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  • rtxn@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlUsing WINE for non-Game Programs
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    You’ll have to use a virtual machine and pass through the USB device.

    You’ll have to install QEMU (ideally qemu-desktop since you’ll only need the x86 VM), libvirt, and virt-manager. Start the libvirtd service (enables the management interface), then run virsh net-start default as root (enables networking). Create and install a Windows virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Manager application. I recommend Windows 10 or earlier because 11 needs extra steps. Once the VM is running, open the Virtual Machine menu, click on “Redirect USB Device”, then choose the device you want to configure. It will be detached from the host OS and passed through directly to the guest.





  • Géza Hofi was one of the greatest comedians in Hungarian history. He was active under and very outspoken about the failures of the ruling communist party. One of his most memorable performances was “How many pigs will be born?” (video, unfortunately without subtitles).

    Party officials, wearing nice brown trench coats, visit old man Joe’s farm.
    “Comrade Joseph, how many pigs will be born?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Shut your mouth, peasant, and give me the number.”
    “What’s the plan?”
    “14.”
    “Then it’ll be 14. Have you told the swine? Better that you talk to her, since you’re both on the same level.”

    (the story goes on, but I don’t want to translate the entire thing)









  • “We might be able to banish the demon and save your son.”
    “Really?”
    “No, it’s just fun to get your hopes up. I’m gonna kill the kid.”

    Veilguard doesn’t let you be an absolute dick the way Origins did. The story (what little I’ve seen) is filtered and sanitized like it’s meant for six-year-olds.

    It also approaches sensitive topics, like the gender of one character, with the graceful and delicate touch of a fucking brick. If your character in Origins is a woman, Sten will bluntly comment on your role as a warrior, which is reflects the Qunari culture and their strict adherence to their norms. In Veilguard, a character blurts out “I’m non-binary by the way, I use pronouns” and another starts doing push-ups for accidentally misgendering them. It was fucking ridiculous.


  • Success is not illegal. In Valve and Gaben’s case, it’s deserved, and probably as clean as you’ll ever see.

    I firmly believe that Steam has allowed fair competition to exist. Epic had the greatest chance to become viable competition, but they fumbled the store’s launch, poached Metro Exodus and fucked over the people who preordered, did not have the foresight to implement some kind of preloading for Borderlands 3, and pissed people off when they refused to allow non-exclusive indie games to exist on the store while they made an exception for Cyberpunk 2077. In that time, the only thing that Valve did that might have hurt EGS is refuse to host store pages and ads for games that weren’t going to launch on their platform. Shortly after that, Valve released the Steam Deck (the most pro-consumer handheld I’ve seen to date), SteamOS (free), Proton (free), DXVK (free), Gamescope (free), and have contributed (for free) to upstream projects like Wine. Of all the billionaires, Gaben is the only one I can think of that I’m okay with being a billionaire.



  • Here we go again. Armchair economists bleating “why everything cost money, corporate bad” with no actual expertise to back it up. Steam is not a parasitic middle man, it is a collection of services that would have to be provisioned and operated by the developer otherwise.

    • A massive infrastructure to store and deliver the game and its updates, worldwide, and at an acceptable bandwidth that Valve operates
    • A storefront that enables monetizing the game
    • The audience and discoverability that would not exist otherwise
    • The Steam API, achievements, cloud saves
    • The client itself, content management, validation, and Linux compatibility tools
    • Network and operational security
    • (edit) Also keep in mind that Steam and its services are operated by experts. A game developer would have to hire the experts or get training.

    That’s where the cut goes.