At least they fixed the missing i386 packages when updating the repo. My old games work again on 595.

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I need my PC for work anyway, so the gaming part is just an added plus. That being said, some edge cases aside, when people live in such tight places that a desktop really wouldn't fit in anywhere, I can't quite understand the appeal of gaming laptops either. They are much, MUCH pricier than a comparable gaming PC, so heavy that you barely can consider them a mobile device, and have no battery life worth mentioning. On top of being ergonomically inferior.

But hey, I am not telling people what device to play on. :)

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I don't know how this works for other people, but games that aren't running on my system do not exist for me. And I cannot buy what doesn't exist. Games that do not exist also cannot compel me to buy a device called a "console".

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Quoting: LachuI think there should be only putting text: „We can block to ran this game at all without reasons at any time”. That's what should be enough. People would not buy right to play this kind of game if they read this text and do not agree.

I think most gamers have realized by now that devs can shut down a game for any or no reason at all, on any day they wish. They're still buying these games, among things because every single dev on the planet is doing it. I don't think the free market will fix this.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneI know you did not quote me, but:

Quoting: KimyrielleYou know, when other people decide to use a technology you don't agree with, in most cases, you have a right to STFU and respect their choice, even if you don't like it. You dislike AI? Don't use it!

What a joke! Even if someone does not use LLMs, they still have to pay the price, as all of us. As told above via environmental costs, some living close to new mega data centers increasing their power bills a lot, others cannot buy any longer 16 gigs of RAM and if I have to research 3 times as much as in pre-LLM-times and sell my product, my customers have to pay for the additional time, no matter if they use LLM or not. And who pays for all the copyright holders which works are stolen?

To turn your own words against you: If you want to use LLMs, don't put the costs onto all of us and future generations and pay the whole bill yourself (including paying for work that is part of the LLM archiv). Respect their choices and don't put slop everywhere under their noses. If you do so, no one will complain any longer. But I bet, that claim of "respect" is a one way ticket...

I am not going to dissect that drivel, but what part of

What's NOT fair game is review-bombing a game that isn't even using AI,

is so hard to understand, really? All of it?

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Quoting: SirMCJeagerThat wasn't appropriate. Review bombing a perfectly good game like that over a contest. I wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.

Right?

It's perfectly fine to be against AI. But these people behave like a vicious lynch mob who go after anyone who disagrees with them. I lost respect for the anti-AI crowd a while ago, when vitriol and hate took the place of logic and reason.

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Am I the only one who thought Solo wasn't THAT bad? But yeah, in general, movies don't seem to care about writing anymore. There aren't many still being made with a compelling plot and characters that aren't flat as cardboard. Not only Disney. From that perspective, no need to be afraid of AI. It can't possibly be worse.

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Bold statement. Even pro-AI people don't claim that it has a soul... 😄

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Quoting: MakiNote that both vulnerabilities are for a local user to gain root access.

They're being blown up out of proportion, if you ask me. And I'm not happy at all about the tools used to find them or the methods to reveal them before a patch could be written and distributed.

I would caution against calling this "out of proportion". I think people wrongly assume that a "local" user has be at your keyboard to do damage. This is NOT the case. Everything you run is a "local" user, namely the account you typically work with. In this world of dependency hell, all it takes is a supply-chain attack. Someone could easily sneak some code into something you download and execute with your local privileges, and boom, you're toast.

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That "feature" was a dealbreaker for me, so I am glad to see it made optional. Not sure if I buy the game, still. I always suspected that said feature was invented only to have an excuse for making Civ VII in the first place. Without it, is it really that much different from VI?

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