Quoting: pbI just wonder why did 31 million people need an account on archive.org. Genuinely wonder, because I've been using it (occasionally) for 25 years and never needed an account. :huh:

According to their website you can borrow different kinds of media with it. [External Link]
Archive.org has a bunch of deals(and won trials) with publishers of more heavily copyrighted works that allow them to do restricted user distribution of those works like a library with physical books.
Since Corona they're actually in hot water about that, because back than they suddenly let everybody at once use these media files(without permission).

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Quoting: CatKillerDo we know if they're partnering with someone, or doing it themselves?

Probably not.
I honestly don't know, which dorpbear Valve had to kill, but since their release misses any reference to their future partners and such releases are prime real estate for partnership announcements I feel safe to assume that they're not partnering with anybody except Australian quality control.

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Quoting: tfkLame. Don't they realize that archive.org is fighting for our right for free information. That probably includes them.

There're those for who freedom is a threat and those who view it as a weapon.
You can't host any sizable humanitarian effort without harming someone's power.
The mere fact that you're sizable is enough to get enemies(looters).
The mere fact that you're helping people is enough to take you down for some.

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Quoting: _MarsI don't follow the project too closely but it's always exciting to see just how much it improves in such a short time. Not to mention how this will contribute to general ARM (or even other architectures) improvements.

The ever increasing power requirements for modern GPUs (the GTX 1080 only needed 180 W) makes me more interested in the developments in integrated graphics and ARM improvements. I could see myself getting an used Mac Mini in a few years or we maybe finally get some good competition in that space.

Thanks to the arts of open source and software abstraction it has improved all c supported architectures and software that runs on Apple Silicon.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualDarn. Now I can't comment anything in the Steam Deck posts anymore.

Until November you still can and it's still not a truly global release.

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Having read her post.
I'm getting really curious how well Windows on Arm binaries fare on Asahi Linux.
She emulated the moon out of it, but in theory that could get better.

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Quoting: LoudTechieI'm still curious what took them so long.

Spider proofing.

Localisation:
It was missing a "tries to kill you feature."

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Today is a day full of big news in the Linux gaming space.

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I would say that "we didn't start the fire", but that would be a copyright violation and we stood there rooting and assisting the pyromaniacs.

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Quoting: LinasWow, this is a big can of worms to open.

If they allow software that changes the behavior of Steam (e.g. plugins) on the store itself, it would surely open up a lot of possibilities, but also ripe for abuse.

I would hate to see Steam become this:

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Nobody has gone against Heroic and/or decky loader yet.
Such a move could affect the entire ecosystem.

Also unrelated to your comment.
The option for plugins itself is already huge, because selling FLOSS software through restricted stores is a common way to profit of FLOSS development.

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