Not too fond of the micro-transaction style currency, but the rest is fine.

It's kinda funny thinking of how hard people bitched about DLC and still do (like when they're bashing Paradox games just of having DLCs). DLC typically is both optional and a one-time purchase, in other words: open and transparent. I miss the days when it was JUST DLC. Now we're getting all these shady business practices like obfuscated micro-transaction currencies, lootboxes and my new personal favorite: Gatcha. I wonder if that's truly better...

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Seems like a skip to me. If there is something like "my cup of tea", things like Ghostrunner are probably the farthest away from it. :D

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Quoting: cameronboschIf you want something like Linux Mint but with KDE Plasma I'd go with Tuxedo OS for now, as all of the other distros I'd recommend using KDE Plasma with are rolling releases (for example, EndeavourOS or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed).

While I have used many distros over time, I have no experience with TuxedoOS. On their website they mention their kernel being optimized for their own hardware. Not sure what exact kind of optimizations they did, but is it safe to assume that this won't make the kernel perform less well on non-Tuxedo hardware?

And yea, rolling releases are not my thing, really. I know some people love them, but I don't want to flush new software on my system that might nor might not play well with what's already there. Also, supply chain attacks are a bigger problem for rolling releases, and I can do without that, too.

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Happy b-day! :)

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That's a good move! I so disliked how they based their current mod manager on the work of a person who clearly didn't care about any platform other than Windows.

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Quoting: StalePopcornI believe it was John Carmack (id Software) who stated years ago that if it's just about making money, only Windows matters. Considering around 75% of Windows-only games can be run on Linux, I'm perfectly happy being on the Linux side of things. 👍🏼

Only 75%? I thought the number was way higher, but I could be just me. I typically don't play games with intrusive anti-cheat, so I haven't really seen anything that doesn't run for me in a long while.

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I used Mint years ago before switching to Ubuntu. Funnily enough the only reason for me doing that was that I had new hardware back then not yet supported by Mint, but Ubuntu did. I am thinking of going back to it, as I am tired of surgically removing an increasing number of snaps with every new release. I really don't like snap.

Not sure I want to use Cinnamon again though, despite its their main selling point. In the meantime, KDE really grew on me, so I guess I need to find it how well Mint supports it...

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I wonder why a company with as much leverage as Microsoft even agrees to licensing like that. Why game studios that large don't insist on non-expiring per-project licensing is beyond me.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut in reality, as far as I can tell they're actually a technology that has been around for some time, which over many years was developed to the point where someone with seriously deep pockets felt it was worth putting the muscle in to get a really huge data set shoved into one. So rather than a disruptive newborn technology, it's more like a fairly mature technology which has now been brought to the full industrial scale.

Yes, and no. The math has been there for a while, true. But only now we have the serious computing power to actually train these models to the degree they're useful. Can't train GPT-4 on a cluster of 386s, I guess. ;)

They got what they got currently mainly by getting a bigger (data) hammer, and there aren't a lot of bigger hammers left to get, so I'm not convinced they'll go that much further.

I don't know about that? Looking at NVidia's AI chips, every new generation seems to be ridiculously more powerful than the last. I guess we will throw bigger hammers at the problem for a while longer, and we're already at a point where eliminating major issues with the tech is within reach. We will never be able to 100% eliminate hallucination, because that's not how the math works, but reducing it enough is sufficient. Humans hallucinate, too. The AI only needs to be as good as them, not perfect. We should be there soon enough.

I'm not saying they're bad technology. Really, they'd be pretty cool if weren't for all the relentless grift and hype and the likelihood that anything useful they do will be used by really rich people to make everyone else's lives worse. I just think they're a lot closer to a plateau in terms of their capabilities than a lot of people expect.

I keep reading papers on improvements and new approaches for existing tech on a daily basis. We're not even close to plateauing. And while I share your concern about AI being monopolized by Big Evil Tech, so far it hasn't happened. There are a lot of open source models around that can compete fairly ok with the closed-source cloud services.

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Let's be honest, anyone saying that AI won't kill jobs is either a blatant liar or really ignorant. Of course it will. It will kill a whole lot of jobs. And in all honesty, there is nothing wrong with it, as long as we find ways to transform our society to adapt to a "work is mostly optional" world and let go of the silly notion that people aren't valuable unless they earn an income.

About the less distant future: I think in 10 years, there will be two kinds of game studios. The ones that have adopted AI in their tool-chain, and the bankrupt ones. I cannot recall any instance in history where businesses thrived for overly long by refusing to adapt transformative technologies. And people should be very careful to dismiss AI as a hype because the current models produce buggy code or people with six fingers. They will not do that for too much longer.

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