Quoting: Purple Library Guy[...] the very earliest possible video game would still have like 80 years or something to go. It was amazingly mild hyperbole.

A bit less than 80 years, as it's 70 years from the death of the author(s) in the relevant jurisdictions. I presume some video game authors must have died already. But you're definitely correct that, for all practical purposes, it might as well be forever. On the other hand, Carolly is technically correct, and I hear that's the best kind of correct.

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Quoting: Penguin"Winnie's Hole gets bigger..." 👀
What a way to kick off the day 😆

Not only bigger, but also "easier to play with on the go". 🤔

Liam knows his audience.

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Quoting: Arten

• AI is just a tool, and when used responsibly it is reasonable to employ it. I don’t think generating an entire article with AI is a good idea, but using it for spell‑checking? If it can catch incorrect wording, that’s a worthwhile use.

This is the correct take, as long as "responsibly" and "reasonable" are well defined, and cover issues beyond immediate utility, including legal, societal and environmental ramifications. Not just whether you get useful results out of it.

The only way I've used LLMs professionally is to help with the translation of documents I've written, and that's only due to time pressure. It helped less than you might think, seeing as we're talking about compliance and policy documents, which means the language needs to be precise and exact. Took a lot of manual comparison and corrections, but it was still a bit quicker than doing it all line by line.

Mostly LLMs have been a huge pain in my backside and a source of tons of extra busywork, being the guy responsible for information security in our organisation. I keep having to preach to everyone from the C-suite down to individual developers that laws do in fact limit what we can do when it comes to LLMs, and risks need to be assessed and results measured just like in everything else we do. We've got EU wide legislation like the EU AI ACT, NIS2 and obviously the GDPR forcing us to be responsible with our customers' data and transparent about our AI use. (And that's a good thing for every single one of us, even if that might mean a few less euros going to the pockets of shareholders.)

And non-professionally, I don't see any use for LLMs. I enjoy being creative, be it photography, coding or doodling something silly with my wife's Cintiq, and all of these would be less fun if the machine did the work for me. Results are less important than the process. Might as well just let an LLM play my games and read my novels for me.

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Played this a lot on my Amiga 500. I'm not sure I'd still enjoy it as much as I did back then, but I'll keep an eye out for reviews.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyNope, I checked three different sources, and that would be India... Not where I was expecting, but I knew it wouldn't be America. And apparently it's by a pretty big margin, too.

He might still be right about the USA being "one of the places where linux is used the most".

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Quoting: EWGAnyway, maybe it's time to switch to BSD. 😉

If Linux distributions are required to comply, so are BSD variants. The law doesn't grant exceptions.

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Quoting: eggroleWhich is why I'm generally in favor of as small a government as possible. There will always be some people that want a free lunch and they will exploit whatever (economic) system they are in.

I don't care whether your government fits in your pocket or employs half the populace, as long as it can fulfil its primary function: Ensuring the well-being (or welfare) of the nation. As in everyone in it.

We're mostly in agreement about the big picture, if perhaps not about the details.

As you said, we'll just have to accept the fact that every process involving people is going to be inefficient to a degree, and corruption needs to be actively controlled to keep it from overwhelming the system. But let's not throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. If we start thinking it's worth sacrificing the well-being of some of our peers to make sure a few others don't game the system (as they inevitably will), we're doing it wrong. I know it's natural to rail against the injustice of someone getting that free lunch, but I say let them have it if it means the kids next door get to eat too. Work to improve the system, but don't lose sight of what actually matters.

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Quoting: eggrole

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: eggroleI DO blame over consumption.

Sure. Why blame the system when you can blame the ones with no power. You're blaming the addicts, not the pushers. You're blaming the players, not the ones writing and enforcing the rules.

Quoting: eggroleIf you're interested check out Propganda by Bernays for a really easy read and a good look at how this works.

As long as you keep in mind that it's not an objective, much less a critical look. It's written by one of America's leading advocates of propaganda.

The first point is a perspective. You say the consumer has no power while I say they have 99% of the power. If people stop buying, the corpos go broke. If corpos stop selling... the people don't get trinkets?

Unless you are wealthier than most of your peers, you spend most of your income on basic expenses and necessities from retailers you can afford, and maybe spend a relatively tiny amount on a "trinket" only rarely. Not the other way around. You can and should vote with your wallet (I sure do, all the time), but your impact is limited. Actual voting is more effective.

Quoting: eggroleOn the second point, of course it advocates for propaganda.

I simply brought some much needed context. You say "of course", but there's no reason to expect this to be obvious to people on a Linux gaming site. What you wrote, "a really easy read and a good look", comes off as a positive recommendation. The caveat is worth pointing out.

Quoting: eggroleI argue that we don't have capitalism today in the USA (or the west in general) and we have a system much closer to socialism.

No, the USA is undeniably capitalist by any real measure. Your economic system is fundamentally based on private ownership. And more to the point, virtually all of the "means of production" are privately owned. Even most of the ones fully paid for by your taxes. There are regulations, but there's also regulatory capture. Your government sets some limits to the ways a business can harm the people or the environment, but I'd argue not nearly enough, and less than it used to.

No country in the so-called western world is truly socialist, either side of the big pond. But this is one of the subjects where American scholars and analysts tend to disagree with the rest of the world to some extent, simply because your political spectrum is so skewed to the right, especially around economic policy.

Quoting: eggroleAll that said, I feel like we are nearing a period when the "free market" (lol) is going to seize up.

That's the vicious cycle of modern global economics. From one crisis to the next. As someone born to the tail end of Gen X, I've been through a few already. And it's not market regulation that perpetuates this wheel of misery.

Quoting: eggroleP.S. I really enjoyed this exchange. I like seeing rational opinions that differ from my own without all the name calling and echo chambering I see elsewhere. Cheers!

I can't say I've ever actually enjoyed debating politics and/or economics, but you're right; this is a much better forum for civil discussion than most. One of the reasons GOL gets a small amount of cash from me every month.

See? I'm voting with my wallet! 😁

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Quoting: eggroleIn the USA we have social welfare, a socialist military, extreme restrictions on business, etc.

Hah, good joke. Neither your regulations nor your social welfare hold a candle to the ones in the EU, and the EU is undeniably a union of capitalist nations. You clearly bought the very American BS that any time a government spends money in a way that does not directly relate to commerce, military power or law enforcement, it is somehow anti-capitalist and therefore socialist. Regulated capitalism is still capitalism, and money has to flow up or there's nothing to trickle down (as if that ever happens).

Quoting: eggroleI DO blame over consumption.

Sure. Why blame the system when you can blame the ones with no power. You're blaming the addicts, not the pushers. You're blaming the players, not the ones writing and enforcing the rules.

You're right in that voting with your wallet or in elections are the only ways most of you (and us living in slightly more functional capitalist democracies) can hope to make a slight impact, but ultimately what you need is government oversight and regulation of markets to keep them from inevitably working against the interests of society. Exactly like Smith prescribed.

I have to concede that you'll have a very tough time trying to find two notable sources that agree on the particulars of either capitalism or socialism. Par for the course when discussing politics or economics.

Quoting: eggroleIf you're interested check out Propganda by Bernays for a really easy read and a good look at how this works.

As long as you keep in mind that it's not an objective, much less a critical look. It's written by one of America's leading advocates of propaganda.

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Quoting: memvirusshould have not upgraded.. can I install the 0.5.20 version of lutris again via flatpak?

You can install specific versions of packages with both apt and flatpak.

With flatpak you can find all available versions (or commits) of Lutris with the command:
flatpak remote-info --log flathub net.lutris.Lutris

Copy the commit hash for the version you want to install, then run:
flatpak update --commit=[commit hash] [app id]

Or, just copy-paste the following into your terminal to roll back to 0.5.20, at your own risk because I haven't tested it:
flatpak update --commit=19516c28a17c7beb7dd3505322ee451eb4ae2be55ce7a8a61a99487e81d2ff45 net.lutris.Lutris

For what it's worth, the 0.5.22 deb from the Lutris github works fine for me on Mint.

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