Damn. It really feels like we're walking backward at neckbreaking speed. It was not too long ago that Europe was seen as a bastion of freedom against a handful of totalitarian countries, and now, we're full steam ahead toward the destruction of freedom of speech and access to public resources everywhere.

It's heartbreaking. If we let even a handful of countries finalize their implementation of all this mess, it'll only serve either as an incentive for other to follow tracks, or even worse, as a justification to do so.

Hopefully we can stop this. I can't do much for what's happening in the UK, but all this already made me more aware of the options we have as EU citizen, even if they're quite… limited. Petitions and all that jazz.

Still, it's very worrying.

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I was waiting for that one. It's eerily chill to just stack stuff in efficient ways.

I see the comment about performance issue, and granted I'm not at the "500k huge machine" level of things, but on the opposite side of things I've been surprised by how stable it is right now; I can have the screen full of stuff and it move smoothly… at the current zoom level (LoD kicks in in very visible ways). But I also lock the game at 60fps, it might help.

If having ton of stuff offscreen causes sharp dip in performances to the point of breaking the logic, that's bad… but time will tell. And it might get fixed later on.

For now, it's been nice. The whole UI is well thought of, and the game makes it very easy to experiment/add/change/etc. Not much to complain there.
If you're kind of an extrem player, you can even use a relatively simple text-based format to generate whole machinery and import them in the game… but nobody's going to do that, right? Hehehe

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More Zachtronics is good. It's always a good time (even if a bit tough at times :D)

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I wonder how much of that is backlash and how much is being conscious of an issue. A few years back I would not have had those doubts.

At this point, "money is money", and Blender could certainly use the boost in that regard. But it's very easy to slip towards justifications like "see? We might be destroying everything, but the money is used in a good cause!". Time will tell.

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Quoting: BrandonGeneNot being open source (and especially being based on Unity) makes this almost DoA, doesn't it?...some of those features are pretty neat, but that seems like a very odd choice in today's emulation landscape.

Really? How many games are people running that are closed source? I'm not gonna say "all of them", but unless we're talking about niche gamers, I'd say the vast majority of them are.
I'd rather have things opensource, but it's not like I'm putting all my personal documents in there. It's an emulator.

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Quoting: Cley_FayeUbuntu's track record of allowing fine control over some features does not bode well. We still have to jump through hoops to remove "ubuntu advantage" on systems it is irrelevant (and no, it's not "completely harmless" to leave it there).

If they go in a way that gives full control to the user, with like a checkbox/prompt before enabling something new, who cares. If they go in a way that forces things on because "it's ok, trust us bro" and "who cares, it's just a little harmless extra nail in the coffin", then no. And, well, with Canonical really liking to force things over… we'll see I guess.

I know there are alternatives out there, but the less people will care about this, the more it will become prevalent. And when every major distro decides that it's ok to do that, we're screwed.

usually I would think that on any linux system managing packages and services is so straightforward that it's hard to truly enforce anything. But then what if you have something like a snap daemon running that basically does whatever it wants on its own like windows does, and disabling it may also have consequences you don't want? hard to say but it's a bit suspicious (also I'm not really sure what people already have to do to "debloat" ubuntu cause I never really used it)

Debloating ubuntu these days is relatively trivial, and the "bloat" part is largely exaggerated. The "bloat" here is an extra package/software manager, and a nagging screen that pops up in terminal, both of which can be removed with relative ease. It's laughably little compared to a windows debloating process: snapd and his ilk can be removed with a few commands, and the ubuntu advantage can be removed by installing a fake empty package instead.

Still, the intent is there; ubuntu advantage in particular is a direct dependency of most metapackage that ensure you get a usable system, and not using these metapackages is a pain in the butt. Since we're talking open source, there's no way to make things absolutely inevitable, but Canonical sure could get very aggressive with extra layers of bullshit, which they did not do so far.

It's not ideal, but even now, I think the situation is relatively fair to everyone. KDE Neon, for example, explicitly built over Ubuntu LTE, have such an empty package to disable this part.

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Ah, snaps. PERFECT. Go for it. Woo! Go go go. Since I remove everything snap from every installation, I'm a-ok with that.

*ahem*

More seriously, if they stick to their word about opt-in, visible onboarding, and all that, there's little room to complain for. Sure, it's another piece in the "AI everywhere", but the option is likely to always have materialized somewhere; better have it with full human control.

At least, as long as they stick to their words, which is not granted.

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Ubuntu's track record of allowing fine control over some features does not bode well. We still have to jump through hoops to remove "ubuntu advantage" on systems it is irrelevant (and no, it's not "completely harmless" to leave it there).

If they go in a way that gives full control to the user, with like a checkbox/prompt before enabling something new, who cares. If they go in a way that forces things on because "it's ok, trust us bro" and "who cares, it's just a little harmless extra nail in the coffin", then no. And, well, with Canonical really liking to force things over… we'll see I guess.

I know there are alternatives out there, but the less people will care about this, the more it will become prevalent. And when every major distro decides that it's ok to do that, we're screwed.

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Oh nice. The demo was interesting, but I'm curious to see how it goes. It having a native linux version is great too; the windows demo had some issue with weird characters…

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Quoting: WORMI can’t help but think a similar tool targeting Windows would be super janky and cost $20.

VoiceMeeter is actually free, although they do ask for money if you want. And it provides a lot of features that makes it a breeze to manage a fair amount of real and virtual input/output with multiple routing, in addition to a pretty good networked audio solution on top of it and various built-in effects.

It's actually the piece of software I miss the most from windows, although I just coded a pair of scripts that tweak all my audio devices as needed, now, so all of this is kinda moot to me now. And it also auto-toggle when my wireless corsair headset connects, which was impossible to do on windows, as far as I know.

Still, it's nice to have more good UI for audio management moving forward. Pulsemeeter is another project, but seems to move very slowly, and not everyone is comfortable with just piping scripts in `pw-cli`.

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