From a performance perspective, I'm not hopeful for this one. The information here is kind of useless because it doesn't specify what upscaling they use and I only care about performance without upscaling.

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Quoting: JarmerI primarily use three devices, so here's what I use:

- linux desktop: Librewolf / Orion beta

Librewolf is a Firefox version, so still lives or dies by what happens to Mozilla. So I don't see that as much of a difference. And I'm not to familiar with the webkit politics. At the end of the day it is an Apple thing and I see Apple as a much bigger threat than Mozilla due to its size. You can argue webkit is open source, but so is chromium and shows the scars of its google dependency, so that doesn't mean much.

As you mentioned, ideally you'd want something that is truly independent and that can't be influenced by tech giants, but that's not realistic at this time. So for now a Mozilla dependency seems the least problematic, whether it is through Firefox or one of its custom builds.

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Quoting: JarmerI'm glad they added this, but for me: too little too late / the train has left the station / the horse is out of the barn / [insert saying here] ...... I'm never going to use FF again. Sorry mozilla :(

You can say that, but what then? I refuse to use a chrome(ium) based browser since those have shown to follow google. Other alternatives have their own issues. Besides, I think the settings have been in FF for a while because I turned all of it off the moment it appeared. I just needed to do it with about:config. So not sure if this change is more than just UI.

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Quoting: hardpenguinIf you are not hating on AI yet, you have a good reason to start now.

I don't hate "AI" as a tech. Machine learning/neural networks have had very good applications for decades since it is very effective in certain tasks. What I hate is the LLM/GenAI fueled hype machine that is created as a smokescreen over unrealistic promises of future potential. An attempt to try to bind as many people as they can before the house of cards collapses. Luckily this hard push is causing serious quality issues, which at least turns a significant portion of the public against it even beyond those wanting a new GPU or extra RAM.

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This is one I'm very likely to get. While I'm probably not the biggest player of StS, I've still managed a good number of hours in the game over the years. And I'm not too worried about EA for these devs. Plus, a nice native Linux version made with Godot as a bonus.

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Quoting: Mountain Man$150,000 seems too small of a penalty. They should have added another zero.

As far as I understood (which is very limited), this is just this step and this actually sets Valve up further action. So I'd expect much more in the future.

Not the smartest move to try and screw over a company that actually has the resources to fight back.

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Funny thing is that this is apparently not really that much of a change. Most of the functionality is already in Unity and it just requires tying a few things together. Which makes this statement primarily one for shareholders in an (apparently successful) attempt to raise the stock price.

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Wait, they put DRM into a two thousand year old game that was already released on GOG? That's really sad.

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Quoting: scaineb) Ray-tracing is utterly underwhelming in every video I've seen using it.

Of course it is. In many ways it's similar to AI. The core technology is great and has valid uses, but the way it is presented for consumer use is nothing short of a scam. If you've ever done global illumination in something like blender, you're well aware of how high samples/pixel count needs to be to generate something that looks presentable. These numbers are so far away from anything that can be done in realtime, that you know something fishy is going on. Nvidia calls it "de-noising", but in reality it means that they have to "guess" 99.9% of the data. So basically upscaling on steroids. So the price of getting slightly better global illumination is a ton of artefacts. Of course that last part is never mentioned because you can't sell GPUs with that.

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Quoting: hardpenguinHow about you disable them by default, Mozilla, and have people unleash AI at their own peril -_-

This is dumb. So dumb.

I would like to think the majority of users would want it all turned off. But honestly, I'd not be willing to stake anything significant on that being true.

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