It’s the Lutris version shipped with 22.04, which by today’s standards is definitely ancient. Because I’m not generally a Flatpak fan for stuff that requires larger packages or dependencies, I went directly to the Lutris PPA. And because I’m running KDE Neon, I had to work around the annoying libpoppler dependency issue that’s always plagued Wine on Neon.

Older packages, but not too old, generally provide better stability. Problems can also come from packages being too new and not having all the standout issues worked out of them.

Five young recruits find the five golden Switch cartridges.

Recruit 1 is walloped by a big tie-wearing gorilla after eating its entire banana hoard.

Recruit 2 grows too big after eating a prototype actual Super Mushroom and turns into a Toad.

Recruit 3 is rejected after touching the Triforce and being sucked into the Evil Realm.

Recruit 4 loses an IRL series of WarioWare games played in a giant replica TV.

Recruit 5 is hired after returning the free Switch 2 prototype they were given despite initially being rejected for painting graffiti on the wall with Splatoon paint.

Wouldn’t be surprised if he’s waiting to find that younger person he feels he could pass his position to so that he can finally step down and retire, but he’s looking for JUST the right person.

In addition to the perception that you have to be “good at computers” (aka a programmer) to use Linux, in my experience a lot of Linux media outlets (websites, YT channels, podcasts, etc) tend to be heavy on advanced features and tools without much explanation in layman’s terms and tend to be geared towards an IT professional/hobbyist audience, which can reinforce that stereotype among those (like me) who are not.

Nintendo has been more about innovation in gameplay more than graphics pretty much since the turn of the century, and aside from the Wii U it’s paid off for them pretty well, so why should they change that model? Further, this isn’t like the Wii days in which they got only shovelware or severely butchered versions of 360/PS3 games from third parties: the main difference in many third party Switch games compared to their MS/Sony counterparts is mostly just running at 30 vs 60 FPS with no other major graphical or gameplay changes.

That said, Nintendo has been blessed to have mostly weak competition in the handheld console market up to now, so also hasn’t felt much pressure from outside in the handheld world until recently. Their handhelds have had quite the long lifespans: the Game Boy lasted from the late 80s to the 2000s before the upgrade to the GBA, and even after the Switch released the 3DS was still seeing relatively strong support until the turn of this decade, putting that at around a nine-year life cycle. I mention this because the Switch for many is as much a handheld as a home console. Now the Steam Deck and similar handheld PCs are giving Nintendo their first strong handheld competition since the PSP (among dedicated gaming machines, I don’t include smartphones). That handheld challenge may also be behind fans’ push for a Switch 2 soon and/or featuring more graphical power than Nintendo may have originally been wanting. But even then, they are mostly best off moving at their own pace and not trying too hard to keep up with the competition. It’s when they have tried to keep up that they hit their lowest numbers compared to MS/Sony, such as the GameCube and the Wii U. When they do their own thing and take the time to get it right is when they are at their best.

Yo, an official Western release of AAI2! I’ve played the fan translation, but definitely gotta pick this up to see and support the official localization, tell Capcom there’s enough of a market. Though IIRC, they were planning on localizing it at its original release but they needed either the localization team or the original devs for other stuff so they ended up not being able to. Nice to see they finally got back to it.

Sounds like it’s gonna be real cool. When does it hit the Neon User repos?

I live in one of the most rural states in the country, where loads to haul are generally large and the posted speed limit on the highway is usually 75 mph, and the de facto highway speed is usually 5-10 mph above that. No truck that can barely push 70 is gonna keep up with that. On top of that, you’re dealing with ice and snow on the roads half the year, so you’ll need to be able to deal with that too.

IMO the title of “worst computer tech company” is essentially a tie between MS and Google right now, with the two constantly one-upping the other back and forth on stupid ideas and corporate practices.

Advertising costs money to produce, and the vast majority of paid Linux distro users, such as Red Hat, SUSE, etc., are business/enterprise users, who usually wouldn’t rely on advertising through TV, YouTube, and so on to find enterprise computing solutions. It would be a disconnect between the ad platform and the primary target market.

That rumor was thoroughly put to bed by reporters on the inside pretty much the moment it started to spread. Could’ve been a tactic by his agent pushing for more money or another team that wanted him. The trade-ups the team attempted were for Drake Maye (failed) and then for Turner (success).

JJ gets his record-setting money and Kwesi continues to make up for his first two years as GM. Been an awesome off-season for Vikings fans. Now we watch and hope it translates to us finally hoisting the Lombardi trophy while JJ’s still here.

Being super smart and super evil are NOT mutually exclusive. Intelligence =|= morality.

I really should go back and try picking up where I left off in Unicorn Overlord weeks ago, but for some reason I’ve found shiny hunting in Pokemon Violet more entertaining. I’m rather surprised at how Unicorn Overlord felt so bland and disappointing. I think I was expecting one type of game and got something quite different in a way that just couldn’t hold my interest. Maybe I just got burned out on high fantasy JRPG games and need to play something different yet still fun for me for a while.

Sounds similar to here in Minnesota/the Dakotas. For as popular as hockey is up here they could at least air an NHL game or two on non-cable TV, but nope. We’re at the mercy of a literally bankrupt and dying RSN that carries every non-NFL pro league and has priced itself out of most cable, satellite and streaming carriers. It should almost literally be illegal for the Twins, Wolves, Lynx and Wild to ALL be on the same channel (Bally Sports North) that most people in the market can’t even watch because no providers in their area can afford to carry it.

I solved the issues yesterday by building from source, which solved the crashing issue (guessing a packaging issue with the .deb version is one problem) and then after one restart of the app I was able to add my library. Works fine now.

It boggles the mind how sports leagues just can’t get it through their heads that all they need to do is open their out-of-market streaming to home markets and watch their service print money.

MLB is the absolute worst, like they really are actively trying to make it impossible to watch your home team. Really easy to watch every out-of-market team, though.

I did miss the thing about data breaches. Good to know about the useful feature!