I need to spend a weekend tracking down and installing the linux binary for that game.

It came on disc. As for patches, there were Linux-specific patches. When I tried some years ago, the game worked after deleting / remaining some shipped libraries and replacing them with system ones. Though today, Wine might be a better choice. I think the Windows version supports OpenGL as well so there’s no need for DXVK.

Well, these aren’t

My opinion : far too many distros are « pet distros »

I think those are actually great. Personally wouldn’t use them for a prolonged time or anything critical. But I love the spirit, even if the distribution is of no use to me.

Thanks, so yes.

Is this relevant when using a login manager?

Oh, some more info in case you find that interesting.

I didn’t have grabber, so I was actually limited to 4 hands per round. Funny enough I did have both discard vouchers at the end. No hieroglyph.

From these info, the maximum mult on that joker should be about 96, assuming buying the joker before first round, playing every blind, no discards, always 4 hands, so 3 x 4 x 8. Considering this, I think 49 is actually quite good, as sometimes you must discard because you only have one hand remaining and can’t build a winning one, or don’t want to risk throwing a hand and instead play a winning one, or sometimes early beating blinds with the lowest high cards with something like popcorn or ice cream, which I think I had at one point during ante 2 or something.

Insurances need to cover their expected cost with the rates, otherwise they won’t be able to cover in case of an incident. Nobody will run an insurance expecting a loss, and you can’t force anyone to.

The alternative is like when we had flood that the state bails out the boomers who bought houses when they were cheap in areas where insurance won’t insure because of risk, paid with taxes by people like me who have a hard time acquiring property because taxes and other cost are so high due to decisions their generation and earlier ones made.

Of course, this is somewhat exaggerated; they also pay taxes. But it’s also not completely wrong.

In the particular case of a previous colleague’s house getting flooded, I always had to think of the fact that she chose to fly a certain route for work to save about 2 hours because it’s just so much more convenient than the train.

I mean it would have happened with it without her flying, but still thought about it.

I think green was the very first one and I basically finished most rounds with only one or zero hands remaining. It usually doesn’t work out well. But the missing hands remaining bonus was offset by delayed gratification which makes keeping discards even valuable for money, so in that regard the deck was actually good. But it was also really lucky that it worked out so long.

Fun fact the run would have also worked with extra large blind boss even though my score was really close because round 1 or 2 of ante 8 had Luchador in the store which I would have bought for Sock and Buskin as my initial idea what I got it for never really materialized which was getting money from lucky face cards, but all I got was mult which I didn’t really need. Or in combination with Pareidolia to build wee even more. Didn’t happen so it was kind of not very useful at that point but hey.

Balatro has no frame limiter by default, so it’ll happily use one of these high performance cores to the max.

I repackaged the game once and the power draw from the wall fell by about 80 Watts IIRC

Very cool deck! Kind of impressive

That’d be 1/6, a value that is close to but not quite (3/4)^6

Six times in a row is a little less than 18%, so not totally unrealistic

The game has surprisingly little to do with Poker, in fact it’s just the hands that it takes from it (plus adding some of its own ones). It is basically a Solitaire deck builder. Apart from various introductions I’m sure you can find online, I can tell you the little stuff I know about the game in about an hour, though I only have about ~80 hrs in the game so far so there are most likely some better sources available.

The game can become very complex, but it’s not overly difficult to get into, and it’s very fun and well done. Not everything works on the higher difficulties though so there is some learning about how to approach the game.

Thanks for the input everyone, I think my initial thinking was too conservative.

I’ll try to stream the rest of the game at 19:00 CET or about 2 hours from now on from my twitch (I actually do run an owncast instance but the delay is just too bad) so in case anyone wants to see how it turns out and chat a bit I’d be glad if you tune in. I only reached gold stake today or yesterday so am a bit excited to have such a strong joker selection so early

twitch.tv/incrediblelaser

It’s the same conclusion I came to after some thinking, Crazy just won’t scale at all though it is very strong at that point as I haven’t leveled any hands, so its +12 is effectively x13 right now. But it isn’t really needed with such strong X multipliers and it will taper off while the tarot will help the deck scale much better, especially with blueprint

There’s no such thing as USB hotspots, that’s a term for WiFi. Also you can still use the NMC protocol if your Android version is recent enough. Just not RNDIS anymore. It’s an insecure Microsoft protocol, though this probably wouldn’t have mattered for a lot of people.

It’s not about improving a connection, but making your phone’s network connection available to other devices. USB tethering creates a network device at /dev/usb... that behaves like an any ordinary network device, allowing you to create a connection using it. Wi-Fi tethering creates a hotspot similar to what your router at home does.

That’s different protocols. This is only about the one being used when you share your phone’s connection via USB (tethering). Neither adb nor fastboot make use of this.

Also, starting with Android 14, there should be an alternative available with NCM.

You can also track the progress at https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=367042, is already part of nixos-unstable-small at the time of writing, though this is probably not what a lot of people use. I’ll see when it hits nixos-unstable and let you know, but don’t know when I used my machine the coming days

a bit frustrating when things just aren’t going your way.

I feel you… But on the other hand, if things always went your way, it’d be boring