KDE’s Dolphin (a file explorer) can show previews of PDF files.

I didn’t read all that. But you should use Sunshine and Moonlight. I’ve had nothing but trouble with Steam’s remote play.

No idea about their storage boxes. But I’ve rented dedicated servers from them for a long time. Both as a corporate and private customer. Never had a problem. Support was always great. Sometimes even Mr Hetzner himself would step in.

Isn’t one of Cloudflare’s biggest strengths that they have a shitton of servers around the world and can thus provide DDOS resilient caching?

Having a shitton of servers is kind of the antithesis of self hosting.

Definitely keep it simple for the first game. A Smash like was recommended in the other thread. I think that’s a fantastic idea. Start with a small roster of two characters and one stage and improve from there.

Knowing Roblox it will probably allow adults to send unfiltered lewd messages to children…

I back up all user data, for me that’s some folders in /var, all of /etc (don’t need everything, but it’s small enough), mysqldumps and pgsqldumps of my databases and the output of dpkg --get-selections. And the backup script itself.

Everything is rsynced to a server in another location.

I want to switch to Borg backup but haven’t found the time yet.

HDMI-CEC seems to be currently unsupported. So you won’t be able to use your TV’s remote yet.

Nice! The revival is further along than I thought. Can’t wait to put it on my Steam Deck. And maybe my desktop PC will move into the living room in the near future. Would be the perfect timing.

Plus, their equivalent of the AUR, the open build system, can actually be used to build packages for any system.

For the first time in forever I am playing multiple games at the same time.

Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos. I had that game as a kid but I don’t think I ever got any further than the first enemy. And it’s amazing! The whole game is dubbed. And it has four protagonists to choose from, each with their individual voice lines about basically any situation or item you come across. And all the NPC’s lines match them and they address you by name.

And the graphics are super beautiful. Pixel graphics but with great details and animations. Like when you get your spellbook you get a super elaborate T-1000-like animation of some droplets forming a scroll.

X-Wing via XWVM: The old X-Wing game with updated graphics and quality of life improvements. Just awesome! It’s still an alpha but basically plays like a beta. I have hardly any bugs, just occasional crashes, and none are game breaking. And supposedly they are already pretty far along with TIE Fighter compatibility. Can’t wait to play that. TIE Fighter TC is nice and all, but stuffing everything into the X-Wing Alliance engine feels pretty clunky while XWVM just works.

Cyberpunk 2077: My son bought it on sale and I wanted to try it as well, although I don’t really like cyberpunk. Too realistic. But the game is great. Plays like a combination of Deus Ex and GTA. I’d say it feels more like the original Deus Ex than the newer Deus Ex games. Maybe with slightly less open levels. But not much.

Limbo: The game is about to be delisted from GOG so I got it quickly. It’s chill to play which suits me well. Love it so far.

Doesn’t make it any less outrageous.

Wow. Whoever saw that one coming should play the lottery because they’re clearly psychic.

Luckily it actually turns itself back on on the way down, thus slowing the descent.

They put a lot of work into the repacks to make them as small as possible. Generally compression algorithms are chosen with a balance between compression and cpu requirements. Repackers don’t care about that. They make them as small as possible with every trick known to man.

And if the algorithm used can be decompressed with all available cores in parallel it’s great as well.

There are probably tons if shows that were never translated to other languages. Most often happens with children’s shows.

Like “Die Sendung mit der Maus” or “Löwenzahn”. Two very popular children shows in Germany. They explained soooo much about the world, always in an approachable manner, never condescending. That’s why they are still popular with adults.

The moderator of Löwenzahn said he usually found the topic for the next episode by just wanting to know about something himself. Like how a purification plant works, how a big ship enters a harbour, how glass is recycled.

More or less the same with Die Sendung mit der Maus. Through them I learned how holes form in cheese (farting bacteria), how batteries work or how money is printed.

Through all of that they show funny cartoons, stories or songs. Shaun the Sheep was a staple on Die Sendung mit der Maus for many years, might still be.

Proton is mostly a fork of Wine which has been used for decades to run Windows software on Linux. Valve didn’t do all the hard work by themselves.

Yeah, Proton runs outside of Steam in Heroic and Lutris. That’s basically what the umu project is about. I think it works in Bottles as well.

Almost everything Valve has done for Linux gaming is open source and will remain even if they go away and lock everything down tomorrow.

Damn, that looks like a Konami code. Did you play any Konami games? Maybe it had some key bindings for that and they got stuck for some reason.

There is a bugreport about this somewhere, I think the SteamOS github. Basically the charge limit doesn’t work in standby. Maybe it’s a hardware limitation of the LCD models. I have that as well.