Deus Ex

Unreal Tournament

Glover and Frogger had great music, I am surprised this popped in to my head but there you go.

Jazz Jackrabbit 2

I thought I removed linux-firmware-nvidia but I guess not.

sudo pacman -R linux-firmware
sudo pacman -Rns linux-firmware-nvidia

This did the trick, thank you! Cut my fallback.img sizes almost in half!

I think there is probably truth to that, but I don’t think its impacting the size of my initramfs in any significant way.

100%.

Make a fun game. If there are skins, include a handful of good ones with the game and call it a day. I’m there to have fun playing a game, not to try on outfits.

Maybe I’m old.

Waydroid’s performance is pretty good.

I never tried any games through it my my guess is it would work, but…

• Still may not be native performance.
• Waydroid’s VM takes a minute or so to start u0 for the first time, and eats a lot of RAM while its running.
• Expect your battery to drain a good deal faster to play your Android game(s)

That said, I will re-emphasize that the performance of apps in Waydroid is pretty dang smooth once its running. I stopped using it on my phone since I no longer needed the one app I had it for.

Were never alive in the first place

If you don’t commit to anything in the coming months, it may be worth checking it out after Purism (finally :)) pushes out some much needed OS updates. If you go to their forums you’ll see people talking about Crimson and Dawn, this is that update I am referring to.

For context, I am probably as much of a Purism fanboy as you are likely to find…

Is all the talk about not recieving phones ordered and the poor customer service just a smear campaign or is there truth to it?

There is a lot of truth to it, but I do think there were a few very loud voices making it sound worse than it was. I got mine in June 2023, and I was one of the last people on the “preorder” list. I hear a few people mention not receiving theirs still every now and then. The cases I saw mostly came down to emails landing in Spam/Junk folders on the customers end.

But I do think Purism’s support was very lacking in past years. In recent months I have seen some new faces in their Matrix and forums and the new people are really great and responsive. I do not blame certain past Purism employees who were in the firing lane for these issues. Rather I blame Purism’s handling of the refunds for drawing up enough ire to make Purism’s support reps sound like the bad guys.

The refund thing was less than great, for sure. I feel they are improving.

How do you like the kill switch?

Love em. I wish the modem powered on faster but that is nit the fault of the switch, or really a big problem. It takes like 20-30 seconds maybe. The Wifi powers on in a few seconds.

What country/service are you on?

US, Mint Mobile. AT&T also worked for me in the past.

Have you heard any rumors regarding the inventory issues?

Hmmm, maybe? I know there was supposed to be stock of new Liberty Phone main boards this year, and there was hope they would go on sale as a sort of L5 upgrade path. This either did not happen, or Purism is waiting for something to announce it.

I don’t own any other Purism hardware, and so I do not pay much attention to the L14 stock or the Mini or anything.

I am satisfied with it. Calls/SMS/MMS all work fine. Internet and the few apps I use work fine.

I will admit though that many (most?) others might not agree. Banking apps, GPS navigation, these are things I don’t care about.

I have gripes with the L5 but I am never, ever going back. My next phone will probably be Purism’s next phone, if they have one.

I’m not gonna go looking for it or share it, but I am here using my Librem 5 and kinda feeling like that kid in the meme hitting a bong in the background while people in the foreground fight.

1TB SD card on my phone.

I don’t quite remember, but I think the color and pizazz was added around the time the (with speech) option was added.

I feel like Grandpa Simpson reading this headline.

What did you find you either liked or disliked about the GTK + Python combo for building this?

Here to recommend Sayonara as its the best one on Linux, in my opinion.

This was a fun game. Recommend if you like the open world Zelda games but want something more relaxed.

OpenVPN into my router

Interesting, I appreciate the explanation.

It’s crazy how much a single node instance can max out my huge desktop CPU, so I can imagine.

I’m curious, why would VS Code be installed on the server and not a developers machine?

Preach