Let's Play XCOM: UFO Defense / Area 51 - 96 - Regaining the factory
Let's play the Area 51 mod for the OpenXCom!
X-Com operatives finally circle the whole factory building to get any aliens present neutralized. They pick up the loot, and proceed back to the base, where they welcome some newcomers and embark on a new adventure at a UFO crash site. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flpJcjK3dNA
In this episode, we learn about how to make a HDD image for a virtual machine in QEMU, and how to boot it using the Arch live ISO. We also install the OVMF open EFI implementation for our virtual machine to be able to boot our systems that way too.
Homepages for the software used:
https://www.qemu.org/
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/OVMF
Recommended reading:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU
https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/52996/how-to-boot-efi-kernel-using-qemu-kvm
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide#Pre-installation
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZr9WTfFed0
Let's play the Area 51 mod for the OpenXCom!
X-Com agents are summoned to help take on the alien threat at a government biotechnology research center. The soldiers start to assess the threat and neutralize the enemy.
Live broadcast on Twitch at
https://www.twitch.tv/nicemicro/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lzt290XOww
In this video, I show you how I set up the Cinnamon Desktop Environment on my Arch Linux operating system to provide for my needs.
The packages I have installed for everything to work properly:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/cinnamon/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/variety/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/plank/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/redshift/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8o2J0eTPpo
Let's play the Area 51 mod for the OpenXCom!
X-Com detects an inbound UFO around the Far East, and tracks it down, and the pilots manage to shoot it above Japan. The X-Com operatives get to the Skyranger to secure the crash site.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGDv2CypjIA
Let's play the Area 51 mod for the OpenXCom!
X-Com agents don't always aim perfectly, but they sure do like throwing explosives around. It's a shame, that the aliens don't always die instantly out of amusement, but sometimes they respond by throwing their own grenades! The treachery!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YumfXSVdTbw
Let's Play the Area 51 mod of OpenXCom!
The UFOs shut down recently are investigated by XCom, and the operatives are doing their best to kill the aliens and to stay alive.
#OpenXCom #OpenSourceGaming
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbivHR4mYs0
Today we take a look at why some functionality got removed from Fedora and probably OpenSuse due to the minefield proprietary software and proprietary technologies are.
Brodie Robertson's Mastodon feed for up to date info on Linux issues, where I got to hear about this issue:
https://linuxrocks.online/@BrodieOnLinux
Resources:
https://twitter.com/DaveAirlie/status/1575276265170358273
https://jina-liu.medium.com/settle-your-questions-about-h-264-license-cost-once-and-for-all-hopefully-a058c2149256
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/M4LTGLHY5JX42IHC45WNWB5FH2JIFMAS/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora
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In this episode we are making the Budgie desktop look better.
My notes for this video (use them at your own risk):
- install Firefox
$ sudo pacman -S firefox
- install the Budgie-extras
$ sudo pacman -S budgie-extras
- download some theme (www.opendesktop.org)
-- good themes: Matcha-azul, Matcha-dark-azul
Adapta-green, Adapta-Green-nokto
www.opendesktop.org/p/1190851
-- good icons: Tela-green
www.opendesktop.org/p/1279924
- install file-roller
$ sudo pacman -S file-roller
- put the theme in ~/.local/share/themes
- put the icons in ~/.local/share/icons
- get the Budgie icon from the Solus project homepage
- get an Arch Linux background form the Arch forums
Artwork and Screenshots» 8 Arch Linux Inspired Wallpapers! // CC0 and 5120x2880
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OeHQA80gUM
In this episode we are examining the available calculator applications for Arch Linux after taking a look at calculators, and how they were developed, and what problem the interfaces trying to mimic the real calculators on computers fail to provide good functionality.
Sources for this video:
https://www.thecalculatorsite.com/articles/units/history-of-the-calculator.php
https://www.thecalculatorsite.com/articles/units/history-of-the-calculator-2.php
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications/Science#Calculator
http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/
https://qalculate.github.io/index.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfB8UkPP9YM