Wow, they really decided to turn the adorable up to 11 on this one.

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Quoting: elmapulthere are tons of open source projects that already deliver a lot of things...
and tons of kickstarter projects with broken promisses...

yet people only fund the second

Makes me think . . . there's nothing necessarily stopping open source projects from doing kickstarters to get a bit of funding. I mean sure, the open source thing already exists in some form, and you can probably already get it for free, but the point of the kickstarter is for the new features you're promising to come into existence, and just like with a normal kickstarter nobody will get them if someone doesn't pay for them (with either money or time). You could do the thing, have some feature goals, give people some nice exclusive things for different backer levels, all the usual schtick should work fine.

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I don't see the applicability of a specialized "AI" doohickey to general purpose computing. How is this going to help me watch or even process video, or play games, or do a spreadsheet, or browse the web? And if it isn't, why is it a selling point that I have to pay for it?

But it's not like I know anything; I didn't know there would be a point to specialized hardware bits even for doing actual AI stuff.

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All those automation machines . . . it never occurred to me that a beekeeping sim would be so industrial.

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Quoting: Xpanderseems to work without issues so far:
xpander@archlinux ~ $ nvidia-smi | grep Version
| NVIDIA-SMI 555.42.02              Driver Version: 555.42.02      CUDA Version: 12.5     |

I'm on X11, so i don't really have any benefit from that hyped up explicit sync support:tongue:

Well, me too, but it's obvious that in time I won't be; even Mint (which I use) is starting to get with the program. So I'm happy to see all the pieces get into place.
I also don't even use NVIDIA. But even so, good news about Linux working better is good news.

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Quoting: 14I know you were only poking.

Yeah, the winkie emoji was supposed to be this subtle signal that I was joking around. Too subtle for some, it would seem.

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Skills like "Reading". Yay literacy! Well, it can be surprisingly useful in these dangerous places.
Without reading skill: OK, this door opens to a little cubicle, and things that go in are gone when you close the door and open it again. Probably a teleporter that can get me to the next section.
With reading skill: The sign says "Disintegrator".

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Well, I downloaded Endless Legend and tried it out. I quite like it. Definitely has a good chunk of that "Just one more turn" feel. Scratches the same kind of itch as Civilization, but it's more in that fantasy vein, you've got a bit more focus on customizing and leveling up your troops and having "heroes" that lead them and govern cities.

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Quoting: westurnerWhat are some solutions to anti-cheat on
Linux?

Grow Linux so that it's too big a market for anyone to decide to just ignore. That's it; that's the only solution.

It's certainly the preferred solution. But I dunno, if cheaters can get around anticheat, which as far as I can make out they can, I don't see why Wine/Proton couldn't. It'd have to be an unofficial version, ideally developed in some country/ies where it is not illegal to circumvent blah blah blah. So there would be problems with distributing it. But it could surely be done.

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Quoting: 14I don't think I had any unexpected issues with the multiple Arch machines I maintain.

Just expected issues? :wink:

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