From the picture, not my cup of tea, but I very much like this aspect of their FAQ:

The demo will also be updated later on to reflect the new standard, as we are planning to keep it available for download.

More developers need to do this instead of deactivating the demo when they go into early access or final release.

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Quoting: sanInteresting! Thus far I’ve been using GPU-X for this purpose.

Thanks for this, @san, but don't you mean CPU-X?

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Quoting: LaephisImagine if Bethesda cared about improving their game as much as Hello Games does with No Man's Sky. We'd have a steady stream of free updates that actually make things fun to play.

Bethesda's passion for their games ended long ago. Now it's just about how much cash they can rake in. The kind of support that No Man's Sky received would not be profitable enough.

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It's a computer game. I don't need photorealism. What I need is strong game design, in-depth but intuitive gameplay and engaging storylines. AAA has not delivered this for years, focusing too much on graphics instead.

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It's available as a simple AppImage to download and run.

👍

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Of course a person is going to be better than AI. The whole point of having voice actors is they know how to actually act, to bring some kind of clear intention and emotion into their roles with all their own little personal voice quirks. You don't get that with generating fake AI voices.

Well said.

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Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: pbMy son is on manjaro and his system breaks on every update. But apparently arch is "too complicated". 😆

You're exaggerating, don't you? ^^

Maybe a bit. 😇 But he's updating 1-2 times a year and there are always some conflicts and I need to help him fix it. ;-) Last time I rebuilt the mirror list so hopefully the next update will go more smoothly.

That's probably part of the problem for him. Manjaro needs to be updated more frequently than once or twice a year. Also, turning off the AUR prior to updates also helps to prevent breakage, I'd found.

I used Manjaro for about two years before I left for Pop!_OS (and later, Linux Mint). Support for legacy Nvidia GPUs was very poor and management had a very crappy attitude towards its community/users. For me, the proposed opt-out telemetry was the final straw.

I think the big part of the problem for me was not realizing that a rolling or semi-rolling distro is not really all that ideal for legacy hardware. Old hardware needs a more stable, less cutting-edge, environment, in my opinion.

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Quoting: CaldathrasThe misnomer "AI" is just a marketing label used to inaccurately promote LLM. In my opinion, when the backlash began against LLMs and their objectionable social, legal, economical and environmental impacts, it was convenient for the spin doctors to confuse the issue by throwing translation, grammar checking, spell checking and other older technologies that pre-date LLMs under the same label. How could we object to these uses of "AI"? We don't. We object to LLMs and how they are being promoted and presently utilized. Personally, I also object to the label "AI" because LLMs are any but intelligent.

My two cents.

Thanks, Liam, for your determined stance.

Spell checking alone isn’t enough. As a Czech speaker, I find that having an LLM correct Czech works much better. Czech is a stupidly complicated language with many illogical exceptions, so we at least need the ability to guess the context for a correct correction. Spell‑checkers were terrible before LLMs.
The same goes for English when you can’t formulate a sentence correctly. My English is terrible, so using an LLM to correct it is very useful. Can a spell checker do that for me?

No, but a "grammar checker" can.

I know I'm just getting technical on you but a "spell checker" is not the tool you are using. What you are using is a "translator". This would be a much more complex tool that utilizes "grammar checking" for both Czech and English. Spelling would be a minor component by comparison. I doubt there would be much need for an LLM in a spell checker.

Word processors, in my experience, had also been doing a pretty good job with grammar checking (with English) before the advent of LLMs. I can't speak to translation, as I've rarely had the need in the past. I haven't really looked into it, so I don't know how much of an impact LLMs have had on grammar checkers and translators.

Whatever tool you are using as a translator is doing a brilliant job.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: Liam DaweOpenTTD has had free graphics and music available for a very long time. Using content from TTD is entirely optional.

That's what I thought. This definitely smells of Atari going "make people buy our game to play yours, or we'll DMCA you off of Steam and GOG".

Oh, I don't know about that. It's certainly plausible but not the only explanation. The OpenTTD team may have chosen to do so preemptively to avoid any potential complaint from Atari. Another possibility is that Steam & GOG may have asked them to do so, as well. The norm with these open-source executible projects (and total overhaul mod bundles) has been to offer them only to those that own the original game on the same store. This change puts OpenTTD in line with that approach.

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The misnomer "AI" is just a marketing label used to inaccurately promote LLM. In my opinion, when the backlash began against LLMs and their objectionable social, legal, economical and environmental impacts, it was convenient for the spin doctors to confuse the issue by throwing translation, grammar checking, spell checking and other older technologies that pre-date LLMs under the same label. How could we object to these uses of "AI"? We don't. We object to LLMs and how they are being promoted and presently utilized. Personally, I also object to the label "AI" because LLMs are anything but intelligent.

My two cents.

Thanks, Liam, for your determined stance.

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