Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Brokatt

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: kuhpunktWhat does that even mean.

It means you will use AI and you will like it. There is no escape. Consume!

I mean I know the Mozilla hate train is always loaded with pitchforks and ready to leave the station, but isn't that a bit disingenuous? So far Mozilla have stayed true to their first statement and AI is always optional. Should that change I will uninstall Firefox in a heartbeat but until then I'm perfectly happy with it as my default browser. I don't see AI being any different from other services like search, email etc in that I will use it if it respects my privacy.

Well no, because right now it's just words, the settings to turn it all off are hidden behind flags you have to know how to find to disable.

You're referring to the different chat bot providers that are optional and can be turned off in the settings menu? To even remotely compare this to what Google's planning with Chrome borders on FUD.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: kuhpunktWhat does that even mean.

It means you will use AI and you will like it. There is no escape. Consume!

I mean I know the Mozilla hate train is always loaded with pitchforks and ready to leave the station, but isn't that a bit disingenuous? So far Mozilla have stayed true to their first statement and AI is always optional. Should that change I will uninstall Firefox in a heartbeat but until then I'm perfectly happy with it as my default browser. I don't see AI being any different from other services like search, email etc in that I will use it if it respects my privacy.

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I don't see what's so controversial with this? GOG's Game Preservation program is not a money maker (who could have guessed) and they are asking for donations to keep it strong. That doesn't mean GOG's going out of business. They can close down Game Preservation tomorrow, go back to being a regular DRM-free game store and be just fine.

Now would it be better if a foundation did the game preservation? Maybe but GOG have the distribution and the knowledge to actually make the games run. They are more than just an archive were you can download an .EXE file.

Older games are being lost to time. Now is not the time to look a gift horse in the mouth.

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Quoting: scaine

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Quoting: scaineHard to get excited about this when not only is our O/S not supported, but the features are largely locked to the underwhelming 9000 series of cards.

It promises a nice direction of travel, but there's just nothing really tangible yet.

While I do agree with you on the first part, I don't find the 9000 series to be underwhelming at all. On the contrary I have been very happy with the performance of my 9070 XT which I picked up for a decent price on Black Week. It was a good jump in performance compared to my 5 year old RX 6800 and has been working great under CachyOS.

But I guess it largely depends on you expectations and what you compare them to.

Good point! It's underwhelming (for me) because I have a 7900xtx, so not much a performance jump.

I get that. Isn't 7900XTX still better for raw performance? :)

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Quoting: scaineHard to get excited about this when not only is our O/S not supported, but the features are largely locked to the underwhelming 9000 series of cards.

It promises a nice direction of travel, but there's just nothing really tangible yet.

While I do agree with you on the first part, I don't find the 9000 series to be underwhelming at all. On the contrary I have been very happy with the performance of my 9070 XT which I picked up for a decent price on Black Week. It was a good jump in performance compared to my 5 year old RX 6800 and has been working great under CachyOS.

But I guess it largely depends on you expectations and what you compare them to.

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Quoting: chrI haven't donated this year to open-source, since I've been unemployed for almost 2 years and family keeps borrowing from me as well. But I really hope I can give something again next year.

You should only give money if you have the opportunity to do so. There are other ways to give back to the community. Like helping people with support or promoting Linux to friends. You and your family comes first. Let's hope next year turns out better yeah?

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It feels like KDE really leveled up with the release of Plasma 6. Just a consistent stream of great improvements and high quality releases. I think peoples willingness to donate is a sign of how intune KDE is with the community. I am so happy for their success :smile:

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One of Valves biggest strengths through the years has been that by being private they can do things that don't need payoff for many years. They can plan long-term in a way that most companies can. They have a steady stream of revenue from Steam and can dedicate a fraction of that to these projects. They don't need to hit deadlines for stockholders or investors. The only company I can think of that functions similarly is IKEA. Both companies have fumbled (they are not perfect) but their dominant positions means they can continue to play the long game.

I think SteamOS, Proton and FEX are good examples of this slow, long term strategy. They don't employ hundreds of developers for these projects, they don't need to show results by next annual report, and they don't have to mean some fundamental shift for Valve. All they need to do is widening the market by a tiny bit and give current customers even more reasons to stay on Steam. SteamOS doesn't mean they will abandon Windows and FEX doesn't mean they will abandon x86. This is not dogma this is long-term business strategy on a level most companies can only dream of.

Right now, for gaming, Snapdragon X Elite is not competitive with Intel or AMD's offerings. This might change in the future and if that happens then Valve will be ready to switch to ARM for Steam Deck. It might also never happen and that is equally fine for Valve. Then don't care as long as they get a good price on a killer perf/watt chip. ARM can be powerful and x86 can be power efficient. Worst case they can release a Steam app for phones and give their customer yet another platform to play (at least some of) their games on.

I myself don't care if I run ARM or x86. What I do care about is that most (preferably all) my games run, I have good performance at a decent price and (since a year back) that it can run Linux.

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Quoting: The_Real_BittermanHm, Steam Deck 2 might be ARM based I guess. 🤔

I wouldn't count on it. Valve has a very good relationship with AMD and I don't see another vendor provide an ARM chip with similar gaming performance. But maybe for a Steam Deck 3?

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Is NTsync stable now or is Fsync still the way to go?

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