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Quoting: Nora Bell _They-She_I'd like to see an un-Googled build too, though I suspect that is still some time away.

Good news! Ungoogled Chromium is a thing!

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: g000hAs soon as Californians are no longer able to legally run Linux, their own citizens will go after this law and end the moronic political overreach.

This assumes that the majority of Californians are Linux users. Linux is not significant enough to overturn this law. Besides, the majority of eligible voters are indifferent sheep ... they are more likely to just accept or ignore the overreach.

Well the alternative is just giving up and result in Linux dying. Is that what you want? BTW California state includes Big Tech utopia Silicon Valley. Love to see Google and Meta trying to run without access to open source.

It appears that Meta is responsible for causing this political upheaval - Lobbying politicians in these areas. (Meta gets to avoid big fines if it passes age verification onto operating systems and app stores.)

I'm not sure how we went from Linux not likely to be the tipping point to inspire a voter uprising to Linux being gone forever if it doesn't. What does Silicon Valley or Open Source have to do with it? Linus Torvalds lives in Portland. The Linux Foundation can be moved out of California if necessary. For that matter, so could Google or Meta. Many Linux distros are not even developed and maintained in the US. Arch Linux is Canadian by origin. Linux Mint is based in Ireland. Canonical (Ubuntu) is based in the UK. Debian appears to be truly global. Almost every country has its own unique flavor of Linux. California is hardly a threat to the future of Linux.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if Meta was involved.

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: g000hAs soon as Californians are no longer able to legally run Linux, their own citizens will go after this law and end the moronic political overreach.

This assumes that the majority of Californians are Linux users.

They are. Linux runs virtually everything that's not a PC. What types of devices will fall under each law's purview? Smart watches? Routers? CCTV systems? Car entertainment systems? The farther it reaches, the more it hurts people's convenience and risks overcoming their complacency.

Certainly, the broader its effect, the more frustrating it will become. But it is not Linux that will be the tipping point. You are assuming that most people even care or know what operating system is on the device. Some of those devices likely already have age-gating tools built-in. From what I've read, M$ is already age-gating Windows 11 via their Microsoft Account requirement. When I set up such an account for my employer to enable extended update support on Windows 10, providing her birthdate was required. My employer wasn't the least bit fussed. If they've already accepted it on Windows, why would they object to Linux? Don't underestimate voter complacency, is all I am saying.

FYI - incidentally, I am not in support of this becoming law in any way, shape or form.

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Quoting: Liam DaweOpenTTD has had free graphics and music available for a very long time. Using content from TTD is entirely optional.

That's what I thought. This definitely smells of Atari going "make people buy our game to play yours, or we'll DMCA you off of Steam and GOG". At least per the change notes it says:

If you already own OpenTTD on Steam, nothing changes.
You'll continue to receive game updates as usual.
If you ever need to re-download the game, the game will remain in your Steam library.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: PikoloIt was working the same as @everyone (mentioning everyone giving them a notification), but without warning you that you're sending a very broad notification

Thanks! I'm just still unclear what an "escaped mention" is, or at least what it's supposed to do. If "\@everyone" does the same as "@everyone" now (if I understand the fix)…what's the point of the backslash? 🤔 Or does it do something different now? What does "\@<user>" do differently from "@user"?

It's not supposed to do anything besides showing the text ;)

Ah! Gotcha. That was unclear, thank you. I'm familiar with the concept of escaping characters, but the description in the patch notes just wasn't making sense to me (and I didn't know about escaping the @ symbol in Discord.) So the issue was that it wasn't correctly escaping "@everyone/@here", and now it does. 🙂

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Defender of the Crown is an absolute classic originally released on the Amiga

I remember this game! I played it on my Amiga 500. Good times.

Of course, I was legally an adult, not a child, then ...

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Quoting: JarmerAs a father of two very small children I absolutely love this and hope they push it even harder. I have absolutely loved games my entire life. I want my kids too as well. But: I have no patience or tolerance for these predatory parasites that attempt to prey on children with dark patterns and outright gambling.

This is really no different than the North American Saturday Morning Children's Shows from the eighties and nineties. They were just half-hour long commercials designed to teach children to be good consumers. Almost all the shows had toys and other collectables that they pushed on children. Nevermind the cereal commercials run by the networks between the breaks. The exploiters just shifted spheres when their target market did.

Fortunately, my parents had a hard heart regarding this kind of manipulation and were not moved by their children's pleadings.

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Wow, @mrdeathjr, for a DX3 game, MotoRacer 2 looks pretty amazing.

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Unity Engine games are one of the most problematic games for me to get running stable in Proton. They are the most likely to crash unexpectedly. I'd say that the Unity devs have a lot of work to do for both Proton and Native support...

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Quoting: sonic2kkGranted, I'm not sure if any launcher can integrate with it out of the box (iirc Heroic may be able to if it finds it installed from Steam, Lutris may do the same?), but it isn't necessarily a walled solution only for Steam; Linux ports targetting the Steam Linux Runtime will not necessarily only benefit ports coming to Steam but also those released standalone and/or through GOG.

Heroic has a toggle you can set to turn the Steam Linux Runtime on or off. It doesn't say which runtime and doesn't give you the option to choose either.

Lutris, at least up to v0.5.18, has its own set of runtime libraries that you can toggle on or off. There is also an option to manually set a library override folder which, theoretically, should work with the Steam Linux Runtimes. After v.5.18, I don't know because I won't be installing any newer versions.

Outside of any launcher, it is also possible to add a runtime override folder to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, either permanently or temporarily, via the Terminal or script. You put it at the front of the list and Linux checks there first.

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Quoting: Nora Bell _They-She_While I'm not the type to use straight up chrome, it's nice to see development to Chromium for ARM64 devices. I'd like to see (thanks to this) apps like Grayjay being ported over to ARM64 as well. I'd like to see an un-Googled build too, though I suspect that is still some time away.

Chromium had arm64 linux support for a long while afaik, it has been used on Raspberry Pi, Asahi Linux etc. Chrome is new.

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I avoid 'Chrome' as a browser because it is made by a Big Tech corporation whose entire business model is built around stealing and exploiting the data of its users. Chrome now has Manifest Version 2 support removed, and so it can't run a fully-effective Tracker Blocker (like uBlock Origin, Ghostery, and others). Google has things in place inside their browser to collect telemetry beyond that which is exposed by website traffic.

I suppose the 'good news' here is that properly degoogled Chromium ports like 'Ungoogled Chromium' and 'Brave' browser will be available to use for browsing, which I find to be acceptable choices (for me to use). Wouldn't even install Chrome on my system. [Google gets to collect app download data, IP address, etc - If you have Chrome installed.]

Typically, I run Firefox, Librewolf, Floorp, Tor browser, Mullvad browser, and other Firefox-based browsers where Manifest Version 2 still works and I can use a proper Tracker Blocker. Where Firefox has some minor flaws in its default configuration, those flaws can easily be remedied.

Avoiding Google helps to defund Google, stops them having a detailed profile on you, and reduces the enormous amount of control they impose upon society. If only there were more decent Linux mobile apps to fight against the duopoly that is Android and iOS. [I already run Ubuntu Touch, SailfishOS, Droidian, PostmarketOS, Meego, Maemo on my mobiles.]

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Quoting: PaldinoX

but for the Verified status they're expecting 30FPS at 1080p

Oh lord, expect the incoming tidal wave of idiots thinking the Steam Machine will ONLY run games at 1080p 30fps because they don't understand how Valve's verification program works.

I don't get it either. I understood on first reading that 30fps at 1080p was just the minimum needed for a game to qualify for Verified Status, not the maximum performance of the Steam Machine. These are two different things, after all. I'm astonished that people could possibly be that stupid.

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I miss the Danger Zone game mode (battle royale) and I wish they added it back to CS2.

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Quoting: CreepioAnother thing I wanted to quickly say is that, the Lutris dev mentioned he has depression and he's using Claude as a way to stay motivated to continue working on his project (my interpretation of things). He's doing this to try to make more progress on something that otherwise risks becoming abandonware, and right now I feel like he's being bullied for using AI. He felt bullied so he removed the claude attribution, and then he felt bullied again so he put it back. And now after reading a few comments here, I see people are canceling their Patreons over this. Bizarre. I don't know what the end-game is here. If being bullied is going to be the result of using AI, I question if applying any AI attribution in the first place is the right answer. This situation affects how I will choose to go about doing things in the near future if I plan to release any software.

In time you will learn to accept that some decisions lead to situations without a good outcome or recourse. Regardless if you try to go forward, or back, or step aside - the damage has already been done. The attitude is important, too, but not the most important. My only hope is that this situation will serve as a guidance to others, because the others are definitely observing.

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While I'm not the type to use straight up chrome, it's nice to see development to Chromium for ARM64 devices. I'd like to see (thanks to this) apps like Grayjay being ported over to ARM64 as well. I'd like to see an un-Googled build too, though I suspect that is still some time away.

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Love it. Love this community! I don't mind being called a luddite. I take it as an inspiration rather than an insult. As long as i have the luxury of choosing, i'd rather be on the human side. With nice people, of course. :)

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Cool. Now release for ARM64 with 16K page size for asahi linux.

Chrome had an arm (32? 64?) linux build for a long time, for chromebooks with arm chips

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Quoting: luapI think I am human.)

This me made laugh. Thanks 😊

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Quoting: F.UltraThey actually do (to some extent), if you are a songwriter you have to register each work you create to PRS. Organizations that then pay license to PRS have to also track which song is played so the payouts is actually divided per how much your music was played.

How much of this is "in theory"?

Because that seems like an (in reality) impossible task outside planned organised events like a music festival.

I guess that they use different approaches for different venues. Looking at their own website they claim to use "advanced algorithms" for public venues, hopefully that is a bit better than $RANDOM :). I do know that their local equivalent here in Sweden (STIM) gets complete playlists from e.g radio channels due to me having helped out to create an automated database for that for a local radio station years ago.

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While this account that I'm using is new, I have viewed this site for years.

And is one of main reasons I took an interest in Linux in the first place. As I've grown tired of Microsoft's mishandling of Windows. Ironically one of which is AI and constant broken updates and bad GPU drivers that both Nvidia and AMD release along side the broken Windows updates.

So keep up the good work Liam, and bring more people onto Linux👍

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Hmm, i'm not sure this is the right way to do game preservation...

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Quoting: minidouridiculous, but not surprising
there's no stopping the moral panic against AI it seems

😐. there are plenty of LLM generated Linux and gaming sites, what's wrong with one that chooses not to use it? how is that "moral panic"? no one is stopping you or anyone from using it. liam is free not to use it, and we're free to be critical about it. lol.

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Breaking news!

Liam fired himself and has been replaced by a program!

...Wait a second... 🤨

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Nicely put.
If we like it or not, AI is here to stay. Personally I feel it will drop the average intelligence of the human race even more then social media did. Asking an AI to make you a website does not make you understand or actually learn what you are doing and it does not make you smarter.
AI has absolutely no place on a news website like gamingonlinux, news articles need to be written by humans which includes having spelling errors and/or personal feelings.

So again, Nicely put and I take off my hat to you for putting it out there so clearly.

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Quoting: vic-bay...everyone got dumber.

Now that is a high low bar to meat!

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I wanna thank everyone for this great platform of news. This is one of the few places of which I get updated with things I truly love (Linux and gaming), and I can easily say that, for me, this is the best place!
I wish all prosperity and joy to everyone that work here and contribute.

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thanks atari... i guess..

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if ai ever disappear, i will say, nothing of value was lost

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Quoting: doragasuUsing Generative AI tools to "fix Linux gaming" does not make sense, because Generative AI tools is killing gaming (in Linux and everywhere else) along with many other things, like many tech startups that will have to close because the magnificent 7 are hoarding all resources. And Anthropic is among the culprits here.

He also states the problem is capitalism, but it's difficult imagining this tech would work in a non capitalist heavy scenario, because for models to be effective they have to suck tons and tons of energy and data. Does he want to use AI but not "bad, capitalist AI"? OK, he can buy an RTX6000 Blackwell GPU and train his own model on non copyrighted/licensed code. But good luck getting the GPU at a decent price and getting that model to get the same level of performance as Claude.

He could just said something in the lines "I don't mind ethics, I just want to get things done", and although not OK, that would have been a better response. But his justification does not stand. **There is no ethical use case for Generative AI tech**, because it can only work if you waste enormous amounts of resources and train on tons of copyrighted and licensed work, without giving a shit for that copyright/licenses.

american billionaires prefers Generative AIs over any other technologies for spending their money on

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