Quoting: syylkIsn't the web version good enough? What critical feature I'm missing by not using a local app (which is probably just the same code wrapped in a local web client)?

I keep so many tabs open at all times, when I need to close Firefox to run a more resource-intensive game I like having Discord as a separate program. But other than that, I’ve wondered the same.

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Quoting: Serious_TableWe're not seriously going out of our way, on a Linux-specialized news site, to try and protect the honor of a DRM vendor that can lock you out of playing your game by changing your Proton version, are we? Because that's what it looks like.

Personally I’m here for truthful news, not made up ammunition for baseless prejudice. If I’m going to hate Denuvo, let it be for what it actually is, not exaggerations and false claims.

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Quoting: scaineIt doesn't mention opt-in or opt-out at all, only saying that in future we'll see AI features land in Ubuntu as snaps. It doesn't talk about "easy to shut off" or even that this is optional, only that they're snaps, which might infer as much.

Even going only by the parts Liam quoted, they did say that AI-centric features would be there "for those who want them", so it was obvious that there has to be either opt-in or opt-out. I will grant you that this specific quote isn’t entirely clear regarding whether that also applies to AI-based improvements of existing features.

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Because of the size of most LLMs, we simply couldn’t ship them in the installer anyway, so opting out at first run is simple: they just won’t be there.

I was also thinking this yesterday. Especially if they’re going to support any language other than English, including the models in the installer directly would create a huge amount of bloat. It wouldn’t have made any sense for it to be opt-out.

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I’m still surprised to see so many open source/libre developers and companies on the nazi social network after everything that’s happened. It’s not a good look.

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Quoting: Cat_fanIMO there are only three features using LLM which should be installed by default (on a desktop setup): LLM based text-to-speech, LLM based speech-to-text/voice commands and image description tied to tts.

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Because they are accessibility features.

While I will readily admit that these tools can be useful, including them by default might induce a false sense in both developers and users that those accessibility needs have been taken care of, while in reality entrusting them to LLMs leads to countless errors that can mislead users in ways that they may not be able to discern. I often turn on subtitles when watching videos in English where the audio isn’t great or the accents are tougher for me to interpret, and the number of times I see sentences being misattributed, proper names being turned into other words or just plain misheard words changing the meaning of utterances—even in captions made by humans—is seriously worrying. I have the ability to hear what’s being said and notice the errors, but not everyone does.

If someone chooses to install a similar tool, they probably understand its limitations, and quality control is on them. But if it’s provided by the OS, how clear does the OS make it that results are unreliable, and what ways does the user have to mitigate it? And does it come at the cost of implementing actual, reliable accessibility content descriptions?

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I played Alabaster’s Dawn demo a few months ago, it had a lovely style and the gameplay seemed on the right track.

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse looks fantastic art-wise. I could tell immediately it was made by a French studio. It’s giving a mix of Dead Cells and Blasphemous vibes. Unfortunately, it also looks like the kind of game I would be terrible at :P

Temtem: Pioneers looks like Nintendo’s next victim...

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Quoting: kaiman

Quoting: SalvatosWait, they support Icewind Dale 2 even though Beamdog said they couldn't make an Enhanced Edition for it? Huh!

From what I heard, the source code / assets of IWD2 were lost, and the EEs Beamdog did were all based on the original stuff.
GemRB on the other hand is a rewrite from scratch, so they never had the original code for any of the games to begin with.

That’s what I remember too. Crazy amount of work that must have gone into supporting all of those games. I get depressed when I have to refactor a sub-1000-lines script of my own, I can’t begin to imagine this.

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Wait, they support Icewind Dale 2 even though Beamdog said they couldn't make an Enhanced Edition for it? Huh!

> Multiplayer is not supported.
Aw, there go my hopes and dreams.

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Quoting: CaldathrasYou are assuming that most people even care or know what operating system is on the device.

You’re putting words in my mouth. What I’m assuming is that if their devices annoy them, they will complain to vendors, and the vendors will lobby against the law when the customer service it requires or the bad press it generates become too much of a burden/liability.

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