I noticed a change in your titles a few days ago. What happened to “until l forget to post Screenshots”? I don’t think you forgot, did you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

Disappointing that it doesn’t show anything at all without javascript.

Long ago, I solved all of the ways in which PHP made me sad…

…by abandoning it.

Nowadays we have better languages that can do the job at least as well.

Breath of the Wild: Beautiful. Mysterious. Inspired.

Tears of the Kingdom. Big. Shallow. Boring.

I found the first dozen or two hours of TotK exciting, as I encountered new mechanics and a darker side of Hyrule. But it wasn’t long before the new and exciting became endless expanses of copy/paste encounters and terrain, forgettable characters, and annoying enemies. Nothing felt clever or interesting. I lost interest in exploring, and wandered away from the game.

Then I went back to the first game for another run.

Also, units of fun earned while watching other people play.

One nice thing about an arcade is that you can see regular people (not streamers/professionals/actors) interacting with a game, and notice subtleties that aren’t represented in a bullet list or trailer video.

SomaFM uses shoutcast/icecast streams, so just about any half-decent media streaming device or software can play it.

What makes you think that? It’s possible that they did it in-house, of course, but there’s no precedent for it. No previous Civ had a linux version done in-house.

I don’t think so. There’s no mention of it on their site.

Do you know who made the port?

Thanks for the perspective. :)

Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Anti-tamper

Requires 3rd-Party Account: 2K Account for Online Interactions

Somebody please wake me up when these atrocities are gone. (And thanks, Steam, for making them easy to discover.)

Are you including Brave New World in that comparison? I’ve never played Civ 5 without it.

I just referred them to 5 because it was almost as good

Why do you consider Civ 6 better than 5?

Edit for anyone else wanting to answer: Please specify whether you’re including Brave New World (or Gods and Kings) in your comparison, since those expansions significantly improved upon the original Civ 5 release.

The article refers to the pandemic as though it’s over, which doesn’t exactly help with the problem. Sigh.

Glad you got it working!

BTW, in case you’re not aware of it, you might find the shellcheck command useful when writing scripts.

I can’t tell from that error message whether the inner quotes are being discarded when the command is run, or just hidden when the error message is displayed.

Too bad it doesn’t tell you what part of the command is causing the syntax error. Have you checked for more info in the output of journalctl --boot _UID=1000? (Assuming your user id is 1000 and you use systemd.)

Re-reading the spec page that I linked above, I see reference to both a general escape rule and a quoting rule. That could be complicating things with the quotes and backslashes, and maybe even the dollar signs and semicolons, which apparently are reserved. In case it helps, I don’t think those semicolons are needed at all.

Before diving deeper into escaping rules, though, I would consider whether it’s time to move the whole command line into a script, and simply pass %f to the script in your Exec= line. That would avoid the need for nested escaping/quoting, and allow you to write debug information to a temporary file when the script runs.

You’re using single quotes in your Exec lines, which is not legal .desktop file syntax.

I suggest replacing your single quotes with double quotes, and replacing your double quotes with backslash-escaped double quotes.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241130225327/https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/exec-variables.html

TIL 7 is a “massive amount”.

As someone who runs multiple desktop sessions at once, each on a different virtual console, sddm is a continual pain in my workflow. Notably:

• It assigns desktop sessions to virtual consoles inconsistently, and has no way to manually configure them, so Control+Alt+FN often switches to a session that’s not the one I wanted. The assignments can change from day to day or any time a session logs out and back in. This makes using multiple desktops a constant pain.
• I don’t know for sure, but I suspect it is behind the graphical glitch that makes the desktop session unlock screen draw incredibly slowly on KDE 5. Having to wait several seconds for each character in my passphrase to register is an annoying waste of time.