I read that Pathologic 2 is a sequel and a remaster at the same time somehow and you should still play both? Would you recommend starting with 1 or 2 for a newcomer?

Bought part 1 and 2 recently. Didn’t have a chance to play it yet but heard good things about it.

I mean, it’s serviceable if all you do is gaming

You answered your own question. For some devices, gaming is all they need to do.

It feels as if Steam is doing everything in its power to keep me from leaving it and punishes me for daring to try

Does it? EmuDeck, Heroic and Lutris integrate directly into Steam. With a single click you can add a shortcut in your Steam library. Same goes for adding any desktop shortcut with a right click.

I’m not sure how they can make it any easier unless somebody like GOG bothers to do some work themselves.

The solution Valve is seemingly hoping for is that, by disclosing kernel-level anti-cheat on the store page, such a solution becomes poison in the marketplace and developers choose a different one.

Honestly, I wish they were more aggressive with it. Make the warning banners about kernel-level anti-cheat bright red and put it right above the purchase button like the “needs VR headset” warning.

You need to convert from blinks per square feet to metric first.

I’m 95% there, I just need Docker Swarm to support IPv6 without breaking as soon as it is enabled.

That’s disappointing, Discover is pretty neat.

Think I can’t steer left better than you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC9Zi1Fpq1Y

Isn’t it running plain KDE? If so, Discover is included.

Isn’t Foundry just a website? What’s stopping you from putting a browser window on your second monitor?

Doesn’t that impact your view of the screen?

Depends on the sensitivity you configure, usually you only tilt a few degress. I do prefer it on a Dualsense controller though with no display attached to the controller.

Do you use it in hectic situations - like doom etc? Or is it better for sniping and stuff where you have time to aim?

Usually for instances where I have time to aim. I have seen quite a few people who are really good with the trackpad but I’m more of a mouse or gyro control guy.

Trackpad rules in strategy games though.

I guess trackpad aim is just using the pads instead of the joystick?

You can combine as well. I usually use the stick on the left hand and the trackpad on the right one. You can also go back and forth while playing.

does that require tilting the device?

Yep, you can set it to activate only if your finger is resting on the right joystick. Very useful for precise movement, just bring the camera in an approximate direction with the stick and do the rest with the gyro control.

For the more popular games there’s usually a few community profiles you can download and try before messing with Steam Input yourself.

It’s a bit frustrating how crap I am at gaming, particularly with shooters.

Since you have a Steam Deck, did you experiment with gyro and trackpad aim? I suck at controller aiming as well but that makes it so much easier.

FYI, it’s 35€ on green man gaming right now.

I never used gamescope on Xorg, so not sure.

btrfs has been the default file system for Fedora Workstation since Fedora 33 so not much reason to not use it.

Do you happen to know if you still need the HDR layer when using Wayland directly? I know gamescope didn’t require it for a while now but I never saw anything about it for Wine.

Roomba? It takes less time to just vacuum the place than it does for the fucking vacuum to realize it’s been humping the same chair leg for most of its battery charge.

If you are willing to put in some work, Valetudo is fantastic: https://valetudo.cloud/

My two robot vacuums have been working for 5 years with no intervention other than emptying the bin every 2 weeks and dusting off the sensors when it complains.

Assistants?

Same as above, if you are willing to put in some work, Home Assistant includes a voice assistant and they ship devices now with everything preinstalled so you can plug in and go: https://www.home-assistant.io/green/

Not really, the only wifi devices are phones and IoT.

1000 hours in Alan Wake is impressive. I assume you played part 2?