Quoting: scaineThere are plenty of indies out there that would probably benefit from a pro like Gordon, but can they pay? I have no idea of the costs involved in freelance porting work like this. I'd say that Gordon's best bet is to leverage an outfit like Humble to hook him up with the indies that have a project they can use him on, and publicise his fees up front.

Would love to see him getting involved in some of the smaller indies with the bigger titles - Subnautica, Scrap Mechanic, A Hat in Time, They Are Billions or The Solus Project.

The idea is to let his patreons pay for the porting, so what he is saying that he will port your game for free if you let him (and you are a game publisher/developer).

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Makes sense. The people who are offended should instead utilize the Store Content Preferences and untick these two:

VIOLENT & SEXUAL CONTENT
Include products in my store that contain the following types of content:

• 
  Show products with frequent violence or gory content
  Applies to products frequently tagged as 'violent' or 'gore'. You may still see some of these products if they have not been labeled properly or if you specifically search for the title.
  


• 
  Show products with frequent nudity or sexual content
  Applies to products frequently tagged as 'nudity' or 'sexual content'. You may still see some products with this content for the following reasons: (1) If the sexual content or nudity is only a small portion of the product, (2) if the products have not been labeled properly, or (3) if you specifically search for the title.
  

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Quoting: F.UltraStill sad that still in 2018 things get's completely wiped on firmware updates. Wouldn't it be nice if vendors of controllers, BIOS/UEFI, Smart TVs and so on would put the configuration on a separate memory location that didn't get wiped.

Speaking of wiping things...

I was all happy, booted into Linux, launched Steam, which I thought pulled in the new version, but it doesn't auto-restart itself, so when I turned on the Steam Controller, nothing. Restarted Steam, it then said there was a firmware. Started the firmware update, but it said I had to plug it in.

Plugged it in and... my hard drive went away. Now I'm creating a LiveCD to fix my Debian install.... looks like grub got completely borked!

Hopefully my drive still has data on it... it literally started popping up a bunch of ext4 errors.. :(

I think this is one of the "don't confuse correlation with causation" situations. Unless it required you to be root I have a hard time seeing Steam being able to overwrite the MBR of your drive. Most likely is that there is some kind of problem with your drive that happened to show itself at that particular moment (perhaps the download of the firmware was the first time there where a write done on this particular partition for some time).

My theory is that it tried to mount the Steam Controller as a drive, and for some weird reason my BIOS decided that drive should be /dev/sdb (my Linux drive) because it acted exactly as if /dev/sdb had been unplugged. I ended up updating my bios there was a fairly recent update) and then doing the update again and it worked fine.

The thing is, clearly Steam doesn't have to be root to write the firmware to Steam Controller, it also doesn't have to be root if you have Linux set up to be able to mount USB devices automatically, which almost all desktop OS's are set up that way.

To be fair, it never actually got to the 'update firmware' stage, it gave an error that I needed to plug it in, I plugged it in, the dialog disappeared as did my system.. .for a time. Besides having to run grub-install /dev/sda and update-grub (after I got back into Debian to add Windows back to the boot loader).

So your hard drive was connected over USB? Well that might explain it then.

No, it is over SATA. I do have to point out that these two SATA drives I have do have a weird issue with randomly disappearing off the bus, causing the OS to crash, but this is the first time it has happened to my Linux drive (the other one has Windows 10 on it and has done it a few times.)

I think it is time for a reinstall of Debian Sid anyhow, something funky is going on, since it won't read Audio CDs, yet my Arch Linux install on another drive woks perfectly fine.

Sounds like the issue is more likely connected to your "randomly disappearing off the bus" then. An application needs to be root in order to write to the block level of any device, that you can upgrade the firmware of the SC without beeing root is due to it performing firmware updates as either normal file transfer or with their own protocol on top of USB/BT.

Except that some auto-mounting stuff happens when you plug in a USB Stick. While yes, ultimately root access is required for all the udev bits and pieces for that to work, that means access is there for when installing a new USB device, because that can load new kernel modules.

It's not entirely a random thing if it happened the exact moment I plugged in the controller. Who knows. Every time something similar has happened to me, it's always been caused by these two Mushkin SSDs. Let's just say next time I get SSDs for my system, I won't be buying them from Mushkin.

Edit: Model number is MKNSSDCR480GB-7 in case anyone else wishes to avoid them.

For mounting the drives yes, but that will still not give you the low-level access that an application needs in order to do block-level writes such as writing to the MBR. All a non root application can do with a mount is to transfer a file using the filesystem, and to be honest I don't believe that Steam have code in it to do low-level sector by sector writes either.

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Anyone that knows what have happened to the PadokaPPA? The stable one have not had any new builds for 4 weeks now and is stuck on 18.0.1 which breaks e.g Dying Light.

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Quoting: WarpigI use video games as an escape from the dark realities for which we are living. I love playing video games and what drove to the linux platform was the openness of the platform and the intelligent community that gladly helps one another. I didn't mean to spoil everyone's good time but I believe Valve is getting ahead of a wave of bad news for pedophiles. There are millions of people waking up to this dark reality just like me all around the globe. As I said given the extensive research I've done on the topic it makes total sense to me why valve is cleaning up its act. Peace.

Can't you please also include Satanists, Freemasons and Bilderbergers into your theory somehow? It could also use a healthy does of chemtrails, anti-GMO/anti-Vaccine statements and how we should all use colloidal silver from Info Wars in order to survive the coming holocaust.

More seriously, now I don't know your age so sorry if I assume to much here but it sounds like you are too young to remember when the exact same wild panics where spread in the 80:ties about Satanists sexually abusing and killing infants all over the world with connections up to the highest level of government.

Here in Sweden we had a professor in sociology at the department for genus research "Eva Lundgren" who claimed that "There exists a large number of satanical groups in Sweden that murder children in the woods and bury them. In some cases the men rip the foetuses out of the womb in order to kill them. Half of all women have been exposed to male violence".

And this in a country (wich you who are not Swedish might not know) where we have extremely good account of every pregnancy, child birth and death. Yes you can hide away in a small cabin for 9+ months but it would require quite some hard work to escape the authorities.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: slaapliedje

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: F.UltraStill sad that still in 2018 things get's completely wiped on firmware updates. Wouldn't it be nice if vendors of controllers, BIOS/UEFI, Smart TVs and so on would put the configuration on a separate memory location that didn't get wiped.

Speaking of wiping things...

I was all happy, booted into Linux, launched Steam, which I thought pulled in the new version, but it doesn't auto-restart itself, so when I turned on the Steam Controller, nothing. Restarted Steam, it then said there was a firmware. Started the firmware update, but it said I had to plug it in.

Plugged it in and... my hard drive went away. Now I'm creating a LiveCD to fix my Debian install.... looks like grub got completely borked!

Hopefully my drive still has data on it... it literally started popping up a bunch of ext4 errors.. :(

I think this is one of the "don't confuse correlation with causation" situations. Unless it required you to be root I have a hard time seeing Steam being able to overwrite the MBR of your drive. Most likely is that there is some kind of problem with your drive that happened to show itself at that particular moment (perhaps the download of the firmware was the first time there where a write done on this particular partition for some time).

My theory is that it tried to mount the Steam Controller as a drive, and for some weird reason my BIOS decided that drive should be /dev/sdb (my Linux drive) because it acted exactly as if /dev/sdb had been unplugged. I ended up updating my bios there was a fairly recent update) and then doing the update again and it worked fine.

The thing is, clearly Steam doesn't have to be root to write the firmware to Steam Controller, it also doesn't have to be root if you have Linux set up to be able to mount USB devices automatically, which almost all desktop OS's are set up that way.

To be fair, it never actually got to the 'update firmware' stage, it gave an error that I needed to plug it in, I plugged it in, the dialog disappeared as did my system.. .for a time. Besides having to run grub-install /dev/sda and update-grub (after I got back into Debian to add Windows back to the boot loader).

So your hard drive was connected over USB? Well that might explain it then.

No, it is over SATA. I do have to point out that these two SATA drives I have do have a weird issue with randomly disappearing off the bus, causing the OS to crash, but this is the first time it has happened to my Linux drive (the other one has Windows 10 on it and has done it a few times.)

I think it is time for a reinstall of Debian Sid anyhow, something funky is going on, since it won't read Audio CDs, yet my Arch Linux install on another drive woks perfectly fine.

Sounds like the issue is more likely connected to your "randomly disappearing off the bus" then. An application needs to be root in order to write to the block level of any device, that you can upgrade the firmware of the SC without beeing root is due to it performing firmware updates as either normal file transfer or with their own protocol on top of USB/BT.

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Quoting: tonRIt's parents duty to shield our children from explict contents. And it's weird when sexual contents being censored, but violence being 'promoted extensively'.

For me, the best 'parent lock' is when parents sit beside their children when they using any devices.

The problem here is that "it's the parents duty to shield our children from explicit contents" that is at play here. By organising into groups that demand that places like Steam remove content such as this they are in essence shielding their children from explicit contents.

As a parent of two children I feel no need to shield my children from any explicit materials except maybe religions since that have caused far more harm than games of a sexual or violent nature.

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Interesting indeed. However feel bad for the antagonist who skipped leg day, no one ever told him?

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: F.UltraStill sad that still in 2018 things get's completely wiped on firmware updates. Wouldn't it be nice if vendors of controllers, BIOS/UEFI, Smart TVs and so on would put the configuration on a separate memory location that didn't get wiped.

Speaking of wiping things...

I was all happy, booted into Linux, launched Steam, which I thought pulled in the new version, but it doesn't auto-restart itself, so when I turned on the Steam Controller, nothing. Restarted Steam, it then said there was a firmware. Started the firmware update, but it said I had to plug it in.

Plugged it in and... my hard drive went away. Now I'm creating a LiveCD to fix my Debian install.... looks like grub got completely borked!

Hopefully my drive still has data on it... it literally started popping up a bunch of ext4 errors.. :(

I think this is one of the "don't confuse correlation with causation" situations. Unless it required you to be root I have a hard time seeing Steam being able to overwrite the MBR of your drive. Most likely is that there is some kind of problem with your drive that happened to show itself at that particular moment (perhaps the download of the firmware was the first time there where a write done on this particular partition for some time).

My theory is that it tried to mount the Steam Controller as a drive, and for some weird reason my BIOS decided that drive should be /dev/sdb (my Linux drive) because it acted exactly as if /dev/sdb had been unplugged. I ended up updating my bios there was a fairly recent update) and then doing the update again and it worked fine.

The thing is, clearly Steam doesn't have to be root to write the firmware to Steam Controller, it also doesn't have to be root if you have Linux set up to be able to mount USB devices automatically, which almost all desktop OS's are set up that way.

To be fair, it never actually got to the 'update firmware' stage, it gave an error that I needed to plug it in, I plugged it in, the dialog disappeared as did my system.. .for a time. Besides having to run grub-install /dev/sda and update-grub (after I got back into Debian to add Windows back to the boot loader).

So your hard drive was connected over USB? Well that might explain it then.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: F.UltraStill sad that still in 2018 things get's completely wiped on firmware updates. Wouldn't it be nice if vendors of controllers, BIOS/UEFI, Smart TVs and so on would put the configuration on a separate memory location that didn't get wiped.

Speaking of wiping things...

I was all happy, booted into Linux, launched Steam, which I thought pulled in the new version, but it doesn't auto-restart itself, so when I turned on the Steam Controller, nothing. Restarted Steam, it then said there was a firmware. Started the firmware update, but it said I had to plug it in.

Plugged it in and... my hard drive went away. Now I'm creating a LiveCD to fix my Debian install.... looks like grub got completely borked!

Hopefully my drive still has data on it... it literally started popping up a bunch of ext4 errors.. :(

I think this is one of the "don't confuse correlation with causation" situations. Unless it required you to be root I have a hard time seeing Steam being able to overwrite the MBR of your drive. Most likely is that there is some kind of problem with your drive that happened to show itself at that particular moment (perhaps the download of the firmware was the first time there where a write done on this particular partition for some time).

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