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Heh, probably for the better 🤣
I dabble in coding, linux, gaming, HEMA, LARP, e-mobility, carhacking, simpits and… parenting?
Heh, probably for the better 🤣
Say… how far on the dark side of the moon am I living if I never heard about this streamer before? xD
Quite an impressive list (together with the other posts). And here I thought I was a space nutter (thanks Beyond The Frontier!).
Missing the slug throwers Diaspora: Shattered Armistice and House of the Dying Sun though. The former is an Open Freespace mod in the BSG verse with a great campaign, the latter a rather short but still very nicely done pew pew that shines especially on sound effects (and I guess VR but I didn’t try that). Both do TrackIR though (and I even hacked together an OpenTrack provider for the native Linux version of FSO).
Whenever I order I always get a male and female connector because the terminology doesn’t seem to be consistent across connector designs.
Heh, there are a lot of unusual designs that are neither and both too :D Connectors are wild.
I wonder where my 04 install went xD
dunno, it’s for the flowers 🤷
Smol update here too: Made a tiny demo video show-casing the cockpit in action in Elite Dangerous 🙃
Pick your poison:
https://tube.tchncs.de/w/1nokGf66oWj34EdMvxYbSn / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXofGR4GRLk
Just slaughtering pirates (wasn’t in the cockpit for months) but you get to see it from a first person perspective this time because I strapped the camera to my headphones 🙃
This. They are also known as “arcade buttons”. Everything you want to really smash :D
Huh? Rebirth and X4 do run natively, yes.
Minus some details like head tracking but I am needling em about this again and again so there is hope and the workaround is okay-ish 🙃
I even fired up Beyond The Frontier (for the lolz) via Wine and even that worked 🤪
No idea about $$$ and if they even ship to your location but I got my hands on a Backforce One Plus for 500€ and that thing is day and night compared to my last. Arm rests are a little bit wobbly but the rest… dead gods I hope it lasts for the rest of my life.
That’s from someone with a lot of back pain for… reasons.
Stadia
Haha, this also came to my mind :D
In all fairness: A lot of physical releases from back in the days can be redeemed on Steam nowadays. It’s not often obvious but it works for a lot. e.g. for Prey (the 2006 one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(2006_video_game) ) - which saves me the trouble to look for a CD drive I no longer have xD
Yes, I understand that archiving is more tricky nowadays and even Valve may defunct one day. Alas in reality is a > 15 yrs old CD also prone to errors and may no longer work already.
Ah that’s where I did see it in DRM free. Yes you’re correct. It refuses to launch without Steam running.
At least Steam lets you still download it when you purchased it before. I checked today just to make sure it really does still download. Granted, this is as long as Valve may exist but I don’t think there is anything DRM related here that would stop anyone from making a copy of the downloaded game 🤔 May try that later.
Mebbe I should have phrased it more as “underrated in the beginning when it went on sale and was considered a sales fail” 🤔
Well, I can confirm that it can still be downloaded. It’s notable that this is one of the few that even got a native Linux PC version as well and yes I agree on the narrative that this game is very very underrated. Not your average military shooter.
This. It’s basically only a thing for rotary encoder, where interrupts should be used for the reading, so they don’t miss a beat.
Also: Combining several joystick devices on the PC again is a pain in the neck especially if the game only supports one device of each kind.
I played “The Expanse” (on Linux PC) and I enjoyed it so much that I didn’t put the controller down for over 6 hours (https://beko.famkos.net/x/1CMPu)
Car thieves: Oh noeeees… anyway 🤷