Quoting: rea987Fake frames then? Nope, no thanks. Fuck Nvidia.

Framegen is fake frames. But this is basically an image-to-image genAI system with "turn this character into one that appeals to Gamers™" as the system prompt.

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Quoting: LinasCall me skeptical, but this is probably going to be some unnecessarily fancy wrapper for a subpar emulator.

It's a LRG release, so it's a given.

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Quoting: _Mars

In 2007, PRS for Music took a Scottish car servicing company to court because the employees were allegedly "listening to the radio at work, allowing the music to be 'heard by colleagues and customers'".

From the Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRS_for_Music#Legal_cases [External Link]

It happened in other countries, too. My hairdresser has a plaque informing that the music is only for employees and the customers ought to abstain from listening to it. That's where it's headed...

Smart 😅
In France you pay SASEM for any public diffusion and they pay the rights owners. But you have to have a public diffusion and it's clearly defined by the law.

The Sacem is also a bunch of extortionists.

If you pay royalties directly to the rightsholders, the Sacem will still ask for its cut. And if you only broadcast royalty-free music available in the public domain or under the terms of a Creative Commons licence, then they can still ask for royalties for some goddamn reason.

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It's extortion. Plain and simple.

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Quoting: matiaslavik... In a year or two, we'll only be playing software rendered pseudo-3D games, because nobody can afford modern hardware.

A while ago, when I decided to make a game on a custom engine that uses raycasting for rendering, I never expected it'd be relevant today. :D

However, it still uses OpenGL to present the rendered scene and draw the HUD/UI, though it might still run at a decent performance with Mesa's llvmpipe software renderer.

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Quoting: williamjcmI hope it'll get released as a Flatpak, because I don't like installing stuff through the AUR or pip.

I much prefer terminal because I can see what's going on, flatpak only when no other options are available. But I already know I'm not mainstream, just glad there are the different options for everyone.

Flatpak *can* be used from the terminal, though. GUI frontends are completely optional.

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I hope it'll get released as a Flatpak, because I don't like installing stuff through the AUR or pip.

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Quoting: JohnologueIs Matrix that bad? That's where I was hoping to direct some friends.

On top of the issues I mentioned, it's just a poorly-designed system with a bunch of usability issues.

Here are a few personal gripes I've had with it since Gitter moved to Matrix after being acquired by Element (the company that makes the Matrix client of the same name):

• You can't send media and text in a single message, so if you're in a decently-active channel, whatever image or video you're trying to post can easily end up separated from its context.


• Threads are a pain in the ass, especially if you're using an alternate client (for example, in NeoChat, threads are displayed alongside the channel's main messages as a series of replies). On top of that, you can't mark them as read individually (you have to mark the channel as unread then then mark it as read, which also comes with its fair share of bugs).


• Some of the markup is inconsistent, making it hard to use. Stuff like bold and italics and quotes is normal Markdown, but strikethrough text requires HTML-like tags for some goddamn reason.


• The search sucks a lot more than Discord's. It's much slower, and you can't use filters alongside keywords.


• The main channel I'm in has an official GitHub integration posting updates from GitHub repos, and the channel admin noted that setting the integration up required giving it *full* permissions, else it just wouldn't work. Also, for the record, pre-Matrix!Gitter had a dedicated sidebar for repo updates, instead of polluting the main chat like Matrix!Gitter's integration does.

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Quoting: ArehandoroMost people will prefer to accept their fate rather than looking to move to platforms like Mattermost or Element.

I've heard a few horror stories about Mattermost, especially from bot developers, and Element is just a client for Matrix, a chat protocol that's so focused on security that they forgot to implement safety features (like banning/muting accounts and servers).

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Quoting: Egonaut

Quoting: williamjcmThe reason the third-party sale numbers increased by that much is because they now include VAT, while previous years didn't include it to my knowledge.

That makes no sense, where in the world do we have 57% VAT?

I mean, it would still have increased compared to the previous year, just *much less* than what Epic's claiming. For example, if we assume that everyone on the EGS paid a 20% VAT, then the "before VAT" spending would have been around 333M$, which would seem much less impressive.

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