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That looks correct to me if uid 1101 == userC. Sorry, don’t really know what it might be then.

Complete shot in the dark, but I would start by comparing podman system info between the two user accounts, with the most importance on the idMappings. Podman is usually configured to use rootless by default, and this can result in wildly different behavior based on whether /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid are configured to give your user IDs or not. See tutorial if your user 1001 is missing.

Modern distro installers tend to give the user created during setup 65536 IDs, but useradd usually doesn’t do that by default. This is really distro-specific stuff though and I don’t know how modern Fedora handles it, so I might be grasping at nothing here.

For a second, I was wondering if it’s Dominant Species. But I don’t think it had anything resembling human houses or cool UI.

14 layers is insane, but 3 to 5 is on the real low side for a $300B corp with lots of massive studios too. The vision presented is gonna be real awkward for companies working on more than 1 game at a time, or with huge 200+ employee teams. Activision-Blizzard-King in particular, World of Warcraft has a handful of sub-teams that have to coordinate stuff and Call of Duty runs on coordinated yearly releases.

I can easily imagine 7 layers for WoW or 8 layers for CoD. That’s not bloat, just the inevitable end-result of Satya Nadella being ultimately responsible for approving the salary of whoever’s writing the latest Call of Duty, the main project of a wholly owned subsidiary (the four studios making CoD on rotation) of an acquired company (Activision) of Microsoft’s side project gaming division (XBOX).

Another choice quote from the original IGN interview that this is from:

Sweeney: […] The only way that we can hope for new games coming into the market to be able to succeed when there’s so much Metcalfe’s Law at play and so many captive audiences in the really big games – you know, Fortnite, Roblox, PUBG Mobile, and a few other really huge ones – it’s got to be that those games get momentum by connecting to the economies in other games. I think that can really reinvigorate the market if people are constantly looking to new games and sources of new items that they can earn everywhere and be able to really easily move together with their friends.

Guy got talked into the whole blockchain NFT crap so hard that he’s still trying to make it happen, as if it was ever a desirable thing that the best way to get some kind of gear or cool cosmetics in game A involves playing game B instead.

My favorite demo this time around has been Sting & Swing. Bee golf is a cursed concept somehow turned into an Animal Well esque game.

To add to that, even the original paper written with 1999-2007 era SDRAM/DDR/DDR2 is not optimistic about the scenario of a machine that was already powered down at regular operating temperatures:

with the fastest exhibiting complete data loss in approximately 2.5 seconds and the slowest taking an average of 35 seconds

And that only got worse with more advanced RAM, not to mention that they lost almost all of the data far quicker than that with only a couple % of bits surviving that long. For all practical intents and purposes, cold boot against an already-powered-down machine is a myth, the cooling has to be applied while it’s on.

One example: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=oracle-bin&id=eceeb808ef933a66285ea68cefd72c1b5f4374c9 . It seems the AUR team forcepushed the malicious commits out of the repo branches, likely to prevent being accidentally reused by git-bisect in the future, but the URLs still seem to work until they run garbage collection. The author/committer information on each affected commit impersonated a previous maintainer of that particular repository and isn’t real.

The whole thing essentially just boils down to adding a cd /tmp; npm install [random crap] post-install hook to every abandoned repository they easily got access to, which itself had a post-install hook to set up malware things. npm has nulled the affected packages, though it took them somewhere around 24 hours to do so. atomic-lockfile was one of them.

A different FAQ item mentions Winward NL Limited is in the Cayman Islands, which is a really nice place if you would want to hide such links. But yeah, could also be a bunch of individuals just looking for some extra yachts (bonus irony if they buy them from Gaben’s yacht company).

I didn’t play the demo, so I was a bit surprised to find it has less in common with Link’s Awakening and Castlevania than you might think

To me, the demo felt like it was setting up something resembling more of a Zelda game, even though the demo itself wasn’t very Zelda due to its length. Which kinda made it worse to me, I thought I would get Legend of Mouse: Oracle of Slightly Souls and unexpectedly got Mouse Souls for the Gameboy Color.

That is a game I could ultimately find enjoyment in, but at 5-ish hours into the game, I was incredibly frustrated by the difference in expectations vs what I just played. The Zelda influence does show up a bit more later in the game as dungeon/world design improves a bit, but it remains thinner than I would’ve preferred. The “Souls mechanics” can mostly be turned off via the modifiers menu, but that doesn’t really turn the game into what I would’ve preferred either.

For the right person, this is going to be a GotY candidate. I’m glad I did play it through to the end, but it’s too soulsy for me to truly appreciate it. I will say that the soundtrack very well might be my soundtrack of the year though; easily Jake Kaufman’s finest work (and the OST is pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp!).

There’s strong indications that there is going to be some minor but technically base-breaking rebalancing. Getting rid of “space casinos” (quality asteroid upcycling) and platform thruster stacking was mentioned as being ready over a year ago, but they didn’t want to break existing bases at that time. This is their last good moment for it.

With the game being out for the better part of a day now, I gotta admit, the much less positive Giant Bomb review is by far the one closest to my experience.

As far as I’m concerned, this game would have been ever so much better if Dark Souls never existed. You can turn off most “souls-like mechanics” via modifiers, but just about anything to make the experience easier turns off all achievements, which is a not-so-silent judgment from the developers for doing it. Boss runbacks are looooong, but if you’re willing to disable achievements, you can have a bonus checkpoint before every boss. So the devs really want you to do runbacks, but I struggle to see what they add to the game. Basically the same complaint as Silksong but I am even more tired of them by now, and the runbacks are worse.

Currency loss and estus flasks plasma vials don’t really add to the game, either.

I ended up wanting an online pseudonymous identity as well as an offline real-life identity, which leads to needing multiple phone numbers when things are tied to said number. That’s extremely annoying to manage, especially with Signal’s current activity and update policies that essentially require you to keep a phone in a drawer, charge it and log into it every so often or risk losing your entire account due to inactivity, as only the mobile device counts for that purpose (this might supposedly be changing).

In that particular scenario, I don’t really care if my least-favorite three-letter-agency or law enforcement can link my identities. It’s a nice bonus if they can’t, but not an absolutely required feature. The main worry is the person on the other end trivially learning it. But the person on the other end might have a different set of worries that makes Signal one of the few available options for them.

That said, Telegram also requires a phone number and has exactly the same issue, so this is a rather weird thread to bring that up.

Can’t wait for a new generation to rediscover the exciting fun of having to survive Kil’Jaeden’s balls and whatever that darkness phase is even supposed to be, despite the boss technically hitting 1 HP in 5 seconds.

The whole “don’t look anything up before playing it” genre of cryptic puzzle-ish games where saying nearly anything about it is a spoiler. There’s not all that many of them, but somehow they’re all games where people go in with no expectations and either love it or bounce off of it really fast. The entire internet can scream at you to play Outer Wilds, but nobody wants to tell you why.

Out of the ones I played, I had the lowest expectations/highest payoff for Void Stranger; on the surface it looks just like a pretty average sokoban with gameboy-styled graphics and a surprisingly good soundtrack. And that’s pretty much what it is, except the sokoban isn’t really why you play it, even though you’re gonna be playing a lot of it.

The PS2 Ace Combat games (4/5/Zero) are still best-in-genre as far as I’m concerned, and have held up exceedingly well in general. Aerial dogfighting with good controls, good mission design and interesting story.

Sky Odyssey is a more “relaxed” little flight game that I also like, still got game-like controls but no combat, just missions where you fly through hard situations.

I’ve also been playing this, even though it’s well out of what I normally play. I’d describe it as being closer to an ARPG than a MOBA, and for both better and for worse, it feels like a roguelike version of mid-seasonal gameplay in ARPGs. Couple of buttons on relatively short cooldowns backed up by buildcrafting meant to make those buttons utterly broken with lots of good opportunities available. There’s okay variance between runs. Buildcrafting is super flexible in general, you can move all of your ability upgrades around to other abilities at any time with no cost, you can even give almost everything to friends in co-op.

Not all is good. The game was review-bombed at launch due to the metaprogression and cooldown changes from the demo, and honestly, that was probably correct. The balancing work and the per-character XP requirements ruined some of the fun that the demo had. The worst was hotfixed within a day, even adding a compensation system for demo players, and progress is like 3X faster now, but it still feels like it’s too slow and not fluid enough. I sorta settled on having a “main” in a genre that’s more fun if you swap between characters to keep things fresh. The devs will probably find a solution sooner than later.

There’s some other problems like the performance absolutely tanking in lategame regardless of what you’re playing on (my trusty RX 580 performs about as well as my friend’s RTX 4080, and that’s a pretty universal complaint), there’s some multiplayer bugs like a boss attack that only the host can survive, some questionable balancing here and there, one of the 8 characters feels unfinished (Shell), but overall it’s been pretty good, fills a pretty unique role and the problems don’t really detract from what I’m getting out of it.

I’ve seen the claim around but I’m highly skeptical of it. DDR5 is far too slow for anything where memory bandwidth really matters, any newly produced chip that’s gonna be used for AI is on HBM3 or HBM3e, or possibly GDDR6/GDDR7 if it’s a GPU pulled from the consumer segment. HBM5 is still a very, very early research project and is certainly not being produced yet.

The idea is interesting, but $13/month for one ‘mystery’ album from an artist you (most likely) don’t know feels rather up there.

root= isn’t correct for booting a live image like this. You need to use some specific parameters to guide the initramfs to where it can find the /boot/x86_64/airootfs.sfs file, and in general, something like that will be the case for most distros but there are lots of unique mechanisms. Looking at the grub.cfg, /loader/entries or similar files will usually get you some things you can put into your favorite search engine to hopefully find some documentation. For Arch it’s part of mkinitcpio-archiso: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio-archiso/-/blob/master/docs/README.bootparams?ref_type=heads

I don’t have a setup to test it but if If I’m not mistaken something like this should work:

options  "archisosearchuuid=2025-08-01-13-39-26-00"