Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Guesteven though this is driven by Mozilla

Mozilla says it's Canonical building the snap packages: "Canonical is now building the official Firefox snap"
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0beta/releasenotes/ [External Link]

From the linked article:

Wait, why the change?

Good question! When Mozilla approached Canonical, they had some clear benefits in mind. Those included:

Cross-platform support: The snap will run on all distributions that run snapd - now and in the future
Authenticity: You’re getting Firefox, unadulterated, straight from the source
Effortless updates: Get security updates from Mozilla, fast
Less time on maintenance, more time for features: Community developers can focus on innovation, instead of being mired in support

The Firefox snap is listed on snapcraft as being from Mozilla.

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Quoting: WorMzyI find the whole 'review bombing is not allowed' thing rediculous. If you've bought the game and are displeased with it, then leaving a negative review is entirely acceptable. If hundreds/thousands of people all do the same, then so be it. Game devs/publishers shouldn't be able to bury their heads in the sand and cry foul just because gamers aren't happy with them.

This isn't review bombing in my book. This is just lots of people leaving negative reviews because an advertised feature of the game (being DRM-free) isn't there.

Review bombing, as far as I'm concerned, would be a brigade leaving negative reviews because of something other than the game (the CEO wore pink socks! 👎), which does suck.

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So now all Valve need to do is keep this device highly desirable, and sell enough units that it represents a significant number of users rather than a potentially significant number of potential users.

EZ.

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I'm planning on going back to this with the Steam Deck. I bought it, liked it, built a fire to keep warm, fell in the fire, died.

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Depth of Field toggle is available now.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/971030/view/2888486595667768260 [External Link]

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Quoting: MohandevirCorrect me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall Valve ever sueing anybody over a patent infrigement. Usually they patent stuff to protect themselves from patent Trolls. It's more like a "Patents are a reality we have to deal with, so let's do what must be done to protect ourself from them".

That's the idea of the OIN. If companies don't patent stuff, out of altruism or whatever, then someone else is going to and then shake them down, especially since the US struggles to identify open source software as prior art. And there's no deterrent since you don't have any patents of your own. See, for example, Microsoft making more money from Android phones than Windows phones when they still had Windows phones. So OIN was formed as a patent pool particularly to protect open source stuff: if one member gets sued over a bogus patent, all of the patents from the pool are available to counter-sue with. Along with automatic cross-licensing for members, and an agreement not to use them to start litigation, just as defence.

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Quoting: skinnyrafDo we like software patents now, because Valve submits them and they serve Linux gaming community? :whistle:

Valve are at least a member of the Open Invention Network [External Link], which is a patent non-aggression organisation.

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So all those games that people never finish, you might never have to download the final levels in the first place?

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Blur toggle is apparently due next week.

1.0.2 will probably hit next week on around the 21st, and that'll include an accessibility toggle to disable the blur, along with the next sweep of high-priority quick fixes I can stuff in. This will likely also include more camera angles for create-a-birb (so you can clearly see all the clothes/decks).

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/971030/view/4746220900731493492 [External Link]

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Quoting: EnikoThe game doesn't make this clear but the level image you see when you open the pause menu has little blue and yellow pips on it that tell you where missions can be had.

Ah, cool, thanks.

I'll likely wait till they've fixed the blur before I go back to it; it really makes me feel like I've forgotten to put my glasses on, which is really distracting.

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