Is Chrome’s ad telemetry opt-in?

It’s great. I also downloaded DigiLux so I can swipe left and right to change brightness as well.

An interesting comment from when this was asked a year ago.

Funniest one imo is Lemmegians (as in Norwegians). Not a very practical name though.

Started playing Factorio again with a friend, been fun so far. Just today I played Tooth and Tail again which is really cool, as well as Skullgirls Second Encore which I’m not great at but is still fun.

It takes some fiddling, but I’ve been using HDR on Linux since Plasma 6 came out. If you don’t have an AMD GPU it would probably be really difficult to set up though.

Some splitscreen multiplayer games I’ve played and enjoyed:

• It Takes Two - 2 player couch. Amazing game
• Octodad - 4p. Every player controls one or two limbs of an octopus, who needs to pretend to be a normal father
• Nom Nom Galaxy - 2 player couch, 4 player online. Land on an alien planet and build a soup factory. Collect ingredients and fight against another corporation.
• Crawl - 4p. One player is a hero running through a dungeon, the other players control monsters trying to kill them. Whoever kills the hero then becomes the hero. Whoever kills the boss first, wins. Great soundtrack and art.
• Stick Fight - 4p. Competitive yet silly ragdoll combat game
• Magicka 1 and 2 - 4p. Wizard game, create spells by mixing elements and blow up a bunch of goblins.
• Stikbold! - 4p. Dodgeball game, a decent bit of skill involved. Can fight each other or against AI.
• Tooth and Tail - 4p. An RTS game that works well on controllers, you control an army of woodland creatures and have to kill / eat the others. Great soundtrack and art. Can play PvP or against AI.
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - 4p. Work together to pilot a spaceship and kill monsters and save people.
• Guns, Gore & Cannoli - 4p. Arcadey shoot lots of zombies side scroller.
• Treadnauts - 4p. Fight each other by driving tanks on walls
• Ultimate Chicken Horse - 4p. Design a shared platforming level with traps, so that you’re able to get to the end but the other players can’t.
• All the Lego games - 2p.
• Stardew Valley - 4p. Grow a farm and befriend villagers
• Speedrunners - 4p. Just run and do parkour faster than the other players
• the Trine games - 3p. Cooperative adventure / puzzle game.
• Wizard of Legend - 2p. Wizard roguelike
• Boomerang Fu - 4p. Fight each other by throwing boomerangs
• Kingdom Two Crowns - 2p. Side scroller town builder, protect your town against the evils outside
• Spelunky - 4p. Roguelike, delve into a cave searching for gold and riches

HDR (and VRR) have been working for me for the past few months (Plasma 6, AMD), but I still keep Windows around for some games and yeah there’s no way I’m trying VR on Linux. I think I get noticeably worse performance on Linux as well, I think there’s some issue I need to fix with that.

I got Far Cry 5 for like $7.50 on sale and have been playing it with a friend, and it’s actually been pretty fun, mostly driving around blowing stuff up with a rocket launcher.

I also got Doom Eternal, which has been more interesting than I expected; I thought it would be mostly just hold-left-click kind of gameplay, but you actually really need to think about managing ammo and positioning and cooldowns and tons of stuff like that. I feel really bad at it but it’s been lots of fun.

Probably in programming communities ? people will understand : people won’t understand

Are you using a scaling factor with x11 legacy apps set to be “scaled by system”? That runs them at a lower resolution and scales them up. You can fix it by either using Gamescope or changing it to x11 apps “scale themselves”.

Jerboa doesn’t support it, it’s just unformatted text

My monitor (Acer XV275K P3) has a better MiniLED local dimming algorithm in HDR mode than in SDR, so even SDR content looks better that way. Also it’s annoying having to switch it back and forth, it’s way easier to just leave it in HDR mode and not worry about it.

For the washed-out colors, are you using an Nvidia, Intel, or AMD GPU? If you’re using AMD you need to run kernel 6.8 or later I believe, if you’re using DisplayPort.

I’m not sure why your display lets you adjust contrast in HDR mode, I would just leave it at the default imo.

Yeah, same for me with NixOS

Like 4 or 5 years ago I bought a refurbished Pixel 2 XL for like $150 or $200 or something. Works great, I don’t need to upgrade (although storage is a little small). The only issue is it hasn’t had security updates since 2020 which is a little scary.

One bullet-heaven game I’ve been enjoying is 20 Minutes Till Dawn. Each run is 20 minutes, and you try to survive at harder and harder difficulties and with different weapons or characters. There’s also a free demo of it called 10 Minutes Till Dawn.

Yeah, maybe I was too impatient back then, but for me it felt like mostly a whole lot of work, just watering the plants every day and trying to make money.

When I picked it up again later playing splitscreen with family, and then again with a friend, then we could get hyped for some goal we could all work towards. And if I was bored doing my thing then I could look over at what other people were doing, or just chat. And it’s fun to see them running around interacting with the NPCs and doing their things as well.

Sometimes it can be a little annoying yeah, like if they want to do something together while I’m busy watering the plants or whatever.

It does have assist options if that’s what you want, Game Maker’s Toolkit actually made a video about it. I haven’t finished it myself but it was pretty fun, even just exploring and getting the story bits and such.

Celeste is $2 right now, I got it for free on the Epic Games store but I got it again for the steam cloud saves.

I got Doom Eternal and started playing that, it’s actually really good. I feel like I’m pretty bad at it but that means lots of room for improvement.

Of course Terraria is a must-buy if you don’t have it already. Same with Portal and such. Stardew Valley is also really good, but I didn’t really enjoy it until I played multiplayer with my friends.

Looking at the Nix package, it seems like it just enables the Meson flag “enable_gamescope_wsi_layer” and adds the package “vulkan-headers” to the build inputs. Looking at the AUR package it uses vulkan-headers but idk what meson flags it uses.