Quoting: compholio

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: compholio

Quoting: BeamboomWhat's the server-side difference between a player with great game sense, and one with wallhacks?

You don't send the position of other players to someone when they're not in view.

Do you not, really? How then can the client embed sounds (footsteps, guns fired etc) from the enemy?
And if not - how do you determine they are not, since the server already believes they are since it is triggered to send the coordinates?

Listen, I'm not an expert on the stack involved here, far from it. But logically, when an entire industry - no exceptions - struggle with this, it's clearly, CLEARLY not an easy task. If they *could* avoid this entire challenge of client side with all their endless variations on hardware, systems, peripherals etc, they would. Clearly, they would.

How you do it is by having the server do all the processing, which is why most games don't do it. The server needs to run a complete copy of the game and calculate everything for each and every player, including things like audio amplitude if you are going to play footsteps.

The common wisdom in the industry is to make the server a simple relay system that passes all the information about the other players (within reason, depending upon game size) to every player. This puts all the computational costs on the individual player machines, massively reducing how much hardware/cloud compute is needed by the servers. This is not a technical problem, but a money problem - they have chosen to solve this in a particular way because they don't want to pay more for servers.

I guess the question becomes, how much more? If it's "a little more" then they're shortsighted jerks who could probably make the cost back just from more people coming to a game without cheaters. If it's "now each additional player will put them further in the hole" more, then that's not a real solution.

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Quoting: Cr1ogenImproved Wayland support???? I was expecting full support by now! :cry:

Isn't that what everyone always says about Wayland support in everything? :grin:

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Quoting: syylk

Support for elevating process privileges.

This could be very important considering the Squirrel installer *requires* non-elevated privileges to install its payload

And I mean, you never know when you might want to install a squirrel.

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Better Dvorak keyboard detection.

The Dvorak keyboard users right now:

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I have come to the conclusion that there used to be a point to the Dvorak keyboard, but there mostly isn't any more. The thing is, the Dvorak keyboard lets you type faster because the layout is more efficient given the frequency with which letters are used and stuff. But nobody needs to type fast any more. Keyboards are ubiquitous, but nobody is using typing to copy text or take dictation. Instead of high speed data entry there's barcodes, QR codes, and copy/paste because the information was on computer already in the first place.

So people are only typing stuff as they think it up, and most people can type on a QWERTY keyboard as fast as they can compose. Far as I can tell, people mostly don't even bother learning to touch type any more. So Dvorak becomes a case of "solving a problem people don't have".

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Quoting: lucinosA strange motable thing this month is:

"SteamOS Holo" 64 bit 36.79% -2.41%

AMD AMD Custom GPU 0405 35.72% +9.76%

AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH) 19.40% +6.01%

Custom 0405 is the SD LCD and the other is SD OLED. So SD is actually at 55.12%. Now for the first time more than half of linux users. Not the 36.79% that Holo suggests.

It is not easy to guess why. The difference is too big to be hidden into other.

Actually something is very wrong with the GPUs. They add up to more than 100%.

Argh. I don't expect statistics based on sampling to be a perfect representation of the territory, but it would be nice if they were internally consistent, like they at least represented a possible version of the territory.

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Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PyrateDsitros that "just work" and tolerate tech illiteracy and laziness also have their place of course

Laziness FTW!!!

(Otherwise known as "having better things to do")

We're talking about two completely different things.

If we are, maybe you could explain? Because I'm seeing no indication. All I saw was a guy calling me tech illiterate and lazy. Which, true enough, but the way techies say that kind of stuff betrays a misunderstanding of what computer use is for.

Where did I call *you* lazy etc?

I'm now willing to believe you didn't, but when I say I don't want to deal with (something Fedora does) and am glad Mint is around for people like me, and you reply that you like Fedora but distros that "just work" and tolerate tech illiteracy and laziness have their place, the obvious implication is that people like me who use those distros that 'just work' are tech illiterate and lazy. Might want to spend a bit of time working on your communication literacy instead of your tech literacy.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PyrateDsitros that "just work" and tolerate tech illiteracy and laziness also have their place of course

Laziness FTW!!!

(Otherwise known as "having better things to do")

We're talking about two completely different things.

If we are, maybe you could explain? Because I'm seeing no indication. All I saw was a guy calling me tech illiterate and lazy. Which, true enough, but the way techies say that kind of stuff betrays a misunderstanding of what computer use is for.

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When I think Spy vs Spy I think Mad magazine . . . there was a game?

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Quoting: Talon1024If we're lucky, Linux users will still be able to play these games via cloud gaming services like GeForce NOW, even if using such services requires a sizable sacrifice in terms of control and privacy.

Eh, not that much of a privacy sacrifice compared to having a rootkit on your computer.

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Quoting: DesumWhile it had a few minor bumps, the upgrade from Plasma 5 to 6 was much smoother than the one from KDE4 to Plasma.

Come to that, wasn't 3 to 4 pretty rocky? So pretty good release this time then.

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