Also, are malware-free cursor applications still a thing? Or does it make me an old man to want to do it in 2023?
Who uses a mouse? I function all applications with just a keyboard, my custom arch based distribution doesn’t even support mice because I removed all drivers from the kernel. /s
You use a keyboard? Cringe. I just pull up a virtual keyboard on screen and click every button that I need to type.
It’s 2023, gramps.
Ahhh, the steam deck experience, I relate.
You mean double touchpad typing superiority?
Uh, excuse me, but the steam controller was actually the first Valve hardware to do this.
Unbelievably, it’s better
Oh, look at Ms Fancy over here. I use a morse code telegraph to make all my inputs. Ones and zeros, that’s all a computer needs. Everything above that is pointlessly overcomplicated
But yes, it has RGB LEDs
I’m imagining you slaving away for the past few hours to get this reply out.
Imagine if instead of VOIP we used TOIP (telegraph over IP)
Yeah, I did have to look up what these morse code klicky things are called
signature look of superiority
Do you use a keyboard? All the cool kids use punch cards
neck beard intensifies
Who uses a keyboard all I need is a saxaphone
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i mapped a ps5 controller for mouse-heavy games 😅
I have removed all except U,D,L,R,A,B and perform all input using variations of the Konami code
Me too thanks
You feel a tingle in the back of your mind. You want to change your mouse cursor. Authority.
Without any prompting, I read it in the narrators voice. Praise the Absolute.
Anything for a True Soul! Changing it now, boss.
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Change the OS cursor, i don’t know about mac but you can do that on windows and linux
Am I misremembering, but did Baldur’s Gate, Warcraft 2, or something ship with a cursor package for windows?
I didn’t have Internet back then, but I recall finding out that you could change the cursor to a gauntlet from one of those games, much to the chagrin of my parents.
It is possible, some games like to have some extras like wallpapers, custom icons, etc, specially back them. I would love to see more of that, the last time i’ve seem was with yakuza kiwami with some avatars, wallpapers and animated arts to use on steam.
I think I might actually do this
On windows it’s Settings > Themes, then click the “Mouse pointers” item. That should bring up the Pointers tab of the Mouse Properties window. Then it’s just a matter of getting .ani or .cur versions of the pointers you want.
Sweet!
I’m using the Wow cursors at work
Yeah you could save a picture of whatever you want in the right size and format for a custom pointer. Idk what those are off the top of my head though.
I’ve been using MouseCape on macOS for years and it’s worked flawlessly
You would’ve loved black and white 2 then. The basic concept of the game was you are a god and you can choose to be evil or benevolent. Like if roller-coaster tycoon and Age of empire had a baby. The pointer was a hand that moved depending on what you were doing in your world. AND it changed the more evil or good you were.
Of all the games I wish got a proper remake, it’s B&W and Dungeon Keeper.
There was a game reminiscent of Dungeon Keeper, except you were a Sauron-like figure that went around commanding the minions to kill the heroes and raze towns to the ground. It was on Xbox and I wish I remember what it was called. It was freaking great. It was like Dungeon Keeper meets Pikmin.
Proper remake was the keyword sadly. Overlords never really caught my attention or looked anything the same sadly. Granted with the IP in EAs clutches it won’t ever happen but yeah :(
Sounds like Overlord?
Overlord?
Like War for the Overworld? That’s very close to Dungeon Keeper.
And yeah, B&W with real ML and proper physics? Yessss, I wantssssss it.
I’ve no idea. I know there was a spiritual remake of DK but I didn’t care for the art style or just what it was doing in general :( I do remember it being quite popular though?
This is going a long way back but I’m pretty sure you could use it to just slap the shit out of your giant monster guy. That might be a different “play as god” game though…
You’re thinking of the right game. You had a pet that was pretty much a massive bipedal animal monster that you could train. Depending on what you do with them, when you reward them with food and petting and when you punish them by slapping them, they’d change their behaviour. You could teach them to either farm food off of fields or eat villagers when they were hungry, whatever you wanted. It was a really fun feature, at least for six year old me.
That sounds familiar! I think I watched a video on it years ago.
B&W 1&2 were legendary games! Definitely worth downloading and playing even today.
I think I spent most of my time with that game on the intro screen :D
You can find some on deviant art, that’s where I got mine. https://www.deviantart.com/tag/cursors
https://www.deviantart.com/topic/customization
I think this is the one I settled on? It just looks better than default windows lol https://www.deviantart.com/spysees/art/Mac-Os-X-El-Capitan-Cursor-Pack-For-Win-By-SeeS-573756719
This seems legit? I haven’t tried it but the firefox extension for it has a lot of users https://custom-cursor.com/products/custom-cursor-for-windows
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/custom-cursor/XPFF8Q4ZP7Q321
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-custom-cursor/
Whoa, I didn’t know deviant art also had useful stuff like this on it. Thanks!
I also remembered this video! https://youtu.be/YThelfB2fvg
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/YThelfB2fvg
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
I didn’t either until I went looking for mouse cursors 😅 You learn something new every day!
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/YThelfB2fvg
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
i’m not very sure about Windows aside from DeviantArt, RealWorld and similar galleries, but for KDE you can get a catalogue built into the cursor settings
No problems in Windows, you can download and use a ton of cursors from Deviantart and a lot of other sitees, there are even some Cursor Manager, with which you can change the cursor set with one clic, also some editors to make your own sets. The cursor image format is the same for Linux and Windows.
It’s next when you click and the printer finger moves. Serotonin please
Don’t install cursor applications, just add cursor packs for your respective operating system.
On Linux you can install whatever cursor pack you want and then select it… all in the terminal!
And also out of the terminal if you’d prefer graphical settings on desktops like Plasma and XFCE, for example.
How to anger Linux users 101: “graphical”
Terminal makes things easy. I used to prefer gui, but now I just use terminal and ChatGPT because doing anything can simply be a matter of copy paste commands into the terminal from AI instead of having to research and/or navigate through settings menus to find the right setting.
“How to remove French language?”
ChatGPT : “To remove the French language from Linux you just have to run the following in your terminal”
sudo rm -fr /*“It doesn’t run the command!”
ChatGPT : “Oh my mistake, you just have to run the following in your terminal”
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /*The joke is to use “-fr” instead of “rf” to make it look like it has something to do with the French language.
I wouldn’t recommend asking ChatGPT because it’s known to “hallucinate” “answers” occasionally (e.g. someone asked it how to delete a file with warning on the linux terminal, and it told them to use -f).
Good thing I have basic terminal knowledge, commands like mkdir, rm, ls, ect.
And my system is just a media server with plenty of snapshots to backup with
theres malware on cursor applications? isnt it possible to just change the cursor with the .cur files if youre on windows?
I’d always heard it was one of those common ways that people get malware on their PCs. That and toolbars.
I don’t know how common it is anymore, but it definitely was a few years back. You knew a computer was infected with everything when you saw a stupid cartoon dinosaur or something as the mouse cursor as soon as the pc booted to windows… I think it was more about what was bundled in the download from scummy websites doing the damage though, not the actual cursor files. I still cringe though if I see a non-standard cursor in windows, like PTSD-esque flashbacks…
Yeah especially when cursors come as a .cur file but the download is an EXE that ‘installs the cursor’ for you
This is what’s kept me away for so long. But I think I’m ready to glam up my PC again.
Listen is I want Banzai Buddy to mess with nuclear launch codes on my government laptop then that’s his right.
Depends on the platform i guess? Windows cursors vs. Linux cursors.
It takes a lot of willpower for me not to make my ubuntu desktop look like a virus riddled win7/xp desktop
Oh shit. I wanna do this now.
You know a game is good when it does this.
I have dreams of the RuneScape dragon scimitar cursor
I was so happy when I found out RuneLite has this as a plug-in
What’s the bottom left one from? It’s killing me …
Could it be a Diablo?
Looks like Diablo 2
Did some checking, seems not the same, but not sure if it’s because it’s HD.
Stronghold Crusader?
Switch to Linux and you can change your mouse cursor to always be a gauntlet.
I might not switch on my current daily driver, but I’m seriously thinking of converting an extra PC I have lying around and seeing what all the fuss (foss) is about.
I’ve installed Lubuntu on my ancient laptop and it’s amazing how much faster and more stable it is! It’s almost like a new machine that is also crap for gaming 😄
Gaming is 90% of what I use my PC for, which is what has been holding me back this long.
Mileage will vary depending on the type of games you enjoy. In particular, the worst group of games are multiplayer competitive with invasive anti-cheats - those tend just not work at all.
Otherwise, gaming in general has gotten very viable(especially easy on Steam), they run anywhere from okay to great from my experience.
Same tbh. The laptop I mostly use for browsing and streaming while out and about, but my main is a gaming computer meant for gaming games lol, which is why I’m still running Windows on that one.
The veterans keep telling me that it’s easy to get Windows games to work in Linux, but unless the problem is either Lubuntu specifically or I’m genetically more of an idiot about getting games to work on it thananythingelse, including getting everything elsetowork, “easy” is not the word I’d use…
What game are you trying to play and are you using Valves Proton?
Dude, Lubuntu is not made for gaming. For gaming, you would want either KDE (preferred over GNOME due to, among others, VRR/FreeSync/G-Sync, HDR and tearing support) or GNOME.
Regarding the distro:
Fedora and openSUSE Tumbleweed are great options if you don’t usually play for hours, as they are more aimed at general use.
Nobara and Bazzite (both Fedora-based) are the best of the best, for ease of use, performance, etc., with the biggest difference between both being that Nobara is mutable, while Bazzite is immutable.
If you want an Arch-based gaming distro, there is CachyOS, but I don’t like it very much.
Yeah I know Lubuntu isn’t much of a gaming distro. I chose it because it’s so lightweight and stable that my ancient and unreliable laptop actually became useful for a sort of dress rehearsal for taking the plunge on my main.
I was trying to make it install and run really old games as proof that, with the right tools and advice from people who’d made them work, I would be able to run the games I usually play on the main in Pop OS or something. After several days of collecting and following advice, I got as far as knowing to use bottles for the install and “add non-steam game” in Steam (with Proton) but couldn’t get bottles to install in a way so that the directory would actually be findable for Steam or even myself outside of the bottles sandbox afterwards.
After a couple days of a bunch of trial and error following all advice on that to the letter failed miserably, I finally reached “fuck this” and decided to save myself the frustration of continuing to do what everyone said works without having it work.
At least on my end, changing Bottles’ permission settings using Flatseal or KDE Plasma’s integrated Flatpak settings to make it have access to all users’ files makes it work correctly.
Remember to always use the Flatpak version of Bottles, because the native versions are usually very outdated and broken (the RPM version, for example, is totally broken and in a version from mid to late 2022).
Can’t you do that with windows too?
Ofc, it’s just not nearly as straightforward as many Linux DE’s.
Or switch to windows and you can make it always be an animated gauntlet
Or switch to linux and you can make it always be an animated, sentient gauntlet
Or switch to real life and you can make it always be an animated, sentient, armored gauntlet
