Quoting: ZlopezLet's hope the bubble around AI will burst soon.

Im not sure it's a bubble like the dot.com or 2008 housing crash. This is a different thing entirely. Im not sure a crash would occur in the same way. Even then the RAM that is already taken is not for consumer machines and the contracts to produce Ai server RAM are fully locked in until 2029 in most cases. This probably isn't ending soon, And when it does, the next grift will be incoming using those very data centers.

The fact is the longer this goes on the less budget friendly end user hardware it is reasonable to manufacture vs demand. Everyday office staff requiring a 'budget' $2500 Computer per seat VS a tempting $20 USB dongle + wifi Andriod windows terminal 'with free license' cloud PC. Then for home there is Windows-Xbox CloudOS, ChromeOS or an associated android tablet app ( these tablets end up with minimal inside RAM and specs). And we move to what all tech-corporations have been dreaming about since forever which is:

Tiered access Subscription Cloud OS,
Tiered access Subscription Cloud Applications
Tiered access Subscription Cloud Application Support
Tired access Subscription Cloud Gaming
Tired access Subscription Ai services

No end user control. Own nothing, Be miserable and poor unless exec / shareholder.

Of course just like with Vinyl it never went away, you pay much more for the privalage of owning your own Music physically. But for most regular people, if prices don't normalize then i think we might be doing Google stadia again ..

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere should be a game about submarines and/or scuba diving combat, called Underwatch.

and the space version Outerwatch

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Quoting: dpanterNot to trash Matrix but uh, it's not even remotely a realistic alternative. My personal opinion of course.

Perhaps alternative is relative then. Of course it does not reach feature for feature parity, expecting that to be a complete alternative is unrealistic.

Linux was not a full 'alternative' to windows in the beginning, many people still used it and it was good enough for them and to use as alternative OS for core functions. These days it can be said it is but it doesn't support anti-cheat or things such as the adobe suite of software so you can also say its not a realistic alternative in that case.

it's relative to how you use discord. For Multi-account, encrypted Rooms based chatting + video / audio calls and file sharing it is a kind of alternative.. just not like for like. Eventually we might see a fully featured platform with the EXACT same features but in the mean time for those motivated enough it will do the job.

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For those stumbling across this GOL article who are not in the know. One good alternative is Matrix.

Join one server, the list is here:

https://servers.joinmatrix.org/ [External Link]

And then on Linux you can use one of many Clients available:

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/ [External Link]

I recommend https://flathub.org/en/apps/im.nheko.Nheko [External Link]

to log in (on Nheko at least), its a bit different from a typical corporate social media site like Discord , you would put @newfunkynameichose:tchncs.de

the name first then > : & then what ever server authenticator/database you chose to register your username. Other apps might do it different and require an @ for instance.

Hope that helps

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This looks like Gnome but without all the Bullshit.

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Quoting: tmtvlEvery platform has its issues, but at least GOG has an anti-DRM stance

eh, maybe im just getting tied up in word semantics but the word ' stance ' implies some kind of principled moral position. But in fact, it was just them carving a niche in a market that in any other way they could not compete. It was a financial business decision with the marketing aimed at "look see, we are authentic & care about freedom "

a 'Super ethical corp Inc' moment. Not so ethical now it seems.

(depending on your stance on 'Ai')

ohh and lets remind people that Valve have no hard 'stance ' on DRM games either. There are titles on Steam you can download and move from drive to drive without even launching steam and they will still run, on Linux.

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Quoting: neolithYou guys know about Valve Time, right? 😆
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time [External Link]

yes, that's why valve is also releasing the ' Zimmer-Frame ' to account for the time it will take to release the product.

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Quoting: LoftyWhen you say you use ReShade is this on Linux ? Why is is needed for this, i get that OpenTrack is needed for head movements. What is handling the 3D'ification of the XR glasses for games.

Sorry for the late reply. Must have missed the notification mail. There are various shaders for ReShade that split and shift the image for stereoscopic 3d. This requires access to z-depth buffer maps (and sometimes it picks up the wrong but this can be fine tuned per game).

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In theory this could also be done with Vulkan but vkBasalt (which seems to be rather dead?) does not expose the depth maps at all so it's either native SBS or SBS with e.g. the Depth3D shader. ReShade requires DirectX so this works AFAIK(!) only for Windows games and this also works fine via Proton where the render pipeline with Wine/Proton looks like this: DirectX => ReShade => Vulkan.

The steps to get this running are exactly the same as on Windows. Install ReShade, fire the game up with the DLL overrides and configure the paths to the shader folder. There is a nifty script on Github that eases the process but it is really not required.

Thanks for the info. Not to be lazy but i do sometimes wish Linux had more native apps with an actually decent GUI for doing cool stuff like this.

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Quoting: kuhpunktYou're just playing a video stream, not a static product. Nothing "exists" here. It's just so dumb.

in before speed running Google maps.

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Quoting: beko

Quoting: LoftyInteresting they work with Xreal glasses ? I thought they were just two screens made to look like one big one. How is it working as VR ?

Can't compare that to VR but I use my XR glasses a lot: https://makertube.net/w/tq6uNTgnFM2aEYXZjM5Wx1 [External Link] (Demo: Breezy Desktop now with virtual desktops 😎)

This also allows me to experience Stereoscopic 3D with almost any game thanks to ReShade. Add OpenTrack to the mix and I get a very VR-like experience without the motion sickness on top. Works best with native support, of course. Demo footage with Elite Dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfR6vpO7UFs [External Link] (and unlike VR this even works "on foot" in ED)

YMMV.

thx for the links it looks great. Im firmly in the camp of VR headsets are for standing and XR (AR?) glasses are for couch, PC desk, Bed situations (along side traveling i guess, but i prefer to remain situationally aware)

When you say you use ReShade is this on Linux ? Why is is needed for this, i get that OpenTrack is needed for head movements. What is handling the 3D'ification of the XR glasses for games.

thanks again.

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