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[-] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago

Old good factorio headless Penguin, it's like that for so long...

Hello fellow Factorio players :)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Hello! I downloaded it again, time to finally send that πŸš€

[-] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago

i just checked and this is actually real thats amazing

[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

Headless often means software that has no graphical interface, and can run in the background. These are usually server software, or something that can run as a server.

The headless build of Factorio is just the multiplayer server, so you can't play with it, but you can run it so that you and your friends can connect and play on the same same file.
The normal build can host the server too, afaik that too allows to be started with a CLI command, but the headless version is probably more efficient when you don't need the GUI.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You say some software is "headless" if you can launch it, log-off your computer and it keeps running.

I imagine it's a link suitable to use with c-url, but I never even noticed it's there.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Nope, it's their server software. This is a screenshot from the Factorio webpage, which is a video game. So, the normal Linux download is the playable game and you grab the headless download, if you want to host a multiplayer server.

Your definition of "headless" is also somewhat wonky. It mostly means that it can function without a GUI, e.g. in the case of a server it does I/O via network ports and logs out any events that happen.
This does often mean that you can log off (which in particular closes the GUI session), and it continues running. But if you launch a headless program underneath your particular user, with which you're then going to log off, then it will close regardless (and not just because your GUI terminal emulator closes).
Of course, most headless programs will have a SystemD service associated and ideally run under an isolated user anyways, so that will prevent them from being stopped when you log off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_software

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Oh, the headless version of the game makes much more sense than a headless link.

But if you launch a headless program underneath your particular user, with which you’re then going to log off, then it will close regardless

Nohup is your friend.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I either run it as a service (systemd, cron) or launch a session that is not logged out (tmux).

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

That's actually super clever lol. How has this not been done to death already?

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago
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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The factory must grow

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Hello, fellow Factorio enjoyer!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

That is hilarious. I've never spotted that before lol

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I'd recognize those buttons anywhere

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I love this πŸ’€

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Mindustry

I'll let myself out

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

One game at the time please, I barely have time to get green science going!

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