Quoting: PhlebiacBetter than Proton Experimental?

I think it was about the same, but the official Proton builds didn't have the Wayland support for HDR last I checked, so I haven't really tried it extensively, though I *think* using Gamescope in between might make that moot.

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Quoting: PhlebiacGlorious Eggroll hasn't had a fresh release in a while, but besides being "the latest bleeding edge" does anyone have any comments on whether this has been great for them on some/many games?

I've had better luck with this over GE-Proton10-34 for uh, 'testing' the latest Satisfactory 1.2 experimental branch with unofficial HDR support (with Gamescope, on Plasma 6 + Wayland), though I think that's more of a Wine/Proton 10 vs. 11 thing. Lots of crashes to desktop previously, now it's a fair bit more stable, though not 100% perfect; instead of crashing outright, it starts to stutter after an hour or two (especially when approaching my main factory after spending time in unexplored parts of the map). Feels like some kind of slow leak of some kind, but at this point I'm chalking it up to the game itself.

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I'm Canadian, so maybe my level of trust in government is slightly higher than most (or I've resigned myself to the fact that '...as far as I can throw them' means nothing when you're physically disabled~), but I feel like this is the sort of thing I'd want the government to run, hear me out:

We already have digital logins for things like filing our tax returns, and there's ways to do this stuff double-blind - heck, probably even with something relatively basic like digital signatures.
(My likely not-fully-correct implementation spitballing follows)

Spoiler, click me

• Canadian citizen wants to provide 'proof of age' to some online service - said service gives them some randomly generated token, says 'get this signed and bring it back to us'


• Copy/paste the token into gov't website where they've already got a valid login/ID. Gov't site has no idea where the token came from, what it says, what website it's for - nothing. It's just a string. But sure, here's a digital signature for it (-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- or whatever) to say 'yes, you are An Adult(tm)', with a short expiry time, like 5 mins or something to minimize the potential for reuse.


• User takes that back to the first site - see, I'm echoing back the exact same random token you first gave me, but now it's been Signed by the Government of Canada to say 'yes this person is an adult', please flag my account as such and never ask me again.

Do the same thing for your app store or whatever, have some OS path to do it, and as long as it's just 'get this random token signed by your government ID login', no creepy image recognition, no 'AI', etc., then I don't have that big of a problem with it. If all of the government legislative efforts that basically amount to 'we don't care how you do it, this is the private sector's responsibility', read between the lines: it's not worth the effort for them to set this up themselves, because the headache of managing that signing service would still be too onerous for the nearly non-existent 'return'.

But if the private sector's involved, and it means they get to legally ask all those invasive questions, for copies of your photo ID, or whatever, and tie it into their AI spyware crap? There's money there; the age assurance stuff is just a convenient excuse. THAT's the problem I have with it.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: pb

Quoting: Liam DaweIt doesn't really matter what alternatives there are - anything chat / social media will end up having to use these types of controls. Otherwise, they will end up getting blocked by various governments.

Is IRC blocked anywhere?

Even if it isn't yet, there's not much to stop governments forcing ISPs to block IRC servers. We've barely begun to see the effects of all this yet, it's going to expand.

And like every time this happens, VPN / Tor usage goes up, people learn to adapt and overcome. We even have access to mesh networking technology, and could even go back to point-to-point microwave antennas for backhaul (think Ubiquiti AirFibre). Lots of authoritarian countries try to block and censor the internet, with varying (but rarely, if ever total) success.

I'm similarly pessimistic about governments trying to do this, but it honestly just means we have to be ready with those fallback options, and unless they're going to stop selling WiFi cards and Pringles cans to the general public entirely, they can't win. 😉

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Quoting: KimyrielleYes. Politicians wanted to end anonymity on the internet since it became a thing, because they hate it when they can't control or see what their subjectscitizens do. The "there is too much crime on the internet" argument didn't work at first, so it's now "for the children!!!!"

As a friend of Blåhaj, even if my ID is 'right' (that was a headache and a half...), I certainly wouldn't to share it with *any* American corporation these days. It just sucks to feel like we're being pushed underground, but I guess I'm 'lucky' to have the stereotypical computer-touching neurospice.

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Quoting: sonic2kkWhat are the options for video calls and multi-participant screenshare (with audio) without usage limits and with support on Linux and Android? I checked out Element but the usage limit is a bit of a turn-off. TeamSpeak 6 looks interesting and seems to have the features mentioned, but wondering what others have to say :-)

I spun up a NextCloud instance locally for my wife and I, and while we just use it to de-Google things like sharing photos and the grocery list and such, I believe it's meant to be groupware that can do those things. It's just... not trivial to deploy and kind of overkill.

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Quoting: Liam DaweIt doesn't really matter what alternatives there are - anything chat / social media will end up having to use these types of controls. Otherwise, they will end up getting blocked by various governments.

Anything corporate and open to the public, sure, but an invite-only thing one hosts for their friends and no one else? They can certainly try... 😉

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Ooh, Carmageddon 2? It felt so... 'edgy' for its time, but would probably barely draw attention these days. (Admittedly I was way too young to be playing it - and the first one before it - but my parents didn't mind as long as I kept my grades up, and I did... 😅)

I think the original was pure software rendering, anyway, but by the time 2 came out I think we either had a Voodoo Banshee (slightly nerfed Voodoo 2 plus 2D card built in, no VGA loopback required!) or a Voodoo 3 3000 with this then newfangled 'AGP' interface... (that wasn't compatible with the lower voltage AGP... 2x/4x of the Radeon 9800 Pro that I still have in a 'retro' PC!).

I guess the other option alluded to is to run something like nGlide to 'pre convert' that path to OpenGL? I also seem to remember something called dgVoodoo2 [External Link] but it looks like the maintainer there has recently stopped & archived it.

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...and my friends thought I was crazy for deleting my Discord account entirely after $USPolitics thing(s) happened and it became super obvious everything was neatly hooked up to their various three letter agencies. Then rumours of them going public with a big IPO, and we all know how the enshittification train goes when that happens.

They said the same thing when I deleted my Twitter and FB accounts, what, in 2017-2018? (Actually, FB was first - once the band I was in fell apart, no need to post shows there...)

If it's not fully open source and I can't host it myself on my own infrastructure with no hard requirement to even have working internet connectivity once set up, I'm not interested. Same for if the company behind it (*cough*Matrix*cough*) just loves the taste of boots.

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For immutable image type setups like SteamOS, it totally makes sense, but I'm loathe to have a bunch of different versions of libraries around because Flatpak A still depends on them and hasn't been updated yet - but I'm not the target audience if I'm actually reading the list of everything pacman (or apt, yum, etc.) wants to update and actively reviewing and deciding what I'm about to proceed with. (Looking at you, holding back Mesa for months because of that SteamVR regression.)

Containerisation is potentially nice, for sure, for all the same reasons Docker or Podman are. It's also potentially a pain in the butt for all the same reasons, if you have something that really needs a whole lot of permissions in the first place. 😅

I remember the days when Windows Vista(?)'s incessant UAC prompts just pushed people into turning it off entirely, and while my (mostly Steam Deck) experience with Flatpak has never been that bad, I've had to mess with Flatseal more than I want to, for things that 'just worked' on my desktop. I think giving emulators access to Bluetooth and USB gamepads was one of them - minor stuff, but the kind of stuff you'd expect an emulator to have the appropriate permissions for out of the box.

tl;dr, Flatpak is a great option, but I'm not moving from distro-native package management any time soon, and that's okay, because it doesn't have to be an either-or, and that's why Linux (and BSD, etc.) are awesome. 🩷

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