I periodically see a bunch of people complaining that their hardware doesn't work, which ends up being them using Mint which doesn't ship recent kernel and Mesa.

This can happen if you've got very recent hardware. You don't get anything newer than Ubuntu's HWE kernels via the kernel manager UI, and Mesa is whatever Ubuntu LTS ships. My own solution is to install latest Mesa from Kisak's PPA and the kernel from Xanmod. Only takes a couple of minutes to set these up, but it's not something I'd expect a complete Linux newbie to do, obviously.

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Especially such stuff as "bureaucracy" is definitely handled much more efficient in future by an automated and versatile AI-algorhithm than mentally tired over caffeinated office "workers".

Sure, and it'll happen as soon as we have the technology. LLM isn't it.

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And I might be in the minority here, but I would have liked a more "traditional" Telltale playstyle

I also vastly prefer point and click adventures to interactive movies or choose-your-own-adventure cartoons.

Telltale's games haven't caught my interest in the last 15 years or so. I think that was when they went all in on big TV/Movie/Comic franchise tie-ins, with gameplay designed for a different target audience. Console gamers, I suppose. Seems profitable, so good for them.

The trailer shows great production values, but nothing about it really appeals to me. I found myself skipping ahead to get through it faster. The game's not for me either.

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is .. is, this like, some sort of elaborate scam similar to the dot.com investor bubble ? Where by very wealthy boomer investors who know very little about Ai are being sold a pumped up lie and are putting all their investments into Ai data farms instead of traditional investments, because insiders are telling them that the global economy is going to crash and Ai is where the safe money is at ?

Well yeah, expect for the "safe money" bit. It's all about short term wins and FOMO I suppose, like tech booms/bubbles tend to be. And it's not just boomers. The stupid thing is that people who definitely should know better have been caught up in the hype.

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I don't know why so many companies think this is an actual selling point and worth advertising. It's like proudly announcing that you're now a "sweatshops first" company. AI is (very) theoretically going to reduce their development costs or shorten their time to market, but nobody sane thinks it'll improve the quality of their products.

But I suppose this announcement is to potential, clueless investors. When they hear "AI" they start to salivate, like they used to do when they heard "blockchain" until just a short while ago, or "world wide web" in the late nineties.

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While I often hear people saying they don't want AI, at the end of the day if the game (or whatever) is good enough, the consumer will buy it.

Then let "the consumer" buy it. The rest of us can be a bit more thoughtful about how we spend our money. No reason for you to get all indignant about it.

How many people don't have a phone because of some exploitation used to mine or manufacture it?

And whatabout this whataboutism?

AI is here to stay, and there certainly are productive and non-exploitative uses for LLMs, some possibly even worth the ecological impact, but that's neither here nor there. We are allowed to "vote with our wallets" and play games that were made by humans instead.

In any case, I'm anxiously waiting for the bubble to burst in the hopes it might restore some sanity to my day job. It's not a good time to be working in software development if you're at all concerned with code quality and information security. This trend has clueless business people forcing bad technical decisions on us based on hype and empty promises, and it's not going to be them who pay the price.

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A bad leader is better than chaos

These are the only two options? :huh:

And, pure democratic (popular vote) decisions are unfair to minority opinions.

Whereas a bad leader is fair to no one.

An open source project needs competent leadership to flourish, but that leadership needs to be trusted and respected by the developers. In an open source (volunteer) project, as in a representative democracy, it's up to the leaders to keep that trust by serving that community and proving their worth for the project. This one didn't. We've all heard of "benevolent dictators", but in that phrase only the "dictator" part is optional.

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A simple matter of checking a box in Unreal Engine?

It can be, if any of the middleware they're using isn't tied to Windows. At least I don't see any warnings about unsupported built-in features in the docs any more.

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The puzzles in the earlier games/episodes are inventive and the overall design is on point. Looking forward to the next one.

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This has been on my wishlist since your first article a year ago. No need to try the demo.

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