How does one break into this industry? I recently started playing the video game Not For Broadcast and have fallen in love. I’m sure it’s a very romanticized and simplified experience but I’ve been having a blast at perfecting the “art.”

Very cool coincidence to see this on the front page right after a sesh with the game.

The answer for anything video production is: start making stuff.

Nobody can see your product if you don't make it. You can't make good product without practice. So get practicing. You need reps.

And when making that stuff, turn your camera the right way. The last thing we need is more door-shaped videos.

What are some existing authoring systems that exist for this sort of thing? I know Ren’Py exists for visual novels

Inform is the big one for "GET LAMP"-style parser text adventures although I haven't used it for years.

For choice based text games there is Twine and ink (plus many others).

I personally used ink[0] for a project[1] and it was a joy to use. It comes with an IDE of sorts that makes just sitting down and writing your story easy before you add the bells and whistles.

[0] https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/

[1] https://sheep.horse/voyage_of_the_marigold/

Wow, the fact that they remained undetected for so long and used wget for data exfiltration..

Hopefully security posture has increased since

using wget here does not make it more embarrassing as its user agent was almost certainly randomized to look like normal web traffic. Normal traffic downloading lots of 10MB files... well, yeah that's not great.

Interested in this too, as well as how it compares to the Framework

I can't comment on the StarBook, but the Framework touchpad is really great. I had an early model that had a slightly annoying out-of-the-box issue where I had to click kind of hard, but after doing that it works great now. Two-finger scroll is super smooth, and it properly detects 1/2/3 finger gestures, etc.

I think my frame.work is doing the "kinda hard" click thing too. Did you just break it in, or change something mechanically? I mostly use the keyboard, so it's a very minor annoyance to me.

ah yes, let me find the instructions!

EDIT: this is what fixed it for me:

> Pressing the bottom center of the touchpad firmly a few times has resolved the issue in some cases.[1]

Said in a slightly different way:

> There were also a small number of early units produced that may have contact issues on the physical switch on the Touchpad. Try pressing the bottom middle of the Touchpad firmly a few times to see if that resolves the issue. If it does not, please contact Framework Support.[2]

[1]: https://community.frame.work/t/known-issues-on-early-framewo...

[2]: https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/touchpad-not-working-...

Looks like after a few _hard_ presses the problems are gone. Thanks!

Awesome! super glad to hear it. btw framework support is really great. I've opened a couple of cases with them and they're super helpful

Yeah, I had the same experience. They reply super fast and with no bs. As a support engineer in the past life, I really appreciated it.

Received this exact text, word for word with the same suspicious phishing link, from my own number, a few hours ago.

This sounds really nice… I’m now quite keen on looking into ultrawides.

This is what I have been looking into for a portable gaming setup.

My framework setup already has so much raw power in terms of RAM and CPU. A solid GPU is the next step :-) Would do a GPU pass through setup with virtio/QEMU and a Linux host… if only eGPU setups weren’t so damned expensive! And that’s not even factoring in the sheer lack of availability of 30x series cards.

I have a custom built small form factor PC in a Dan Case A4 [0]. The case is a lot smaller than a Razer Core. And it's a whole PC, not just a GPU. Fits in a cabin bag or backpack and I have traveled with it.

You can go even smaller at 3.9L in a Velka 3 [1], if you use a single fan graphics card.

- [0] https://www.dan-cases.com/dana4.php

- [1] https://www.velkase.com/products/velka-3

The Dan Case is absolutely gorgeous. What hardware are you running in yours?

I’d love to get a setup like this going with a 30x series card, but I’m not sure how difficult getting one at listing price is these days.

No chance buying a GPU at listing price today.

Buyer beware: for the Dan Case, it's only compatible with 2.25 slot (45mm) width cards at max. Most 3080s are 2.5 slot (50mm) wide. The EVGA 3080 XC3 Black is a notable exception, and is a very satisfying tight fit [0]. There's also a 3D printed GPU spacer to increase width of the case (sacrificing portability) [1].

Here's my hardware:

  CASE: Dan A4-SFX v4.1 7L
  PSU: Corsair SF750
  CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6C/12T 3.8GHz/4.5GHz
  FANS: Asetek 645LT 92mm AIO + Noctua NF-A9x14 x2
  MOTHERBOARD: Asus ROG STRIX B550-I GAMING mini-ITX
  LAN: Intel I225-V 2.5Gb Ethernet
  WLAN: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200
  AUDIO: Realtek S1220A
  RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB DDR4 @ 3600MHz
  GPU: Powercolor AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon
  NVME0: Sabrent Rocket 1TB R/W 3400/3000
  NVME1: Crucial P1 1TB R/W 2000/1700
  SSD0: SanDisk Ultra II 1TB R/W 540/500

- [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/jhrnob/evga_xc3_3080...

- [1] https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2771844

Anecdotal personal experience:

I’m on PopOS running Wayland with fractional scaling to 200%. It looks fantastic imo and have only had some issues with Guake terminal when plugged in to an external monitor, which I believe may be a Guake-Wayland-specific bug.

200% is not fractional scaling, though?

Oops, you’re right. 150% is what I have set, typo on my end!

+1 for alacritty.

However now that I don’t daily drive mac as much, I’ve defaulted back to iTerm 2 for when I do happen to be doing something on my mac. The default configuration is quite good out of the box. All I really need to do post-install is get my beloved zsh + ohmyzsh plug-ins and I’m good to go :-)

And also my tmux dot files ;)

Daily drove mac for 5-7 years after a childhood of tinkering with Linux installs (no professional development) and falling in love with an AwesomeWM setup with custom keybinds.

After getting into professional dev during / after high school I ended up using Divvy for an OSX window manager. It wasn’t fantastic, but I could set up custom keybinds and it was “reminiscent” of those tiling WMs I found so much love for as a pre-adolescent.

I recently (2ish years ago) switched from mac to a Debian then eventually Pop OS setup for my daily driver development environment. While not as robust as a custom arch setup with a tiling WM like awesome, Mutter is quite good and everything PopOS offers out of the box has been fantastic. Perhaps one of these days I will find the time to dive back into arch and configure a _truly_ efficient and customized workstation / dev env :-)

It’s interesting to see all of these alternative, perhaps even _better_ / more robust / more FOSS friendly mac WMs being listed here. I’m keen on giving them a try whenever I end up back on a mac workstation, but I cannot deny that my Divvy lifetime license has served me incredibly well for years, with support through many big OS upgrades.