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Try using PrismLauncher since it allows you to apply java window size commands before game launch (and load additional fixes if you need those due to some strange config).

1.13 had something called the Flattening, but that’s related to item IDs and a general overhaul to the base game code. I doubt much was twisted graphically there.

Yep, takes a moment to wrap your head around but the longer you read linux/unix documentation, the more it makes sense why it is the case.

I think it is possible, but without a lot of funding for uptime and bandwidth it’d be a bit impractical for most distros.

Plus, could bring up privacy/security concerns if the hosting address/device gets compromised in any way.

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Wonder if 3D printing game boxes is a viable way to store physical backups of your library…

Instead of a Blu-Ray or DVD it’s a flash drive XD

Yet another secret? The best “gaming headphones” are just standard audio gear or music studio stuff.

Things like Noctua fans and motherboards aimed at enterprise use cases tend to not have the shiny distractions that average tech bros want.

You probably want to stick with ATX over rack mounted stuff as an individual, just means you have to search for function-over-form brands for peripherals and the motherboard.

This is what the fediverse needs more of :)

That was true at a certain point during its life, but after the RTX support was added performance optimization came crashing down.

Sodium on Java runs laps around bedrock nowadays.

Not if you play modded java edition, you can get by with 8gb in your system and 4gb allocated to the game.

Windows enshittification/Bedrock edition slop is probably why they’re setting the bar so high.

That doesn’t apply retroactively to existing giftable games+keys though, I presume.

I doubt it, because that would bring back VPN deal tunnelling that Valve doesn’t want to endorse (because the regional discounts are meant to scale with the purchasing power of the citizens in each region, not for people from the west going on gray market sites to grab games from Ukraine/Russia/Brazil/Argentina).

If the downloaded copy requires phoning home to authenticate and play, storing it on a backup drive won’t help in the long run.

Console players will always be fucked by this sort of thing until they modify their hardware or move to PC. Sony’s just making the circumstances more blatantly obvious.

Tbf, I believe CachyOS has taken the reigns of “Arch based gaming distro that doesn’t have immutable OS restrictions”, so that’d probably the easiest solution for that.

On the slackware note though, my uncle still uses it (I think it was Puppy last I checked). He was a former chip designer at IBM and Intel, and got on the linux for privacy bandwagon long enough ago to show me the ropes of linux as I was growing up.

As a youngblood I have heard of the iron stability of Debian, but simply find it difficult to adopt for gaming-related reasons (both hosting and as a game client).

I do wish to one day study the greybeards’ work for a future project box, however. That knowledge needs to be part of my generation as well, for at least a few of us.

The only reason I have ubuntu on my home server is because apparently Pterodactyl Panel is reliant on some aspects of it vs. Mint. It’s frustrating that way.

GNOME (by default), Snaps forced on you OOB rather than being an optional thing during setup or in any of the GUI settings, locking newer security updates behind a subscription, and Cannonical just being a bad captain of the ship.

There’s a reason why Mint is hailed as the new “casual (non-gaming) user favorite”, since it’s literally just Ubuntu sans GNOME and the hostile update design decisions.

Sandpaper and reflashing solve the two ways that’s performed though.

Electronic component fencing has been a thing for a while (especially to regimes who aren’t supposes to have them)

Don’t let your memes be dreams

Renew as needed :)