Faraday Protocol (Multi, XPd on PC) Awoken on an abandoned alien space station, you must solve puzzles to work your way to the core and figure out what happened here.

Another Portal inspired thinky pain game, this one give you a "gun" to manipulate energy types (red/blue) that power the various devices making up the puzzles.

I quite dig the Egyptian motif (always been a fave era of mine). Interesting choice for a space station. Decent music. The voice acting is also good. Story is aight, tho I spotted the "twist" pretty early on. Didn't ruin anything for me tho.

This is a fairly short experience, took me 7.7 hours to roll credits, earning all but one of the achieves (a hidden collectibles one, ehh). So the puzzles aren't all THAT painful TBH, at least for someone well versed in these kinds of games.

All and all a good little game. I'd say it's likely worth the $20 regular price, but absolutely worth the $2 sale price I got it for. 👍

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1107750/Faraday_Protocol/

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While testing around with SteamOS off the Live Installer (on a decade old standard size SD card and similarly "ancient" USB adapter) was fun and all, and quite snappy despite the media used.. You can definitely tell it's not ready for Prime Time in the "Gaming PC" space, yet. Very much built for bespoke devices like handhelds and the new Machine/micro PCs like that.

Hence, I fresh installed a clean image of Garuda, my OS of choice the last 3 years. (I also run Mint on a 2nd PC for multi-user reasons and my laptop that isn't that old but I prefer to use lighter spins for such devices) The SteamOS testing had cemented the idea that my OG Garuda install from about 2 years ago had gotten conflicted or corrupted, and while I may have been able to "fix" it, it's just easier to fresh install. Plus It allowed me to move from the 500GB SATA SSD to a 1TB M.2. Don't need that much space for a boot, but the speed upgrade is nice, and it was already in my PC. Buying a 500GB M.2 today likely costs double what the TB cost me 2 years ago. Stupid "AI".

As usual the fresh install has been pretty painless and smooth. I did hit an odd snag (to me) with Lutris this morning. I was trying to install Lord of the Rings Online, the DXVK+Esync script. The install finished in like 10 seconds and there wasn't any popups from the installer so I knew something was up. Click Launch and it tossed an error about no executable. Opened the folder and yeah not only is there no .exe, there's nothing in the new Wine prefix but a Lutris .json and . reg file.

Ok let's try again. Same results. Well, try the normal script? System freeze?? WTF? Hard reset. Ok, check Lutris settings. Discovered that for some reason, it was defaulting to using Proton to install Wine programs. Wine is on this install already so.. not sure what that was about. Set it to Wine, and now the install proceeds as it should.

Just another day with a Linux OS, lol.

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It's now to the point I am going to carry a #UMPC running #linux so I have a trustworthy #PC and connection at my ready when out and about.

This is ridiculous that I have to go this extent, nothing can be trusted anymore. Everything is #spying on us.

#bigtech just can't stop sticking their epeen into everything in sight.

Soon the only way to get any #privacy will be to build your own hardware.

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The image is of a UMPC (Ultra mobile PC) next to it's box, the "Nanote Next" from Japan. A cheapo device from donki.