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Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps
28 March 2024 at 4:11 pm UTC Likes: 4

"Canonical maker of Ubuntu Linux have now decided to manually look over submissions."
wait isnt that the reason why we have repos in the first place?
if no one is looking at the code what is the point?

GitLab takes down Nintendo Switch emulator suyu due to the DMCA
22 March 2024 at 6:22 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Talon1024
Quoting: jordicomaNow they just host they own repository https://git.suyu.dev/suyu/suyu

And the DMCA button (lower right corner) is a Rick roll!
ok that was the best use for that meme lol

GE-Proton 9-2 released, ULWGL gets renamed to umu (Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher)
21 March 2024 at 11:35 pm UTC Likes: 3

they lose the opportunity to call it uwu

GOG team up with Amazon Luna for cloud gaming
19 March 2024 at 2:01 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: legluondunetSteam has a similar service with Geforce Now, but you do not have access to all your games, it depend on devs authorizations.
Soon we will no more need a gaming console, nor install or tweak them, to play games on Linux, we will just need a good internet connection. And we will no more need to buy expensive graphic card, with Geforce Now you can play on your TV in 4K/60fps/RayTracing if you have a good internet connection.
Before that, we need all these streaming services to stop screwing with Linux giving us a lower resolution.
wich make no sense, i can understand netflix giving us lower resolutions thinking it may be easier to break their DRM and as result this content leaking on pirate websites with max resolutions... (it leak anyway, at least make sense they try to prevent)

but gaming? the resolution dont mater for an interactive exp, pirating the imagen isnt the samething unless you are talking about cutscenes (maybe music as well).

Quoting: yndoendoThe only business I do with Amazon is take their money and never give them a penny. I will not fund billionaire Jeff Bezos and how his company treats their employees! Good example of economics where one sees value and another sees something completely worthless.
its becoming harder and harder to boycot those companies since they can do deal where we pay despite our consent.
(eg: you dont chose what games will enter an subscription service or not, in that case we didnt chose to give the money from or gog purchases to amazon in that deal... or maybe amazon paid then)

GOG team up with Amazon Luna for cloud gaming
19 March 2024 at 1:57 pm UTC Likes: 3

the kings of video game preservation teaming up with someone developing an tech that may kill video game preservation...

im not sure how i feel about that.

this might go 2 ways, either cloud gaming sucess can become dependent on an guarantee that we will have offline drm free ways to keep acessing our games...
or the new generation of gamers may grow used to not downloading their games, not even having an hardware capable of runing then and gog change their policies in the future to backstab us (maybe not for old purchases but for new ones) and people who are used to not own anything dont see the issue until its too late because we already have tons of cloud exclusive games that disapear by the time they realize that was a bad idea.

Valve tweaks WWE 2K24 for AMD GPUs like Steam Deck, looking into Red Alert 2 issues
19 March 2024 at 12:25 pm UTC Likes: 3

wait is that graphic strange on purpose (art direction trying to emulate old mortal kombat games) or they are clueless?

Playtron plan to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based system for gaming
19 March 2024 at 12:24 pm UTC

Quoting: Tevur
Quoting: elmapul
Quoting: CatKillerIt very much sounds like a scam to extract money from venture capitalists.
well at least it will be from venture capitalists lol

Well, sadly this money isn't their own but from the small people in search of a way to invest a little money to supplement their pension, whom they sell shitty financial products with big promises but no real return.
yeah you probably is right =\

The Mirror aims to be a Roblox & UEFN alternative and now it's open source
19 March 2024 at 1:54 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: benstor214What's with the words popping up in the video? Am I supposed to karaoke along?
they tried to provide their own captions with some tech, i think (the tech) is open source, i remember that someone was developing an great tool for that, but the fact that they let one word at the time instead of one line or two make it harder to read, not to mention this tool dont know the word godot and write it differently each time this word appear.

they should soft sub it instead of hardsubing it.

Playtron plan to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based system for gaming
19 March 2024 at 1:46 am UTC

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualThe Verge article is very enlightening on many subjects. Please give it a read if you haven't: https://www.theverge.com/24090470/playtron-gaming-os-linux-handhelds-exclusive

Further excerpts from The Verge article:

QuotePlaytron will cost companies like Ayaneo a fraction of the price of Windows, he says, around $10 per head instead of the $80 that OEMs tell him they spend today. And he says games like Fortnite and Roblox shouldn’t have to fear hackers reverse engineering their anti-cheat solutions because its Fedora Silverblue base has an immutable file system. (I thought SteamOS was immutable, too, but I’ll let more knowledgeable Linux users argue that one.)

what a load of bullshit.
imutable distros arent that hard to break into, at the worst case scenario you fork it and sundely you have an system with anti cheat disabled.
or maybe their anti cheat solution is proprietary but then they enter in a minefield of GPL.

Playtron plan to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based system for gaming
19 March 2024 at 1:38 am UTC

Quoting: CatKillerIt very much sounds like a scam to extract money from venture capitalists.
well at least it will be from venture capitalists lol