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This looks cool but I need it on Steam for my convenience 🙈

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Instructions unclear, Tuvix sent as a peace offering to the Borg.

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Um. Liam. This title. Come on.

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Quoting: Mountain Manseason three of Picard was enjoyable since it's essentially DLC for The Next Generation

Seems fitting! Any TNG fans who haven't seen it are missing out.

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Happy Fedora User since well over 20 years now. It's a distribution that is not often mentioned like some off the other distributions, but it is worth a look. I have to disagree that NVIDIA user should avoid it. If you're using Linux since a month, you're installing the drivers quite fast from RPMFusion. But I really like the "opt-in" in Fedora to make it an active decision to choose it, instead of being one day suprised. It's really not much more than adding a repo and using the installer.

NVIDIA driver had been problematic with wayland, so even as a fanboy I switched to AMD GPU and its running amazingly well. Especially with modern games and being performant as well.

That Fedora was took over by IBM and their policy with AI is worring me a bit that things might chance. But the team does have a great bargain collected over the years, so'll I keep trust in their work... and still being on guard.

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Can't decide if the trailer voice is bad AI, or someone who barely knows English...

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the mystical world of Cincinnati

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Quoting: Liam DaweI see their use of generative AI as vastly more ethical than most other uses. They hired and paid people for the voices used.

If voice actors are (knowingly) paid to train a text-to-speech generator, rather than say a specific set of lines, is that really so bad? If it happened prior to all this nonsensical "AI" hype, would anyone bat an eye?

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Being both adorable, and a treating Linux users well out-of-the-gate? I don't care how Hytale is to play, it deserves kudos!🥰

I instantly bought it after reading this with some rather luckily leftover spending money.

I'm a bit sheepish; I hadn't even heard of it before seeing a video about its troubled start last week.

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I like DS9 for the most part. Sisko is a badass, even if I completely disagree with some of his actions against the Maquis and Michael Eddington. How he gets the Romulans to enter the Dominion War is next level.

Voyager is good, but has its meh moments. I feel like we could've had a few more episodes in season 7 too.

Even TNG has its meh moments and Miles O'Brien should've been in First Contact with Worf. They had Reginald Barclay. So not also having O'Brien was lame.

Enterprise could've been better, but it's fine. The whole Xindi thing was kinda stupid though. lol

While TOS is pretty hokey, it's good for the most part.

I haven't watched Picard yet and I don't know when I'll get to it. Star Trek has been a shell of its former self for a while. Paramount pissed me off with the product placement in the reboot movie and them also going against Roddenberry's vision too much with stuff as well. Section 31 was probably a necessary evil from DS9 onward, but they've really done a number on Star Trek since the reboot movies. That's not including CBS/Paramount sucking the Orange Moron off either.

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Quoting: fenglengshunA lot of it seems great. Hopefully, this does mean Steam moving to Wayland and 64bit this year to be possible.

Where comes this idea from that Steam's 32-bitness & X11ness are tied to Proton? I mean it absolutely makes no sense because then we'd be stuck with X11 & 32-bit forever. The system itself would not be able to run deprecated software like Steam.

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You have to be careful around mysterious holes. lol

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The power of significant others knows no bounds when it comes to influencing decision making. XD

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You had me right until the end. I dislike hunting for clues on web pages and social feeds, I like games isolated. It does look promising though.

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My beard is like how Comandante's was. My old Latino co-workers back in the day would joke about it when it gets long like it's gotten again.

I usually intend on shaving and do a few times, but then it gets too far gone and I just say fuck it and let it keep growing. lol

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Quoting: fenglengshunA lot of it seems great. Hopefully, this does mean Steam moving to Wayland and 64bit this year to be possible. But even outside of that, there are some pain points like windowing, IME, and Bluetooth that this addresses - as well as touching up on the behaviour of things like ODBC and other Windows dependencies that was an issue for me when I once tried to run local official tax apps and MS365.

At the same time, I'm not going to expect this to magically fix everything. I've had too many times when I think "everything should be fixed now!" and then you still have a dozen different issues. But, I am hopeful that things are maturing even further in a year or two.

You run MS365 through Wine.
That's how one recognizes a master of their craft.
Also on the category of MS365 everything is certainly not fixed.
Did you know it's thoroughly borked in the sense: doesn't start in winedb.
I noticed that launcher bypassed versions tend to at least start, but that's it.

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A lot of it seems great. Hopefully, this does mean Steam moving to Wayland and 64bit this year to be possible. But even outside of that, there are some pain points like windowing, IME, and Bluetooth that this addresses - as well as touching up on the behaviour of things like ODBC and other Windows dependencies that was an issue for me when I once tried to run local official tax apps and MS365.

At the same time, I'm not going to expect this to magically fix everything. I've had too many times when I think "everything should be fixed now!" and then you still have a dozen different issues. But, I am hopeful that things are maturing even further in a year or two.

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Quoting: haobiantaiThe attitude from Linux old-heads and their gatekeeping desire that new users "learn the ropes" is incredibly cringe.

I'm neither sure what you're complaining about here, nor how we should change it!?

What's wrong with Bazzite, or Mint, or Ubuntu? Who's doing the hand-waving you mention, in this article/thread? What would you suggest for newcomers to Linux?

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Quoting: sarmad

Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: sarmadThe solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

Why should ethics be the responsibility of government? That just brings more "nanny state" interference in everyone's lives. Ethics should be personal and exercised on the individual level. The corporations will switch gears soon enough once they realize their policy is garnering very few customers.

From the perspective of legality, however, there is the matter of the violated copyrights ...

Not the responsibility of the government, rather the responsibility of the judicial system.

The judicial system is a branch of government.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: sarmadThe solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

Why should ethics be the responsibility of government? That just brings more "nanny state" interference in everyone's lives. Ethics should be personal and exercised on the individual level.

I'm sorry, that's nonsense. A good deal of what government is all about has always been regulating unethical behaviour, in the interests of the community, because unethical behaviour damages the common good, and promoting the common good is what government is for. We're just so used to certain kinds of laws around ethical behaviour that we forget that's what they are. So for instance, laws against fraud are laws about ethical behaviour. Contract laws are laws about ethical behaviour. Arguably practically every law . . . murder, rape, theft, on and on . . . is a law about ethical behaviour. One could argue that laws about traffic aren't about ethics . . . but in a way even they are if you think the laws are rules to try to keep drivers and pedestrians safe, violating them makes people less safe, and making people less safe is an unethical thing to do.

In any case, where exactly has decades of whinging about the "nanny state" and getting rid of it wherever possible brought the United States? The US was a better place to live when it had more "nanny state" and that's no co-incidence. So was Canada, so was Britain.

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Congrats! Winewayland got pretty good.

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Quoting: sarmadWhile I agree there is a lot of immorality in AI, avoiding it just puts you at a disadvantage since everyone is using it.

That does not follow. For one thing, lots of potential buyers don't like AI, so if you don't avoid it, you may lose sales. For another, many applications of AI don't actually give advantage in the end, even if it seems like they ought to. Just because something is unethical does not necessarily mean that it is the best self-interested play. Lots of things are both unethical and stupid things to do.

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There hasn't been a really good Star Trek show since The Next Generation. Deep Space 9 is good but inconsistent, Voyager is not very good in general but has its moments, then the franchise quickly goes downhill from there, although season three of Picard was enjoyable since it's essentially DLC for The Next Generation, and it had Captain Shaw who quickly became my all time favorite Star Trek character.

Oh, yeah, the game. I'm definitely interested, but I'm in a "wait and see" holding pattern.

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The performance of the game has been absolutely stellar, and something I haven't seen get any attention is that the game and launcher are fully native Wayland (confirmed using xeyes)! I only played connected to my partner's session so this may not be a true representation of the performance, but at near max settings (everything turned up to "Epic" and the View Distance at just before it warns that I need 64GB RAM) my 7900XTX didn't go above 50% usage running the game at native 4k60fps (this was overall system usage, including video calling and screensharing and watching a screenshare from my partner, both with hardware acceleration). The performance and Linux support were my concerns going into the game, and both of those have been no worry at all!

Honestly I am shocked to see this kind of flawless Native Linux support, and I am very impressed with the game itself so far too! Here's to the future of Hytale!

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Quoting: Boldos

Quoting: sarmad

Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: sarmadThe snap file format and client side tools are completely open source. What's proprietary is the backend, i.e snapcraft.io, which is fine.

Doesn't that kinda mean that snap being open source is pointless to a large extent? It's like an open source client for a proprietary messaging service

Almost. Technically you can fork the snap front end to make it point to other backends, and I think someone has already done that, but practically such a fork won't be popular since the upstream is locked to a single backend and Canonical won't accept such a change to be upstreamed. I think if we didn't already have Flatpaks and AppImages such a fork would've been popular, but at this point Snap is a dying format outside of IoT.

Dying? Oh....
So why is it being installed by users on literally dozens of distros...? 🤔

Because it's not dead yet, but it will be. The deciding factor here is not the users; it's the developers; and most developers are going flatpak. Eventually, users will also switch to flatpak when they see more and more packages maintained in Flathub by the original developers, while the snap version is maintained by the community and is lagging behind in terms of updates.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: sarmadThe solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

Why should ethics be the responsibility of government? That just brings more "nanny state" interference in everyone's lives. Ethics should be personal and exercised on the individual level. The corporations will switch gears soon enough once they realize their policy is garnering very few customers.

From the perspective of legality, however, there is the matter of the violated copyrights ...

Not the responsibility of the government, rather the responsibility of the judicial system. But you'll need the politicians to amend the copyright laws to make it more clear to the idiot judges who still can't see the mass scale copyright infringement that is going on here.

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First impressions have been incredible! After installing the launcher on my Deck and logging in (I tried to log in to the launcher on Fedora but it for what ever reason would not open the pop up link, maybe you've got some ideas) I got 2+ hours to just immerse myself in the exploration and foundation of a house.

Some time after that I tuned into Kweebec Corner's stream on the side. Him and his co-creators in voice call gave what I consider a good representation of everyone's experience. Everyone is clueless about the mechanics, things different from a Minecrafter background, and surprised by some of the wilder features like what happens when you drink Mosshorn milk, or that trees regrow. Finally getting to experience cluelessness for the first time again is delightful.

I picked up a few valuable tips while viewing the stream, like how you absolutely MUST enable health bar visuals in general settings, unless you like testing your luck on who will die in combat first. Dagger spamming is also THE movement strategy.

Bugs I've encountered are the rendering of water freaking out and flashing, and maybe some mob AI jankiness. The visual map is another case where the behavior is weird. It should retain any chunks that have been explored, but it seems to either remove them from cache on death or only show chunks that are currently rendered which makes the feature far less useful. A few players mentioned respawn points at beds not working, which got annoying fast, but I didn't face that bug. What to take away from this is that the bugs do not significantly take away from the game, more significant are the rougher edges of the mechanics that make it feel like the pre-release it is.

Timed crafting is odd, stack sizes need improvements, and movement in some places needs work, but what we have right now as of day one release is very good, and this is the worst state Hytale is ever going to be. The 2 years of development funded by the pre-orders alone, added to Simon's 10 year pledge, ensure the game will become stronger in updates. After 8 years in development hell, cancellation, and revival, we're only now just beginning!

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AI isn’t some abstract future threat it’s automation, just like the machines and robots that have already replaced countless factory, retail, and logistics jobs. Now AI can automate not just cognitive work but, eventually physical labor too, meaning even jobs people thought were safe could be at risk. Automation removes work quickly, while job creation and retraining lag far behind, leaving millions behind in the process.

The bigger question is this if automation and AI keep replacing work faster than new opportunities appear, what will people do for a living? And if people can’t earn income who will buy the products and services these automated companies produce? This isn’t fear-mongering it’s basic math. Productivity may rise, but without people participating in the economy, the system cannot function.

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Quoting: XpanderPersonally i don't care if its done in a way it doesn't annoy me.

Never seen this or similar line before...

One thing using tools (terrain, robot-voice generator and/or similar) with proper attributions, but whole "AI" with totally legit "training" and many other s**t surrounding it.

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That new WoW64 looks promising.

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