@srsmith said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Kelly Nice find - I keep forgetting to check GOG for classics like this. I honestly can't remember if I played it when it came out, so it looks like I'll be adding another game to my library. Teenage me had a pretty terrible PC and no money back then...

I'm on their mailing list. They're pretty good about not spamming for the most part and only sending out emails for major releases, things on my wishlist, and freebies.

Freespace2 is free on GoG for the next ~48 hrs. If you haven't played it and you like either space flight sims or a compelling story it is worth playing. If you like both, it is amazing.

@wirestyle22 said in Mangolassi Right Now:

@Kelly I'm at the tail end of mitigation of ransomware so i'd rather be anywhere at all tbh

<s> Malware mitigation is the best </s>

I wish I were in Austin too...

This article makes for very interesting reading about Oracle and a lawsuit against them: https://www.itassetmanagement.net/2019/09/19/oracle-cloud-class-action-lawsuit-a-deep-dive/?mc_cid=56118f9508&mc_eid=474a74bd76. It will be interesting to see if this affects their audit practices with Java.

@black3dynamite said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Epic Games has the Arkham and LEGO Batman games for free: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/collection/batman-free-week.

I have so many free games but can play some of them because my only computer that can play them is a Linux system.

I have so many free games that I can't play most of them.

Epic Games has the Arkham and LEGO Batman games for free: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/collection/batman-free-week.

@IRJ said in Art applications:

@Obsolesce said in Art applications:

Never heard of any of those except gimp.

Inkscape and Blender are very popular ass well

Freudian slip?

@coliver said in Software Catalog:

@Kelly said in Software Catalog:

@coliver said in Software Catalog:

For the opensource side. https://www.opsi.org may have something of what you're looking at. I tested it out in the past but SCCM fit with what the management was looking to do.

Just to be clear, I'm not as concerned about the deployment side of things (yet). Do how much is opsi and SCCM: Software Center oriented around end users and how much around administration? I know it should be part of the fabric. I'm just trying to modernize some processes that have been enshrined in the halls of familiarity, and this is the first step for us.

Software Center is almost 100% end user oriented. If you are looking to automate this without hands you wouldn't even expose the interface. I think Opsi is the opposite. I don't think, if I recall, it has any real means for the end users to request applications outside of a really bad web interface... even then I may be mistaken.

That's good to know. I had only done some surface digging into Software Center, and then when I hit the opsi website it looked as you describe it now, so I wanted to be sure that I was communicating clearly. Thanks.

@coliver said in Software Catalog:

For the opensource side. https://www.opsi.org may have something of what you're looking at. I tested it out in the past but SCCM fit with what the management was looking to do.

Just to be clear, I'm not as concerned about the deployment side of things (yet). Do how much is opsi and SCCM: Software Center oriented around end users and how much around administration? I know it should be part of the fabric. I'm just trying to modernize some processes that have been enshrined in the halls of familiarity, and this is the first step for us.

Thanks for the feedback @coliver and @notverypunny. I have some digging to do. I'm hearing rumbling that we may already have SCCM licensing.

@coliver said in Software Catalog:

@Kelly said in Software Catalog:

This might be out of scope for what you all have to deal with, but I'm trying to corral a software environment (municipality with ~2000 users). Have any of you used a software package (doesn't have to be free) to provide users with a catalog so that they can go to a central web page and put in a need and identify a supported and licensed (by IT) piece of software that could meet that? I know the ask on this is high, but I figured I'd toss it out here.

SCCM can do this. It actually does a really good job. The other one is VMware Workspace One but I think that does some app virtualization as well.

SCCM can present an end user interface? We do have Workspace One. I haven't dug into it yet because we were grandfathered in as Airwatch customers.

This might be out of scope for what you all have to deal with, but I'm trying to corral a software environment (municipality with ~2000 users). Have any of you used a software package (doesn't have to be free) to provide users with a catalog so that they can go to a central web page and put in a need and identify a supported and licensed (by IT) piece of software that could meet that? I know the ask on this is high, but I figured I'd toss it out here.

Microsoft brings PowerToys back: https://insider.windows.com/en-us/articles/announcing-the-first-preview-and-code-release-of-powertoys/.

@LilAng said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

super mario world 2 on the switch. I relived my childhood anger lol

https://twitter.com/i/status/1150872752414498816 So much anxiety watching this video.

@Dashrender said in Disabling Microsoft Edge?:

Now that you got rid of Edge, how are users getting in the internet?

No way in hell they are searching the start menu for IE

We don' need no stinkin internet.

Hauwei is sellling a laptop running Deepin: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/09/12/huawei-just-started-selling-laptops-with-deepin-linux-pre-installed/.

@NDC said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NDC said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Getting ready to kick off a new custom campaign using The Burning Wheel system as the basis.

I have all of those books and really like the conflict resolution mechanism. I've never played it though.

It looks really interesting. I haven't played it at all, but a few of my friends want something a bit more serious than just smash and grab, so we started looking around for a system that would support what we were wanting out of a ttrpg. I'm hoping that this will fill that niche. We're going to actually use Burning Empires since our world is a sci fi one. BITS looks like it could be very fun.

I own an embarrassing number of mostly unused books that BWHQ has published. Really enjoy the stuff they put out.

If you/your players haven't read the Iron Empires comics they are definitely worth checking out before you get your campaign going.

If you have a chance at any point I can't recommend enough getting in a demo session with Luke or Thor. Don't know how much they do that these days but they used to run them at a lot of conventions.

Good input. I'm hoping to see if I can find a video of one of those sessions.

Ah yes we do live in the age of video everything. I didn't spot anything for BE with a quick search but there are definitely some for BW which is probably close enough to be helpful.

Here is one of Luke running a BW:G era version of The Sword.

Great, thank you. I hadn't gotten that far yet this morning, so this is helpful.

@NDC said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Getting ready to kick off a new custom campaign using The Burning Wheel system as the basis.

I have all of those books and really like the conflict resolution mechanism. I've never played it though.

It looks really interesting. I haven't played it at all, but a few of my friends want something a bit more serious than just smash and grab, so we started looking around for a system that would support what we were wanting out of a ttrpg. I'm hoping that this will fill that niche. We're going to actually use Burning Empires since our world is a sci fi one. BITS looks like it could be very fun.

I own an embarrassing number of mostly unused books that BWHQ has published. Really enjoy the stuff they put out.

If you/your players haven't read the Iron Empires comics they are definitely worth checking out before you get your campaign going.

If you have a chance at any point I can't recommend enough getting in a demo session with Luke or Thor. Don't know how much they do that these days but they used to run them at a lot of conventions.

Good input. I'm hoping to see if I can find a video of one of those sessions.

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Getting ready to kick off a new custom campaign using The Burning Wheel system as the basis.

I have all of those books and really like the conflict resolution mechanism. I've never played it though.

It looks really interesting. I haven't played it at all, but a few of my friends want something a bit more serious than just smash and grab, so we started looking around for a system that would support what we were wanting out of a ttrpg. I'm hoping that this will fill that niche. We're going to actually use Burning Empires since our world is a sci fi one. BITS looks like it could be very fun.