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There’s actually a video of it too that a lot of people haven’t seen (Video visuals are SFW, though there is gunfire sounds in the distance in the second half). The image alone misses a lot of what the guy did, he even climbed on top of the tank.

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/YeFzeNAHEhU?si=bdKE9yo6HukO3Fhc

Private frontend link: https://piped.syncpundit.io/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU

Just for some extra clarification as not everyone will read the article (not meant rudely), this is $100k to both Godot and FNA each, for a total of $200k, and $1k monthly to them both as well, for a total of $2k per month.

For average use not really, assuming the VPN is reliable and trustworthy, and if by average you mean just regular day to day browsing.

When you start getting into the territory of doing stuff that would actually get investigated, it has some benefits like having a little bit of protection from possibly backdoored servers, MITM, etc.

For regular privacy in day to day, it is an improvement but I wouldn’t consider it worth the latency gain unless absolutely needed.

If you use cloudflare dns/1.1.1.1 as your dns, archive.ph / archive.today blocks access from them. If it’s not then that I’m not sure

They should for most. If the games are on both Epic and Steam you can check https://protondb.com to get a general idea of how well it will run, for any games that are only on Epic, I’d recommend doing some quick searches to see how much luck people have had getting them to run on steam deck/linux. Most games for me have worked perfectly fine with similar performance as Windows, and installing Windows on the Deck is still an option for the games that don’t.

As for the alternatives to the Steam Deck, I wouldn’t go for them over the Deck personally, but I have never used them. I would think the games that have been optimized for the deck would run better on the deck than the alternatives due to its popularity. I might consider them if they were a good bit cheaper than the Deck though and it was a good deal.

Edit: I should also note that I play on a Linux Desktop, not the Deck, but aside from the specs difference the games actually working or not would be almost exactly the same between the two because of how Proton and Wine work.

Still I’m not convinced of Steam OS compared to Windows 11, since I would like to play also Epic games and maybe some emulators

You can actually play games from Epic Games and other stores on Steam Deck with Lutris or Heroic Games Launcher (or a few other options) and you can install emulators on it too, it has a desktop mode, so you’re not locked into only Steam stuff. Also, you can put Windows on the Steam Deck too as an option if you prefer, I don’t know many people who have but the option is there.

I saw this yesterday and posted this in the disqus thing on the link but completely forgot to post it here too. While it’s being added in Firefox beta as a native feature, this has actually existed as a “by firefox” extension for a bit now and they’ve just been quietly working on it in the background. If you want to try this out without switching to Firefox beta, you can install it here but make sure to remove it once it gets properly added.

Same here, I love what Lutris has done and it’s made a ton of games way easier to run on Linux, but Heroic has given me that “download and click play” feel that I missed from Windows. It abstracts away a lot of the process but still leaves ways to configure it heavily for those who need.

Am a fan of the simple by default, powerful when needed approach.

Planning on playing through Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 for the first time this week. Know almost nothing about the game, nothing about DnD rulesets, just diving directly in because a partner very highly recommended them.

Edit: Ended up buying Baldur’s Gate 3 and getting into it instead, looks like I’m gonna be playing it in 3 > 1 > 2 order. As a side note, performance was way better on Vulkan than Directx11 for me, despite common advice being to use Directx11 on Linux for the game.