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Quoting: SupayThe Beta update broke my SD card showing up as inserted. Tried rebooting and re-inserting but would not even show as an available device. Switching to Stable resolved it.

Checked again by switching back to Beta and my SD card is not recognised. Stable works fine though.

And now Stable shows another update and my SD card no longer shows in Stable and is no longer mountable on my desktop. Has worked fine right up to this update installation. I suggest removing it before updating.

Update: My SD card appears to have had its read only setting tripped and is now unmountable and unreadable, and cannot be returned to a usable state. It is an Integral 1TB micro SD and has been formatted and filled to capacity to test, and working fine, so I am certain it is a genuine device rather than a fake. And it only stopped working when I did my Deck update with it inserted, so be very careful and remove your SDs before running any update.

Have you tried the card in a regular tux computer?

It may be easier to debug/test/check the card from a full tux setup and sometimes despite the deck being linux, another card reader may work better etc. So worth a try. :-).

Oh, that was the first thing I tried. The card has its internal read only trip activated and it will not switch off by forcing via hdparm even as root. It doesn't mount whatsoever, read or read/write, and refuses any attempt to dd zero it out. Tried different sd card readers and distros on different devices, and inserting it into cameras etc to see if their format can do anything. Even tried my wife's Windows laptop. Looks pretty dead to me.

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Quoting: SupayThe Beta update broke my SD card showing up as inserted. Tried rebooting and re-inserting but would not even show as an available device. Switching to Stable resolved it.

Checked again by switching back to Beta and my SD card is not recognised. Stable works fine though.

And now Stable shows another update and my SD card no longer shows in Stable and is no longer mountable on my desktop. Has worked fine right up to this update installation. I suggest removing it before updating.

Update: My SD card appears to have had its read only setting tripped and is now unmountable and unreadable, and cannot be returned to a usable state. It is an Integral 1TB micro SD and has been formatted and filled to capacity to test, and working fine, so I am certain it is a genuine device rather than a fake. And it only stopped working when I did my Deck update with it inserted, so be very careful and remove your SDs before running any update.

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Quoting: SupayThe Beta update broke my SD card showing up as inserted. Tried rebooting and re-inserting but would not even show as an available device. Switching to Stable resolved it.

Checked again by switching back to Beta and my SD card is not recognised. Stable works fine though.

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Quoting: bonaparteNo link back to the actual announcement page on the Steam website [External Link]? For shame.

Isn't that already linked in the first sentence under the link embedded in the words "gone live"?

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The Beta update broke my SD card showing up as inserted. Tried rebooting and re-inserting but would not even show as an available device. Switching to Stable resolved it.

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I wonder if this would assist the various voice control packages for Elite as well. I think you can bodge them in under Proton currently but I've never been able to get it to work correctly. They are all written for the Windows speech system anyway, so I assume this would make that easier and more reliable.

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

What will be interesting to see is what happens with ChimeraOS once SteamOS 3 gets released

Steam OS 3.0 will be a failure if it doesn't come with another Valve software with the number 3 in the name.

I'd love Valve to release Half Life 3 just on Linux. They did say no Steam exclusives so that would still be true.

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it's come with plenty of bugs across all platforms

This is something I was especially concerned about for this release. Paradox has had a lot of quality problems in the last few years and IIRC this is the first update for Surviving Mars not being done by the original SM team. All of the good SM work up to this point was done by Haemiont Games but for whatever reason they're out and someone called Abstraction is in.

This is definitely a release I was excited for but also definitely one I'm waiting on. :(

Paradox sacked their entire publishing QA department last year with very little warning and didn't even tell their other departments. They outsourced the work instead. They kept their own development QA who I believe work on their own PDS titles but there seems to have been some overlap on work and overall Paradox release quality has really suffered since then with significant bugs in most titles.

EDIT: There have also been issues reported with interal problems including bullying and harassment, and their CEO just suddenly quit citing irreconcilable differences with the board over the company strategy. Seems their incredible growth over the last few years is resulting in some issues, along with similar abuse and discrimination coming out of most game companies.

It's so often trouble when some good outfit grows big enough that the suits come along and start making it over into a "proper" corporation (which is to say, a bunch of aggressive, short-sighted greedhead assholes).

Actually, some of the largest criticism in their staff surveys has been around a divide between the old guard and the newer staff, where older hands are given far more leeway and excused for behaviour that would be considered inappropriate. Poor pay and lack of support for staff including ordering them to drop matters distressing them, again mostly the new staff, were also stated as issues. Check the RPS articles as they apparently have the most accurate info.

I also saw a lot of anger on their forums and other places regarding Johan, one of their oldest members, due to a series of games he worked on recently that have all had serious issues: Imperator, and the Leviathan expansion for EUIV are the ones I remember but I think there was another. Paradox backed him heavily and rejected the criticism, and the stuff people were saying did become nasty and personal, but I have no idea as to whether those issues were due to his handling or other problems in the company, or whether this is really an old guard vs new blood issue.

They do seem to be suffering some kind of growth/culture shock following their rapid expansion. And bizarrely, many of the issues they are being accused of regarding abuse, transparency, crunch time, fairness to staff etc are areas they have always generally been thought to excel at, and ones they themselves have been very vocal about. They have been one of my favourite developers/publishers for many years and I have played/owned pretty much everything they have done since EU2. They have always been good at Linux support as well. So I hope they can resolve whatever is going on and improve where they need to.

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Quoting: SupayParadox sacked their entire publishing QA department last year with very little warning and didn't even tell their other departments. They outsourced the work instead. They kept their own development QA who I believe work on their own PDS titles but there seems to have been some overlap on work and overall Paradox release quality has really suffered since then with significant bugs in most titles.

EDIT: There have also been issues reported with interal problems including bullying and harassment, and their CEO just suddenly quit citing irreconcilable differences with the board over the company strategy. Seems their incredible growth over the last few years is resulting in some issues, along with similar abuse and discrimination coming out of most game companies.

I was curious and looked up some sources as I wanted to know more. There's this moderately lengthy article in Rock Paper Shotgun: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/paradox-interactives-qa-staff-allege-poor-treatment-low-pay-and-mismanaged-layoffs [External Link]

For CEO changing, there's this: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-09-02-paradox-ceo-ebba-ljungerud-leaves-due-to-differing-views [External Link] (there's not that much detail in that one)

Sorry, I meant to add the sources. The RPS ones were the articles recommended by Paradox's union rep as the most balanced and accurate.

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Quoting: STiATThey really impress me. They have the paid DLCs, but they throw in the odd free one and they tend to be good ones.

I never liked DLCs, but in this case they add value, and they have to pay the development to continue somehow. And for our mone they drop a free DLV here and there.

It's for me the model how DLCs should work, for the creator and the customers to keep the product fresh and the studio paid.

This DLC isn't free, it is the basegame that is temporarily free. Paradox always do a patch alongside their paid DLCs which is free but those are mostly bugfixes and small tweaks that fit with the new DLC. I listen to their podcast and they have been having success with giving away the basegame or making it incredibly cheap then making money from the expanded DLC.

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