Quoting: barottoIf AMD's track record with the 5000 series is of any indication, I wouldn't consider the RX 6000 as usable in Linux with the open drivers for another 6 months after launch, minimum.

You could be right. Although the fact that RDNA2 is basically just a refresh of RDNA might shave off a few months.

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Quoting: DebianUserSo we can wonder why Liam Dawe has witten "GPU overclocking (NVIDIA)" ? :s

Seems like a direct quote from the GitHub page. Maybe their Readme isn't up to date.

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Quoting: DebianUserIt seems that when you activate GPU optimisations, like overcloaking, the soft warn the user.
A flag is stored in config file to not warn again and again.
I think that since overcloaking is juste for NVIDIA, you will see this message only if you have a NVIDIA card ?

What do you mean overclocking is just for Nvidia? I haven't overclocked an AMD GPU myself, but I did undervolt my old RX580 on Linux to deal with the crappy MSI card's overheating problem, and the same tools would have allowed overclocking as well.

Also, the comment above that setting pretty explicitly states that it'll be gamemode applying the overclocks, doesn't it? Maybe they haven't actually implemented overclocking, but I don't think the setting is supposed to be about notifications.

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Quoting: fagnerlnI love the design choices of Manjaro's team, it's always clean and with nice colors. I hope that Xubuntu changes their theme, that greybird feels too antiquated.

What's the name of this theme?

I guess you missed it, but the article says it's called 'Matcha'.

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Quoting: DebianUserI'm wondering why there is not AMD overclocking, since its easyling tweakable from /sys/class/drm/ ?

Overclocking should be up to the user.

It should be. But in /etc/gamemode.ini you'll find these lines:

; Setting this to the keyphrase "accept-responsibility" will allow gamemode to apply GPU optimisations such as overclocks
;apply_gpu_optimisations=0

No idea what it actually does, if anything at all.

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Don't know if I'll get around to it during the beta but this is really nice to see. Terrible or not, I quite enjoy what we've seen coming out of Mr. Gilbert's Toybox so far.

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I think your take is based on a few fundamental misconceptions. First of all this:

Quoting: kneekooWe, as a society, are going through a phase of shaming and virtue signaling.

Both have always happened in any social community that ever existed, and there has never been a society or a time when one or the other was measurably absent. People have always been shamed to compliance (just look at religious communities in all their forms throughout history) and people have always "virtue signaled" even if the term is quite recent. Please don't ask for examples or I'll just assume you're being insincere.

Quoting: kneekooIf you've been active on Twitter for at least of few months, you're probably aware of how people gang up on others for some reason, and it usually gets seriously ugly, no matter how polite you to talk to them.

I'm happy to say I've never been active on any social media. And the problems you describe were obviously always there. Social media facilitates and amplifies certain types of communication. That's just inevitable.

The emergence of truly global communities simply got rid of any filters and inhibitions that moderate our social behaviour by granting relative anonymity and making our peers seem distant and insignificant, thus amplifying existing problems but not really creating new ones. The phenomena you bemoan are not exclusive to social media or in any way caused by the technology.

I avoid social media simply because I don't see how it would make my life better in any way, but I don't see the point in blaming social media in general for the behaviour of people using it. Also, people who complain about virtue signaling tend to do that while signaling their own virtue and shaming those they disagree with. Just look at certain populist politicians complain about snowflakes, and then melt down completely at the tiniest perceived slight.

In the end, I'm sure you'll agree that we have no right to tell the developer what they should or should not do. It's presumptuous to assume you know what went through the developer's head. The whole negative publicity thing would have been sufficiently well handled with a message in the vein of "we acknowledge the issue and will try to do better in the future", sincere or not, so I'd like to think they actually did agree and weren't just doing damage control.

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Quoting: kneekooIt's not the point of most works to replicate some real-life people, situations, etc, but to create something that triggers certain responses in the audience.

In this case some interactions in the game apparently triggered a negative response in a player with a personal stake, and based on the feedback the developer decided that they wanted to do something about it. I assume this wasn't the kind of response they were looking to elicit in the audience. Of course, they could have responded that the character behaves the way they do because they want them to have a certain flaw or something, but seems like that was not the case. Should we tell the developer that they are not allowed to change their own game?

The people reacting in a negative way to this apology seem to do so out of a misguided principle, and not because this will somehow make the game worse. They don't seem to even care about the details that much. Is it just the macho notion that compromises and apologies are somehow shameful? That they're signs of weakness? As if honestly engaging and compromising with someone is always somehow letting down everyone else.

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Quoting: flesk

Quoting: SuperGrip

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Quoting: SuperGripThis weekend started replaying "This is the Police", it's not a very popular game but I quite like it.

It has more than 6000 user reviews and a "very popular" rating on Steam. :tongue:

For comparison, the last Deponia game, which also came out in 2016, only has about a quarter as many user reviews, and is from a relatively well-known franchise.

Not trying to be argumentative, but making a point that a game can be considered popular even though it's not mainstream.

And even if it isn't, don't feel bad for liking a game that most people don't like. :smile:

:) Yeah, you're right, it is popular. I got a number of the Deponia games free sometime back but have not yet tried it, how would you rate the series?

I'm not the biggest fan of the writing and characters, but they have some nice puzzles of the classic adventure game variety.

There's a bit of cringe sprinkled here and there and the main character is hard to like, but as classic adventure games they're not bad at all. Some clever ideas and genuinely funny moments. Worth playing IMHO.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeStill wish the Sailfish phones came to the US, and my N9 / N900 hadn't been killed off by Nokia. N900 is still my favorite phone I've ever owned.

For my current phone I went for the cheapest piece of hardware supported by Sailfish X [External Link] I could find for sale locally (the Sony Xperia 10), and then bought the OS separately. The phone isn't great but it does the job, and Sailfish is the only mobile OS I can tolerate. Jolla doesn't produce hardware anymore, so Sailfish X is the way to go.

Anyway, this doesn't help you much seeing as the OS is only available in "EU, Norway, Switzerland" according to Jolla's site.

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