there are a couple of regressions we’re tracking, particularly around the areas of external monitor brightness

Oh no, please don’t! This release finally fixed the monitor brightness issue I had. It finally saves the brightness value and restores it after reboot. I had to set it manually after each boot before! Whatever regression you have, this fixed an issue for me. :D

This has nothing to do with forcing to buy. Scam prices are prices, because they take advantage of a situation in need and inflate them for more profit. And defending any scammer makes you part of the problem. I grew up with imports of videogames since the 90s and know this kind of problem well.

My reply was about your nonsense sympathizing reply:

those sellers should just eat the import duty and sell it at a loss

Which you fabricated it for god knows what reasons. It is not about selling it at a loss, dumbass. Man people are sometimes stupid.

You obviously never heard of taking advantage of such a situation. multiple $100 more is more than the import costs. Can’t believe how you are sympathizing with the scam prizes.

Ah that makes much more sense. So I completely misinterpreted the reply. :D

Those sellers should be ashamed to charge few $100 more and taking advantage of this situation.

The Year of Australia.

But Heroic Game Launcher and Lutris are not on Steam. So there is nothing Valve lets stand at the moment, there is no game shop on Steam to my knowledge. And if they were allowed to do so, its actually amazing.

But I wonder how this works, because people can purchase games from that launcher and not give any money to Valve, even though its on Steam. This is unheard of. Usually on any other game launcher if you buy anything from an app, regardless what type of app or game it is, then you have to pay to the shop 30% (or less). That’s how it works usually.

Yet again another reason why Steam as a monopoly is not even hurting. If anything, Tim from Epic Games store would take it down rather than Valve.

Agreed. Often typing out URL is just faster, but it depends on the URL. Also it depends on the situation and how good you are at it. In example to use the camera, I just hit one app and hold it to scan in a second. Compare this to click browser app, new tab, click url area and start typing. Maybe you make a typo or you did not, but read carefully three times so you don’t land on a wrong site. Maybe its cold days and you don’t like typing right now. Also helpful for people who have difficulties in typing for whatever reason. But if you were already holding the phone with the browser, then its less of a deal.

Also there is this surprise effect (as you already mentioned), which makes people curious too. It has error correction as well. So if there is a missing dot in the “i”, then you don’t need to try lowercase L or whatever.

Note, I am not a heavy phone user and didn’t buy one in years. So my view is limited and I have no idea how the current market is working. So don’t take my replies as “he knows better”, but more like “what he thinks”.

Fdroid can’t be installed by any Android? Its a shop that is installed once like Android store and then it manages and updates all apps from that store. Google is in a similar position like Steam, where the monopoly is only about market share. But the platform is still open.

You also open the phones to potential scammer to have identical looking website and instruct users to install app that steal identity.

Yes, but that is not Googles fault or task. Every shop has to make sure its secure and is outside of Googles responsibility. So this point is completely irrelevant for the discussions about being a monopoly. It’s like saying Steam is responsible for virus and identity theft because someone installed an application on another launcher, just because Steam is seen as a monopoly (I don’t agree Steam being a monopoly, just tried to explain what I mean with context to Android).

How? Android always allowed for side loading applications, even entire shops.

This is about Proton, not about a programming language. Besides that, C# is actually cross platform.

If you already have the screenshot files, then ImageMagick can create collages from multiple images. I’ve done that myself too. So that part can be easily automated through scripts.

# program input-files frame input-size output-file
montage shadow*.png -frame 5x4 -geometry 680x160 ./collage.png

In the above command montage is a tool that comes with ImageMagick. First argument is a list of files to as input, here all .png files starting with name shadow*, so it does not load up the existing collage.png file (which is the output). Then you specify the frames, how its ordered for each row. Then the size for the input images. Here all images have the same size. And at last you specify a single filename as output.

You don’t need a Steam Deck for this, it can be installed on regular Linux distributions on PC. On Steam Deck it would exactly the same. Look at the screenshots on the link you gave. This is how it will look like on Steam Deck.

Edit: However I do not recommend to install this project on a Steam Deck, because it changes files that is not meant to be changed. And on Steam Deck with its write lock this can cause problems:

DISCLAIMER:

This project modifies a small number of KDE Plasma UI components which are not meant to be modified. Make sure to create backups before attempting to install this project. I am not responsible for broken KDE and/or Linux installs.

Because this project is under development and relies on upstream for a lot of things, many things are subject to change and will likely break as KDE Plasma gets updated over time. Keep an eye out on the issue tracker for further details when things inevitably happen to break.

Lastly, feel free to fork this project and/or contribute to it in any way. Any and all effort is greatly appreciated.

Why don’t you try to install it?

Actually *nix isn’t a Regular Expression, because the star operator * requires a preceding character or object to apply to. This is a wildcard for the shell style globbing, where a single star doesn’t require a second object.

I want to use Glim too, because the binary Blobs in Ventoy are bugging me a lot. But Glim is a bit limited still: README

My experience has been that the safest filesystem to use is FAT32 (surprisingly!), though it will mean that ISO images greater than 4GB won’t be supported. Other filesystems supported by GRUB2 also work, such as ext3/ext4, NTFS and exFAT, but the boot of the distributions must also support it, which isn’t the case for many with NTFS (Ubuntu does, Fedora doesn’t) and exFAT (Ubuntu doesn’t, Fedora does). So FAT32 stays the safe bet.

Those are two completely different programs. balencaEtcher is for flashing an ISO to the USB stick. Basically its like installing an operating system on your hard drive, but it installs it on the USB drive. It will make it bootable. If you want a different OS, you have to completely flash the drive and replace whats there.

Ventoy will also make the USB stick bootable, but it will not flash an operating system onto it. It’s more like a general launcher of ISO files. This means, you only install Ventoy once and then can drag and drop ISO files to a folder. If you boot Ventoy from USB stick, it will show a list of all available ISO files. Choose one and it boots into the distribution, like you would have flashed it with balencaEtcher.

The advantage of Ventoy is clear: Easy replaceable ISO files and having many to choose from withing a single installation. Filenames of ISOs doesn’t matter and they can be placed in sub directories in the ISO folder I think. Ventoy will just list all available ISOs you can choose and boot into. The disadvantage is, that some distributions or hardware might not work well with Ventoy, but that’s not my experience so far.

You can follow news in this hub https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200 . Each post contains the highlighted changes and updates.

Here is a little bonus to have in mind: You can convert newline characters to null, then grep with option null, and at last convert null characters back to newline. Now I don’t think its useful in this case, but its good to know; therefore its a bonus information:

ps aux | tr '\n' '\0' | \grep --null-data ^root | tr '\0' '\n'