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Cautiously hyped for Light No Fire from the No Man's Sky team at Hello Games
8 Dec 2023 at 3:16 pm UTC Likes: 3
-- but yeah, NMS *without* the space exploration doesn't pique my interest either.
And as to the underdelivery of the original release of NMS: I'm pretty sure they had some kind of deal with Sony that hindered them from releasing the game labeled clearly as 'early access' -- because that's what it was, in the most honest usage of that term; but because the disclaimer was missing, people thought they were sold a lie, hence the backlash, and the bout of silence that followed the release.
So they didn't sell a lie, and *then* go on to fix it.
8 Dec 2023 at 3:16 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: ExpandingManAs a big fan of sci-fi and space this mostly just bums me out. As great as NMS has become, it still leaves much to be desired (ships could be way more interesting, ironically the procedural gen on most stuff is lackluster). Doing basically the same thing but minus all the cool stuff like spaceships and guns but with magic and dragons seems incredibly lame, especially since it's been absolutely done to death.The imagery (including the logo that shows up at the end) is pretty suggestive, IMHO, that this world is some kind of 'Atlas simulation' as well.
-- but yeah, NMS *without* the space exploration doesn't pique my interest either.
And as to the underdelivery of the original release of NMS: I'm pretty sure they had some kind of deal with Sony that hindered them from releasing the game labeled clearly as 'early access' -- because that's what it was, in the most honest usage of that term; but because the disclaimer was missing, people thought they were sold a lie, hence the backlash, and the bout of silence that followed the release.
So they didn't sell a lie, and *then* go on to fix it.
Xorg is dead, long live Wayland - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) dropping Xorg
7 Dec 2023 at 6:24 pm UTC Likes: 4
7 Dec 2023 at 6:24 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: AdutchmanIn 204, screens were 480p, screensharing did not exist, security was not really a designconsideration, VR was still science fiction and Linux desktop Linux was still very obscure.It's absolutely true that in 204, security wasn't really a design consideration -- and where did that leave us? Goths, Vandals, the Alamanni, and the Sassanids poured into the empire from all points of the compass. Wax tablets being limited to 480p was the least of our concerns back then.
Grand Theft Auto VI trailer is live but no mention of a PC release yet
6 Dec 2023 at 12:26 am UTC
I liked the *far more primitive* one on Game Boy Advance (GTA Advance) better though; on an emulator likewise. The only top-down GTA I actually played from start to finish.
6 Dec 2023 at 12:26 am UTC
Quoting: BlackBloodRumYeah I played that one on a PSP emulator.Quoting: Mountain ManThe Nintendo DS exclusive China Town Wars remains my all time favourite Grand Theft Auto. I keep hoping for an HD remaster, or remake, or even better, a sequel.DS Exclusive? This one was also available on PSP, iPhone and Android. :huh:
I liked the *far more primitive* one on Game Boy Advance (GTA Advance) better though; on an emulator likewise. The only top-down GTA I actually played from start to finish.
Grand Theft Auto VI trailer is live but no mention of a PC release yet
5 Dec 2023 at 5:46 pm UTC Likes: 2
5 Dec 2023 at 5:46 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: whizseYeah yeah lightning... What about their willy physics!?They did that way back in 2008 or so, in the expansions for GTA IV.
Grand Theft Auto VI trailer is live but no mention of a PC release yet
5 Dec 2023 at 3:26 pm UTC Likes: 2
Having sunk more hours into Vice City than any other GTA, I have to say that seeing the new Ocean Drive almost brings a tear to my eye.
5 Dec 2023 at 3:26 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: EhvisSome very impressive lighting going on in that trailer.Yeah, they're absolutely showcasing the lighting.
Having sunk more hours into Vice City than any other GTA, I have to say that seeing the new Ocean Drive almost brings a tear to my eye.
Xorg is dead, long live Wayland - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) dropping Xorg
29 Nov 2023 at 6:42 pm UTC Likes: 3
29 Nov 2023 at 6:42 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: whizseX11 was of course in contrast to Wayland loved by all and never faced any criticism.Dennis Ritchie's 'anti-foreword' to that book is hilarious. In fact, I'll just quote the whole thing:
If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that.This is what happens when software with good intentions goes bad. It victimizes innocent users by distorting their perception of what is and what is not good software. This malignant window system must be destroyed.Oh, wait, maybe not. [External Link]
Quoting: dennisritchieFrom: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 00:38:07 EST
Subject: anti-foreword
To the contributers to this book:
I have succumbed to the temptation you offered in your preface: I do
write you off as envious malcontents and romantic keepers of memories. The systems you remember so fondly (TOPS-20, ITS, Multics,
Lisp Machine, Cedar/Mesa, the Dorado) are not just out to pasture,
they are fertilizing it from below.
Your judgments are not keen, they are intoxicated by metaphor. In
the Preface you suffer first from heat, lice, and malnourishment, then
become prisoners in a Gulag. In Chapter 1 you are in turn infected by
a virus, racked by drug addiction, and addled by puffiness of the
genome.
Yet your prison without coherent design continues to imprison you.
How can this be, if it has no strong places? The rational prisoner
exploits the weak places, creates order from chaos: instead, collectives like the FSF vindicate their jailers by building cells almost com-
patible with the existing ones, albeit with more features. The
journalist with three undergraduate degrees from MIT, the researcher
at Microsoft, and the senior scientist at Apple might volunteer a few
words about the regulations of the prisons to which they have been
transferred.
Your sense of the possible is in no sense pure: sometimes you want
the same thing you have, but wish you had done it yourselves; other
times you want something different, but can't seem to get people to
use it; sometimes one wonders why you just don't shut up and tell
people to buy a PC with Windows or a Mac. No Gulag or lice, just a
future whose intellectual tone and interaction style is set by Sonic the
Hedgehog. You claim to seek progress, but you succeed mainly in
whining.
Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite
observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains
enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But
it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.
Bon appetit!
Xorg is dead, long live Wayland - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) dropping Xorg
28 Nov 2023 at 2:40 pm UTC
28 Nov 2023 at 2:40 pm UTC
Quoting: sharkcheeseSo things will be rough for a while. Change is hard.-- unless the organization that has a RHEL subscription is at liberty to use the EPEL repos (which they might not be); it's not like RHEL is erasing the xorg server from the internet altogether.
Xorg is dead, long live Wayland - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) dropping Xorg
28 Nov 2023 at 2:27 pm UTC Likes: 1
*Otherwise* nvidia proprietary works fine *even with* wlroots nowadays (my experience is mostly limited to labwc though, which is the wlroots compositor that I'm most interested in); but this one issue is a total 'showstopper'.
28 Nov 2023 at 2:27 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: TactikalKittyI want to switch over to Wayland but there is a bug in the nVidia 545 driver that is causing my system to freeze after a wake from sleep/hibernate event. This forces me to hard reboot every time. This seems to be a specific issue pertaining to this particular driver version and Wayland as this problem is reproducible on other distributions. The nVidia 535 driver doesn't seem to have this problem. Unfortunately, OpenSuse Tumbleweed doesn't have the previous driver anymore.What's truly annoying, IMO, is that this bug comes and goes between driver releases.
*Otherwise* nvidia proprietary works fine *even with* wlroots nowadays (my experience is mostly limited to labwc though, which is the wlroots compositor that I'm most interested in); but this one issue is a total 'showstopper'.
Xorg is dead, long live Wayland - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) dropping Xorg
28 Nov 2023 at 2:20 pm UTC Likes: 2
28 Nov 2023 at 2:20 pm UTC Likes: 2
The only desktop environment in RHEL's own repos (baseos & appstream) is gnome anyway -- every other environment, including kde, is in EPEL ('Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux', community supported, through Fedora).
So I suppose this is just to say that the xorg server will also be available only through EPEL -- since xorg-gnome is pretty much already deprecated, it's entirely reasonable & expected that RHEL should do this.
... which notion, of course, won't quell the 'display server freedom' riots over at phoronix forums. I'm 100% sure there will be several who'll 'read' this announcement as someone 'pushing a button' at Microsoft headquarters to cripple their 'computing life', or whatever.
So I suppose this is just to say that the xorg server will also be available only through EPEL -- since xorg-gnome is pretty much already deprecated, it's entirely reasonable & expected that RHEL should do this.
... which notion, of course, won't quell the 'display server freedom' riots over at phoronix forums. I'm 100% sure there will be several who'll 'read' this announcement as someone 'pushing a button' at Microsoft headquarters to cripple their 'computing life', or whatever.
Steam Autumn Sale 2023 is live with huge savings
21 Nov 2023 at 10:11 pm UTC
21 Nov 2023 at 10:11 pm UTC
Quoting: Linux_Rocks... considering that it has replaced 'Games for Windows Live', rendering GTA IV at last *playable*, I even have a tiny bit of sympathy towards it ...Quoting: sonic2kk"Grand Theft Auto V" and "Red Dead Redemption 2" both contain the Rockstar Games Launcher and require a Rockstar Games Social Club account.The Rockstar Games Social Club account is something that I've personally got zero problem with. Cause it's used with the multiplayer in-game even on consoles. You can also link multiple platform accounts to it, and use it across the board on different platforms. I've had mine since before Red Dead Redemption on the 360.
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