Mason LLP has been in a suit with Valve for a few years now. I've been following it closely through email.

Apparently, most Steam users who received news of the lawsuit late and got it through a legal email thought it was a scam :grin: if only I could see the look on their faces right now.

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a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave

One of the common tactics as of late to discourage kernel-level cheat injection is secure boot, making it difficult (not impossible) to load your cheat before the anticheat can catch it. The problem with secure boot on Linux is that Linux is open source software and users may have a lot of different forks of the same kernel. For the users that are just using the upstream kernels in the Arch repos though, having Valve as a central authority for the Linux ecosystem could mean a good thing for security, since using Valve's key instead of signing with your own keys means cheaters can't just write a cheat as a kernel module and stuff it in the initramfs without resigning the EFI binaries as their own and giving it away.

I don't agree with these approaches to anticheat, but it is what the developers want, and Valve supporting that method to discourage Windows gatekeeping is still better than whatever the alternative is.

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You have no idea how long I have been waiting for this to release

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I am so tired of Sony remastering games that are less than a decade old.
Zero Dawn is still a relatively fresh game and takes a decent computer to run consistently.

Playstation overlay? You mean they're moving their whole ecosystem to PC now?
Yet we still don't have a new WipEout game, no Killzone, none of the big IPs that made Sony successful. No word about any of them since the PS Vita. And yet they want to expand further to PC. What are they thinking? WHAT is there to bring to PC? Unless they're doing a 180 and bringing back everything they killed with the PS4 then there's no point. Helldivers getting a sequel was probably the only time they actually got that right and then they managed to screw it up anyway post-launch by roofing customers.

Some of the details shown in the Horizon Zero Dawn remaster are improved and sure the lighting is better. But it just looks like every other game ever now. For what reason? Couldn't you have spent that developer money on an IP that actually needed it?

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Changing a single accent color barely counts as customization. It's so lazy and I think a lot of interface designers miss the entire point when they settle on colors and call it a day.

What happened to GTK2 themes? KDE at least retains it's legacy ricing functionality in some form or another, they're running circles around GNOME, and they'd be doing it harder if KDE theme creators had some more originality.

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Quoting: StellaSeriously... notebook makers need to stop putting 500GB of storage into a laptop and call it a day. This is pitiful. Considering the astronomical increase in game size, you can only install 2x 150GB games before it's full. And why pair such a weak GPU with such a powerful CPU? This laptop has so many weird design choices and the price is frankly insane.

I think because cutting down on storage is an easy way to save money without making the whole system look cheap to people who want a "Monster PC" and only play one or two games. It's been a trend for a while, and it usually works for the folks that aren't making YouTube videos or doing serious work. Well, "works" is being generous. You'll notice most prebuilts with these corners cut are gaming builds, office and regular boring home PCs usually are loaded with storage, 1TB or 2TB on average, more than that market ever really needs. In those cases, the storage is like a third of the cost of the computer assuming they didn't fish out an older hard drive.

1.5 grand is not a good price for a computer like this, even as a laptop. Having dogwater storage is maybe more acceptable for older laptops that were more modular and upgradable, but nowadays not so much. And you can get these parts in their fully-capable desktop forms for a little cheaper. The R&D and supply for the proprietary laptop bits does cost some so that's fair, but I don't think this laptop is special enough to warrant paying the pretty penny.

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I do have custom keybinds set up to allow the Deck controller to act as a fully functional mouse and keyboard without a dock. But trying to code or do Blender work is a no go for me even with that. You really do need that dock to get serious work done.

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I still refuse to use Unity for anything I actually care about ever again. I was trying to move away from it before since I wanted more control over my licensing, now I am definitely glad I did. I know they're going to try and repeat this stunt in the future.

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They still have not fixed the bug where KWin force-syncs itself to the XRandR lowest common refresh rate. They fixed it in Wayland back in 2020 and refuse to acknowledge it for X users despite older KDE versions working just fine on X... I think I will stick to Trinity, sorry. The lack of proper maitenance on Plasma X11 is not acceptable. Even if Wayland is the future.

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I come from the Wii, 3DS and Vita hacking scene where stealing FLOSS homebrew software and selling it to scam people is or was an unfortunately common practice. Nowadays it mostly manifests itself in so-called "hackers" that literally just buy up old consoles, read the same guide you can follow for free, and then charge you 100 USD markup for it.

Emulators like this are no exception. I completely understand and sympathize with this change. However, I have to ask: is this really going to help? The people stealing Duckstation and other projects like it for self-gain without contributing to anything other than their own wallets are obviously not the type to shy away from copyright violations. They're no different, if not even more dubious than console bootleggers in many countries. The same applies to third-party Linux packages by other users which are falsely attributed to the original developer. All this will really do is prevent Duckstation from being used by a PS1 developer to resell their game on Steam.

Duckstation has also never had a very good issue tracker (at least one that was easy to find) or other resources, and it's competing with other open source projects like BeetlePSX which are roughly the same minus a few niche features.

I think the reason Github users are angry is not so much because it's no longer free software, but more because the developer is taking GPL-licensed commits he may not legally own and making them his own semi-proprietary work. This is a legal grey area.

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