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I used EndevourOS with Nvidia for years but one day an update brought a black screen and decided to use something else (downgrade didn’t fix it). I’m currently using Tumbleweed and it works well, but I kinda miss Arch… So I installed CachyOS in my Steam Deck.

Maybe text-heavy would be a more accurate description.

I’m currently playing Betrayal At Krondor on my old Celeron PC. I played a couple of chapters a few years ago but I left it there, so I’ve started again and I’m on chapter 2. Since the game is slow and mostly text based, I think its gameplay has aged quite well. I’m playing it with MT-32 sound and music thanks to my MT32-Pi.

I’m also replaying Undertale on my PS Vita, it looks great on its OLED screen.

It’ll always be at 1HP from now on.

You need to water your PC while it says seeding until the status changes to sprouting.

Metal Machine Music.

Why? Just listen to it.

It looks great, but why wasn’t Ocelot moving his mouth while he was speaking?

I hope it does really well, can’t wait to try it.

Here you go:

Four former Volkswagen managers have been convicted of fraud for their roles in the so-called Dieselgate scandal, which erupted when U.S. regulators discovered that the company had installed software to cheat emissions tests on millions of VW, Audi, and Porsche vehicles worldwide.

The court sent the former head of diesel engine development behind bars for four years and six months, and the former head of powertrain electronics to two years and seven months. Two others — Volkswagen’s former development director and a former department head — received suspended sentences, according to Der Spiegel and Deutsche Welle reports from the Braunschweig courtroom.

The verdict follows nearly four years of proceedings and adds to the mounting legal troubles for Volkswagen. Prosecutors had asked for prison terms of two to four years, while the defense argued the men were scapegoats. Appeals remain possible.

After being caught cheating in 2015, the company admitted to installing software in its diesel engines that activated emissions controls only during laboratory testing, allowing the vehicles to meet U.S. standards while in real-world driving, the vehicles emitted up to 40 times more pollutants.

The fallout forced CEO Martin Winterkorn to resign, although he denied wrongdoing. U.S. authorities issued an arrest warrant for Winterkorn in 2018, but Germany does not extradite its nationals. His trial in Germany was paused in 2021 due to health issues, but he remains a key figure under investigation.

Meanwhile, the arrest of Audi’s then-CEO Rupert Stadler in 2018 marked a dramatic shift, as German prosecutors expanded their probe into current executives. Stadler was accused of continuing to sell cars with illegal software even after the scandal broke.

Across the Atlantic, two former VW engineers — Oliver Schmidt and James Robert Liang — are already serving prison sentences in the U.S. Schmidt, who once led VW’s environmental office in the U.S., was sentenced to seven years after initially denying guilt but later reaching a plea deal. Liang received 40 months after cooperating with prosecutors.

Currently, German authorities are investigating up to 40 executives and engineers across Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche, with parallel cases against Daimler (Mercedes) and BMW under way.

OCCRP previously reported on Volkswagen’s 2017 U.S. guilty plea and multibillion-dollar settlement.

The Dieselgate saga has so far cost VW an estimated €33 billion ($37.5 billion) and the legal and financial fallout is far from over.

Thousands of European customers continue to press for compensation, while investigators on both sides of the Atlantic keep pushing for accountability at the highest levels.

You can always buy a used Switch 2 once it’s hackable.

https://youtu.be/7J1Av4bVQiQ

https://invidious.f5.si/watch?v=7J1Av4bVQiQ

This gives me flashbacks. I had to take Java exams with pen and paper. They took 6+ hours. The reason? Not enough computers for everyone and our teacher wasn’t willing to make 2 different exams, like every other fucking teacher does.

If you ever see yourself in the need of information about the DOS era again, Vogons is the place to go IMHO.

People should like Epic for giving more money to developers than Steam.

They give more money to publishers* That may or may not translate into more money for the developers, but seeing how the industry is going, I’m more inclined to believe devs don’t see a cent from the extra cut in most cases.

You could post a collage of all 364 screenshots together, but that must be quite a bit of work.

You’re getting very close to 365, have anything special in mind for that day?

I hate the old before-my-time ‘tank controls’

Yeah, now I feel old. Crow Country is a nice little game, very nostalgic for old people like me ;p

I’m slowly making my way through Expedition 33 and loving every minute. I think I might be stuck for a while in a boss, will have to check a guide online.

Silent Hill 2 is such a great remake, I’m glad they decided to release it DRM-free. I played the original back in 2002 with a friend, but we were high as a kite and we were teenagers, so we didn’t really understand the story that well. When I played the remake in October I ended up crying, it’s a fucked up situation.

I spent months watching people play it for the first time on Twitch, quite entertaining and enlightening to see how differently everyone reacted to it. The thing every player had in common was that they started it thinking it was a cool, scary game (which it is) and ended up finding so much more. A masterpiece IMHO.

As always, thank you for your great post.

I’m one of those who have 10 or less games installed, because having more would only be detrimental to my experience. I’d be unable to choose and then I’d play even less than I already do lately.

P.S.: Thank you for the interview, very interesting.

My ex’s chihuahua. We were walking him at this park one day, the park had a few walls that were like 20 to 30cm high that had grass fields on top. He looks at one of the walls from afar and decides he’s jumping it. He starts sprinting with confidence, head held high, but when he arrives he jumps forward instead of upwards and smashes his face against the wall. Only his pride was hurt, but I nearly died of laughter, I couldn’t help it.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I think there’s going to be a crash in the industry sooner rather than later. The situation is becoming unsustainable.