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Quoting: hardpenguinHmmmmmm Debian Sid has only 550, the Experimental repository has 555, and the official NVIDIA apt repository has... 590.

I think I'll stick to the older driver as long as everything works. Although jumping on the bleeding edge is tempting, as always.

I've tried drivers up to 585 and always returned to 550 because of too many issues. So sticking with the older driver definitely not the worst idea.

Interesting. I was forced to 580 from the 550 series. Wasn't given a choice. Based on the link below, Nvidia no longer supports the 550 series, by the way:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

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Quoting: princechmm but any news on the totally broken XFCE desktop compositor...? Anything later than 570 completely borks it.

Well, not totally ... just those using the nvidia-open-dkms driver -- i.e., those with newer Nvidia GPUs that support this driver.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/nvidia-recommended-driver-580-126-18-released-for-linux/?comment_id=290368

I'm not having any compositor problems on the 580 series driver with my GeForce MX150.

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Quoting: tmtvlOn the other hand, it would be neat if Steam paying the royalties meant that products containing copyrighted material could be sold through Steam as long as the royalties are paid; DDR/Audiosurf/GH clones could ship with a ton of songs, for example.

That assumes that these parasitic bodies know, much less care, whose work is being licensed. They don't. These bodies don't have a membership list of artists and composers. They don't know whose music is being played by the licensed facility nor to they require that playlists be filed after each event. They are just demanding a general fee because music is involved with the event.

This puts a lie to their claim that a performing artist putting on a show would pay a fee for performing live music but then get that fee back in royalties as the artist and/or composer. Most of the money they collect is likely being consumed by the organization itself with the balance just being distributed to large record firms to line their already considerably wealthy pockets.

Quoting: tmtvlAnyone could make a Harry Potter/Song of Ice and Fire/Lord of the Rings game.

Well, these "royalties" only applies to music, not other intellectual property...

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Quoting: scainePure greed. Plain and simple. Just a bunch of copyright trolls.

Why be paid for our music once when we can bully storefronts to be paid for the exact same effort multiple times!?

Exactly. It goes beyond storefronts too. These organizations are bureaucratic parasites that unfortunately have been legally sanctioned to do this (at least, in Canada, they have).

I used to sit on a civil government board that oversaw a community hall. Our manager brought to us a demand that the facility pay a fee to cover music played or performed in the facility. This was the first I'd ever heard of such a thing.

The manager investigated further and discovered that not only was there a group with their hands out for playing pre-recorded music or for live performances but there was another parasite demanding "royalties" on behalf of the composers, authors and -- of all things -- the publishers too. Their ability to collect these "royalties" is actually backed by Canadian law. Furthermore, there is some sort of connection to the World Trade Organization as well.

While trying to recall the name of the initial group that contacted us, I discovered that, in Canada, there are FOUR federally-sanctioned nonprofits with their hands in the music royalties pie. It is obscene.

Studies have shown that very little of the fees actually make it to the composers and performers of the music. IMO, it is just a parasitic scam to enable the existence of these trolls.

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Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games.

Strange to assume that this means the machine will open the ecosystem to Steam, Epic Games and such. M$ can achieve this statement simply by allowing owners of this new Xbox console to purchase the PC games through the Microsoft Store. No need to give competitors access to their closed market.

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Something else to note, is that the game does have an AI disclosure on the Steam page:

AI-assisted tools were used to upscale and enhance some in-game textures, to help add visual detail to the original artwork. All final assets were artist-reviewed and then integrated by the development team

Despite my immense dislike of LLMs, I have to admit that this usecase does not bother me.

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This is actually quite exciting! The linked blog post is also worth the read for Mint fans.

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Not much benefit to me. My Nvidia chipset is stuck on the 580 series. Ah well, I knew it would happen eventually...

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No offense to the parents on this forum (who are likely the exception), but from my experience, most children are better at navigating parental control features than their parents. So, of course, the kids will figure out how to circumvent them too.

But, then, as we've already established, it's not really about the kids after all ...

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Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeHopefully enough people will buy Capcom titles on GOG to try and show those suits at Capcom that they don't need all this drm nonsense

Well, for my part, I rarely buy Capcom games but, if I do, I will only buy them on GOG.

That being said, the only Capcom game that I have is the first Dragon's Dogma. Have yet to play through it, though...

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