Quoting: suchDRM in fn Dino Crisis? Just install Duckstation, problem solved.

And using the right combo of setting it probably looks better. There are also texture packs for the PS1 game that will run via duckstation..

However.. Look into the drama surrounding duckstation and the main Dev. He is literally blacklisting certain Linux Distro's in the source code ( Which by the way is not fully FOSS & has a strict license )
Not to mention not supporting AUR or Flatpak. At some point i would not be surprised if he entirely stopped supporting Linux altogether. Fortunately before it was locked behind a restrictive license the code was essentially all complete. So a Fork will be possible at some point, even if it takes some time to get upto Duckstation's quality.

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i know there are online Starship Trooper games. But i do think a local split screen option would be great.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe big AI firms do have some revenue, but far, far less than their operating expenses, certainly nothing like enough to pay back their debts.

good point, i often forget about the operating expense. Maybe this time it will crash ? I still believe those data centers will exist to perform yet even more short-lived grifts & ofc Ai isn't going away. However if the economic effects are profound as usual i expect we will see privatize the gains socialize the losses situation. Leaving the bag holders & the public to pick up the pieces.

Lets hope for a return to normal soon.

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Quoting: CorbenI hope Valve will improve the Steam VR experience, maybe they did in the meantime.

Im fairly sure for the complete novice anything is better than the current dumpster fire landscape that is VR.

even your post is quite revealing no ?

WayVR
Envision
Monado
XRizer
OpenComposite

and all sorts of tweaking , software settings & correct vulkan , rust versions & so on.. and that above does not include half a dozen other jargon terms in relation to VR to bamboozle the user. let alone installation of lighthouses with valve or requiring meta accounts.

But for VR to be a total success ? :

Step 1. Press play on Steam game with wireless dongle connected.
Step 2. Place battery charged headset on & pick up controllers.

Step 3. Play game.

if that is what valve achieve with the frame, then it will be a success imo.

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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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