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Quoting: elmapulthe licence alllow to implement this on wine/proton/dosbox?

I imagine FreeDOS is miles ahead of this ancient code. It's only interesting for historical purposes, especially with MS-DOS 4.0 also available.

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"brew package" / "brew installer" - this sounds like something diverging from Fedora. Is that akin to something like "homebrew" on macOS?

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Quoting: Linux_RocksI remember running Fedora 3

Never existed. You mean Fedora Core 3? I remember when the rumors starting flying that Red Hat 9.0 was the end of the line. It was true; Fedora Core replaced it. At this point, I no longer remember when they dropped "Core" and then started with the sub-branding, like "Workstation".

Ah, Wikipedia remembers: Fedora 7 dropped "Core" because it merged in the "Extras" repository; I think that's what remains as EPEL for the server variants to this day. Same article says "Workstation" didn't come until Fedora 21.

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Crazy that people will pay so much for little pieces of plastic vinyl with adhesive backing.

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Thank you everybody for the great input! I'll give it a closer look then, especially for the kids laptops and see how it goes. My Main has an NVIDIA Card, so this (together with my addiction of the AUR) might be keeping me on Endeavour.
Isn't that a great time to live in - so many excellent choices for your digital life!

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Great, I hope it will fix the issue I've been having since I "updated" to the AUR 580xx driver. Using wayland sometimes the computer freezes when tabbing to another window, it happens kinda randomly so it drives me crazy.

Anyway, thank you for the news Liam!

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Bet Sony spending a fair bit of money trying to patch all these holes out.
Bit of a scenario of them shooting themselves in the foot because having a way to install Linux on these consoles will make them MUCH more popular and people will naturally buy the games for them anyway.

BUT they won't see it that way; gotta waste money and ruin everyone's fun, the corporate motto!

I've read they are now putting more DRM into consoles; wonder how long until Age Verification comes and you are required to have Face and ID scans to even turn the things on.... what a world!

I do wish Steam Machines were going to be affordable alternatives, but it seems that won't be happening for quite some time! Onward and Downward into the fiery pits we go!!!! :)

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: LoudTechie- also applies to IOT and servers.

This is the funniest part. Whose age should I set on the fridge? Mine, or the yogurt's? 😆

Anyway it's nothing particularly new. When I set up gmail accounts for my kids, I just added 10 years or whatever, so they don't get blocked from accessing stuff and I don't get pestered with requests for permission or whatever. If I installed such age-requiring OS today, I would do the same.

Well, the yogurt is the one actually using the fridge. It's merely in your house. I think the next question is: how does the age of the bacteria translate into human years?

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I remember running Fedora 3 on a Pentium II 266MHz machine with 384MB of RAM. It had ATI RAGE 128 graphics and some non-Creative sound card. It was a hand-me-down PC from my Grandparents. I was 18 back then. Boy, how time flies, I'm staring down 40 in a month and a half. D:

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Quoting: PhlebiacThey have to make fixes for the EA App quite regularly. It's almost like EA is going out of their way to break it.

This is the same cat and mouse game that Valve has been dealing with since the release of the Steam Deck and it looks like nothing has changed after all this time.

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It's been a long time since I've heard of ZSNES and I'm glad that the original developers are back with Super ZSNES. When I get some time, I might fire up this emulator to see if some of the games I backed up from my own collection works with it.

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if steam deck, and steam machines werent a thing that would be exciting news for me, but now i just want then instead.
i just hope that at least some ps5 owners convert then to 'steam machines" but i doubt it.

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my favorite color is aways black, because it reflect less light from the television allowing me to focus, but im glad we have options!

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the licence alllow to implement this on wine/proton/dosbox?

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That's actually pretty cool, especially the finding the printed source code in his garage. lol

Now if they wanna actually be cool, they'll open source all the way up to MS-DOS 6.22 and either open source Windows 3.11 or make it freely available on their site. They've got no money to lose in doing so and it'd just be easy PR for them.

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When are they going to release the source code for GlaDOS?

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I upgraded my gaming mini PC last night (Fedora KDE), my work laptop (also Fedora KDE) will have to wait till the weekend.

I've been upgrading since Fedora 38 on my laptop and 41 on my mini PC and it always been trouble free, but this one must be the smoothest upgrade I had: no issues whatsoever, no waiting for rpmfusion to catch up, all great!

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Quoting: PhlebiacI think at some point, Valve is going to need to shift the SteamOS Verified requirements a bit: "if you want the verified flag, you have to commit to supporting Proton, instead of just relying on Valve to fix things after you break them in production builds."

Or maybe have a higher tier: "Verified+" or something, which means the developer is actively supporting it.

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I think at some point, Valve is going to need to shift the SteamOS Verified requirements a bit: "if you want the verified flag, you have to commit to supporting Proton, instead of just relying on Valve to fix things after you break them in production builds."

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Quoting: williamjcm

Quoting: STiATPocket money for an AI company.

"Pocket money" that they pretty much can't afford to spend because they're not profitable in the slightest.

I find myself thinking that somewhere in the guts of the company someone said "You know, it's all gonna be over soon. But right now, we're still swimming in borrowed cash. What the heck, might as well send a little dribble of it over to Blender before the end."

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There are actually remakes of the first three SaGa games (or was it just 2+3?). They were released for NDS in Japan only, but there are fan-translations out there. I haven't yet tried them, but at first glance the remakes look pretty descent. I wish square would've released those on Steam instead of the COLLECTION of SaGa.

SaGa 2 (as FF Legend 2) was actually my very first contact with JRPGs, the name Final Fantasy and Uematsus Work. It will forever have a special place in my heart.

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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite?

I unfortunately have an Nvidia graphics card, which means that my KDE taskbar has a chance to break if you interact with it more than once. Also, sometimes the lock screen freezes upon waking from sleep (but you could still type in your password and the system will unlock fine), which is somehow an improvement compared to when it only showed a black screen and the only solution was a restart.

I'm aware that this is a KDE issues not a Bazzite one, but it still sucks.

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I put a skin on my Steam Deck once, never again. It never held properly and was always peeling off. On the peel-off, it collected dirt, grime and hair. It was so disgusting that I removed it a few months after

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Unfortunately there's a growing probability of Denuvo moving to kernel level DRM. And if that happens, it's game over for Linux users. Not a problem specifically for me, I don't buy games with Denuvo DRM, but for the platform itself, it might be a big hit.

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If I would own a handheld, Bazzite would be the way to go. But my desktop? Never ever. The immutable goes to much into my way. I realized it when I tried to introduce a friend in "how to use CLI" (to protect him from his own blind copy-from-internet actions). Even basic things become a nightmare. It is just not the right distro for me, but I recommend it to some potential new Linux users.

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Quoting: PaldinoXThat's a shame 2K is using Midnight Suns as a testbed for this crap, nobody bought it despite being a genuinely great game and now even less people will bother with it because of this.

I got Midnight Suns for free and thought it wasn't good enough to finish (put in 23 hours). There are only a handful of mission types (kill everything, destroy thing, protect thing, etc) that you do over and over. Then the whole "social" aspect was boring to me. It felt like a cozy mini-game, that you are forced to do to get upgrades, in a tactical game.

I think the bones of the combat was good though as I like card and spatial turn-based combat. I think they could have had a much better game if they stripped the social movie bullcrap and focused more on the action. While I'm not anti-cozy, I think this game was like oil/water pulling in two different directions.

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Quoting: mindedieIf perfect DRM existed,

There is. It's called a "offering a good product that's worth its money". People typically don't pirate if they don't think the pirates have the better product.

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I could not care less for Denuvo. Publisher that treat me without respect will not earn my money. That includes games shipped with Denuvo as well as with KLAC.

Quoting: sarmadMultiplayer games should depend on server-side AI based monitoring

Agree with "server-side", disagree with "AI based monitoring". I would probably one of the first people getting banned for not hacking, because I play games like games and not guided (as 98% of all players these days do). AI is discriminating based on their trainings data. It is common sense that it should not be used for surveillance and Monitoring to filter cheaters is nothing else.

Classic server-side anti-cheats are totally fine and good enough to create a nice gaming experience for everyone. It is just more expensive to create game specific anti-cheat solutions compared to allrounder tools (where legit players pay the price). The few people that will stay unrecognized by classic server-side anti-cheat will also exist with AI anti-cheat or with KLAC or any other anti-cheat method. How do you want to detect dobbing? The goal is not to reduce cheaters to zero, but to create a gaming experience for every legit player that doesn't feel like there is any cheater and there is no much difference in capability between all these methods. However, AI-anti-cheat also banns legit players and therefor it is even as bad as KLAC.

Anyway, anti-cheat is a different topic, DRM is to prevent piracy, nothing else.

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Quoting: mattaraxiaIf 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.

Unity isn't a 3D modeling application, it's a game engine. That would be if they were funding Godot.

I don't know much about the commercial/licensed 3D modeling programs though, so I can't say I'd make a better comparison.

Anthropic supporting open projects when their whole thing is "AI can't be open because then crazy idiot hackers will end the world with magic computers" is hypocritical. If you look up "Anthropic open source" on DuckDuckGo, they have a program to let open source developers use their AI...the AI itself in that case is all gratis, no libre. They want to be in control.

"I don't know much about the commercial/licensed 3D modeling programs though, so I can't say I'd make a better comparison."

Right. Unity is huge, it absolutely contains 3D modeling software, you sort of answer your own question there.

Blender used to be a game engine and a 3d modeling suite, but has gotten away from the game engine part. Unity used to be a game engine and has gotten more and more into being an all in one suite that includes 3d modeling.

I couldn't tell you how many Unity developers actually use it for their modeling, but absolutely Unity the company wants them to, funding Blender (and Godot) both would absolutely be seen as undermining them.

The tool is called ProBuilder and is absolutely part of Unity:

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/[email protected]/manual/index.html

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That includes the likes of GeForce 700 series, GeForce 900 series and GeForce 10 series for desktops along with various notebook chips like 800M, 900M and GeForce 10 Series (Notebooks)

And the MX150 through to MX350 chipsets too (all Pascal architecture).

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