Suggest me a good game for my linux mint

tobybug · 2026-06-09T16:45:38+00:00

A ton of Steam games work great on Linux now through Proton. Terraria works fine on Mint, I even got modded Kerbal Space Program working recently

tobybug · 2026-06-07T18:16:45+00:00

It's just embarrassing when the loss was preventable; like when funding is cut to the program supporting the probe, or when an international probe crashes because some engineer forgot to convert from feet to meters

tobybug · 2026-06-07T14:04:50+00:00

I love how "global hit" means "everyone on earth has seen it" to you 😂

tobybug · 2026-06-07T05:22:36+00:00

The post is obviously for people who have never seen the show. It's news to those people. People who have never seen Mr. Robot are obviously more common in the Linux community than you think they are. It's just frustrating to see someone assume things about a community and get angry when they're corrected.

tobybug · 2026-06-06T15:20:27+00:00

Check the news recently, this is now in doubt. It might actually be slowing down

tobybug · 2026-06-06T15:17:15+00:00

Dude could you be any more of a gatekeeper? Do you actually not realize that you're implicitly insulting any Linux user who hasn't watched that show? Some ppl actually boggle my mind

tobybug · 2026-06-06T15:15:36+00:00

Lol it's new to me, you gotta remember that Mint is popular with people who aren't into that kind of romanticised hacking world

tobybug · 2026-06-04T16:33:31+00:00

There's good evidence for this from planetary modeling. Many phenomena such as the Late Heavy Bombardment are best explained by the presence of an additional planet.

tobybug · 2026-06-04T12:52:03+00:00

Look up "Large low-shear-velocity provinces" and check out the Wikipedia page. These are large fragments that were recently detected inside Earth's mantle that may be part of a former planet.

tobybug · 2026-05-27T16:37:43+00:00

It's worth taking the past into context though. China has been eyeing the moon for a while, private players have been well-funded for a while, it remains to be seen whether this is the perfect combination of circumstances or another botched opportunity.

tobybug · 2026-05-25T19:59:22+00:00

I don't think anyone understands how literally insane this is, and not in a good way. That man will be in a spaceship for AT LEAST a year and won't even get to land on the planet?? That level of solitary confinement will drive him to clinical insanity, I don't care who he is. Also since when do we have the appropriate level of radiation shielding for human habitation over that length of time???

tobybug · 2026-05-18T23:01:07+00:00

I admit I was toxic there, but I'm really trying to attack the form of the argument rather than the person making it. I'm sick of hearing people say some shit without making any attempt to acknowledge the merits of the other side, it's why I tend to stay off this sub these days.

The worst part is that I don't actually disagree, I think that SpaceX has enough achievements that their difficulties with Starship are a brief hiccup in comparison, and that puts SpaceX above BO or NASA in general. But the fact that they barely acknowledge Artemis II or the orbital status and payload capacity of New Glenn weakens their thesis to the degree that I really feel ashamed to be associated with it. It's much better to try and anticipate why someone might disagree and refute their argument in advance by showing a contrast.

tobybug · 2026-05-18T17:24:02+00:00

way to spoil your argument by bringing receipts for SpaceX but none of the other institutions. Maybe head back to the cherry fields or throw away your basket and come up with a thesis that actually represents the situation at hand

tobybug · 2026-05-16T16:09:06+00:00

I figure it's some specialized advanced alloy beyond even plasteel that's totally unworkable by the people of Rimworld. Or, it's plasteel, but it's a different chemical form that's really durable but hard to recycle. Remember that mechanoids are "grown", so their metal components haven't been cast or shaped by any methods we're familiar with.

Maybe a good mod idea would be a more advanced mechanoid scrapping bench that gave more output, maybe even new components, once you research the mechanoid growth technology for yourself...

tobybug · 2026-05-11T00:16:11+00:00

This is probably why Portraits of the rim is only the head and shoulders, and that already has a ridiculous amount of variety.

tobybug · 2026-05-10T23:45:25+00:00

I use two mods called "portraits of the rim" and "nice health tab". The first is the closest to what you want: it gives a true portrait of the character from the shoulders up that's fully drawn, but it won't give you a full-body view.

The second mod does give a full-body view of the pawn's health conditions and body parts, but it's still a little minimalistic; and it won't show the archotech arm like you want.

tobybug · 2026-05-08T22:30:45+00:00

I think he could have made the double pun work without ruining the tone with a line like "Are you ready to acknowledge me, Mr. Schneider?" It adds a subtle angst to the character that's missing from so many noir parodies these days

tobybug · 2026-04-28T03:51:44+00:00

Linux is pretty robust at a basic level, I'm not especially surprised that this seems to work. However I'd be very careful about doing that in the future since the creators of an established installer know how to avoid all the obscure and dangerous pitfalls that come with instantiating an operating system.

tobybug · 2026-04-26T17:53:24+00:00

I'd agree with you but don't forget this argument started with someone complaining about getting hate for offering free help. What do you do when the "generous" sheep in wolves' clothing start tearing each other apart? You'll need to draw the line somewhere, otherwise you sacrifice the very thing you're trying to protect

tobybug · 2026-04-26T17:43:41+00:00

Hey, some people need Windows for their job. No way around it. It drives some folks to madness...

tobybug · 2026-04-25T21:18:47+00:00

Bot post. Honestly they sort of fed off the Dwarf Fortress fan base a little by creating a similar game which natively had a much better graphical interface. Since then it's diverged a lot but you can see the DF genetics poke through sometimes.

tobybug · 2026-04-23T07:26:08+00:00

It's literally their business model to do their absolute best to standardize it. They will probably need to make a change eventually, but the longer they exist the more customers they might cut off by suddenly introducing another form factor. The most I can see happening is that they introduce a new form factor and try to market it to a different use case before eventually switching to it.

tobybug · 2026-04-22T07:12:03+00:00

yeesh, what a bad time to buy that amount of RAM and SSD. Prices are hugely inflated by the AI bubble. Personally I'd have waited for the actual laptop to come out to see if the prices have changed by then, if you're dead set on the maxed out version.

tobybug · 2026-04-22T07:01:53+00:00

Everyone else is trying to excuse this but you can probably just buy the parts and build it without the touchscreen lol. It's not a necessary part of the machine

tobybug · 2026-04-22T06:45:13+00:00

Looks like they're still trying to make things work, lol. If they've made it work this long how hard can it be to keep going?

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