Frick, my desire to have a Steam Frame is rising daily.

A few years ago I created a small pen & paper roleplaying game for my kids to play as dinosaurs. They very much wanted their dinosaurs to be feathered. The kids are alright.

My daughter’s young T-Rex:

My guess is the point is anti bot. Not necessarily Lemmy bots but just normal crawlers hammering the server.

Yes, of course.

There are 2-3 major roadblocks. Like others mentioned we simply lack drivers. But in my opinion the biggest issue is the lack of a BIOS equivalent for ARM systems.

Most PCs use x86 processors while most phones use ARM processors. And most x86 systems come with a BIOS (nowadays UEFI). That is a very simple operating system that runs when the computer starts and it gives a standard way for other operating systems like Windows and Linux to start up. That way the same x86 operating system can start on just about every x86 computer.

ARM lacks this standardisation. Although there do exist some projects to fix this they are not in use on most phones. So you actually have to make a custom way to just start up for each and every phone.

On top of that and the general lack of drivers many manufacturers lock their phones down so that only their own operating system may start.

No, not at all. By default Wine should offer your whole Linux drive on Z:, so you can choose whatever location you want.

Heroic puts the games in ~/Games/Heroic/gamename but the .wine folder in ~/Games/Heroic/prefixes/gamename. Steam does something similar.

You should also consider using a helper like Lutris, Heroic or Bottles. They create a separate .wine folder for every game. That way it is easier to manage multiple conflicting libraries and Wine versions. If your home is on BTRFS or other deduplicating filesystem the additional space needed for multiple .wine folders is almost zero.

If you don’t want to use a helper program you can still utilise multiple non-standard .wine locations with the WINEPREFIX environment variable.

Cloud saves. It’s still in beta so you have to activate it yourself.

I’ve switched to Heroic. It works much better. It downloads the game files directly, supports updates and even cloud saves a little bit.

You’re looking for Mcon (or however it’s spelled).

Oh, transparent background. Very friendly.

SUSE has had graphical administration tools for literally decades. Somehow people always forget that.

What? Like heart medicine making your erections last longer? Preposterous!

That’s for fried rice the next day!

Just thought of something. When you press Ctrl+Alt+Escape your mouse cursor should change into a red skull and bones. Clicking on the invisible app should kill it.

Yes, but you can also spin a modern player and just listen closely to the needle.

Strange, that’s exactly how much rice I always make.

Records and their players are tangible. You don’t need any electricity to play a record. It is a kind of magic the human mind can comprehend.

VHS tapes and cathode ray tubes on the other hand work with magnets and quantum physics and shit. Nobody knows how they fucking work.

Can I impress dog-lovers by mentioning microplates?

Subscribed. Unfortunately.

This sounds like some invisible app is open and intercepting the clicks. If you can get into kDE’s settings configure it to always start an empty session and not start the same programs that were open when it shut down. Maybe you can get to that window by alt-tabbing.