So two-part question here:

If you've played Watch Dogs: Legion, did you like it?

And especially, did you like it for the story?

This makes me think the game is not primarily about the story: https://opencritic.com/game/7405/watch-dogs-legion

I played WD2 and enjoyed that quite a bit though never finished it.

I want the next game I play on my PC (via Steam, etc...) to have a great story. Recommendations greatly appreciated.

Other games I've played with what I thought were great stories: Psychnoauts 2, Portal 2, Soma (though I'm not really into scary games), Firewatch, Metro all, The Talos Principle

Cheers,

(Not mine, just sharing)

Today I stumbled across this site, which allows you to see whether your CPU and GPU are well paired, for various tasks.

E.g., here's my current set up, for "graphics intensive tasks":

https://thebottlenecker.com/calculator/purpose/3-graphic-card-intense-tasks/10f-amd-ryzen-5-5600x/185-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060/3840x2160

And the site tells me this for that combination:

While the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X is well-equipped to manage strenuous computational tasks, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 limited graphical prowess may compromise the overall system efficiency. This disparity could lead to decreased performance and less effective utilization of system resources. To rectify this imbalance, an upgrade to a more capable graphics card that complements the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X processing abilities is advisable.

Neat!

(Standard disclaimers - I am not affiliated with the site and YMMV)

Not to defend this as an institution or anything, but if you and your partner do anything special, what is it?

(And yes, I am fishing for ideas haha)

I saw this on my breakfast cereal box (in the US) and looked it up. A company called Navilens made this to help visually impaired people with things like street signs, etc... neat!

https://navilens.com

EDIT TO ADD: Haha, I forgot I am on lemmy so we're discussing the technology and licensing issues, instead of focusing on how this might improve the lives of visually impaired people.

The game is Stray. Developed by Blue Twelve. Published by Annapurna Interactive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stray_(video_game)

Without spoiling anything, there's way more to this than just a cat simulator. Loving it so far, in any case. I recommend this to anyone who loves exploring new worlds, interacting with lots of locals, solving puzzles. Everything about it has both a familiar RPG feel and also a sense of new to it. And it plays really well on Linux via Steam.

Around 2000 or so, I used to work in tech support for a software company who had like 5000 Windows-based customers and 5 running Solaris. My boss chose me to learn Solaris when the previous "expert" left. I bought this book and started hacking. Good times!

Lurkers - what's your story?

Just sharing something neat I learned today about Linux...

In Windows, I used to do this a lot:
-- Be at a command prompt, in some directory, e.g.: C:\my files\more files
-- When I need to see that same folder in the Windows GUI, I'd type: start . (note the period, meaning "this directory")
-- The Windows file manager would open in a new window, focused on that same folder as the path.

I realized today I didn't know how to do that in Linux (I'm on Ubuntu) so I searched around and found the xdg-open command.

The man page for xdg-open says:

xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web browser.

At any terminal prompt, I type something like:

xdg-open .

or xdg-open ~/Documents

And boom! A new KDE Dolphin files window appears, focused on that path.

or this works too, but with a browser:

xdg-open http://eff.org

Rock and/or roll!

I'm jonesing for these tower defense games. The first edition was released by Robot Entertainment in 2011, Orcs Must Die 2 came out in 2012, OMD Unchained (online multi-player) was from 2014 and OMD 3 was from 2020/2021. They're all great fun and I am sad that we may never get an OMD 4. Game 1 was single-player, 2 and 3 had coop mode too.

I toyed with the idea of creating a community here for the games, but I'm not sure there are enough fans / enough things to talk about now.

For now, here's an awesome slide show from Unchained, for any fans: https://de.ign.com/orcs-must-die-unchained-ps4/112585/gallery/embed

Pinry is like Pinterest, but open source and you can very easily self-host it. I just installed it a few days ago and it's really easy to learn; I've saved a few images in it that I wanted to keep. It's very handy, IMO.

This is the first self-hosted app I've installed that I think my family will want to use as well. Now, my SO and I can share pictures of things we want to work on around the house and such, and my kid can share pics of the dogs. Not exactly essential software but fun nonetheless!

The install via Docker was very easy. Just follow these steps. Just don't do what I did at first and follow the readme from a now out of date github repo. That doesn't work any more.

The source is here - https://github.com/pinry/pinry

Once you have it up, there's a bookmarklet visible from the home page that makes it very easy to "post" an image from any other site to your Pinry site in just a couple of clicks. There are Chrome and Firefox extensions instead, if you prefer. But wait - there's more! There's also an API included which would allow you to, for instance, post a Pin to your boards from the console via curl.

All in all, this is good stuff and I thank the team who are working on it very much.

I know this isn't any kind of surprise, and yet, well...