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I've installed the demo, I just have to find the time to try it out.

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Quoting: BrandonGeneNot being open source (and especially being based on Unity) makes this almost DoA, doesn't it?...some of those features are pretty neat, but that seems like a very odd choice in today's emulation landscape.

Really? How many games are people running that are closed source? I'm not gonna say "all of them", but unless we're talking about niche gamers, I'd say the vast majority of them are.
I'd rather have things opensource, but it's not like I'm putting all my personal documents in there. It's an emulator.

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Quoting: KimyrielleTheir first post was clear enough - local, optional and easy to shut off. The sad part is really where they thought their second post would stop the rage coming from the same people who already didn't read the first. It only takes "AI" somewhere in the first line to make these people go reach for the pitchforks. Objectivity and reason has left this discussion a while ago.

I don't know which post you're referring to, but the original post by Seager on Apr 27 was NOT clear in any of the ways you mention. That post doesn't say anything about only having local models - it says future integration will have a "local bias". It doesn't mention opt-in or opt-out at all, only saying that in future we'll see AI features land in Ubuntu as snaps. It doesn't talk about "easy to shut off" or even that this is optional, only that they're snaps, which might infer as much.

It's no wonder to me that this manic backtracking is required. As I said before, it's wild that Canonical think this timing, so soon after Microsoft's own desperate u-turns on Copilot, makes ANY sense.

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I recently had to go back to the 580-series because of a crash that would happen when I lock my screen and the monitors are put to sleep. When I came back to my PC I could see the backlights of the screens would be on but the picture was all black. When this happened the PC became completely unresponsive and I had to reach for the physical reset button. This doesn't sound like it fixes that even though it's in a similar ballpark. Anyway, now I'm on 580.142 which doesn't seem to have this problem.

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Quoting: AllyTheProtogenI wonder what it is that they're getting at here. If I had to guess, they're bleeding money into the red like every other AI company, so wtf is up with sending out even more? And to Blender of all things?? Seeing how they're amoral enough to support AI in the first place, I highly doubt they're doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.

I suspect it makes sense in a sort of complicated way, it's fraught, sort of a my enemy's enemy thing from the POV of an open source project.

What Anthropic wants, is to be the tool for all development everywhere.

If you're them, having something like Blender, that collects no licenses, crush something like Unity, that does, is great.

Because then the money shops were spending on Unity . . . goes to agents instead. See they weirdly want all royalty free development platforms too, just . . . maybe not for good reasons . . .

They may also just be burning cash at an absurd rate and want their logo out there, it's just marketing. They think it will create goodwill with people who will become customers.

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The original zsnes took some years after release before coming out FLOSS, so fingers crossed?

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Quoting: Liam DaweWhen I eventually get one, it will be the true size test. I have tiny hands.

In the meanwhile, Linus Tech Tips did a review of it, who also has small hands. The size itself is roughly comparable to an XBox controller, but he did complain about the span between the edge of the controller, and the analog sticks.

It's not a dealbreaker for me (I have regular non-gnomish hands), but I could see how it could be an issue for some.

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I wonder what it is that they're getting at here.

People use Blender to make creative stuff. They need the creative stuff to feed their models?

Either that or the PR department had money to burn, looked at the list of previous sponsors and felt excluded?

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Quoting: mrdeathjrThis d7vk version in my case work ok with mesa 26.2-dev

That's a surprise. The top picture is the original Dungeon Siege (one of my faves). I thought it used DX9.

How about that -- I just checked PCGamingWiki and the API is indeed DX7. It must have been GOG's custom DirectDraw wrapper that made me think it was DX9.

Yeah many think same about dx9 on dungeon siege but in reality this game use dx7

however d7vk results are very impressive

😀

Did you have to do anything to disable GOG's wrapper?

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I wonder what it is that they're getting at here. If I had to guess, they're bleeding money into the red like every other AI company, so wtf is up with sending out even more? And to Blender of all things?? Seeing how they're amoral enough to support AI in the first place, I highly doubt they're doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.

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Quoting: g000hYou can fit a small local model in 500MB, although naturally its accuracy will suffer.

For me, I only want to run models using my own choices of software. For instance, I would not be happy with Ubuntu or some corporation pushing some agentic features alongside the LLM. The agentic side is where A.I. gets into mischief - It exposes security holes, e.g. prompt attacks which can affect backend systems.

Also, agentic features enable Big Tech corporations (Microsoft, Google, OpenAI) to conceal telemetry and other self-serving capabilities (backdoors, etc). Naturally, any built-in agentic capabilities would be the first place hackers will be aiming to exploit.

For camera focus, which is one of the features evoked by Seager, Canon, Sony, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic and Pentax had integrated neural network trained using Deep Learning for autofocus in their DSLR and Miroless for around 15 years. This is notably how they greatly increased the number of species on which focusing using the "Focus on eyes" feature works.

So "AI powered" camera focus can use very small models depending of what you call AI powered.

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Quoting: PyrateReally hope Mihoyo or whatever they're called now go the Stellar Blade route and make a traditional game for once.

I am afraid they won't. Let's face it, their shady designs are a lot more profitable than traditional games. There is a reason why 100% of the entire mobile market is based on shady designs.

That's why I brought up Stellar Blade. Anything is possible and I wouldn't discount them making a one off traditional paid game, like how ShiftUp did.

ShiftUp are actually even worse off than Mihoyo as in their gacha games are like simple mobile shit, while Genshin and ZZZ are pretty much AAA console games level at least. ZZZ with a radically different design would've been a damn fine $60 game.

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You can fit a small local model in 500MB, although naturally its accuracy will suffer.

For me, I only want to run models using my own choices of software. For instance, I would not be happy with Ubuntu or some corporation pushing some agentic features alongside the LLM. The agentic side is where A.I. gets into mischief - It exposes security holes, e.g. prompt attacks which can affect backend systems.

Also, agentic features enable Big Tech corporations (Microsoft, Google, OpenAI) to conceal telemetry and other self-serving capabilities (backdoors, etc). Naturally, any built-in agentic capabilities would be the first place hackers will be aiming to exploit.

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Quoting: Cley_FayeUbuntu's track record of allowing fine control over some features does not bode well. We still have to jump through hoops to remove "ubuntu advantage" on systems it is irrelevant (and no, it's not "completely harmless" to leave it there).

If they go in a way that gives full control to the user, with like a checkbox/prompt before enabling something new, who cares. If they go in a way that forces things on because "it's ok, trust us bro" and "who cares, it's just a little harmless extra nail in the coffin", then no. And, well, with Canonical really liking to force things over… we'll see I guess.

I know there are alternatives out there, but the less people will care about this, the more it will become prevalent. And when every major distro decides that it's ok to do that, we're screwed.

usually I would think that on any linux system managing packages and services is so straightforward that it's hard to truly enforce anything. But then what if you have something like a snap daemon running that basically does whatever it wants on its own like windows does, and disabling it may also have consequences you don't want? hard to say but it's a bit suspicious (also I'm not really sure what people already have to do to "debloat" ubuntu cause I never really used it)

Debloating ubuntu these days is relatively trivial, and the "bloat" part is largely exaggerated. The "bloat" here is an extra package/software manager, and a nagging screen that pops up in terminal, both of which can be removed with relative ease. It's laughably little compared to a windows debloating process: snapd and his ilk can be removed with a few commands, and the ubuntu advantage can be removed by installing a fake empty package instead.

Still, the intent is there; ubuntu advantage in particular is a direct dependency of most metapackage that ensure you get a usable system, and not using these metapackages is a pain in the butt. Since we're talking open source, there's no way to make things absolutely inevitable, but Canonical sure could get very aggressive with extra layers of bullshit, which they did not do so far.

It's not ideal, but even now, I think the situation is relatively fair to everyone. KDE Neon, for example, explicitly built over Ubuntu LTE, have such an empty package to disable this part.

Substituting a package with an empty one already feels like a filthy hack tbh that would take me a while to figure out on my own, like you probably have to build it and all. I guess it works this way because it was more convenient (or like a more "proper" implementation in line with how the rest of this stuff works) for canonical rather than more malicious but it doesn't make it any less annoying

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33 was probably the best episode of the show, so building a game around that concept sounds fun.
As a BSG diehard fan, there's no way I am not trying this game anyway.

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Because of the size of most LLMs, we simply couldn’t ship them in the installer anyway, so opting out at first run is simple: they just won’t be there.

I was also thinking this yesterday. Especially if they’re going to support any language other than English, including the models in the installer directly would create a huge amount of bloat. It wouldn’t have made any sense for it to be opt-out.

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Quoting: PyrateReally hope Mihoyo or whatever they're called now go the Stellar Blade route and make a traditional game for once.

I am afraid they won't. Let's face it, their shady designs are a lot more profitable than traditional games. There is a reason why 100% of the entire mobile market is based on shady designs.

It's not only that, though. I played both Genshin and Honkai: Star Rail for years. In the end they lost me because of their writing going completely bonkers in too many ways. In Genshin, their world building stopped making sense a while ago. They just add stuff whatever and whenever they feel like that, no matter if it makes sense for the setting. In Star Rail, their latest chapter was incredibly convoluted for no apparent reason, and the story stopped making any sense after the first 30 minutes or so, and had what I consider one of the top 5 dumbest endings in gaming history. The first chapter (Belobog) was amazing, but their current lead writer has no clue how to construct a believable plot, really.

In the end, maybe my biggest hope is someone else with deep pockets delivering a good single player anime RPG.

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Great. Help me rename, tag, and sort all of my photos and other images.

Same with text files and other documents. Fix my Markdown mistakes. Convert MD to basic HTML to post on forums. Provide a TOC from headers on longer articles I've written.

Help me manage my workspaces and windows. Prompt me with sensible window rules automatically and nudge me to be organized. Take a look into which Librewolf profile I'm using and ensure it stays in the proper Activity.

There are simple, useful usecases for more advanced, personalized computer help tools.

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Think this is pretty much DOA, given closed sourced and based on Unity. Not that big of a deal these days though, just disappointing to be honest given the original ZSNES.

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I'm very concerned about this platforms future to be honest. As Liam said, the performance is absolutely atrocious. I have a Ryzen 7 5800X and a RX 9070 and even in the most visually simple games, I struggle to hit 30-40 fps at 1440p. I'm also worried that the platforms focus on monetizing your creations is going to lead to a Roblox situation where the platform is filled with simple predatory mobile-like games or cheap clones of more popular games to make a quick buck. Heck, when I was playing the open beta a few months back, things were already that way.

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Their first post was clear enough - local, optional and easy to shut off. The sad part is really where they thought their second post would stop the rage coming from the same people who already didn't read the first. It only takes "AI" somewhere in the first line to make these people go reach for the pitchforks. Objectivity and reason has left this discussion a while ago.

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Unfortunately even if it were half this price I'd struggle to justify it given my wireless Xbone controller w/ rechargeable batteries has been working well for almost 14 years at this point. I hope they sell well as they seem to be building on really good fundamentals.

I feel like Steam keeps narrowly missing me with their hardware releases in terms of price/features (Steam Machine vRAM, Steam Deck availability, not into VR w/ the Steam Frame, etc.), which is a shame because they do good work.

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FSR4 support alone would make the steam deck 2 way better than the first

but who knows: maybe valve comes up with an upscaler for the new steam machine, which also works on the deck

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Not being open source (and especially being based on Unity) makes this almost DoA, doesn't it?...some of those features are pretty neat, but that seems like a very odd choice in today's emulation landscape.

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I've really been jonesing for a Steam Deck over the past year, as it was either that or snake cabling under the walls/flooring to the basement TV room. This news might have me content to wait rather than get the now 3-4 year old console, especially considering they've been out of stock here for over 5 months now. Hope they keep the good work up!

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Quoting: spacemonkeyToo expensive for a controller I want, but don't need

This is exactly me. I only ever use controller gaming on the couch with my buddy, and we have two 8bitdo controllers that work perfectly fine and combined cost LESS than this single valve controller. Wow that price.

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So we've been working back from silicon advancements and architectural improvements

So basically a guarantee SD2 will be arm based? Especially with their recent advances in fex?

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Man Crying Suns was (is) sooooooo good. I have high hopes for this as well. Please be good!

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Quoting: Liam DaweWhen I eventually get one, it will be the true size test. I have tiny hands.

From what I have seen it looks perfectly fine for small hands. I am more afraid it will feel tiny in my enormous mole hands xD Guess I will see when I get one. I really like the Steam Decks ergonomics so I think the controller should fit as well.

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Are Canonical and Mozilla the same place? LOL it seems like they are doing the exact same things step by step. And by "same exact things" I mean "stupid dumb bullshit nobody asked for but is being forced down our throats".

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