v0.10 - February 11, 2024

It's been a while since my last update on this tool. The truth is, it worked quite well over the years. I tried to do some GUI stuff too, but gave up on that, plus a few things changed in my life. But now I got a good reason to go back and do something.

Recently the emulator PPSSPP 1.17 got support for CHD files too. Finally! But there is a twist. The standard way of encoding CHD files with chdman createcd command are horrible for PSP games. I added a command -m or --mode to be able to choose between cd and dvd format. CD is the default, so be careful when converting PSP ISOs and use --mode dvd instead as an option.

Other than that I added a few more options, such as -s or --stats to display a summary at the end of the process. I also updated the Readme a little bit and and removed confusing and unnecessary Makefile and PKGBUILD files. Make sure to uninstall a previous tochd installation, if you gonna use the manual custom installer suggested_install.sh script.

• new: option -m to specify disc format created by chdman backend,
  defaults to cd, but for certain emulators (such as ppsspp) dvd is
  recommended
• new: option -s to display additional stats, such as a summary at the end and
  how long the operation took
• new option -n to simply shorten the displayed path of printed jobs as
  filenames only, excluding the folder part
• changed: also the install and uninstall scripts are reworked
• removed: Makefile deleted, no need for PyInstaller packaged bundles, assuming
  most modern distributions can run the Python script anyway
• removed: PKGBUILD deleted, which was used to create the Archlinux package
  for the AUR, its just confusing and unnecessary for the end user and not
  needed to be part of the project

• Palworld alltime peak today 2 hours ago: 1,864,421 - https://steamdb.info/app/1623730/charts/
• Counter Strike 2 alltime peak 9 months ago: 1,818,773 - https://steamdb.info/app/730/charts/

And the impressive thing is, Palworld isn't even free to play, it's a (relative cheap) priced games. So this number is not just people trying it out for free. Also have in mind the game is on Game Pass on Xbox and on PC. So there are actually people not buying and playing on Steam.

The only game with more concurrent player record is still held by PUBG, which is at 3.2 million.

I just purchased Crysis Remastered for only 1,49 Euros in Steam.

Payment Method: Steam Wallet
Purchased: Dec 21 @ 7:42pm
Crysis Remastered - 1,49€
Subtotal 	1,25€ 	
Discount 	-28,50€ 	( -95%)
Tax 	0,24€ 	
Total 	1,49€ 	

Opening the store page, shows its 10,49 Euros now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1715130/Crysis_Remastered/

But searching for the game shows its for the lower price:
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=_ASC&term=crysis&force_infinite=1&supportedlang=english%2Cgerman%2Cturkish&snr=1_7_7_151_7&page=1

Is this a special promotion, because I already own the original version of the game? Or was this sort of a bug maybe?

GNOME is by far the biggest target of harassment in the FOSS space but it's by no means unique to GNOME this happens to basically every project with any noticiable level of usage Full Episode: https://youtu.be/kO0V7BE1bEo

Modding isn’t specific to PC Gaming only. There are entire communities and specialists dedicated to the development of Romhacks for old console games. Today we are looking at the Genesis / Mega Drive system.

Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at a situation where one of the biggest brands in the world of NFTs, Bored Apes Yacht Club hosted an event in Hong Kong that left it's attendees potentially blind for the rest of their lives.

Note from me the poster: I added a bit title, because the original title is not descriptive.

Play the mod we are playing here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/812440/HalfLife_Absolute_Zero/

Watch the (nearly) unedited stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js4H-jq4DLw

We're playing a Half-Life Cut content recreation mod, Half-Life: Absolute Zero, with one of the original level designers from Valve Software, Brett Johnson. Mr. Johnson worked at Valve from 1996 until 1999, and was responsible for most of the design of Anomalous Materials, Unforeseen Consequences, Surface Tension, the multiplayer map Stalkyard, among many other things. We play through his sections of this recreation mod, judging it's accuracy, and telling stories of what Valve was like back in the 90s. This one is special, thank you Brett.

Squadron 42 is the single player campaign of Star Citizen, that is supposed to launch as a separate game. It's basically a small portion of Star Citizen, but with a story and ending. I'm still not confident; waited too long for that.

This video focuses on how Steam works to connect players with games they are likely to enjoy. Learn about the discovery mechanisms at work behind the scenes ...

You can download an English PDF of the presentation here: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/steamworks_docs/english/SteamVisibility102023.pdf

There are many reasons to dislike Nvidia on Linux. Here is a little thing that bugs me all the time, the updates. Normally the system updates would be quick and fast, but with the proprietary drivers of Nvidia involved, it gets quiet slow process. And I am not even talking about any other problem I encounter, just about the updates.

As an Archlinux based system user (EndeavourOS to be precise), I get new Kernel updates all the time. That means every time a new Kernel version is installed, the Nvidia driver DKMS has to be installed too. And that is basically the slowest part. But that's not too bad, even though it's doing this twice for each Kernel I have once.

What's more infuriating is, if you also happen to use Flatpaks for a very few applications. I really don't have many Flatpaks at all. Yet, the Nvidia drivers are installed in 7 versions or what?! And they are full downloads, each 340 MB or more. This takes ages and is the only part that takes long to update Flatpak system. I always do flatpak remove --unused to make sure nothing useless is present. /RANT (EDIT: Just typos corrected.)

A deep dive into Qtile Window Manager and BSPWM, which is better and who should use which one?

Alternative non Google link: https://tilvids.com/w/60cca815-f525-43cf-aa3a-ac5da7ee8e61

Musk put a giant X sign on top of the building and it is incredibly brightly flashing, even nights. Hope it gets down, this is stupid. Imagine someone gets a seizure of it or crashes car because it blinded the person.