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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Closest comparison I can give of it is… It’s like clicking “Yes” when the User Account Control (UAC) popup appears on Windows when you’re installing stuff. That’s you, as an admin, confirming you want to perform whatever action is being performed.

    sudo ... is perform an action/command as an admin.

    As for the mods. A lot of the time it’s a matter of taking the files you downloaded, and dropping them in the game directory (or a directory within the game directory).

    Once you do it manually once, you’ll see it’s pretty straight forward and you don’t really need the mod managers.







  • The initiative is not asking for retroactive enforcement.

    They are asking for an end of life plan for games made after some TBD date. Something that at least gives end-users a chance that it can be played after a corporation ends support. Ideally that would be server binaries, but it could also mean documentation on how the server infrastructure works so it can be rebuilt by motivated end-users.

    PS’s use of League of Legends is awful because all they would need for an end of life plan (if it had been required at the time) is to add a LAN mode just like PvP games from years and years ago, I.e. Quake, Warcraft, Starcraft, Counter-Strike, Halo… Etc etc etc.

    That’s it. That doesn’t require “endless” support.



  • That is not the smoking gun you think it is.

    Again… SteamOS is just an immutable version of Arch Linux. That’s what they are talking about in the article when they talk about turning off “read-only” mode. Being immutable makes it less likely to break/more stable, but doesn’t “fine-tune” it for gaming.

    Saying it’s “fine-tuned” for gaming takes away from what is actually doing the heavy lifting for gaming on linux, which is Proton. One could argue Proton is “fine-tuned” WINE, but SteamOS is not “fine-tuned” for gaming.





  • Also a lifetime Plex holder. Plex wouldn’t let me watch my local content without authenticating the other day… But my internet went out and I couldn’t. Decided I’d swap to Jellyfin the first chance I could (couldn’t that day because no internet)… So that’s what I did today. It was painless and I’m never going back to Plex.

    Disclaimer, I don’t need access outside of my house so I didn’t set any of the remote stuff up.