Hello all! Not interested in turning this into an ethical debate about AI, I am merely curious if there are ongoing projects parallel to OpenPuck that do not rely so heavily on LLM usage for their code output and review.
Thanks in advance.
My Steam library is, presently, at 708 titles. Heroic Launcher, which aggregates games between GOG, Epic, and Amazon, tells me I'm at 558 titles. In total, we're talking about more than 1250 titles to pick from. Sure, some of these aren't great titles, but I would say at least one out of two games is something I'm interested/curious about.
And these bundles don't seem like much, don't they? A dozen bucks here, twenty euros there. Plus, these are all digital goods - there is no physicality to it, so it is easier to forget about their impact on our finances. In reality, we know how swiftly hundred of bucks can disappear down the drain, one month after the other.
Let's hold onto what we already own, let's play the many titles sitting in our library! FOMO is one hell of a drug, let's not succumb to it <3
Hello all! I just wanted to chime in: yesterday, I got the stock cooler off of my i5-12400f in favor of a budget Thermalright Assassin King (or something akin).
Now, I didn't expect more than a 5°C improvements, considering how little I spent... and yet, 20€ made my CPU genuinely drop from 80-85°C under load to barely hitting anything above 60°C.
As you can imagine, the system as a whole benefitted from it in terms of thermal situation! Seriously, get rid of that janky stock cooler as soon as you can.
Edit: I realize I should have used the term "weak for gaming", instead of "bad". I naturally support the idea that, for a system running lightweight tasks, you don't need more.
Just wanted to share that I've often tried to use Remote Play in my local LAN without much success. I am unable to have an ethernet cord running to my room, and so a Wi-Fi is my only realistic option for my desktop PC.
Without much hope, I gave it another try because I realized my Steam Deck in the living room wouldn't run Resident Evil 4 Remake very well... and lo and behold! Even though it's running through Wi-Fi twice (desktop - wifi5 - router - wifi5 - steamdeck), the experience was more than serviceable. One day I had a couple of connection hiccups that lasted mere seconds, the other two were pretty flawless.
Latency also surprised me a lot: I'm using gyro aim (through bluetooth! not even wired), which makes it obvious when there's latency. And sure, you wouldn't be able to play competitive games with it, but I've cleared half game so far in normal difficulty without it being something I notice.
I'm truly impressed by Valve's work on this feature. In an age in which hardware is more and more an expensive luxury, being able to stream around the house is nothing to scoff at.
I'll soon hook up the deck via ethernet so so I can improve the stability a little further :)
Hello all! I'm playing Resident Evil 4 Remake through my Steam Controller, and I'm loving the possibility of using Gyro when aiming. This is my real first venture into it however, and I can't help but still feel a little goofy when aiming.
For example:
- Certain enemies in the game will suddenly duck and sprint towards you, and I often fail to track them because gyro's sensitivity is a bit too low. However, turning the sensitivity up can be troublesome, as it makes it hard to control aim.
- The game has a shooting range mini-game that requires you to hold aim and shoot for a longer time than usual. The ricochet from every shot made my gun get higher and higher, and I literally found myself aiming the controller so low, I was pointing at the ground 🥲
Suggestions would be much appreciated!
Hello! Tumbleweed user with Gnome Wayland on here. Does anyone have any experience with a weird static-like bar appearing for a split of a second whenever you bring up the window view by pressing the super key?
I'm honestly trying to understand if something is faulty in my 9060XT or not. No issue while playing games or anything of the sort, and it seems to happen only on the 180hz monitor with variable refresh rate enabled (although I'm not too sure, my second monitor is empty 90% of the time).
Edit: happens also without VRR active. Though to record as it only happens with non-frequent occasion, I kept the recording going for a good chunk of minutes with no success. Happened a few minutes after. I can describe it as a bar that seems to have similar color to the ones on screen, appearing usually around the center of the screen and spanning its whole horizontal length. I have now disabled all extensions and will monitor further.
So, the first game from 1998 is... surely something, huh? There's such an overabundance of "hints" splattered in every single book you open, it was a bit silly.
Certain puzzles were also a bit cryptic/confusing, but I liked the old school animations I'll admit.
Overall, I can see why this one got a remake before anything else. Can't wait to start number 2 tonight!
I personally am not much into games set in wars that actually happened.
I'm however all for gritty/post-apocalyptics stuff, colorful, alien, magical, western, etc.! Expecially when they have the type of gunplay that makes it really satisfying to get good at aiming down enemies.
I'm okay with games that feel somewhat realistic, as long as they're based on alternative histories that didn't really happen (think Wolfenstein).
Cheers!
Mine is coming in soon, and I'm excited to try and play all the various desktop games that are usually more mouse-oriented, like point and click adventures, but while relaxing on the couch instead. I'm also ready to tackle all the various FPSes that work much better with mouse aim (I'm thinking about Metro, for example).
I'm looking for suggestions, expecially based on what runs well on the Steam Deck 💫
Hello, libreoffice community 💫
I'm starting to work on my undergrad thesis, and I need a tiny bit of advice. My professor needs me to share a document with them, ideally one that they can comment on. My University uses the whole OneDrive/Microsoft ecosystem, so a Word/Word-compatible document is the natural solution, as they can read and comment on it through the web.
Being on Linux, my options are rather limited. In order to use Word, I either use Online suite through my browser (awfully castrated in features, I cannot use my Zotero reference manager) or use Office 365 through a virtual machine (with a headache-inducing subpar performance, hovering between 15-25fps).
The other, MUCH preferred solution would be to open the document locally with LibreOffice, through the OneDrive cloud share (which I can easily set-up on linux).
And thus comes my question: does anyone know if I have any reason to choose one document format over the other? between docx and odt?
Hello all!
I just took my car to get its tyres changed, and before I did so my steering wheel was slightly rotated towards the right when going straight.
Now, after a new set of tyres and an alignment, the steering wheel is STILL slightly offset... however, this time, it is lightly rotated to the left.
I couldn't tell if the car was actually pulling to the left, as I had no straight enough of a road to test it as I was driving home.
Now, we're not talking about much rotation - something akin to 5° at most. Do you think that, if the car behaves, I could let it be? Like, if the steering wheel is just kind of misaligned by itself it's not like I mind too much, as long as the tyres are good.
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Hello all! I usually am the one tasked with finding games to play through friend/family gatherings. There are days in which it is clear no one likes to go through games with boring setups and long explanations. The arcade nature of fighting games could do wonders in this regard.
What I'd love is to find a fighting game that people can just pick up and play while having moderate fun during our game nights. I would prefer if the game featured either autocombos or fight systems that don't rely on combos.
There's no need for them to have active communities, online play is irrelevant.
This has to run on a steam deck with limited capacity (500gb), so possibly no disk space hoggers like Tekken8 or SF6 (but I own SF6 with a couple of season passes, so if you think that'd be perfect I'm open to considering it!).
I was eyeing either Soul Calibur 6 and Samsho7 (2019), which are both heavily discounted on steam at the time of writing. What are your thoughts?
P.S. I know Smash Bros. would be the perfect type of pick for this scenario, but I don't own any Nintendo hardware.
I also own a bunch of other games - TekkenTT2 on PS3, Strive, KoF98/2002, Capcom Classic Collections.
I struggled for years, because I kept buying things while fully convinced that, if I couldn't find a place or meaning to it, I'd just re-sell it online. This was even before vinted was born, and most of my transactions went through eBay.
I finally learned how utterly false such an idea is. You have to spend hours of your life taking pictures and videos of things working, answering to every single question from the buyer, put up with their difficult haggling schemes.
And if, AND ONLY IF, you are finally able to sell an item (and some of my items have sat on eBay for years) you'll have to find a good box for it, package it properly (sometimes even investing in bubble wrap, for fragile items), get acquainted with shipping options, drive to the nearest collect centre.
And I can confidently say this was somewhat worth only for items which were highly sought after and expensive. Spending days of my life to get rid of a handful of items topping 20-25 euros felt miserable. It's phisically and emotionally draining.
TLDR: your money is lost the moment you buy things.
Recently, it hit me: the more time my tape deck spends sitting in my living room, the more likely it is for it to develop issues, in the long run. I spent a good year/year and a half playing around with tapes, recording on them, and I've had my fun. But in the end, I collect records in digital form (bought on bandcamp/tidal) and some CDs, which cover pretty much all of my musical needs.
And so, I just sold my "high end" tape players from the 90s. It stings, because it's the type of technology that you can't simply hop back onto craiglist and find used for a good price. But at the same time I don't realistically know how anyone could service such an apparatus, and its rubber and plastic components are bound to fail sooner than later. So I struggle at the thought a bit, but at the same time I'm happy.
Now... to sell these all these tapes, too. Probably going to make little bundles of them, since people might need them to re-record stuff.
Hello all! I've recently been playing certain shooter games, such as Resident Evil games, and for the life of me I cannot help it but get peeved at missing the easiest shots on my xbox series s/x controller. Would it help to get a dualsense with gyro, if I use steam for all of my gaming needs?
Hello! I'd like to give my dad new things to do, and I feel like gaming can eventually be something different since he did enjoy a few games during the various years.
His favorite gaming experiences are:
I think it would be best if I aim for something that:
Edit: ugh I forgot to remove the "possibly" from the title haha
20€ here, 15€ there, paying for car gas, a dinner out in a cheap restaurant with friends. Without realizing, that's usually around a hundred euros gone down the drain!
I'm usually very conscious about big expenses, and I'll take months to evaluate if I really need a 200-400€ expense. Meanwhile, I'll go to the hardware store and buy extra tape, just because I'm lazy to locate the old one. I'll buy a new game on Steam... after I already bought three, the week prior. But when the cart says '20-25€", my brain computes it as "cheap! okay! won't put a dent in my bank account!".
Until I look at my bank account, and it's at hundreds less than what I imagined.
Hello! I just recently got my ploopy adept and was wondering what everyone's solution was. I've seen some people suggest that they bind their fire/aim buttons to something else on the keyboard, but some games have so many keybinds already that I wonder if that isn't a bit too detrimental for my left hand in the long run.