Nice! It's been a long time since I was tempted by an Humble Choice. Played through Darksiders Genesis with my son (local coop). We had quite a blast!

Quoting: gojulI don't know for other people but even with a GeForce 2070 SUPER on Debian Bullseye (KDE) I faced dozens of crashes on Metro Exodus. Looks like the port is a bit sloppy given the testimonies on Steam. However the game is damn beautiful... when it works.

Don't worry about it; saying it's a bugfest is exagerated, but still lots of annoying bugs on Windows too. I did 2 playthrough and witnessed lots of crashes.

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Quoting: 14That said, my game buying is lower than it was years ago. And their bundles are often weak on native Linux support. So, I find myself also buying more eBooks from Humble lately than games like mirv.

Exactly this. It was a natural thing, to me... It began a little while before, but at around the time they replaced humble monthly with humble choice, I realised, for many reasons (Linux support, quality of games offered...), that the service was far less appealing to me... I found myself uninterrested in what was offered and I dropped my monthly bundle subscription... Now this... I might be wrong, but It looks like a gradual downward spiral for Humble as a whole.

Sad. The initial concept was something of it's own.

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Quoting: Nanobang

Quoting: MohandevirSorry if I'm wrong to think so.

Please, friend Mohandevir, don't ever apologize for what you think. Ideas are the last bastion of freedom, a cornerstone of democracy, and the fuel of all that is Open Source, don't you think? ;)

I, for one, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. :)

Nice answer from you. Thanks. What I really meant it's that it's possible that I'm being off the track and I'd like to be educated, if possible. It's just a first impression that might be based on false assumptions, from my part.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the code that was submitted, in the name of "research" did nothing really bad, in fact... Even nothing at all in many cases... How was this a real threat? That's probabbly why it slipped through; nothing bad could come out of it. We don't know if they would have been caught if they had tried to implement a real backdoor or a major security flaw... From what I understand by GKH's reaction, it was useless pieces of code, so not really relevent to determine if they could implement "evil dormant code". Wouldn't this make the study a waste of time without any semblant of relevant conclusions?

Sorry if I'm wrong to think so.

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Quoting: Alm888

Quoting: MohandevirSo, following that logic, we are better served with closed source proprietary code that got well know unpatched and exploited flaws for years... Yeah right!

Edit: Wondering who paid for this non-sense "research"? Could we follow the money, please?

What mind-bending yoga has made you to come to this conclusion? Since when prohibiting "scientific" rm -rf /* patches leads to "closed source proprietary code" propaganda?
There are other means of code audition/inspection/scrutiny than willful injection of malicious code into working industry-level software possibly managing critical infrastructure objects like hospitals, nuclear power plants, stock exchange servers or ship navigation systems.
It is all joy and games only until someone gets killed due to this kind of "research".

You are probably right it's probably just this:

Quoting: LoftyEveryday we step closer to the brink of idiocracy.

I tend to give too much credit to some people... :grin:

Edit: Still... What I don't understand is that the Minnesota University gave it a "Go!"? How come?!

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Quoting: ElectricPrismGood. Introducing intentionally defective code into the kernel is criminal. Don't fuck with my FOSS. GTFO.

Oh! I would like to see the Linux Foundation sueing the Minnesota University... Getting my Pop Corn ready!

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So, following that logic, we are better served with closed source proprietary code that got well know unpatched and exploited flaws for years... Yeah right!

Edit: Wondering who paid for this non-sense "research"? Could we follow the money, please?

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: MohandevirI had to copy the claim link to get the included claim code and manually activated it in Stadia, just like Liam wrote... For some reason, the direct link refused to work.

Thanks, I got stuck in the same place and I was ready to give up, until I saw your comment.
Liam also posted this workaround in the article (and made it very clear) but silly me, I didn't payed attention, so thanks both I guess...

While I tried to redeem the code, I had the feeling that it might be a common issue with this actual claim link. Decided to chime in, just to validate my hypothesis. :grin:

"If the claim button doesn't work, don't be surprised, it's not working for many of us."

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I had to copy the claim link to get the included claim code and manually activated it in Stadia, just like Liam wrote... For some reason, the direct link refused to work.

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Quoting: 3zekiel

Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: DorritGood news.
And, personally, I couldn't care less about ray tracing.

I'm probably some weird exception, but I still don't see what RTX brings to the table... I look at screenshots of games RTX on/off and it doesn't impress me that much... "More realistic lighting systems"... Ok, I understand the point... So? You could pass me an RTX off image for an RTX ON one and I wouldn't second guess it; the games are looking fabulous even with RTX off. Will I pay a premium for RTX? Will I pay a premium to see my fps drop from 80fps to 40fps because of RTX? Nope!

I probably have modest requirements. :grin:

In games that truly use it you can see fairly dramatic differences. On games which only use it as a gimmick on the other hand....
Also, using a full path traced pipeline instead of raster can dramatically simplify the life for the programmer, which in turn will tend to mean higher quality games for you.

Maybe, but I still haven't found a single game that I'm interrested into, that made me want to buy an RTX GPU.

Edit: Who knows, I might change my mind, when the RTX version of Witcher 3 will be available...

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