Latest Comments by vic-bay
NVIDIA Beta driver 595.45.04 released for Linux - looks to be an exciting one
6 Mar 2026 at 12:39 pm UTC Likes: 1
6 Mar 2026 at 12:39 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: JoomI've been seeing that 590 has problems all over the place, but it's been perfectly fine for me on CachyOS. Makes me wonder if it's the Ubuntu maintainers that have somehow broken it, which wouldn't surprise me.I had Stalker 2 crashes on 590 drivers, then I rolled back to 580 and the game was rock stable again. Good for you if you didn't have any issues.
Many more US states are planning or already have operating system age verification laws
6 Mar 2026 at 12:31 pm UTC Likes: 2
6 Mar 2026 at 12:31 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Liam DaweUnless the laws of other countries forbid doing that, and then you need to have two business models or two models of a product.Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrheaThank God US laws don't apply to the rest of the world... yet!A common thing people say - but the reality is the opposite. If you want to do any kind of business or service in the US, the laws very much do apply.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive reappears on Steam as a standalone download
4 Mar 2026 at 7:07 pm UTC Likes: 2
4 Mar 2026 at 7:07 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: sarmadWhy would someone play CSGO when we have CS2? Is there anything that CSGO provides and CS2 doesn't?a huge archive of old maps that are not compatible with cs2. also more game mods.
Sony PlayStation reportedly moving away from PC ports
4 Mar 2026 at 6:59 pm UTC Likes: 1
4 Mar 2026 at 6:59 pm UTC Likes: 1
They port games after one or two years delay and complain that sales are low, lol.
And their games, after all, are not so outstanding or even so good.
But I think the main reason is not relatively low sales. Over a million copies sold are more than enough to profit from porting games.
I think the main reason why they want to leave PC is they want to sell more consoles to drag people into their ecosystem, and mainly aim for 30% cut to keep for themselves.
They think average steam users willbuy a whole new console, while steam users often don't even bother checking alternative PC game stores.
But we know how it will go. We'll see sony few years later, quietly returning to Steam.
And their games, after all, are not so outstanding or even so good.
But I think the main reason is not relatively low sales. Over a million copies sold are more than enough to profit from porting games.
I think the main reason why they want to leave PC is they want to sell more consoles to drag people into their ecosystem, and mainly aim for 30% cut to keep for themselves.
They think average steam users willbuy a whole new console, while steam users often don't even bother checking alternative PC game stores.
But we know how it will go. We'll see sony few years later, quietly returning to Steam.
Steam Survey for February 2026 shows a big swing to Simplified Chinese
2 Mar 2026 at 12:20 pm UTC Likes: 3
2 Mar 2026 at 12:20 pm UTC Likes: 3
Why doesn't Steam just collect hardware data automatically, are there any legal issues with it? I'd like to see smooth statistics without sampling swings every month.
California law to require operating systems to check your age
2 Mar 2026 at 12:15 pm UTC Likes: 37
2 Mar 2026 at 12:15 pm UTC Likes: 37
1984 was a warning, not a tutorial.
Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions
19 Feb 2026 at 10:41 am UTC Likes: 1
19 Feb 2026 at 10:41 am UTC Likes: 1
If you see ai slop long enough, you will learn to identify it immediately. Yes, it is still a time waster, but it is nowhere as bad as it looks at the first look. Creating slop commits and pull requests takes way longer than reading it for half minute and smashing ban button.
Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux
19 Feb 2026 at 10:36 am UTC
19 Feb 2026 at 10:36 am UTC
Why HDMI cartel doesn't want HDMI on Linux? So more people won't use HDMI? Do they hate money, or did Microslop bribe them?
Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too
19 Feb 2026 at 10:30 am UTC Likes: 4
19 Feb 2026 at 10:30 am UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: hardpenguinThis is getting ridiculousThis is Dark Souls of ridiculous situations.
Discord is about to require age verification for everyone
9 Feb 2026 at 3:23 pm UTC Likes: 30
9 Feb 2026 at 3:23 pm UTC Likes: 30
I'd rather stop using discord, than send my id and face photos to god knows who.