I'm trying to get it from the PPA repositories listed on their site, but I'm getting an error that there isn't a Release file, and my system disables them by default. So apparently I don't get the new version.

Presumably they haven't updated since Ubuntu (and variants) went to 23.10 in, uh....October.

Edit: No up to date Debian packages in the link they provide either. So on Ubuntu-MATE, I'm pretty much forced to either use Flatpak or stay on the old version, I guess.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: NezchanSeems like the creator of Xscreensaver is rather upset about this development, given Wayland has no way to implement screen savers at all.

Another win for Wayland?

In its way. Since the passing of CRT monitors there hasn't been that much point having screensavers at all, so it's just a niche enthusiast thing now.

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Seems like the creator of Xscreensaver is rather upset about this development, given Wayland has no way to implement screen savers at all.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Guppyevery new teknologi that comes along encounters this, imagine if farm workers had the internet to voice their dismay on back when tractors first appeared:

"built on the backs of real farm workers!"
"Look at all the nicks and dings in those tractor harvested potatoes!"
etc..

Still the farm workers found other employment, and the world kept turning.

And yeah the "AI" is coming for my job too as a programmer - it will either be a miserable failure or I'll find other employment. The world will keep on spinning. ;)

Believe it or not, the whole mechanized agriculture model is still controversial. Lot of juries are out about the net impact there, which is still creating slums, eroding soil, destroying rural communities and associated with overuse of chemicals to this day.
So that's not necessarily a reassuring analogy.

I'm sure mechanized farming has it's issues, as do cars (personal injuries, environmental impact, ...).

But be that as it may, that's not what I'm talking about - I'm talking about technology displacing workers, and said workers being upset about it.

From my point of view, most use cases currently is for art "AI" is for projects that would never exist if not for the technology. If at any point it stops being horribly bad it may cost some ( or even most ) artists their livelihood, and it will be inconvenient for them to find another income source - but they will.

You haven't looked very hard. I've seen a bunch of newsmagazine sites that give bylines to Dall-E and Midjourney for illustration that normally would be done by actual artists. Products lables are also a big market in illustration that's vulnerable to the "cost savings" presented by AI.

And surely you didn't miss the huge actor and writer strikes that just happened this year, a big part of which ended up hinging on major studios wanting to extensively use AI to replace them?

Never mind small actors like the ones making this game. Toss them in the same bin as NFT games (although isn't it fun a lot of the same people promoting NFTs a while back are promoting AI stuff just as hard now). This is technology tailor made -- and I would guess deliberately so -- for corporations to abuse at scale.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Guppyevery new teknologi that comes along encounters this, imagine if farm workers had the internet to voice their dismay on back when tractors first appeared:

"built on the backs of real farm workers!"
"Look at all the nicks and dings in those tractor harvested potatoes!"
etc..

Still the farm workers found other employment, and the world kept turning.

And yeah the "AI" is coming for my job too as a programmer - it will either be a miserable failure or I'll find other employment. The world will keep on spinning. ;)

Believe it or not, the whole mechanized agriculture model is still controversial. Lot of juries are out about the net impact there, which is still creating slums, eroding soil, destroying rural communities and associated with overuse of chemicals to this day.
So that's not necessarily a reassuring analogy.

So you're saying that comparing two groups of workers whose work and the products thereof have traditionally been undervalued, and in the modern age are being forced out by corporate (or wearing the "corporate-funded nonprofit" figleaf) interests is apt after all?

And yeah, from all indications from actual programmers who have looked into it, despite wild claims AI ain't coming for the programmers any time soon. But those fatcat illustrators living in luxury, they better look out.

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Yeah, no. Screw these guys.

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Oh wow, I've been following this for *years*, and it's amazing to finally see a 1.0 release. Going to have to check out what's changed since the last time I've played. Quite a lot, I'm sure.

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I played the demo for this in the last Next Fest, and it didn't really give you a whole lot to go on. The small taste they gave was very repetitive, with few changes in most cycles. Hopefully the full game doesn't have such a slow start. There were hints of more, but only one really big thing was shown, and it didn't play much of a role in the demo.

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Quoting: wvstolzingI wonder if the scary sections look more or less scary now.

... and yes, the lower-res it gets, the more eerie & disturbing it looks in certain sections; I'm not kidding.

Hard agree. Even the hooded chainsaw dudes at the start look a lot goofier now that we're getting a better look at them.

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Quoting: EikeOnly Windows and Linux, no Mac. They sure know where money is to be made.

;)

Whoopie Goldberg is gonna be so mad!

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