I remember reading years ago that circuit sizes were, or would be, starting to run into fundamental physical problems in being basically just too thin to keep the little electrons from wandering between what's trying to be separate "wires". But they still keep shrinking things, 5nm coming up . . . I wonder if at this point the actual shrinkage is smaller than the change in definition makes it seem just because if they pack any closer things stop working.

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To my surprise, it appears I can order this in Canada. Not so much to my surprise, it costs a bundle in $Canadian. But it does look like a nice machine . . .

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: dubigrasuIIRC we had the same type of arguments when Liam started posting Proton news, the same idea that we should keep Linux news "pure" as in native only news. Luckily we got past that, but I see we're starting all over again with Stadia.

From where I'm standing I think that if we're OK with news about games made for Windows > played locally through Wine, we might as well be OK with news about games made for Linux > played remotely through a browser.

Sure, it doesn't fit in the pure/native/etc category, but the Linux connection is there nevertheless, and is worth posting news about it.

I feel it's a bit different. Here's why.

We can directly benefit from Wine / Proton and they directly correspond to being able to take a game and play it through our Linux systems directly.

Stadia is like if we started getting articles on AWS and that we could host our servers there or something.
Granted mine is just an opinion, and if we took a poll to see if other users would like Stadia news, I'd be fine if that's what people voted on. But I'm an adult, and if I don't feel like reading about it, then I'll skip the article. So doesn't really make me angry or anything :)

For me, a lot of my interest in Linux gaming is strategic. It's less about individual games and more about the future of the platform (and about the implications of Linux gaming for the health of the Linux desktop in general; still waiting for that Year Of The Linux Desktop after all this time).
So for me, the relevance of Stadia isn't that I'm interested in playing games on it, or even interested in Linux gamers in general playing games on it. The relevance is that one way or another, its existence has an impact on how viable gaming on Linux in general will be. For instance, even though I absolutely hate this notion, if Stadia were to take over all gaming and become a monopoly . . . then Linux would be an absolutely equal gaming platform, all games would be written for Linux, DirectX would die out, all graphics tools would treat Linux as the primary target. And, we'd all be renting our games on Google's sufferance.
That would be pretty big news for Linux gaming, surely.

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I wonder if there's an actual hand of glory [External Link] in the game. They're really creepy.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: elmapulunity . . . are moving away from POO

Surely that's a good thing?

in terms of performance, it is, but i'm an indie developer, i wont be making an game that uses 100% of the cpu any tine soon.
so, learning an new model will be pretty much useless for me.

Useful information, but I was making a joke in poor taste about excrement.

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I respect KDE and am glad they're continuing to do good stuff. I've never yet found it . . . homey, when I tried it, but it's not that quality was bad, just not my particular thing.

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Quoting: elmapulunity . . . are moving away from POO

Surely that's a good thing?

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Quoting: GBeeThe solution I'm proposing is a unified package format, used across all distros and yes all platforms (which Snap offers) but with the 'vanilla' packaging performed by the developers of each application. With a single unified, portable format this is something developers could actually handle.

Eminently reasonable. Go for it!
Standards [External Link]

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhat's an MRA?

"Mens rights" whatever

Ah, I remember now! "Men's Rights to be Assholes"!

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Quoting: randylThe future, at least for mainstream OS's, will be immutable system images in a containerized app environment, like Fedora Silverblue, CoreOS, and others.

(Little kid voice) Why?

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