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Fladder!

Basically I’ve been using Jellyfin for some years for streaming. Once I got the steam deck, I thought it’d be awesome to use it for offline viewing of Jellyfin content when I’m too tired to focus on a game, on long trakn rides!

So I looked for Jellyfin desktop clients, found one that I liked with offline downloads, namely Fladder. The install process for the Steam Deck wasn’t straightforward, so I learnt Flatpak packaging and submitted a PR to the GitHub project, which was well received. I can now watch my TV shows on the train when I don’t feel like playing!

For RTS (especially AoE II DE) I use them as:

• the SHIFT key(create 5 units instead of 1 when hold)
• activator for a different action group, where the joystick are mapped to a circular menu. E.g. one of these menu assigns units to one of the 6 quick groups in my circular menu, and I can then select these units with just the right joystick (no button pressed). Another one activates a right joystick circular menu to go to a building (and I did map nearly all building types…)

I can also combine these, to e.g. select all barracks

I’ll have a look at decky dictation, sounds pretty handy. Thanks for sharing!

Oh I got one from when I was a kid: my sibling’s friend once valled her an “invertebrate brain”. I’m glad she didn’t have any vertebrae in there!

Solo:

• Break the loop - small indie roguelite with some fun mechanisms
• Cassette Beasts - never played Pokemon before so any comparison would be helpless here. But a nice deck game on the train for sure!

Coop:

• For the King II - loved the first one, they did good with the second one
• Wartales - with 2 other friends, it’s our recurring Tuesday game night. Really fun gameplay!

It does look like a nice deck game. I only ever played World, but I eventually got tired by the endless grind. How is Rise in this regard?

Technically, most people?

Looks great! I haven’t played with it before, but the multi-profile per game feature looks very handy

Looks helpful, I’ll have to give it a try. Thanks!

To give context I was never a good competitive player, so I’m talking about casual play. I think I’m slightly less responsive than mouse+kb, but playing on the train is just a blast!

I also had to bind other buttons to improve response time:

• dpad down to go to last notification
• dpad to cycle between forums
• dpad eight for inactive villagers, left for army

Then Right Joystick is a radial menu to go to 6 groups. A is select all on screen. On top of that, I binded shift to L1 (the bottom left palet) which can be user in combination of most other buttons I binded: e.g. create 5 units, assign to group, select all inactive villagers etc…

I went through the William Wallace campaign to tune my conf, but I find it pretty good now!

Age of empires II, I’ve cleared a few campaigns with it! Left pad as mouse region on bottom left icons, right pad as mouse.

That’s indeed a pretty confusing wording!

Mayotte’s is part of overseas France, so I guess you are talking about mainland France?

So yes it may be the case for some of the island inhabitants, who as French citizens can travel to mainland France. Surely and understandbly some do, but reading the press this isn’t really part of the debate. At the same time, these citizens are also the ones installing the roadblocks and demanding these changes. Mayotte is also the French department where Le Pen’s right-wing party got the highest score (42.68%!) during the presidential 1st turn, so that’s not entirely surprising.

My point being, putting it under the scope of “this is mainland France government who wants to discourage immigration to mainland France” is wrong. A more accurate summary could be “this is mainland France governement giving in to demands of Mayotte inhabitants to discourage immigration to Mayotte”.

I don’t know about the rest of the developed world, that’d be interesting to know. EDIT: the wiki page has a nice map of the world giving this info https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

To answer your question, it would cause it to deviate from the rest of France, be it mainland or overseas France. All the territories have “jus soli”, but Mayotte already had lessened rights compared to the rest.

But this would need a revision of the constitution, to specifically remove this right from Mayotte. It’s possible that it may not pass though, given the controverse it created.

It’s true that this is coming from the right-wing french politicians. But it has nothing to do with immigration to mainland France though (read the article).

The situation in Mayotte is explosive: only a third of the adult population has a job, and 34% are registered as unemployed. You also have one inhabitant out of two coming from abroad. You have shanty towns growing everywhere. And in the past years, there has been a surge in violence between gangs, kidnappings etc… causing some inhabitants to install roadblocks in protest against the governement inaction. It’s effectively blocking the island, along with its economy, worsening the problem…

This looks like a desperate attempt to please the pissed locals to lift the roadblocks. So calling that a move to make sure the island’s inhabitants don’t go to mainland France is cliché and missing the whole context. This does not make the decision less controversial though. Nor useful…

Actually, to make it with cryptographic guarantees is pretty hard… I know of at least one university professor in the PET (Privacy Enhancing Technologies)/cryptography space who spent quite some time on his startup to develop such a search engine. In the end it all fell apart because of one the mathematical assumptions being unprovable. This is just one example but I guess it illustrates pretty well why we’ve yet to see a cryptographically secure/private search engine as a product!

+1 on Horizon Zero Dawn! Listening to the album I faved these ones:

• Aloy’s theme seems pretty obvious
• Years of Training was really epic and the matching cinematic was awesome to watch, xou really feel empowered
• Homecoming no spoilers but damn, still giving me goosebumps

Love it too! One that has been my top listen count for years is The Witcher 3 OST. The use of some slav traditional instruments was nothing I’ve ever heard like before, and it resonated a lot with the story. Special mention to:

• The Wolf and The Swallow for giving me the chills everytime I listen to it
• Hail To Caranthir also has something special to it.

Although neither tracks are part of the published albums :/