:59 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: buonoCan we replace the windows 'super key' :)
I usually hide mine with a small Debian swirl logo sticker!

Happy Birthday to Linux, 30 years strong
1 September 2021 at 8:11 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeNice, depends on the printer too. The HP that I had actually had 'chipped' ink cartridges, and it'd detect third party ones... talk about DRM for Printers....
That's just horrible.

I really thought better of HP considering their site for the Linux drivers is just a banner saying something like "Oh, Linux drivers? You know what, you can download them here, but you probably won't need to. They're already included in your distro."

Happy Birthday to Linux, 30 years strong
1 September 2021 at 6:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

I just buy the cheap big pack knock-off cartridges.

Funny though, the Windows drivers complain loudly about non-OEM cartridges. The Linux driver does not. We're clearly missing important features! I shall have to make an official complain.

Happy Birthday to Linux, 30 years strong
1 September 2021 at 4:22 pm UTC

Yeah, IPP Everywhere supposedly solves all these issues, but I haven't tried it for myself yet. People keep giving me their old "broken" printers so I never buy anything new.

ScummVM issues a call to action on testing for the next major version
1 September 2021 at 3:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

Very excited to see support for Little Big Adventure!