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Remote Play broken on Steam Deck with the February stable update
28 Feb 2024 at 8:34 pm UTC
Quoting: LordDaveTheKindI rarely used it. Can it work as well as Sunshine does (i.e. with hardware encoding too)?
I've never been able to get Sunshine to work, so at least on my setup, it worked 100% better. :grin:
Nintendo goes after Switch emulator yuzu in new lawsuit
28 Feb 2024 at 7:20 am UTC Likes: 5
It is important to understand that most companies signed onto an international agreement when the DMCA was passed. This isn't just an American thing. As a librarian, I remember when the DMCA first passed. We pretty much considered it the death of preservation as we then knew it. It's quite possible future generations will look back on our civilizations and find nothing of intellectual value because it's all locked behind outdated, non-functional DRM.
Slimbook reveal the AMD powered Excalibur laptop and KDE Plasma 6 Slimbook
22 Feb 2024 at 6:47 pm UTC
It's nice that they'll install so many different distros for you even though you'll probably inevitably install several different ones on your own. Yes, I'm talking to you. You know who you are. :grin:
World of Goo 2 launches in May on the Epic Store - but Linux support from their website
21 Feb 2024 at 9:43 pm UTC Likes: 2
I have the original DRM-free game one of my old hard drives somewhere. I think it's perfectly fine for a game like this, as long as it doesn't have anything that would prevent it from working in the future if the developer disappears.
Spec Ops: The Line gets delisted on Steam - you can still buy it elsewhere for now
1 Feb 2024 at 8:23 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: melkemind
Quoting: LinasThis time-limited licensing is such bullshit. Basically building a self-destruct timer into the product.
Copyright, patents, etc. are generally misused nowadays. They were intended for individual creators to get compensation and credit for their work, not for corporations to hoard, exploit and fatten their portfolios.
While I agree that should describe the world, I'm not sure it actually does. Whatever nice sounding rhetoric has been said, either now or at the time the laws were first being defined, benefits for publishers were a big, and perhaps the biggest, part of the mix from the very beginning.
You can take a quick look at the history of publishing and see what you're saying is wrong. Most copyright was held by authors and artists for much of the early history of the law. As far as patents go, we know who early inventors were because their names were on the patents, not the names of corporations. The idea of corporations as "persons" is a relatively new concept.

Companies like Disney had to fight to get copyright extended for their own benefit, but the law didn't begin the way it is now. Furthermore, a lot of people don't realize how many rights they lost when the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) went into effect. That was a law designed primarily to benefit corporate, capitalist interests, but it's only 25 years old.
Spec Ops: The Line gets delisted on Steam - you can still buy it elsewhere for now
30 Jan 2024 at 4:37 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: LinasThis time-limited licensing is such bullshit. Basically building a self-destruct timer into the product.
Copyright, patents, etc. are generally misused nowadays. They were intended for individual creators to get compensation and credit for their work, not for corporations to hoard, exploit and fatten their portfolios.
Eidos-Montréal cut nearly 100 staff with new Deus Ex reportedly cancelled
30 Jan 2024 at 1:19 am UTC Likes: 3
It seems like everyone's getting "Embraced" these days.
The original SteamOS-like Linux distro HoloISO now dead, replaced with immutable version
29 Jan 2024 at 8:59 pm UTC
Quoting: damarrinIt does? I'd say the backlash Ayaneo received from "Windows fans" explains the Ayaneo stuff. I'm sure an immutable system would have been more beneficial for them.
I wonder if there was really a backlash from many people or just a few loud people on Ex-Twitter.
The original SteamOS-like Linux distro HoloISO now dead, replaced with immutable version
29 Jan 2024 at 8:56 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: fenglengshunAt that point just use Universal Blue's Bazzite. The devs has much clearer track records and works together with various other project. Plus, you can easily clone a repo where you can layer in your own packages and user files to pack into a custom image of your own.
I literally just installed Bazzite yesterday. I'm done with HoloISO and won't be going back.
Steam Remote Play gets VA-API DRM hardware decoding on Linux
29 Jan 2024 at 3:47 am UTC
Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: TactikalKittyCan anyone explain what this means or does:
Enable VA-API DRM hardware decoding on Linux
While the Remote Play client has supported VA-API video acceleration for a good while, this is about making use of it in DRM mode (Direct Rendering Manager, not Digital Rights Management) instead of relying on the older X11 interface. Seems like a necessary step towards better native Wayland support.
Aside from future Wayland support, does it provide any visual or performance improvements?