Quoting: ShmerlAnother interesting position is from Valve for SteamOS developers: https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/jobs?job_id=36

Though CodeWeavers one is better, since it's a firmly FOSS option, which is not so common.

Is that a current offer?
Because... "Working with OEMs throughout the hardware product cycle from design through production and maintenance"...

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Quoting: PhiladelphusSpecialized gaming PCs, or a cheap laptop? Connected with how fast internet? Using a high-quality gaming-oriented router, or the cheap crappy one that your ISP provides? Were these avid gamers, or more casual? What kind of games were they playing? :)

I don't think I can answer all your questions from the article. But some. They tested a mediocre laptop and a gaming PC, e.g. with Shadow of the Tomb Raider. They used a 1000 fps camera (Sony RX100M6) to measure the time from mouse click to change on the screen, locally and with a streaming service.
They measured 25 to 40 ms locally on the gaming PC and 70 to 100 ms on the notebook. The streaming services added: Parsec/Paperspace 5 to 60 ms, Parsec/Amazon 15 to 50 ms, Shadow 10 to 90 ms. (Worst was Liquidsky, 80 to 270).

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Quoting: bubexelWe are not the target for Stadia, and it's not going to replace or fight against PC market. It's more against console war.

This.
Google literally says at their store:
"Stadia - Games, without a console or downloads"
(In German, it's "Stadia – Spiele ganz ohne Konsole" - it doesn't talk about the downloads part.)
I've seen it called a "virtual console", which seems to fit well.

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I don't think I would want to play it with time constraints...

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Quoting: Liam DaweOn our tracker, it's not often this actually happens. Out of the 220 finished projects we're listing, 31 (including this) are marked as Failed on the Linux side of it. At least 7+ of those are from the developer vanishing. Compared to the hundreds crowdfunding has given us, it's still doing good. Some of those games that came as a result of crowdfunding are awesome too.

Can I see in the tracker if it failed generally or only for Linux (and Mac, maybe)?

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI'm not super-familiar with all these games (none of them are stuff I'd be interested in), but aren't they all character-based action-oriented games? Come to think of it, for a streaming service, why don't they have any single player games that aren't action-oriented? Y'know, ones where the slightest input lag wouldn't destroy people's ability to enjoy it?

German computer magazine c't has asked people to play games on PCs without telling them they were streamed - and the people didn't even realize. Furthermore, every online game has the same communication lines to cross...

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Everyone's their own of course, but I'm surprised how many people state no interest at all in Red Dead Redemption 2.

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Quoting: ShmerlDowner news (pun intended): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/112359230/we-happy-few-welcome-to-wellington-wells-you-saucy/posts/2532809

:(

I was sure it wouldn't release anymore. :-/ This given, that's a cool move, though: "we will be refunding all our Mac and Linux backers. [...] you are still getting the game on your platform".

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySecond time I've seen someone talking about ciphers. What's a cipher? (well, in this context; I know the base meaning of the word)

The algorithms they're using for encryption, signing, hashing.

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Quoting: 146300? You might not just know what you're missing. I got like 20-30 FPS increase in F1 2017 when I upgraded my processor, and that made a big difference from like 40 to 70-ish framerates. My previous processor was i5 3570K.

I'm planning to upgrade my i3570K to a Ryzen 6 or 8 core soon. Just feels a bid odd, minding the lack of big productions natively available for Linux...

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