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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 'Degoogled 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: Cloversheen

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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Quoting: BigJIs it buggy at all? It’s “early access”

Haven't encountered any. Some placeholder graphics in the unlocks screen is everything I was able to detect. Devs have said more content (monsters, cards, etc) will be coming, but otherwise it feels very polished already.

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Big tech did assumes AI-generated stuff make money best, and forgets that this broke copyright laws more than Fanworks fit to be protected by fair-use

more reason I completely switched to Linux as companies like Microsoft keeps Generative AIs from becoming things of the past

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Quoting: dragonherder He did not initially hide it though. He hid it after basically being bullied gor using AI to finish work he hasn't had the motivation to do on his own codebase... he then got bullied for removing the attribution because now he was trying to hide it. As another pointed out and I responded to it is basically coming down to people bullying developers using AI no matter what

That's also partially untrue. At the very first he didn't hide it, BUT he did hid it BEFORE being bothered. See his own statement :

" No, I removed the Claude attribution way before anyone complained. Looking at the git history, it seems to have happened on Feb 18th. The only thing I did as a result of this thread was putting them back. As a bonus, it fucks over every news source saying I've hidden Claude usage, making their articles wrong and outdated. "

The last sentence gives me everything I need to know about the guy though.

It seems like he just doesn't like having to face the consequences of his own actions (about using AI then about hiding it, trying to justify that he hid it precisely to not have to face consequences about using it, making it 10 times worse). And now being petty against " news sources ", which just did their job of informing people when HE should have been the one to inform them about using AI in a clear manner.

Why is it so hard for him to take ownership of his mistakes and choices ? There, have what I would consider a decent statement (not perfect since he still will be using AI for Lutris, at least mindful of people) :

Quoting: What The Statement Should Have been according to me" I have a stance on AI that can be divisive, I'm aware of the issues of the tech just like what I feel it brings to me, I chose to hid it because I was trying to protect myself from the consequences of using it, especially regarding harassment and toxicity which I didn't want to have to handle after having struggled with my own mental health.

I realize it was a mistake trying to hide it because it made it worse, by deceiving people who expected transparency and honesty in a FOSS project, and while people aren't entitled to me working for them, they're still entitled to honesty and respect, and it left them feeling betrayed because of how divisive this subject can touch core values, and prompted a lot more negative reactions than I would have gotten had I left the attribution to Claude, I understand that now.

In fact, I should have made it clearer that I was going to use AIGen the first time I did, to give time to people to move to an alternative and not catch them by surprising by having already done it for weeks / months now.

I can't take back how I acted, but I want to make it right by correctly attributing which parts of the code are made by Claude so people can fork the non AI generated parts if they do not want the AI code inside Lutris.

I know this won't fix the issue of me using AIGen for some people, but whatever your stances on AI are, when I stated that I failed you and you're entitled to my respect, please also be mindful and respectful in return, do it with kindness and in a place of constructive feedback and discussion. I wish good luck to people who will be looking for other similar projects without AIGen coding assistance.

Thank you all. "

That would have fixed lots of things for me. I still would have uninstalled it because the use of AI is an issue for me, but the biggest offense here for me was the betrayal of trust, you should never hide what you do in a FOSS project. This would have addressed that.

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I’m so glad that you’re taking a good stance on this, I really appreciate this site ^_^

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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: Linux_RocksCan they not call the original systems by their actual names due to copyright bullshit? If so, that's stupid on the part of the copyright holders. It's fair use, I'd say.

What do you mean? The games I am familiar with in this package are called the same thing they were called a bazillion years ago.

I meant the console and handheld system names themselves. They're listed as "Super," "Mega," "8-bit," "Portable," and "Gear." Not SNES, Mega Drive (Genesis), NES, Game Boy, or Game Gear.

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Is it buggy at all? It’s “early access”

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Thanks for remaining a human.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksCan they not call the original systems by their actual names due to copyright bullshit? If so, that's stupid on the part of the copyright holders. It's fair use, I'd say.

What do you mean? The games I am familiar with in this package are called the same thing they were called a bazillion years ago.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: Pikolo

Quoting: PhiladelphusI did notice that video backgrounds were a thing recently while video-chatting with my brother. Nice to see that finally happen.

What does doing "\@everyone" actually do? It's unclear from the patch note.

It 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 ;) It's a relatively common issue in programming - you want to be able to do more than just show the literal text, but sometimes you need to show the very sequence of characters that would normally do something special.

One place it comes up is in error messages and instruction manuals - if you want to tell the user how to achieve and effect, you need to show them the "magic words", but not "cast the spell". Backslash is a very common escape character. If you want to actually show a backslash in a language where it's an escape character, you escape the escape character itself - so `\\` would show up as `\` in javascript strings.

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

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And to the users logged in who send in correction reports to fix my incorrect wording, and sometimes rather funky grammar - you're awesome too. You know who you are. I appreciate you a lot.

Aww, thanks! And you're welcome. 😊

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I just don't know why people think these things are reliable. I just asked ChatGPT if you can use options separately (pacman -Syu -p) and it said -p shouldn't be used with Syu because it's for querying/installing packages. It's a dry-run option.

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