Well, PolyMC (PrismLauncher antecessor) was forked from MultiMC after its dev had a big disagreement over how it was packaged in Linux Distros, so I suppose it makes sense the primary audience is Linux

The upside of this is that your games aren’t locked to the streaming platform. When you get yourself a PC you stop paying for Nvidia’s service, log into your Steam account and enjoy your games locally.

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Regedit but it’s a GUI dotfile manager. Imagine that.

Ah, it seems like this is just Linuxfx after a rebrand.
I recommend reading this article about their incredibly shoddy security (and software development) practices around their “Pro” version.

I use YADM which is a thin wrapper around a bare git repo but still has some creature comforts like per-machine configs and templating.
Since you still need to interact with Git, I pair it with Lazygit. Love that software, I do everything Git with it now!
Unfortunately it is a little jank due to the way Lazygit handles bare repos, thankfully there’s a command that sets up the needed Git variables for it to work correctly: yadm enter lazygit

I send the repo to my own Forgejo instance. Kinda overkill but I was already self-hosting other services so I thought “Fully private Git server just for me? Why not?”

Now, this is only for managing user level files. For managing system level configs I haven’t setup anything yet.
YADM has a solution for this but it seems a little jank, maybe I’ll learn Ansible instead, dunno.

until recently, but I think everyone knows what happened

What? I don’t, what happened? Did Ninite become sketchy?

On a semi-related note, does anyone know if there’s any modern laptops that still support regular S3 Sleep? Or did they all switch to S0ix?

But our WebSocket streaming layer sits on top of the Moonlight protocol, which is reverse-engineered from NVIDIA GameStream.

Mf? The GameStream protocol is designed to be ultra low latency because it’s made for Game Streaming, you do not need ultra low latency streaming to watch your agents typing, WTF?
They’re gonna be “working” on a desktop, why the hell didn’t you look into VNC instead? RDP??
You know, protocols with built-in compression and other techniques to reduce their bandwidth usage? Hello?? The fuck are you doing???

Modern integrated GPUs have gotten pretty good lately. If it comes a day where we can’t buy GPUs, we’ll be able to enjoy older titles without much trouble at least…

Just taking this opportunity to remind everyone that the Limewire you knew is no longer. From Wikipedia:

Name reuse by unrelated companies
In 2022, Austrian brothers Julian and Paul Zehetmayr bought LimeWire’s intellectual property and turned it into an NFT service.
LimeWire’s name was revived in 2022 for an unrelated music-based NFT platform, an action with which Gorton expressed displeasure.

Please don’t use no crypto bro NFT infused trash. Go watch the segment from Archive.org.
Seed the torrent if you wanna spread the word.

It’s infinitely safer than this sketchy ass company.

They could. But Java is much more moddable, so whatever they did the community would undo almost immediately.

Bedrock has been doing shitty monetisation for ages. Play Java, enjoy.

TW: Potentially the dumbest comment I’ve ever read on Lemmy.

Oh yeah? Go beat Talos Principle then.

Ngl, it pisses me off that number 4 on the Top 10,000 list is “Clean Baby Sleep White Noise (Loopable)”

Omfg even the neonazis are annoyed at this bullshit?

Small studio and indie titles on 50% off steam sales has been my jam of late

Oh, same.
The wacky performance I’ve been getting on Talos Principle 2 has been annoying me though. Wish they stayed in the Serious Sam engine instead of switching to UE5

One of the commenters said:

“avoid building a PC right now” is advice I’ve been following since 2017

And honestly yeah. I guess at this point if you can afford it, just pull the plug whenever, it’s always some bullshit going on the PC Market anyway.