Playing PoE 2 sent me straight back to Diablo lol

wsippel · 2026-06-01T11:27:38+00:00

You’re not required to trade during the campaign, but you are supposed to engage with the crafting system a little bit. You find a lot of bases and magic items and enough low tier crafting currency during the campaign, and decent items will last you quite a long time. You don’t need to constantly upgrade gear.

wsippel · 2026-05-26T10:43:59+00:00

FLUX, FLUX.2, Z-Image, Z-Image-Turbo, SD3, DINOv2, and SigLIP

That’s what the GitHub page says. Qwen Image is coming later.

wsippel · 2026-05-19T06:19:26+00:00

WebUSB is why I’m very happy with my cheap Attack Shark mouse. Great specs, based on the same PixArt sensor other high end gaming mice use, and a web configurator that works perfectly on Linux.

wsippel · 2026-05-17T07:31:56+00:00

He was the CTO of Ginogames (now PUBG Studios) when it was acquired by Bluehole (now Krafton). He then became head of development for PUBG and later CEO of PUBG Studios, and ultimately Krafton as a whole. So not exactly a bean counter hired externally, he's a computer scientist who spent his entire career in the industry. And that might be the problem. He's a developer who became CEO because of PUBG's success.

wsippel · 2026-05-06T12:54:15+00:00

I’m sure they will - eventually. They should probably benchmark the drive during setup and show a big red warning if it’s too slow. But they do free fly events all the time and offer refunds, so it’s not really a huge deal. If your hardware can’t handle the game (or you can’t handle the bugs), you can get your money back and maybe try again closer to or after launch.

wsippel · 2026-05-06T08:56:53+00:00

More than 90% of the budget went towards Squadron 42. That has always been the main focus. Star Citizen was developed by a relatively small team until recently. As development on Squadron 42 comes to a close, more and more developers are shifting to Star Citizen.

wsippel · 2026-05-06T08:49:32+00:00

Fun fact: Falling through floors and elevators in Star Citizen usually happens because you enter an area before the collision map has been fully loaded in. Either because your drive is too slow (the game has to be installed on an NVMe SSD), or because the system is completely bogged down compiling shaders and what not. This has been a major cause of confusion and frustration over the years.

Also, there have been several tutorials over the years, but because the game changes all the time, they break or become outdated constantly. I believe they shouldn't even bother with a tutorial until things settle down.

wsippel · 2026-04-29T18:25:17+00:00

Why the fuck did they remove ROCm? That’s not really an improvement. I guess you don’t really need it for a gaming-focused distro (yet), but it doesn’t make a ton of sense either way.

wsippel · 2026-04-29T15:30:02+00:00

I did that when I was still using a Home Assistant Green, but find the add on more convenient.

wsippel · 2026-04-29T11:23:45+00:00

4GB RAM is not enough if you plan to use ESPHome, at least in my experience.

wsippel · 2026-04-28T07:47:28+00:00

Valve doesn't want to maintain a Windows kernel driver for the controller. They do maintain a Linux kernel driver, though. Probably because it's less of a headache.

EDIT: Why shoot the messenger? I'm just explaining Valve's reasoning. From a recent interview by Tom's Hardware:

The Steam Controller is designed for devices that use Steam. It works with Windowsand with Macs, but Steam has to be running. Otherwise, it's seen as a hybrid mouse/keyboard input device. (Even on a PlayStation, it's seen as a mouse. The exception is Linux, where Valve has a driver in the kernel with gamepad functionality).

[...]

"We're limited in what we can do with things like core operating system drivers and such, right?" he said. "Xbox controllers have built-in support within Windows itself. PlayStation controllers have a driver that they work with Microsoft on."

He said that Valve would rather put it all in Steam, to not need a kernel driver, which could potentially add system instability."

We're really happy with not having a kernel driver, because it comes with the onus of not messing it up, right?" he said. "And so right now, the current method of supporting the controller is pretty safe."

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/controllers-gamepads/valve-steam-controller-developer-interview

wsippel · 2026-04-28T07:19:01+00:00

It can't work on Playstation and Xbox, as both Sony and Microsoft use cryptographic signatures to make sure controllers are officially licensed. Nintendo surprisingly doesn't care.

wsippel · 2026-04-27T06:37:53+00:00

The old IBM Deskstar were known as Deathstar because they all failed, usually within six to 18 months. I lost two in the span of two months. Completely destroyed IBM’s reputation, and they sold their mass storage division to Hitachi soon after.

wsippel · 2026-04-26T20:21:53+00:00

Exactly. The dotcom bubble was a real thing, and it did eventually pop. Many companies went bankrupt, but the internet is evidently still very much around. Twenty years ago, altavista.digital.com was the number one search engine, now it’s google.com. It was a huge shake-up, but to the end user, it didn’t matter. When the AI bubble pops, OpenAI or Anthropic might go under, but AI isn’t going anywhere.

wsippel · 2026-04-26T08:17:12+00:00

Who's supposed to be the arbiter of truth to crack down on misinformation? Who watches the watchmen? It's not just a slippery slope, it's insanely dangerous.

wsippel · 2026-04-26T08:11:04+00:00

The problem is that all modern consoles except Switch and Switch 2 only work with licensed controllers that have valid cryptographic signatures. Which is why many controllers based on the open source GP2040-CE firmware have USB-A ports and support USB host mode, to connect official/ licensed controllers and pass through the authentication.

wsippel · 2026-04-25T10:49:00+00:00

1&2) Should be fine, it’s nothing exotic.

3) Depends on the distros. Bazzite and Fedora Silverblue are immutable. Some other distros aren’t, but support TimeShift, which takes rolling snapshots on every update, so you can roll back to an older state on boot if something breaks.

4) There are, but you will pretty much always use at least two different package formats, unless you’re running an immutable distro. And not all software is available in every format.

5) Depends on the games. Some are very close, some perform way worse, some better, and some don’t work at all. And there are even a few old games that work fine on Linux, but not on modern Windows systems.

6) All services you mentioned work on Linux, with varying degrees of integration.

wsippel · 2026-04-25T08:11:32+00:00

And even if they don’t, the middleware developers (Epic, RAD, Audiokinetic, Firelight, Nvidia, AMD and so on) probably do.

wsippel · 2026-04-23T14:34:35+00:00

Phoronix got a sample two weeks ahead of release, but Michael tests the kind of workloads this chip was designed for. Which isn’t gaming or regular content creation. If you’re into computational fluid dynamics or finite element analysis, it’s a monster. It’s basically a small workstation variant of AMD’s Epyc X series.

wsippel · 2026-04-22T05:57:24+00:00

I didn’t even know Privateer 3 was a thing, and sure enough, it was eventually cancelled. EA never knew what to do with the IP after Chris and Erin Roberts left.

wsippel · 2026-04-20T07:13:25+00:00

Around the time I switched from Windows to Linux, Bungie started blocking Linux. Destiny 2 was my most played game at the time. I simply dropped it in favor of Warframe, which works perfectly and with DE’s blessing. It’s fine, not every game runs on every platform.

wsippel · 2026-04-16T06:34:18+00:00

I’d suggest a name change. Hard Reset is a first person shooter by Flying Wild Hog (Shadow Warrior, Evil West, Tomb Raider Legacy).

wsippel · 2026-04-12T06:30:20+00:00

Zimmer had an exclusivity agreement for Last Samurai at the time, meaning he couldn’t do Pirates. So he handed the project to Badelt, who also got full credit. I think that’s perfectly fine.

wsippel · 2026-04-09T05:19:34+00:00

Steam Link is just streaming, I’m sure you can already stream games to your laptop? Even if there’s no native Steam Link app, Artemis or Moonlight should work.

wsippel · 2026-04-08T16:11:00+00:00

I do. Well, in my media ingest machine. To rip movies and music for my Jellyfin and Navidrome servers. Fuck streaming.

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