we do plan on having a build available for Linux (and Mac), we haven't gotten to testing other platforms yet

Not having an automatic daily build of them and testing them at least from time to time does sound like the recipe for "Oops, it didn't work out!"

But, let's see (and stay optimistic)...

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Quoting: ArehandoroI've recently discovered that I'm a sucker for anything neo-noir, pixel art aesthetics and if it has a sax or synth music I'll even fall in love with it... Independently of the actual quality of the product in some cases 😅

I'm not sure what "neo-noir" looks like, but did you take a look at the (excellent) The Drifter?

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Quoting: anokasionTherefore I ask, if even raytracing could have been a fad, why not AI too?

Raytracing is making visuals more realistic and will stay. The GPUs need something to do, and they will not become weaker.

It's even more obvious for AI: It does useful things. It will stay. The question is how much of it, if people will trust LLMs (which they shouldn't) and how all this is paid for.

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Wow. Like one new game a day when Steam on Linux came out and now it's over fifty games per day!

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I just bought Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story because they are going to remove it from Steam, and it was heavily discounted. It's, well, ... more "Lost Phone".

And I played Year Unknown. The demo already is half of the game. There's that one big choice in the end...

I don't regret playing either, but they're no must have played to me.

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: LestibournesI wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.

It could, but the devs wouldn't trust it, because under the gpl they would be forced to release the source code defeating the security through obscurity kernel anti-cheat relies on.

Couldn't it attach the same way the closed source Nvidia driver does?

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Quoting: tohur

Quoting: tpauI wish we could replace this with element&matrix.

sadly will NEVER happen as will never be enough people using either to gain traction

I just read an article that governments are interested in using Matrix - and funding it.

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Quoting: walther von stolzing

Quoting: EikeIf enough people do want it, they sell us what we want.

Assuming that it's profitable, no matter the wants, or even the *needs* of consumers; and also assuming that possible satisfactions of such wants/needs can't be manipulated. In consumer electronics, 'products' are slowly turning into further 'revenue streams', or portals for indefinitely extended rentals.

For example -- "If enough people do want" ... perpetual licenses as opposed to subscriptions ... would "they sell us what [they] want"? They wouldn't, and they don't; and those smaller companies that do sell perpetual licenses weasel their way out of it the moment they get bought out.

As luxury/specialist items, vinyl players, or even penny farthings can be produced at smaller scales; what's at issue here is mass production at scale, of things that have everyday use -- things that you can't just "vote with your wallet" not to buy, because you *need* them; things that you can't get from the 'competition' ... because there's no competition when it comes to the large-scale trends like what we're seeing with electronics right now. 'Competition' is at best a short term illusion, when the model requires the bigger players to keep swallowing the smaller players, or at the very least constrain the possibilities with which they have to work.

You're right. What I said was simplified (and vinyl probably was a bad example). The company satisfying customer wants has to economically survive, which might e.g. lead to luxury products due to small scale.

Some examples having been given are not touched by this, though. There's no strong reason to not have multiple USB ports at a notebook. If people want them and buy them, it's easy for manufacturers to provide them (and maybe sell the laptop for 20 bucks more).

(Which might be the reason they're not "gone" at all: https://preisvergleich.heise.de/?cat=nb&hloc=de&xf=893_2&asuch=&bpmin=&bpmax=&v=k&plz=&dist=&sort=r&bl1_id=30 [External Link] )

I BTW am looking forward to have a monitor that's a full USB hub with many device inputs and being able to attach at least two computers. I'll attach all my USB stuff to the monitor (which happens to stand conveniently right in front of me), attach the work laptop and the home desktop to it and switch everything from one computer to the other with a single button. I consider this a nice technology development.

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I don't wanna fuel, but web archive might have an old version of the FAQ to check the text.

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Quoting: mr-victory@Eike do you have a fairphone?

Yes. :)
The Motorola G-Whatever I had before hat removable battery and SD card slot as well though.

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