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Quoting: vic-bayIf you see ai slop long enough, you will learn to identify it immediately. Yes, it is still a time waster, but it is nowhere as bad as it looks at the first look. Creating slop commits and pull requests takes way longer than reading it for half minute and smashing ban button.

That might be true, but Godot currently has nearly 5000 PRs awaiting review, and 50K closed PRs overall. I think that when you're dealing with those kind of numbers, it still adds up to a near-insurmountable problem.

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These reptilians have not done a single day of honest work in their lives. Good thing their ways and era is coming to an end 👍

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HUGE W

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Quoting: suchOdd thing to say. To me it's very obvious that a reasonably deep turn-based roguelike with some whimsy and personality, AND cats is more popular than the thematic downer that is The Binding of Isaac or the tough as nails meat grinder of a precision platformer.

I guess it's possible to spend years dedicating your life to something unaware of what it is that you're actually doing?

The point is - nothing in game development is guaranteed. We've seen lots of games fail that many thought would be a clear success.

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Quoting: vic-bayWhy HDMI cartel doesn't want HDMI on Linux? So more people won't use HDMI? Do they hate money, or did Microslop bribe them?

It's always about control. Even in this scale. Not so much about "money" (though that concept is a control mechanism itself too). What matters is power and natural resources, not some monopoly "money" (worthless in itself) or numbers on screens..

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Funny thing is that this is apparently not really that much of a change. Most of the functionality is already in Unity and it just requires tying a few things together. Which makes this statement primarily one for shareholders in an (apparently successful) attempt to raise the stock price.

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If you see ai slop long enough, you will learn to identify it immediately. Yes, it is still a time waster, but it is nowhere as bad as it looks at the first look. Creating slop commits and pull requests takes way longer than reading it for half minute and smashing ban button.

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Why HDMI cartel doesn't want HDMI on Linux? So more people won't use HDMI? Do they hate money, or did Microslop bribe them?

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Quoting: hardpenguinThis is getting ridiculous

This is Dark Souls of ridiculous situations.

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Polish power. Let's go gents!

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Quoting: syylkThanks for the enlightening answers!

(Yup, didn't think of TV gaming. 😁)

I don't know how usual that is, but I got the problem on the output side:
My company notebook, bought last year, doesn't have DP, only HDMI and USB-C.

Yeah, that's pretty much the norm with (business) laptops. Your docking station likely has DP outputs though.

It does, so yes, I'm not actually using HDMI. (Is it for beamers?!?)

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Quoting: pbinb4 they start selling headless terminals that have to be connected to the cloud, where all our files would reside (at a hefty monthly fee, of course)

Well, Chrome Books (Google) and Mobile Phones (Google and Apple) are not far off being headless terminals. The public uses them for consuming content, most of their functionality relies on cloud services (e.g. WhatsApp, Instagram, iCloud, Google Maps, Google Docs, etc).

People are already being manipulated into not having fully functional computers any more.

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On a good side of things: all those news finally convinced me to buy a Steam Deck while it's still available.

:).

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: syylkThanks for the enlightening answers!

(Yup, didn't think of TV gaming. 😁)

I don't know how usual that is, but I got the problem on the output side:
My company notebook, bought last year, doesn't have DP, only HDMI and USB-C.

Yeah, that's pretty much the norm with (business) laptops. Your docking station likely has DP outputs though.

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I'm starting to see this same issue with Minigalaxy. Someone made a massive AI made PR and after going through it 3 times to review it, they figured out they were unable to fix it and closed it.

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Quoting: syylkThanks for the enlightening answers!

(Yup, didn't think of TV gaming. 😁)

I don't know how usual that is, but I got the problem on the output side:
My company notebook, bought last year, doesn't have DP, only HDMI and USB-C.

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I'm sure glad I already have enough games to last me a lifetime, because gem discovery is going to get quite a lot harder...

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inb4 they start selling headless terminals that have to be connected to the cloud, where all our files would reside (at a hefty monthly fee, of course)

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Quoting: rustynailIirc on wayland vsync can only be disabled for games running in fullscreen

As I recall, "no tearing, ever" was a design principle from the start. It was much later that the option to allow tearing, such as for fullscreen games, was added. I forget the details, but I think it has to be specifically requested.

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Quoting: Persephone the SheepPart of me is like "man now minecraft can't run on anything" but also vulkan support have been here since 600 series nvidia with kepler and HD 7000 series AMD with GCN 1 both from 2012 so as long as your gpu isn't more then 14 years old you can still play as long as they don't go past vulkan 1.2 because of kepler. I'm not sure about the laptop side with intel so that concerns me. I don't know how kepler does with vulkan I know it does terribly with DX12 my GT 640 is dead so I can't check for myself. I just hope this doesn't effect too many people.

On linux side:
* Intel GPUs found in Intel Gen 6 & above have active support and vulkan 1.4, can run latest dxvk or vkd3d
* Intel Gen 5 has Vulkan 1.3, supports up to dxvk 2.5.3. Can run minecraft with zink.
* Gen 4 has 1.2
* Gen 3 either has 1.2 or nothing

Below has nothing

On windows side, according to the url, anything under gen6 has nothing. However I recall the same document mentioned 1.2 support all the way back to Gen 2 in the past.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005524/graphics.html

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it's not entirely clear if the HDMI Forum can (or will be able to) block people going with a trial and error approach to getting more modern HDMI features working in the open source drivers.

They can't forbid clean room reverse engineering. But they could definitely try to make life harder for people even without legal basis, just because they have money and lawyers to wave around. Hopefully this developer can get backing from EFF or someone who can advise how to fight off HDMI patent trolls.

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Quoting: PyrateCould say this about a lot of Linux projects, or just any open source project really, but Plasma is the gift that keeps on giving. No enshittification, just continuous improvements. We can't stop winning.

KDE Plasma updates are the few I look up to. Back in 5.24 I was installing betas to get some features early, I haven't installed a beta in years but dammit the changelogs still have gems.

Quoting: LoftyI have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard'

I use wayland but there is a bug not affecting X11: moonlight and seemingly nothing else can disable vsync so I get higher input latency.

https://discuss.kde.org/t/1-frame-latency-on-moonlight-only-on-wayland-cannot-turn-off-vsync/40157

ohh that's not good because i do use sunshine/moonlight.

I'm guessing the bug is specific to my hardware though, the problem appears to be that nothing can turn off vsync so I have higher latency. You can test yourself by bringing the server next to client, opening the website below and shooting a video at slow motion.
https://dregu.github.io/frameskip/

Iirc on wayland vsync can only be disabled for games running in fullscreen

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This is what an actual independent game success looks like. Not what the Tencent-funded industry plant that Highguard masqueraded and rightfully failed to be.

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I'm all for making game development easier and accessible - but at what cost.

Chucking in a slopper does nothing to make development easier and accessible.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut it doesn't seem to be available in any distros as user friendly as Mint. One of these days I'll give it another look.

Fedora KDE is user friendly. Not having Nvidia drivers pre-installed ≠ not-user friendly. Windows comes without drivers pre-installed as well and people think that OS is user friendly. There's no harm in websearching "install nvidia drivers fedora Linux" and learning a thing or two about package management in the process. It's good practice long term.

So, first of all "user friendly" is a very vague term and I'm willing to agree that Fedora satisfies it. "as user friendly as Mint" is less vague, and I have never heard anyone claim Fedora satisfies that.

As to that second thing, no. I learned a thing or two about package management back in the 2000s. It was really annoying, as soon as they existed I moved to distros that did not make me do that. There is a finite amount of stuff I am capable of knowing a thing or two about, and a near infinite amount of stuff that would in some manner be useful to know, and I'm sorry but guts-details of operating systems is not in my top 1000. Computer people always think their particular area of knowledge is the one everyone really ought to know, but as far as I can tell there is no real basis for that believe

This turned argumentative real quick.

I didn't say Fedora is as user friendly as XYZ, I just that is, and in the midst of your confusion you seen to agree.

Secondly, your claim about wanting dsitros that "did not make you do [package management]" and that there's a finite amount of stuff you're capable of learning. I'm puzzled because A: what distros don't make you manage your packages? :D do you mean using GUI such as an app store ? Well Fedora KDE has the Discover store that let's you do that. And B: literally what else is there to know about a Linux system at all if not simple package management tips ? do you claim dnf install/update/remove is a difficult thing to understand and learn ? Genuinely, tell me one other thing that's more important for a new user to learn about Linux other than learning how to properly install apps and update their system.

Also, for the last unfounded assumption here: I'm not a computer people, I'm in med school.

No, the point is not that I should learn other things about my Linux distro rather than package management. The point is that I might want to learn about politics, or pickling vegetables. I use computers, I want them to be out of the way and let me use them to do things. Currently, Linux Mint is very good at this. You suggested that I instead use something else which would entail learning to do command line things, because "It's good practice long term."

Well, no, it isn't. It's time from my life that I won't get back, that I could simply not spend if I continue to use Mint, thus allowing me to instead spend time on things I find more interesting or compelling or important.

Please, point to me where I suggested that you should use or not use anything. The lack of reading comprehension here is astounding.

The real time of my life I won't be getting back is this back and forth, lmfao. Maybe make it clear next time that your idea of user-friendly Linux is strictly Mint and absolutely nothing else, so one won't have to waste their time and have no productive discourse.

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Quoting: eggrole

Quoting: elmapulif they can stop us from storing data locally, they can stop us from preserving content (eg: piracy) as well.

Quoting: JohnologueThey're taking away our right to own private computers

I think this hits the nail on the head

I think we need to draw a distinction or two here. I would not be surprised if, noticing this situation, some oligarchs decide to try to take advantage of it. They're opportunistic as all get out. But they're not smart enough for this to have been a plan all along. Have you seen some of those Epstein emails? These guys are fucking morons. Their ideas are incoherent, their plans are simpleminded. If they didn't have the masses of money and this sort of elite-scumbucket-solidarity backing them up, their stupid playbooks wouldn't get anywhere.

In the old days it was plausible to imagine the billionaire class as masterminds whose nefarious, complex plans succeeded because our every move would play into their hands. It turns out they're just dipstick scuzzbuckets with avalanches of cash, whose stupid brute-force plots kind of succeed because avalanches of cash.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut it doesn't seem to be available in any distros as user friendly as Mint. One of these days I'll give it another look.

Fedora KDE is user friendly. Not having Nvidia drivers pre-installed ≠ not-user friendly. Windows comes without drivers pre-installed as well and people think that OS is user friendly. There's no harm in websearching "install nvidia drivers fedora Linux" and learning a thing or two about package management in the process. It's good practice long term.

So, first of all "user friendly" is a very vague term and I'm willing to agree that Fedora satisfies it. "as user friendly as Mint" is less vague, and I have never heard anyone claim Fedora satisfies that.

As to that second thing, no. I learned a thing or two about package management back in the 2000s. It was really annoying, as soon as they existed I moved to distros that did not make me do that. There is a finite amount of stuff I am capable of knowing a thing or two about, and a near infinite amount of stuff that would in some manner be useful to know, and I'm sorry but guts-details of operating systems is not in my top 1000. Computer people always think their particular area of knowledge is the one everyone really ought to know, but as far as I can tell there is no real basis for that believe

This turned argumentative real quick.

I didn't say Fedora is as user friendly as XYZ, I just that is, and in the midst of your confusion you seen to agree.

Secondly, your claim about wanting dsitros that "did not make you do [package management]" and that there's a finite amount of stuff you're capable of learning. I'm puzzled because A: what distros don't make you manage your packages? :D do you mean using GUI such as an app store ? Well Fedora KDE has the Discover store that let's you do that. And B: literally what else is there to know about a Linux system at all if not simple package management tips ? do you claim dnf install/update/remove is a difficult thing to understand and learn ? Genuinely, tell me one other thing that's more important for a new user to learn about Linux other than learning how to properly install apps and update their system.

Also, for the last unfounded assumption here: I'm not a computer people, I'm in med school.

No, the point is not that I should learn other things about my Linux distro rather than package management. The point is that I might want to learn about politics, or pickling vegetables. I use computers, I want them to be out of the way and let me use them to do things. Currently, Linux Mint is very good at this. You suggested that I instead use something else which would entail learning to do command line things, because "It's good practice long term."

Well, no, it isn't. It's time from my life that I won't get back, that I could simply not spend if I continue to use Mint, thus allowing me to instead spend time on things I find more interesting or compelling or important.

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Quoting: chickenb00Balanced take: there is no conspiracy, this is simply a market reaction, and once these data centres are built but the envisioned demand does not materialize, prices for all components will fall as data centres stop being built.
I thought about panic-buying HDDs too, but they're expensive now, and anyways I have nothing to store.

I've had someone share an article with me about datacenter hoarding also causing a sudden rise (and then following crash) in chip prices during the pandemic. I think the problem is the ridiculous concentration of economic power that big tech companies have to outbid everyone on the majority of supply in short bursts.

I don't think it's an intentional conspiracy. I also wouldn't be surprised if they considered it a happy accident.

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Quoting: eggroleWe have seen a bigger push for remote gaming via Nvidia Now and Amazon's Luna. Sure, a lot of us would hem and haw about latency, but I've played a few games on Luna to test it out (Indiana Jones, Resident Evil 2, Hogwarts) and they all played "good enough". For the masses that aren't surfing video game websites, it will almost certainly be more than good enough.

looks like they are using video data from geforce now to train their ai as well

[gamer nexus quote - nvidia using geforce now as training data](https://youtu.be/Sdry-clMeRs?t=1614)

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Quoting: Persephone the SheepPart of me is like "man now minecraft can't run on anything" but also vulkan support have been here since 600 series nvidia with kepler and HD 7000 series AMD with GCN 1 both from 2012 so as long as your gpu isn't more then 14 years old you can still play as long as they don't go past vulkan 1.2 because of kepler. I'm not sure about the laptop side with intel so that concerns me. I don't know how kepler does with vulkan I know it does terribly with DX12 my GT 640 is dead so I can't check for myself. I just hope this doesn't effect too many people.

My old laptop's GT 730M dGPU can handle DX10 in Windows but it is limited to Vulkan 1.2 in Linux. The Intel iGPU only supports Vulkan 1.0.

On the flipside, my newer laptop with the MX150 dGPU can handle DX12 and Vulkan 1.4, as can the Intel iGPU. The MX150 is a Pascal series GPU.

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