Quoting: doragasuTranslations and OCR are not the things that have caused the hatred.

(I'll ignore your second sentence, if you're able to discuss without personal attacks that is?)

Caused it: no, but they do get included in the hatred.
Because Mozilla's marketing grouped those features together under the “AI” buzzword, and because some people freak out at “AI” → large image/text generation models → sloppy work, license infringement, high resource usage and whatnot (and I agree with most of these claims).

The comment I was originally quoting called for all those features to be disabled by default, so does the latest comment as I'm typing this:

Quoting: EhvisI would like to think the majority of users would want it all turned off.

And I sincerely disagree: I'm pretty happy when my browser politely asks me if I want websites written in German to be translated into French for me.

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Quoting: hardpenguinHow about you disable them by default, Mozilla, and have people unleash AI at their own peril -_-

This is dumb. So dumb.

What's dumb about translations and OCR?

Blind hatred for anything labeled with “AI” is as pointless as hatred for anything that uses linked lists.

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They're definitely having fun with the logo:
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And from the current compatibility list [External Link] we see that they've been testing at least those through Waydroid:
- Labogrammetry (no idea what that is)
- Moss II [External Link]
- Open Brush [External Link]
- Pistol Whip 🐸 [External Link]
- The Lab [External Link]

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One question, could we not just sign the linux kernel and other parts, so that the anti cheat program would know that nothing has been altered? I am thinking about something like steam hosting a list of trusted hashes and that any company that is trusted by steam can push new hashes for theier compiled linux kernels there.

What you're describing is measured boot + remote attestation (typically implemented using Secure Boot and a TPM). It is indeed the technical solution to ensure that a remote peer only runs approved software. I'd agree to use such a solution for official competitions with a cash prize but not for casual gaming where I want to keep full control on my system.

IMO cheating in casual gaming is more of a social problem and requires social solutions. An obvious solution is to stop making free-to-play games. Another one is to link accounts with real identities using eIDs or such − I'd personally be OK with that if done properly, your opinion may vary.

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Hard to imagine the Linux space without KDE nowadays isn't it?

Hard to imaging the computing space without KDE. Remember that Safari's and Chrome's rendering engines are KHTML forks.
Granted, I'm not sure how much of much of KHTML actually remains in WebKit and Blink 😅

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Worth mentioning this seems heavily inspired by Suika Game [External Link], but an even weirder variant 🤔

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Sadly, that 3% people were hoping for is another month away, but we'll hit it eventually going by the trends overall.

Now that Valve is heavily invested in Linux gaming, there's no way to ever hit those 3% I fear…
Maybe we'll reach Alyx% though?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'd say it has an upside that the NFTs don't, though, and it's fundamental: The game is free.

There are many free NFT-dropping games. This scheme is what they call “Play-to-Earn”: play, regularly drop NFTs or crypto-coins (or in this case Steam items) then try to sell them to someone who sees some value in them.

Here is a list of free Pay-to-Earn NFT-based idle games: https://playtoearn.com/blockchaingames/All-Blockchain/Idle/All-Status/All-Device/NFT/All-PlayToEarn/Free-To-Play [External Link].

The game creator doesn't have to make you pay or even to scam you to make money: they can for instance drop themselves a high-value token and try to sell it like everyone else. When people value something because it is rare and you control the rarity, ultimately you control the value.

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it does drop Banana Steam Items every so often and everyone then dumps them onto the Steam Marketplace hoping to make some extra cash, which you can then use to buy Steam games

So basically all the downsides of the modern usage of NFTs (speculation, dubious valuation, Ponzi scheme) without any of the upsides (decentralization, no vendor lock-in, potentially lower transaction fees).

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Quoting: WMan22I wish there was an auto swap utility akin to prime-run/Nvidia Optimus where I could use the proprietary driver for games that run better with it, and NVK for games that run better with that, like A Hat In Time.

Even if I could use it by just swapping to it like a desktop environment in SDDM, where it'd be like Plasma (NVK Wayland) or (NVK X11)

This way I could like, check on the progress periodically without compromising my core experience, cause hot damn NVK is moving impressively fast in terms of updates and new features.

I have something close to that in NixOS using specialisations [External Link]: in a way you can see it like a dualboot where I have one NixOS install with proprietary Nvidia and stable Mesa for my iGPU and another install with source-built unstable Mesa all the way, except everything that can be shared is.
These days I use Mesa for work and some gaming (mainly osu!) and reboot to the proprietary driver for stuff that isn't there yet.

You can probably achieve something similar with OSTree-based distros like Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite as it supports “parallel-installable filesystem trees [External Link]”.

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