Yes, the usual suspects and that is telling.

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TLDR: The train has already left the station.It's now the same as a car or a smart phone, it has been integrated into our daily life.

Quoting: scaineMan, I can't believe we're still defending genAI. As I've pointed out in many other comments, the top reasons I hear for the "negative resentment" are, in no particular order:

1. Negative impact on environment, slap bang in the middle of a climate crisis.
5. Driving a nuclear age .....(Meta, Google and Microsoft have now all commissioned their own reactors)

True.

Quoting: scaine6a, 6b, 2, 3, 7. (social impact and allegations)

These things are not relevant or have overlaps with (game) development. Sure, they are valid in other contexts, bu not this. This is also the issue with these AI Witch Hunters who toss everything into one bowl and don't differentate.

Quoting: scaine4. Slows down development (even in cases where developers claimed it sped them up, evidence showed otherwise)
6c. Societal impact - genAI "slop" now devalues everything on the internet. When you see something cool, you think "meh, it's probably just AI shite". Or it actually IS shite, in which case, genAI is on a race to the bottom, since the next generation of genAI will be taught on today's internet - mistakes will be compounded, biases reinforced.

Not really, unless you do use LLMs only locally (unless you have enough hardware), using only free versions of public LLMs and LLMs which are known to have issues, once a project gains a certain size threshold.

If you are properly defining the project, the feature list and all its stuff surrounding it, you can do amazing things properly coded if you keep oversight, test, debug, review code, make appropriate changes and hold the assitant on a very short leash.

You still have to read the code, understand its workings, architecture and program flows, to make a well rounded project.

And yes, you pay for assistance enough, to achieve it, but you can really accelerate development tool-assisted. You also have to do your research and do decisions.

On the other side, if you just throw a LLM some rough paragraphs, that are not well defined, you will end wit slop (and projects that are at some point borked).

Quoting: scaine8. Hallucination (multiple cases of invented bullshit, including court filings, leading to lawyers being debarred).

regarding coding, this does not happen, and any bullshit code is quickly remedied once you have tested and reviewed it.

Aside that, for (game) development that is not relevant.

Quoting: scaine9. Obnoxious marketing (see MS especially).
10. Diverting investment away from targeted solution, and into a financial bubble (because #7).

Quoting: scaine11. All genAI engines are built on plagiarised work, for which the original authors/artists got no recognition, nor commission. Same with code - all code was scraped, regardless of license, and that code can be regurgitated in new, OR snippet form, by genAI, without recognition of that license.

Not really true, if that LLM has general programming and knowledge about standard algorithms. For example, if there is some undocumented RESTA API not documented anywhere on the web and you reverse that and give it a summary how the program flow is and works, at least the paid LLMs are able to integrate that in your application.

Free LLMs and locally run LLMs are way more prone to that and mostly try to throw dirt at the wall and try to be sneaky hard coding stuff or trying to implement shortcuts to just satisfy the requirement that "it works".

Quoting: scaine12. Impact on website scraping from multiple companies building genAI models. Wikipedia in particular has had to actively block enormous ranges to prevent the scraping from leading them into financial run. Again, can't be bothered to find the link, but there's a Wikimedia blog talking about it.

Most web sites already have taken active measures against that scraping and that is sadly a fact of life now.

Quoting: scaineAnyone offering the "it's just a tool" argument, is being deliberately obtuse. They're basically arguing that the ends absolutely justify the means, no matter the cost.

IT IS A TOOL, especially one that has to be used properly and given enough input data that is not wishy-washy.

Quoting: scaineAnd the cost is high. Big tech has absolutely no morals, and this is a race to the bottom, fueled by literally hundreds of billions of investment that could have have so much difference elsewhere.

Corporations always have been that, not just yet, but that is not a justification. Just be happy, that we aren't already in full Cyberpunk 2077 / Shadowrun / Neuromancer territory.

As above stated, the main problem with AI witch hunters is, that these want to turn back time unconditionally to a non-AI world, what would be about the 1970s if you call Weizenbaum's ELIZA an AI. Or what would be the point in time for you? Perhaps you should differentate between the various forms of AI and not toss everything into a barrel and blaze it aflame?

LLMs and AI are nowadays a fact of life, deal with it. It is the same with smart phones: if you are against smart phones (and maybe "dumb mobile phones"), you will have major disadvantages and inconveniences NOT using them. This is the same with LLMs, there are useful applications with them, but I myself only use them for project development and not for other things.

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Quoting: pbImagine being a "superfan" of a company...

Just visit the Discord "GOG Cafè" and start a discussion about the DRM; there are some such "usperfans" that will respond to that.

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Quoting: tpauThe question is how can we keep the almost monopoly of Steam in check and balance it out?
I buy my games only on Steam if there is no other option.

The answer is simple: provide competitive good enough services and shopping experience that are on par at least with Steam.

If any other game shop does not want to provide that or cannot do that, they won't get better market shares.

For example, Epic is still burning Fortnite money and any of their underhanded tactics did not work out, instead of treating customers better.

Steam does exactly that, that is providing in comparison to other stores the best services.

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So, if they are "only" making plasma-shell Wayland only, what are the options, if you have to use X11 due to things Wayland will never support (don't want to go deeper in that regard), but want still keep using KDE applications (mainly Dolphin and Konsole).

It should still use preferably Qt as a base library, so it's LXQt then? Any other options, if I don't want to use GTK based shells?

I'd like to have a similiar task bar at the bottom, no macos-like dock, but a system tray and a start menu.

icewm? WindowMaker? lxQt?

Any other options. that are not Trinity?

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I thought, xorg is dead, buried and doesn't get any more development and fixes?

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Kernel updates come at least on a weekly basis ...

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They have to disclose their AI usage since some time and that lands on the store page (where that userscript grabs it).

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/3862463747997849619 [External Link]

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Question:

Why do I have a native Linux version, that is running with the Linux runtime 1.0 (scout) instead of that SteamOS Linux version, that uses the Linux runtime 3.0 (sniper) on my desktop ever since?

The whole discussion, that Baldur's Gate 3 has no native Linux (desktop) version, is a bit unreal, to me.

$ ls -l
total 326040
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pulaski pulaski 223982136 Sep 24 13:16 bg3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pulaski pulaski 1892144 Sep 24 13:16 handler
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pulaski pulaski 261432 Sep 24 13:16 libBink2x64.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pulaski pulaski 43768312 Sep 24 13:16 libnvidia-ngx-dlss.so.3.7.20
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pulaski pulaski 64096 Sep 24 13:16 libnvsdk_ngx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pulaski pulaski 1795520 Sep 24 13:16 libOsiris.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pulaski pulaski 18626384 Sep 24 13:16 libParty.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pulaski pulaski 2889504 Sep 24 13:16 libSDL2.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pulaski pulaski 391056 Sep 24 13:16 libsteam_api.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pulaski pulaski 20252840 Sep 24 13:16 LinuxCrashReporter
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pulaski pulaski 17645736 Sep 24 13:16 MessageBox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pulaski pulaski 18640 Sep 24 13:16 PlayFabPartyWrapper
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pulaski pulaski 2248584 Sep 24 13:16 vulkaninfo

$ file bg3
bg3: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 5.1.0, BuildID[sha1]=a05d61a92391605c8b60296e934039ae75316015, not stripped

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Well,

"I play exclusively on Wayland since 2021 and I didn't have any serious problem. Today I swapped almost all native Linux games to the Windows versions on CachyOS's Proton because it allows me to run the games natively on Wayland."

That is exactly the irony on all, that if you want to preserve your games and make them future-proof, better get the Windows version than the native Linux version.

I did some thinking but, I have the feeling, that business-wise, the only company that has stakes keeping 32 Bit alive, is Valve. Their solution will be - to keep their catalogue playable - is providing a 32 Bit runtime with their Steam client, that encompasses a minimum environment for running these applications, as well as native and as with proton.

On any other non-gaming topics, it also doesn't really make any sense any more sticking to 32 Bit, especially if the end of the 32 Bit Unix epoch is on the horizon, too and more and more cheaper stuff is slowly transitiong to 64 Bit already.

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