The plot thickens!.. Kind of. Not really. Aiden was a boring character anyway (no offense Caboose, you’re awesome <3)
I always found his obsession with his niece and nephew to be really really strange and borderline creepy.
But yeah, Caboose > Aiden Pearce
I’ll never be as cool as Caboose. I feel inferior.
It’s my favourite show on TV at the moment, Person of Interest. It’s on CBS but they do a terrible time at advertising it. Basically, and this isn’t spoilers, as mysterious billionaire approaches an ex-CIA operative to stop crime before it happens. Turns out after 9/11, the government needed a system to keep the country safe, and it turns out this billionaire built this “Machine”. It’s current on Season 5, but it hasn’t aired yet because CBS is retarded. I’d definitely look it up and I believe it’s on Netflix for a couple seasons. The first season starts off very procedural as a crime show, but later turns into a full on technological amazement with AIs, with some episodes getting right on up the IMDB charts next to Breaking Bad. If you can get past the first season (which you need to watch cause there is alot of backstory), you’ll love the show.
It’s very post 9/11 hysteria, with a lot of the things discussed in the show later being proved to be actually happening in the real world by the Snowden Documents. I personally believe Watch_Dogs took shit FROM this show.
It stars Michael Emerson (Remember Ben from Lost?) and Jim Caviezel (literally Jesus Christ). One note though, the pilot is necessary to watch, but the visuals suck ass, cause it’s well…a pilot.
Did I mention this is by the Jonathan Nolan (of the Nolan Brothers), and J.J Abrams? I’d link a trailer, but CBS does TERRIBLE Promos for this show, almost like they want it dead.
Continuing on my Linux Journal, I managed to get my Xbox 360 Controller working on Native Linux games, although I cannot seem to get it to respond to anything in Wine. I also figured out how to get my Blue-tooth Headphones to work with A2DP, so now pretty much everything hardware related of mine works perfectly. Still a very happy cucumber.
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Have you tried running JoyToKey in wine? Not entirely sure how it works but it might help.
I have not. The only thing I’ve tried as enabling XInput in PlayonLinux but that completely killed my Desktop Environment for a couple minutes so I haven’t attempted it since.
So I haven’t had a journal update in a couple of days, mainly because not much has really changed. Everything is still running smoothly. I managed to actually fix my YouTube problem, it turned out it was some settings I had to change in about:config but now all the HTML5 videos work, so that’s nice. Other than that though, nothing much to report on. I’ve yet to set up my Logitech G27 for Euro Truck Simulator 2 yet, but when I do, I’ll make another Journal Entry.
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I’ve wanted a G27 for a while, mainly to go with Asseto Corsa. I have the rift enabled for that game, all I’m missing is the wheel.
Did you get yours used or new?
I bought mine new, right before Christmas they were doing like almost a half off sale and I snagged it. That being said, I did try it at Assetto Corsa, but that game is not my thing. I preferred the slow easy pace of Euro Truck.
I totally understand that XD
I’m more of an arcade racer myself, so GRiD and such is more my pace.
I’d play Euro Truck 2 if it didn’t have a ton of business management in it. I just wanna cause traffic jams.
If simply buying garages, hiring workers, letting them do their own thing for 30 hours, then rank them up individually is “alot of business management” then I’d be surprised. I mean then again though, that might be alot for a game I just…pick the longest route and zone out to with podcasts.
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Not too sure if this thread is still a thing, but you should definitely look into Conky.
I got that setup using Conky Manager, a super useful GUI for managing Conky.
cough cough
I haven’t really had much to update everyone on, since everything is still running smoothly, and I haven’t really had to set anything up since my last posts.
Being perfectly honest, I thought that was terminal.
How did you get the dark theme on Discord?
Settings → Appearance → Dark
So, I have a weekend update for you all!
Today I felt very much like playing some Euro Truck Simulator 2, so I began the interesting task of getting Linux to work with my Logitech G27. I must say, after a bit of trickery, I eventually got it to work. Everything in Euro Truck Simulator 2 works with the Logitech G27 on Linux Mint anyway, after doing some little setup guides that are posted across the internet.
However. Today I was handed really truly my first defeat since moving to the Linux Ecosystem. Linux (and or ETS2), as far as I am aware, and please please please correct me if I am wrong, does not support Force Feedback on the Logitech G27. Meaning that the driving experience is very different, because…it doesn’t truly feel like your driving anything any more. I was unable to find any guides on how to fix this, and everything I have read has come down to Linux (and or ETS2) just doesn’t support it right now.
This deeply saddens me, but does not make me give up. I hope this is fixed in the future, but I may have to wait along time, as this issue appears to have been reported back in 2012, and still no fix (as far as I’m aware) has been found.
Again, if any of you can find any solution to this problem (which doesn’t include Wine or Dual Booting hurr hurr), I’d be very grateful.
Well, where does the problem with FFB lie?
If the game is still sending out ffb requests you can use an injection based software to translate it for the hardware, but that might be so specific that it would require you to write it yourself.
From what I was able to look up on the Internet, I believe Euro Truck Simulator 2 doesn’t actually send it on Linux. Other games I believe seem to use libraries in the Linux Kernel itself that have Force Feedback, because I have seen other people having luck with FFB on other games. The problem’s been reported in 2012 for Euro Truck Simulator 2, but there hasn’t really been any mention of fixes.
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So I’ve got a little update for all of you if anyone is still interested at this point
I noticed there were security updates for the Nvidia drivers that I have installed on the system. I was weary, not wanting to install something that would lead to me breaking my system, but I sucked it up and installed it anyway. It went off without a hitch, and I noticed that it didn’t even require me to restart my computer. AWESOME. I went to bed and went to sleep.
The next morning, I woke up and decided to do some Qt (C++ GUI Framework) tutorials, and then I realized that the editor wouldn’t open. I quickly rushed onto Google and found out the problem was something to do with OpenGL. I though hmm…what could that be. So I opened up the system logger, and noticed a whole bunch of “NVIDIA API Mismatch Error” error messages. I quickly learned that this happens when there are some segments of a certain driver version, running along side a new version of the same driver. I attempted to open CS:GO and boom, wouldn’t open.
Then I realized…duh. It obviously couldn’t reboot/modify system files that were in use. So a quick reboot and everything was fine. Why it doesn’t suggest to you that you should restart after updating your driver, I don’t know (I know it does it on Windows).
Other than that though, a couple other items. @Zak recently got me into playing the pre-alpha of Unreal Tournament (the new one), and yes it has a Linux Client. The bad news, at least for me, is that I can’t get any of the settings to stick. Meaning that I can’t even change my graphics settings. So I’m stuck at Low for everything, making my 980 very lazy. I’ll chalk all this up to the game being in Pre-Alpha.
I also, in my quest to learn C++, started using the Qt framework, which allows me to create GUI applications cross-platform. It’s really nice! Initially I had some problems because I needed to install some development packages that wern’t the most trivial thing to install, but after sticking to it for about 30 minutes, I managed to get everything working. Except…for the current problem. After following a couple tutorials, a certain tutorial’s code won’t compile. There is a missing header file that my system cannot seem to find.
Problem is, this package that I need to install is proving very difficult. It complains about not having a dependency, and not being able to install that dependency. When trying to install the dependency, it complains that I don’t have ITS dependency installed (except I do), so in that department, I’m a bit stuck.
Any who, I’m still really loving the conversion, and while things are rough, one thing I’ve learned is that, everything has a solution (with Linux and Life), I just have to get better at finding it.
WOOWEE that was a long one. Until next time!
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Glad to see it’s going well for you. I recently dug out an old laptop and threw Kubuntu onto it. It’s safe to say I’m in love with KDE and wish I had chosen it over Cinnamon, because damn, is it pretty. Nonetheless, I love my desktop setup and KDE runs fine on my old Pentium laptop.
I’ve had some hiccups on my own system, though. Sometimes, the volume control doesn’t work on my G35, other times it won’t recognize my Snowball or have the wrong output setting. There’s also pretty poor dual-monitor support, but that’s just how Linux works. Other than that, I can’t complain. There are some bugs with games like CS:GO where it will randomly crash or bug out when changing resolutions, which can get a little annoying during a comp game.
Most of my problems come from Wine, though. SMITE runs at an abysmal, unsteady framerate, Guild Wars 2 will have sound bugs for a minute at a time, and getting GMT to work was a nightmare, but I did succeed in that! 