Whaaat that’s crazy interesting! Thanks for replying!

I know there’s been a lot of progress made with Monado on these units but the controllers are still no-go from my understanding. Is he using the controllers or just the HMD? :O

I might just have to spend a weekend figuring out how to build Monado hahaha.

After that huge “Salt Typhoon” hack against major telecoms, you’d think people would take “security nightmare” a little more seriously!

Truth is though, your average Valorant/League/Whatever player probably isn’t even aware of it running when they smash through ok -> ok -> agree -> yep -> accept -> accept -> ok -> play.

Any kernel-level anything connected to major corporate servers should be scary and taboo, but except for the alarm-raisers who know what they’re talking about, most people don’t even understand the implications.

I’m glad Steam is at least marking a big “This game requires kernel level anti cheat” on store pages now. It looks ugly, possibly scary, so maybe that’ll raise some awareness and make developers not want to go with it.

“Cant have those TenCent CCP botnets sniffing the same customers WE’RE sniffing! Get outta here!”

–M$, prolly lol

Out of sheer curiosity is he using a fancy Steam VR kit like an HTC Vive or something?

I’ve fully switched over to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed at this point but I’m so bummed out my Samsung Odyssey is relying on heroic support from Monaco dev(s?) to even have a hope of it running.

But Windows is killing WMR too and they don’t care, so OS really isn’t an issue here. I’m keeping my Win10 partition there getting dusty though, because it still has WMR on it. =\

Man that’s sad, because I was considering it just because it had a stronger “Network Effect” than Mastodon.

That FOMO is pretty real though. These multiplayer service games are a flash in the pan sometimes, where once their heyday is over, they become “Hey remember that old game?” and there might be some reverse-engineered private servers running from like, Lithuania, with 4 people online after that lol.

I feel this pretty hard with Helldivers 2. I had a BLAST with the first game! Loved it! And apparently this one is good too!

But Sony is determined to be Sony, and it’s got kernel-level requirements, so nope, I’m missing out. It does suck, because before all the drama I really looked forward to it. It genuinely looks fun. I see my friends playing it. Oh well.

Watching Arcane made me almost wanna fire up League of Legends again, but once they announced their anti-cheat, I quit forever. (Probably for the best, let’s be honest lol.)

So yeah with an OS, I think people feel like some killer app will come out and if they’re not running a system it was tailor-made for, they’ll miss out on it entirely.

For all my disc games or other just standalone .EXE stuff, Bottles has been nothing short of mind-blowing.

I’d say the Flatpak might be your best bet if you’re on a rolling distro.

My only other tip is to make sure you set your Bottles directory to wherever your storage partition is, as it’d probably fill up your /home by default pretty quick!

If I recall Intel’s GPUs are a little slimmer right? But I’ve heard middling results with compatibility and such.

The Steam controller 2 will be releasing soon

I think I’ve just been avoiding news in general for a while. This is GREAT to hear! I still love my OG Steam Controller. Great little piece of hardware.

I notice a lot of comments here saying “Hey go live your life now! Pick up that guitar or paintbrush or dancing shoes or whatever! Live for you!” And I agree. I often struggle with these existential thoughts.

But something they might leave out is that it’s HARD.

Following your own path can be unpredictable, and meandering, and you need to know who to trust and lean on them, and let them lean on you.

It can be a one-move-to-the-next kind of existing without that facade of “predictability” a society-prescribed life will get you. The good news is that stability is a myth anyway, so why not see it for what it really is?

I was treading water in a soul-destroying job for almost a decade when I finally saw the opportunity to strike out for myself, and I ran for it. My wife was promoted to a position that paid more and she didn’t hate it, so we discussed it and I quit, and took on more household duties and put my efforts towards finally becoming a 3D artist.

It’s been like a year+ and I still haven’t “made it” yet! It’s scary! But I’ve gotten some gigs! I’m still slow, and not as wildly creative as I’d like to be, but I do random labor on the side and try to keep my costs as low as possible. But she’s happier with how not-depressed I am, and I’ve made so much progress more than I ever would have otherwise.

Are we even able to start saving for retirement? Not even close! But I’m betting on myself and in the process I get a lot more time well-spent with the person I love.

No, not everyone is gonna have these opportunities or privileges, I know. But keep looking, talk to people, DO THE WORK instead of just talking about it. Help people! Let people help you! There will be some foothold for you somewhere.

And if you gotta pull some shifts at a coffee shop to keep the lights on there’s no shame in that! And you’re gonna have people who think you’re crazy and try to pull you back into the pot with the other cranky crabs because you’re there reminding them that they could’ve done something with their lives too.

My point is, taking charge of your life instead of asking permission from various gatekeepers is HARD. You might follow your dreams and find out you suck at it. The dream might even change at some point.

But it’s worth doing. Because what’s the alternative?

Lord knows if the worst were to happen, your boss will be filling your job before your body is cold. So where is your effort, energy, discipline, talents, love, best spent?

As Bruce Lee once said: “Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

I’d add, “one worth living.”

I made a vow to myself long ago, because this world’s warped ideals tend to creep up on you when you’re not looking.

I often recite that vow any time someone dear to me apologizes for something like “taking up [my] time.”

I tell them that I vowed to myself that I woud never, ever, regret time spent in good company. Even if it might have been a little inconvenient for whatever reason. We were put here to love thy neighbor, not to hustle and hoard.

Simple as that. It’s kept me from losing the picture so far.

Makes perfect sense. It’s like having $999,999,999.99 in a management game.

It doesn’t go above that, but if you buy a ton of assets and set them down, it’ll probably climb right back up there to the limit again at some point.

You still have a billion bucks to do whatever with.

Although yeah, businesses routinely buy things for billions (like acquiring Minecraft? Hah) So they’d find some clever way of putting it all in some kind of “company trust” or something, so they don’t have it as an individual.

But I’m no lawyer. I still think having it on the books would be better than not, if it went to healthcare and education instead of funneling into the defense industry, that is…

By 2028 this may be possible idk.

Hey, that means a lot. Thanks! :)

So they leave two quarters and a nickel.

Source: was a waiter.

Ah look at the cute little Viewsonic birds on the upper left. :D

Rocking Tumbleweed too!

• On Nvidia!
• With multiple displays at different refresh rates.
• On Wayland!

Right now they only update to the “stable” Nvidia drivers branch in the repos, so I had to install the 565.71 drivers manually via the run file from Nvidia’s website to fix an issue with variable sync. (Windows without Wayland support would strobe solid black randomly. Yikes!)

The only annoyance is having to reinstall the driver from terminal any time the kernel updates. (Protip: just make a drivers folder in your /home folder to easily get to it from the terminal.)

This is referred to as “the hard way”, but once you get it set up once it’s really just ls /drivers/nvidia, run it, and then enter -> enter -> enter -> enter -> reboot -> enjoy.

Otherwise, between Steam, Heroic Launcher (for GoG), Lutris (for EA), and Bottles (everything else / standalone games, disc games, etc), I can play pretty much anything I want! and it runs gloriously! (Be sure to get ProtonUp-Qt to get better Proton versions)

I primarily spend most of my time in Blender, but games work beautifully. Plasma 6 is just awesome as well. My win10 install is getting so dusty right now, and I actually made the jump because it kept Bluescreening on Vermintide 2, and refused to “refresh this system” because “Can’t. Sorry.”

My only thing on the wishlist is for my WMR-baser VR kit to work in Linux… maybe that’ll happen and maybe it won’t. Otherwise, I LOVE Tumbleweed.

Automatic rollbacks with Snapper and BTRFS have been wonderful too.

(If any of this sounds like rambling lingo please feel free to ask and I can clarify. ❤️)

You’re right, unwarranted doorkicking for unconstitutional search and seizure is very unlikely, thankfully.

I think dem-liberals have basically just used gun reform as a contrast to separate them from their opposition, but it’s had the side effect of giving many working class folks the false sense that the State is responsible for protecting them. The fringe-right neighbor-hating hyper-individualists have co-opted almost the entire narrative around the 2A conversation, and it sucks.

Years of history of armed labor unions and working class heroes unremembered, the fruit of their sacrifice handed over willingly by ignorant descendants. It’s tragic.

I used to be a lot more of a gun nut when I was younger. Now, I see them as an unfortunate necessity in an embattled, dark world, and nothing more.

I wish ammo hadn’t gotten so expensive though.

Yes! Every time I start to think “Hey maybe I should stock up a little…”

There go the friggin’ preppers using their midlife crisis money to clear out the shelves of anything but the most obscure cartridges.

Honestly? I often ponder this. It’s amusing when you consider how enamored we are with bosoms.

I’ve heard it described that “Woman is the most beautiful shape in the human consciousness.” And that stuck with me.

My wife often catches me gawking and thinks it’s weird but I’m just like “You’re just amazing. All of you. Everything about you.” I feel like an idiot because I can’t explain what the heck I actually mean.

It’s just hard to fathom how a single being can be so… naturally aesthetic!

Women are just awesome. As a visual artist myself, I totally understand the compulsion to depict cute/pretty/happy/sexy ladies all the time. Heck, some artists do this exclusively. Variety is the spice of life, artists, but I get it. 😂

I think we’re coded to enjoy rounded elegant shapes, but there’s something enchanting about femininity as a whole, and boobs and butts signal “feminine!!” to our brains.

Also I’d say size and such really doesn’t matter. I think the really fascinating thing is the sheer variety, to the point they’re unique to the woman as an individual person. And it has nothing to do with biological essentialism! (Tiny boobs are just as good at feeding young as ginormous ones)

It’s also a bit cultural, I think. They’re so obvious, yet hidden in polite company. So seeing them exposed feels like you have an intimate window into this person’s world, and you feel special for the privilege, I suppose.

Lol now I feel like a weirdo, typing this all out. Does that help? LOL

Edited: Made my reply at root level instead of piggybacking yours with a ton of paragraphs. :p

They were gonna but the corporate necromancer was out of network.

Just kidding that’d be way too much effort for how they see human lives. They were likely hitting up LinkdIn before the body was cold.