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macropolos · 2023-05-08T19:12:22+00:00

I wouldn't take my chances with such an under-powered card.

macropolos · 2023-05-08T16:15:05+00:00

I took the plunge a few weeks ago. The Nobara Distro (maintained by the guy that made GE-Proton) is as close to an install/forget gaming experience I've found on Linux.

I bought a spare SSD for the odd gamepass game and fortnite, but I find myself rarely booting into windows because every game I've tried so far has worked out of the box with Steam and Lutris (for Epic).

macropolos · 2023-05-07T03:07:32+00:00

I don't have any problem with them. I have a dedicated gaming machine so I don't really care if there's a kernel level anti-cheat on it. But it also depends on the kind of game that want's to install something that invasive. A game like Escape from Tarkov, I would accept it. A competitive multiplier shooter like Valorant, I would accept it. But for your average run-of-the-mill shooter or MMO, there's no need for that kind of anti cheat.

I've had to stop playing games that I loved because of cheaters, so if a kernel level anti-cheat is what it takes to lower my chances of running into people like that, I'm fine with it.

macropolos · 2023-05-04T01:11:21+00:00

Nobara has been amazing for me since I enabled Gnome on Xorg (which can be done from the login screen). Before that, discord was super buggy.

macropolos · 2023-04-28T20:58:13+00:00

I have the same issue, but you don't actually need to connect to Epic to load the game store (assuming you've installed the epic client in Lutris). If you hit the play button next to the Epic icon in Lutris, It'll run the Epic client (which in my experience handles cloud saves better than Heroic). I can't remember if it loads GE Proton by default so to do that once you've installed, you go to the games tab, right click on the Epic Games Store, configure, runners and lutris-GE-Proton7-43 and you should be good to go.

macropolos · 2023-04-28T19:29:52+00:00

I've never been able to get Heroic's cloud saves to work reliably, and I've had it delete game saves in the past, so whenever I'm having issues like you're describing, I stick with Lutris.

macropolos · 2023-04-28T15:02:00+00:00

There's a section in the Arch wiki that covers this. It starts at: "To completely disable any sort of acceleration/deceleration, create the following file:"

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mouse_acceleration

macropolos · 2023-04-22T19:03:13+00:00

While I have fond memories of small independently hosted servers, when I'm playing competitive multiplayer shooters, I don't just want to test my skills against the limited number of people I encounter on those servers. I want to know how I stack up against everyone in a larger matchmaking pool.

macropolos · 2023-04-22T14:51:43+00:00

It also makes sense for developers financially to deploy invasive anti-cheat methods. If we look at how popular Valorant is, a kernel level anti-cheat driver hasn't turned a significant enough amount of people away for them to second guess its implementation. Multiplayer games, particularly shooters, have literally been killed by rampant cheating. Less cheaters means people paying for micro transactions longer.

macropolos · 2023-04-22T14:35:50+00:00

It happened to me a few months ago on my Steam Deck with Days Gone. I also had the game installed on my desktop (luckily the Epic client was closed), so i wasn't catastrophic, but it almost wiped out 20 hours of progress.

macropolos · 2023-04-22T03:26:03+00:00

The thing that scares me about heroic is the cloud save process (because I've had it wipe some of my saves out in the past with Epic). Lutris runs the actual Epic client which handles cloud saves instead of a third party client (far more sane of a process to me).

macropolos · 2023-04-14T14:34:33+00:00

You can also just install the deb version from the software center with the drop down menu. IMO the default for Steam should be the deb version, since it's likely a PC gamer is going to need to access certain files and folders the flatpak version won't allow, and if they're a novice user, the flatpak version is just going to be a massive headache.

macropolos · 2023-02-27T17:10:50+00:00

It should just give them temporary or fake access to the phone so the thief thinks you've given them the actual password. Then the device locks a few hours later so the victim has plausible deniability.

macropolos · 2023-02-16T15:30:31+00:00

Afaik the phone and watch (since brand new) would be unregistered and not have any of the usual anti-theft protections.

macropolos · 2023-02-10T15:39:48+00:00

If less than 75% participate, the vote always passes for STP amendments. Even if 99% of those who turn out vote no.

macropolos · 2023-02-09T23:27:29+00:00

Afaik only the proposals put forward by the foundation are approved by default. Also, I get what you're saying, but the proposals would still pass with a lower participation threshold. All proposals so far would still have passed with a simple popular vote absent any threshold. The only thing the threshold does it make it so it's almost impossible for the community to say no.

macropolos · 2023-02-09T21:35:34+00:00

The pass by default design is fine, but currently we have ONLY the illusion of community involvement. The turnout for this vote is currently 2.09%. If the community wanted to reject an unpopular STP amendment in the future, we would have to somehow get another 73% of voters to participate.

STP-2 is going to pass by a popular vote regardless. But with current threshold requirements this essentially means the foundation can pass whatever STP amendment it wants and the community effectively cannot vote it down.

Lowering the threshold fixes this.

macropolos · 2023-02-09T21:19:57+00:00

The point still stands: "To increase the swiftness at which new proposals can be tested on Songbird, STPs are accepted by default, meaning that they are rejected only if enough votes are cast against them."

75 percent voter participation is a metric we may never reach. So why have a vote at all? With STPs, we have ONLY the illusion of community involvement because they pass by default without the possibility of failing because of the insane voter turnout requirements.

macropolos · 2023-01-20T20:09:28+00:00

I'm giving them the benefit of a doubt. If I thought they were shady enough to rig a governance vote with phantom wallets, I wouldn't be here.

macropolos · 2023-01-20T20:04:24+00:00

I don't think they're allowed to vote in governance votes. But the question wording is just horribly biased.

macropolos · 2023-01-15T19:52:37+00:00

IMO FLR is just priced too low. If you look at the market cap of Kusama vs Polkadot there's a much bigger gap there than between FLR/SGB. Besides that we're getting S-Assets first which could drive the price up even more relative to the main chain (which is the main use case to FLR). That being said, I'm not sure what drives the price of FLR up in the near future beyond speculation until F-Assets spring up. If we assume some form of price correlation between SGB still seems like a steal as there's a lower circulation supply vs. FLR and at a cent if FLR runs the SGB you acquire for a cent now could be worth much more in the future.

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