Valve is right, card packs still exist, loot boxes are no different other than the fact it's a paid random digital item instead of physical.

To be honest I hate paid loot boxes and I want them to poof, but I also hate pokemon card packs, just slightly less because they are physical items.

No one can really make a good argument against digital loot boxes if the same thing exists irl, unless they can prove manipulation/dark patterns then also prove the same thing isn't happening with card packs.

I think a good middle ground is to either situationally ban both physical/digital "loot boxes"/packs/whatever based on proven maliciousness, or limit spending amounts for them. Banning something completely is kind of ridiculous imo because it starts to step on freedom of choice; people have the choice, just like people have the choice to eat 10 big macs in a row, but you can't ban everything just because some people have no self control.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Added XDG, Pipewire, and KWin direct screencast capture on Linux

Huh, so I can actually shut off my display when using sunshine instead of setting an invalid input on the monitor so it is off but also "connected"

There's also this https://github.com/frostplexx/sunshine_virt_display [External Link]

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This is great, maybe I switched timelines or something, is this still the bad timeline just with sprinkles of hope?

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Lol, I'll keep that spyware garbage off of my PC. First it scans through the process list, then people try to integrate it into EVERYTHING they could possibly run.

I recommend just using it in the web browser, or not at all if you can get away with it. I moved all important chats to Matrix a while ago.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: eggroleThere is a youtube channel I recently discovered while looking into this. Threat Interactive. I can't vouch for everything he says as a lot of it is above my paygrade, but his conclusions on how modern devs are totally slacking off and relying on the bait-and-switch of framegen seems spot on.

Threat Interactive have their problems of their own :(
https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1qdpa3n/threat_interactive_filed_an_illegal_dmca_to_a_guy/ [External Link]

Threat Interactive's Kevin Jimenez is young and strongly emotioned, they are way too caught up in it to admit they did GamersNexus dirty saying they were NVIDIA's lapdog.. I honestly think GamersNexus should talk directly to this guy in a calm way and get him down off his guard tower.

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Quoting: KandarihuAs much as I want Linux to grow as a platform, this gives us an unfair advantage.

You think this gives Linux an unfair advantage? I suppose the fair version of this is asking for it to be completely scrapped knowing that it would be unlikely for them to listen.

Plus we are already asking for that. o_o

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Quoting: mr-victoryHow are you self hosting? Is the server on your home network or on a hosting provider?

Quoting: SlayerTheChikkenYeah I'm self hosting matrix now.

In my opinion it's not really "self hosting" if it's not running on a machine you control, might as well slap it on AWS with cloudflare in front like everything else then :P That's just a personal opinion though..

But I'm using this https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm [External Link] as they finally added Element Call support which was the last major puzzle piece.

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Quoting: middle_pickupLMAO Just in time for everyone to delete their Discord account.

Yeah I'm self hosting matrix now with https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm [External Link]

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Just letting you guys know the reason for the removal might have to do with it being defeated again, they are likely removing it from older titles before the high seas get to it for reputational reasons. Just speculation though.

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Quoting: GerarderloperAMD/Intel RT performance being quite far behind NVIDIA, and probably still behind.

At least when looking at very heavy RT based games like many running UE5, or CP77.
I think the only reason AMD/Intel look ok in these games atm is because NVIDIA has that COLOSSAL 40-50% performance hit in MANY DX12 RT games. (probably still 3mnths until we see fixes be fully integrated)

Yes, the $1000 more hardware is 1000$ worth better at raytracing, ofcourse.

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