One would hope that the "privacy" extends to achivements

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Guppyevery new teknologi that comes along encounters this, imagine if farm workers had the internet to voice their dismay on back when tractors first appeared:

"built on the backs of real farm workers!"
"Look at all the nicks and dings in those tractor harvested potatoes!"
etc..

Still the farm workers found other employment, and the world kept turning.

And yeah the "AI" is coming for my job too as a programmer - it will either be a miserable failure or I'll find other employment. The world will keep on spinning. ;)

Believe it or not, the whole mechanized agriculture model is still controversial. Lot of juries are out about the net impact there, which is still creating slums, eroding soil, destroying rural communities and associated with overuse of chemicals to this day.
So that's not necessarily a reassuring analogy.

I'm sure mechanized farming has it's issues, as do cars (personal injuries, environmental impact, ...).

But be that as it may, that's not what I'm talking about - I'm talking about technology displacing workers, and said workers being upset about it.

From my point of view, most use cases currently is for art "AI" is for projects that would never exist if not for the technology. If at any point it stops being horribly bad it may cost some ( or even most ) artists their livelihood, and it will be inconvenient for them to find another income source - but they will.

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every new teknologi that comes along encounters this, imagine if farm workers had the internet to voice their dismay on back when tractors first appeared:

"built on the backs of real farm workers!"
"Look at all the nicks and dings in those tractor harvested potatoes!"
etc..

Still the farm workers found other employment, and the world kept turning.

And yeah the "AI" is coming for my job too as a programmer - it will either be a miserable failure or I'll find other employment. The world will keep on spinning. ;)

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what does enabling nvapi for BG3 do exactly?

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Quoting: rgvilla1981Blasphemous. Great game to play on deck. Plus it is linux native.

While it does seem to be given the 'first class citizen' treatment in terms of support it really isn't navtive, it runs through proton ( valves 'tuned' wine branch )

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Quoting: nwildner[...]
My current Laptop does not have the BIOS option to set the dGPU only, but I know Lenovo Legion allows it.

The part that I disagree is with the fact that dGPUs don't scale down power on laptops and that is untrue. Here are some tests with optimus-manager set to "Nvidia"(power cord plugged)
[...]

With Legion 5 pro the only way to actually make it work ( for me atleast ) is to run it with with dGPU only, any other configuration results in black screens :|

And atleast with ubuntu 20.2 there is no way to enable nvidia-powerd so I'm stuck at max 80W of the 130W the card can provide :| (*)

Linux has come a long way in terms of ease of use in the last 30 years, but laptops gfx and wifi is one of the areas that is still kinda of ifffy


Edit:
*) immediately after posting this I thought of something and found a way to make it work -ish. It now has a max power draw of 115W, which IIRC is below what it should be able to do - but it's (hopefully) better performance than 80W

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Quoting: GuestI wish they'd fix the coop companion staying in your party and taking up a slot without the ability to change him out.

Good news - patch two supposedly has this now :)

Won't know if it actually works for a bit as I'm not the one hosting our multiplayer play through :)

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In act3 currently having a blast tbh must've sunk 100+ hours into the game :D

Outside of inventory mangement and the absolutely horrible camera, my main gripe so far is that every cutscene plays at ~12 fps :|

I been thinking about trying a different rendering engine, what's the launch parameter for dx? you can use --vulcan for the vulcan one but I've not been able to find one for dx? and vulcan is the default on Linux I think ( well hope, or I've been sitting there waiting for it to constantly recompile the vulcan shaders for no good reason xD )

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yeah ran into this exact issue with Baldur's gate 3 - ended up solving it the same way after hours of frustrating trial and error

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Finally got past the dotnetdesktop6 encounter, the need to constantly swap between various "proton" swords to get past it was quite tricky, so here is a strategy guide for those who get stuck on it aswell.

• Optional step: delete Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1086940 to make sure you are starting fresh (new game)


• Reboot to make sure you purged all protons from previous attempts (quickload)


• Arm your self with proton 7.0-6


• Press play (start enconter)


• the dotnet and DX bosses fall before the migth of Proton 7.0-6


• Wait for the 20 minute cut scene "Compiling vulcan shaders"


• Hit "X STOP" when you get to the 'running' phase - cause clearly this is nonsense and nobody is running


• Arm you self with proton experimental


• Repeat step 2 (quickload) - seems counter intuitive but trust me


• Press play (start encounter)

And that's it - simple and straighforward, no?

maybe I'll do a guide on the new encounter, though tbh the menu/new game bosses seems like push overs.


( yeah, yeah I'm a little loopy at this point, spendt half a day to get the game running and now I wont have any play time till tuesday evening )

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