Quoting: Eike

Quoting: F.UltraBecause it's much easier to only change your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years.

Not sure about that. You shouldn't sink too deep in the mud...

I am a developer of enterprise software so yes this is exactly how at least that part of the industry works and thinks. Not sure what mud you talk about, I have build environments that work for CentOS 4 still due to customer demand :)

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo, as someone who knows diddly about programming I gleaned two main things from that post.
1: Gnome is annoying for developers

QuoteFactorio does not need to provide decorations on any other platform, nay, on any other desktop environment, but GNOME can (ab)use its popularity to force programs to conform to its idiosyncrasies or be left behind.

2: Open source is great

QuoteI was hoping to utilize SDL's built-in clipboard functionality, but unfortunately SDL does not support incremental transfers. This means there are three options:

--Continue linking against X11, requiring users to install X11 on their system to be able to run the game (I don't want to mess with static linking).
--Figure out how to do runtime linking and implement that.
--Upstream our incremental transfers code into SDL so we can leverage SDL's clipboard functions and other SDL-based games can benefit from our work.
As you might guess, I chose the third option. The work to upstream our code is ongoing but should be done in time for Factorio 2.0's release.

#2 is exactly why I do and came to love open source, to be able to actually engage with your underlying dependencies as a developer was as being blessed to the halls of Valhalla after having been used to closed source libs where it was just "take it or leave it".

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAfter upgrading to 22.04 from 20.04, I can not take screenshots anymore with the keyboard.. And that is an usefull feature for me.

Can you screencap with 24.04?

shift+prtsc works for me in 23.10, perhaps check that the shortcut haven't accidentally been changed?

Quoting: WayneJetSki

Quoting: CalinouEvery Ubuntu LTS release feels special, since it's often treated as the baseline for shipping apps that are portable across distributions. Of course, the oldest still-supported Ubuntu LTS is usually the one developers are targeting (currently 20.04), but in a few years from now, this will be Ubuntu 24.04.

While I don't use Ubuntu anymore, it's still a distro I appreciate for this reason.

I am surprised devs would not be targeting 22.04 instead of 20.04. It is already 2 years old and I would imagine most users have upgraded to 22.04 by this point.

Because it's much easier to only change your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years.

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Quoting: Nevu_

Quoting: BoldosHappy Ubuntu user for more that a decade here
For both business (Ubuntu being my main daily workload driver) and pleasure (anything non-job related, incl. gaming of course).

I just cannot wait to get migrated to the new 24.04 LTS

How are you liking Ubuntu these days? Been thinking of making it my main distro after all these years despite the community saying Mint and Pop are just better. I don't know - Ubuntu feels comfy and I enjoy their default GNOME setup. But some will have you believe that Ubuntu is worse than Microsoft due to past mishaps and the current snap packaging system.

People often writes the most insane things and makes mountains out of molehills. While I personally would like everything to still be a DEB or RPM there really isn't much difference for an end user if a package is a Snap or not, that question is completely blown out of the water. Yes initially Snaps took a long time to load, but in 20.04 that changed and e.g Firefox loads under a second for me.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Quoting: TheRiddickBe a great day once NVIDIA gets [..] properly balanced HDR (is desaturated and wrong exposure atm).

Is HDR even available at all? As far as I know, KDE only offers a partially-implemented version of HDR on their Wayland session.

gamescope

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Quoting: nenoro

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: nenoroWell back to Gzip or use ZSTD when i compile the kernel then

Does this mean every package ending with tar.xz have risks ?

No, the infection happens when xz itself in installed, not when you open xz files. So the danger is the presence of the compromised version of libxz on your system in combination with the usage of ssh.

oh okay, well i don't use ssh anymore it used to be easy before. Now too many command line to enter before i can finally log in

also it has to be sshd, aka the malicious libxz infects the OpenSSH server, not the client.

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Quoting: nenoroWell back to Gzip or use ZSTD when i compile the kernel then

Does this mean every package ending with tar.xz have risks ?

No, the infection happens when xz itself in installed, not when you open xz files. So the danger is the presence of the compromised version of libxz on your system in combination with the usage of ssh.

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Quoting: kerossin"previously received a DMCA notice"

But was it an actually legit DMCA? Does the project contain any copyrighted material?

At the same time I actually doubt they would bother to properly check. They can't even be bothered to fix well known 5 year old bugs so they're probably not gonna do something for someone else when it also could go into legal matters.

There are basically no checks done on a DMCA. According to how the DMCA is written, a hosting site like GitLab have to take the property down when they receive a DMCA notice, then the people targetted by the DMCA (aka suyu) have to either accept it OR they have to tell GitLab that they believe that the DMCA is filed in error at which point GitLab is forced to bring the property back online but this then allows the part that issued the DMCA (aka Nintendo) to file a civil lawsuit against suyu so you would only counter a DMCA claim if you either think that #1 the DMCA really is invalid or #2 that who ever filed the DMCA is faking it and don't want to open an actual civil lawsuit.

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Quoting: FremenI am not privy to internal Swedish politics to tell you exactly.

So in other words you are just shitposting. Well that tells me everything I need to know and that will be the end of my engagement here since there are no reason to argue with bad faith trolls.

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Quoting: Alm888

Quoting: F.UltraSo let me get this straight, Embracer themselves and all media is lying for some unknown nefarious reason?

Like that is something new to them…

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Lying? Yes, absolutely. "Nefarious"? Not at all! Just protecting Public Image by trying to mask their nearly catastrophic financial state. You know, Shareholders won't be pleased if PLAION's stock market value plummets.

Quoting: F.UltraAlso not entirely sure why you are conflating layoffs with finding buyers for valuable assets that you suddenly have to sell off? Remeber that Saber was a founding member of Embracer so this is not something that they really wanted to do.

They need cash. Embracer has purchased a lot of dead gamedev studios in order to make an impression of a really big company. They are broke. Most of the dead weight they've got can not be re-sold in a timely manner. These studios are the only ones Embracer could find a buyer for.

So Embracer being in need of cash decides to (instead of making a normal announcement about it like they have done the entire time during their restructuring) go in conspiracy with the entire media landscape of Sweden including the public broadcast company that did the discovery of their Russian properties and the fact that the CEO of Embracer leases out property to the Swedish defence industry?

I think that you should stop seeing conspiracies everywhere and just accept the fact that a company that brought a studio that have resources in Russia indeed have resources in Russia. I mean is is as simply as it can get and yet you believe that there is a huge conspiracy here involving hundreds of journalists...

edit: sorry about a very late edit, but there are some important details about Crystal vs the rest that has been missing this entire time and that really changes this.

The Dark Crystal Games case is also very different in that they came to Embracer via the aquision of EIDOS and was/is an entity that Embracer controls in full.

The russian assets that came in via Saber however is different, from the pressrelease when Embracer aquired Saber it is made clear that Saber was to remain as an independent entity inside Embracer with full autonomy. This means that Embracer could not get rid of those assets themselves, they had to ask Saber to do it, and for reasons that we don't know, Saber said no. So the only way forward for Embracer was to sell of Saber, there simply was no other possible way.

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