Tried starting Warcraft 3 in Lutris, stuck on the pre-menu screen. Made a new prefix and installed via battle.net and Warcraft III Reforged scripts from lutris. No change.

I might actually be done with the last non-native game I still played out of nostalgia. That's why I only buy native games now.

Warum das Kartellamt nichts dagegen unternimmt, dass kein Smartphone Betriebssystem, bei dem man nicht Googles oder Apples Datenschutzbedingungen zustimmmen muss eine Chance hat, muss ich wohl nicht verstehen.
Trotzdem sollte jeder verlangen, dass Digitalisierung webbasiert funktionieren muss.

Wenn man über Appzwang spricht, sollte man vor allem über Google Play bzw iOS Zwang sprechen.
Auch mit meinem Ubuntu Touch Smartphone könnte ich den App-basierten Parkplatz oder die App-exklusiven DHL Packstationen nicht nutzen: Konkurrenz im Smartphone OS Markt ist von vorneherein ausgeschlossen.

Yea, I think the scale of the game world feels off. You can traverse each of the maps in like 2-3 minutes so traveling doesn't actually feel like it takes days and you don't want to go to sleep every couple of minutes. Making traveling between locations a big undertaking could improve it probably.

5 new VR games for Linux on @itch.io since the Godot XR jam - all just apk files again. Is it really not possible to hardcode in the store that a .apk file is only for android?

AMD GPU? It sometimes (?) fails to read the EDID on boot and somehow ends up offering it as a 640x480 display to the OS, and login managers like to render for the lowest deteced resolution... Replugging headset power or Displayport connection usually helps.

The reason I did not expect it is that this happened literally a few steps away from a camp full of allies. It made absolutely no sense that Halsin bet his and Thaniel's life on just the 4 of us and didn't even tell us to take a rest before. I don't appreciate plain unfair encounters like that.

For example I did not take a long rest before meeting Halsin at the lake.Yet Halsin decided to drop me directly into a huge battle where I had almost no AOE attacks. One last Wall of Fire, and lots of bombs and thrown fire flasks carried that fight but it was way tougher than it needed to be.

I am definitely not a fan of all the mechanics. Am I supposed to take a long rest after every 2 fights, and before every conversation that I have any suspicion at all could drop me into an event? This just feels like forcing the play time to be longer for no reason.

screenshot of about:processes, showing the google ai studio tab using 6 gb memory and 170% cpu

What could the google ai studio website possibly be doing to use 170% CPU and 6GB ram, being idle in the background? CPU usage stops once the tab is focused.

Yep, they plain don't support Linux with their OpenXR plugin, see also their docs, just Windows and Android docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com...
If the editor runs with proton, then you could probably use that but it's probably better to use an engine that takes cross platform support more serious.

Überhaupt scheinen Leute immer öfter darauf trainiert zu werden, Zugangsdaten herauszugeben, alles nur zur "Verifikation" von Identität, Kontostand, Einkommen, etc.
bsky.app/profile/jose...

Nur weil Finanzdienstleister "reguliert" sind, soll man einer Vielzahl (Klarna, Tink, Trustly, etc. etc.) von privaten Firmen einfach nur vertrauen, dass dort schon kein Schindluder getrieben wird? Nein danke. *Hust* Wirecard *hust*

Ich habe trotzdem noch geschaut, wie es funktioniert. Auch hier soll man wohl seine Bank Login Daten in eine Eingabemaske eingeben, die NICHT von der eigenen Bank ist. Auch wenn das von PSD2 so vorgesehen sein soll, gehe ich davon aus, dass diese Unart demnächst komplett verboten wird.

Ich habe kürzlich zum ersten mal Pay by Bank gesehen und habe natürlich gleich nachgeschaut, ob das einfach nur Vorkasse ist. Nein, es ist ein Dienst von Tink. Tink ist ein "europäischer" Finanzdienstleister, der von VISA gekauft wurde. Da war ich natürlich schon raus.

Surprising they're so strict with VR but allow pretty much anything when it comes to Linux.

Of course I understand the challenge in making such a dynamic and huge game but if you don't force your players through the intended decisions the cutscenes are based on and playtest them a lot, you will leave them with a glitchy experience...

I was wondering why the game felt unnecessarily "challenging". Turns out I managed to not find Astarion. Now I'm ending another day to meet with Halsin in camp, and I talk with Astarion about him killing goblins, even though I did that without him.

If you go to camp and end the day in the goblin fortress right after taking out the goblin leaders, the game says someone in your camp wants to speak with you even when there is no one. Also The conversations you can have seem to refer to a conversation with Halsin you haven't had yet.

Halsin implies you can take out just the goblin leaders. Not really, taking out the Hobgoblin will make *all* goblins hostile to you no matter where they are.
The Drow location is buggy - when you destroy the bridge, an enemy standing on either side of the broken bridge is unselectable.

Big kudos to Baldur's Gate 3 for being one of the first big games in a long time to make a native linux version (for the steam deck). I'm definitely enjoying it on desktop linux (I use arch btw) but tbh it feels somewhat unfinished. Spoilers for the first few hours ahead:

latest bug report for it btw projects.blender.org/blender/blen...

Relevant SteamVR log files are
~/.steam/steam/logs/vrserver.txt
~/.steam/steam/logs/vrcompositor.txt

If you want some more interactive help, the LVRA community on discord&matrix would be the right people to chat with lvra.gitlab.io/docs/communi...

Presumably you try SteamVR and the UI shows no devices? At the basis the linux user needs full access to the USB HID device - for this, either the steamvr-devices or xr-hardware should be installed.

If there's still nothing, replug usb while running journalctl --follow and see if something happens.

annoying, but it does work with the 1.0 runtime

If you are on wayland, blender needs to be started either with xwayland "WAYLAND_DISPLAY= blender", or switch to blender's vulkan renderer in the blender settings.

blender's OpenGL OpenXR support on Wayland has always been broken.

I think +182€ would be a generous, but fair markup for +16GB VRAM. Adding the price of AN ENTIRE ADDITIONAL 9070XT ON TOP OF THAT AND STILL BE BY FAR THE CHEAPEST new 32 GB GPU on the market is just where we are right now.

Hours after I posted this the first few shops started listing the ASUS model with an expected release date of 09.10.2025 and a price of 1.444,00 €. If that's right it will be "just" 3 more weeks, and it will be 811€ more expensive than the cheapest 9070XT (629€), more than 2x the price for +16GB.

Nevertheless, for better or worse, there is a new "minimum viable controller" profile in the latest spec now that is a bit more useful than KHR_simple_controller: XR_KHR_generic_controller registry.khronos.org/OpenXR/specs...

and then it's the responsibiltiy of the runtime to make whatever the user is holding in their hand work. The idea was to avoid any lock in to a form factor like that xbox 360 controller baseline.