oh, I’ve been wondering about this, as I’ve had occasional youtube-video just enter the infinite buffering. Oddly it has only happened on linux o_O

I know Åkerfelt and Abasi, but who are the other two?

It looks like a shiny plastic toy.

I was just about to say exactly this. For some reason the go-to effect seems to always be reflections. Why does everything need to be super glossy? Add lens flares while you’re at it, why don’t you.

figures, but hey, if people really enjoy it then… fine.

I play quite a bit of idlers and clickers, and they’re generally quite low on the gameplay department, but this… this just looks minimum effort meme game. Doesn’t seem like there’s anything more than a click counter and an image of a banana.

Am I missing something?

how about somewhat proggy folky metal with death/black/power metal thrown in? Moonsorrow. Orchestral… not really, but melodic with mouth harps, fiddles, etc folk instruments & 8-30 min per song, mostly about iron age pagan tribe’s battles, lore and life. All of the songs in finnish tho, so some language barrier.

Other than that, I’d probably go with Avantasia, Rhapsody, and such. Can’t beat the classics :)

not really sure what I’d categorize Moonsorrow as… I guess their earlier stuff has “some” overlap with powermetal, but only kinda, mostly about “iron age pagan tribe warfare/battles/life” tho. Albums I’m thinking of are “Voimasta ja Kunniasta” and “Kivenkantaja”, the newer stuff starts to veer towards blackmetal and more about death and despair, even if the frame of reference stays same-ish.

it’s like that friends -meme: “repeat after me: discord is not the place for documentation/wiki/distribution”, and joey goes “discord is the place for documentation/wiki/distribution”.

For the most part: Important everyday bookmarks go to the bookmark-toolbar directly, everything else goes to few top-level directories in bookmark toobar: games, software, hardware, wishlist, media, work

the directories are then further sectioned into subfolders, eg games->gamename and so forth.

Sometimes I do wish the directories would just automatically alphabetize themselves, but oh well.

I guess just because how the question was laid out, I’m disqualified as I was taught how to use it the first time I used it. :P

with my first linux -system, I had an experienced friend to hold my hand while installing, configuring and usage - including vim. So, the first thing he taught me was how to exit it. This was sometime in … 2003-ish?

if you use the archinstall to setup everything (partitioning, locales, de’s, etc), not that much, but def. more than some “everything and the kitchensink straight out of the box” distros. The installer worked nicely on 2 machines I’ve tested it on, a laptop and a desktop. While the base system and graphical desktop installed nice, there was quite a bit of manual tinkering left.

But, steam works more or less the same on linux as it works on windows - but there is some proton version selecting, and even then absolutely everything doesn’t work.

Personally, nvidia+wayland (and xwayland in general) is pretty horrid with some games, but supposedly that’s supposedly getting fixed next month… It’s always something and the fix is so tantalizingly close.

and, it’s not like the EOL for win10 is that close, seems to be October 14, 2025, so there’s still plenty of time.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-ai-will-take-screenshots-of-everything-you-do-freaky/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/copilot-plus-pcs#faq2

looks cool, I’m assuming it’s diablo-esque? Consider my interest tickled.

OTOH: now, I understand this is a me-thing, and totally a peeve, but: https://shared.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/2800320/ss_9c16fc30038768654d12a33dad5acceeffb16e5a.jpg - why, WHY, is chromatic aberration (CA for short, TLDR: blue/red colors separating towards the edges of the screen) so prevalent nowadays? It’s like the modern-day lensflare, who wants this? It only makes sense if you’re simulating a bad camera lens on purpose. Is there supposed to be a drone flying over your character in the game, filming it all? Can it be turned off?

It’s a hard nope for me as far as effects go, my eyes start to hurt due to some strain very quickly if a game uses it. Had it on Outer Worlds (ini-edit removed it, no in-game option. BOO), Cyberpunk (in-game option to disable it, YES!).

obvious privacy concerns aside, who the hell actually needs this?

If something I do is important enough to remember later, I do save it (bookmark, screenshot, screencast, whatever). This doesn’t need to be automated, esp. since it seems to require 25-50 GB of diskspace to do anyway.

For users, this is a solution seeking for a problem. For megacorpo this is just more data harvesting, even if it’s “only local” for now. Hard pass, nopety-nope-nope, also arch btw and so forth.

“Where’s John Connor” - could work :D

Fun tunes, totally jamming these if they’d play in game or whatever situation I might be at (bar, party, whatever), but not really jams I’d specifically seek out to actively listen.

Still, happy I heard them, the carousel one did bop for me a bit, but … eh, I dunno. Cool stuff, maybe the overlord algorithm of youtube throws something bit more my jams on the frontpage at some point after going through these! :)

Thanks!

heh, to me vocalist is a percussive instrument. I’m down for anything as long as it flows… But don’t have spotify. But link/recommend me up, my dude.

Def worth a try at minimum. Doubly so if you’re into the whole animu vtuber thing, or so I hear, so… the usual grain of salt.

I don’t know a thing about these streamers but the game plays fine. Some items require some reading, eg. bouncy balls -weapon scales with the bust size of the lady, cutting board -weapon does the inverse… The game doesn’t tell these stats, but the wiki does

This one is pretty fun. Not the most in-depth “vampire survivors” clone out there, but it’s silly and free. Plenty of characters to unlock, more gear unlocks with characters but still after 20 ish characters my builds are always the same… Might be doing something wrong.

Anyhoo, weeaboo af, but fun in short bursts.

sample size of 1, admittedly, but there’s so few times I’ve managed to break arch - which I can’t 100% attribute to myself.

Once the updates broke, somehow wiping bash -binary and kernel. Not entirely sure how or why, all I did was a normal pacman -Suy. I might have issued the pacman -command from a long path which didn’t exist anymore, not sure if relevant or not. Hasn’t happened since, so… dunno. It did spook me a bit, but nobody else at the time reported similar issues.

I’ve ran arch for years at work (webdevelopment, desktop and laptop), home server (irc shell, mumble, etc hosting) and now home desktop too (gaming, media, dualbooting with win10).

The home server has required a powerbutton -forced boot once or twice, many months of uptime & regular kernel updates can apparently mess something with networking and usb, so can’t ssh in and keyboard doesn’t get regognized when plugged in. So, you know, reboot after kernel updates? :D

It’s always a good idea to check the website for breaking changes which require manually doing something, there has been a few along the years.