I can remember when I first ordered Quake: the offering and the quake2: colossus (TM) from macmillan in a time that credit cards were very very uncommon here. I think that was 1999? (It was also the time that I got real internet instead of a dial up connection.) It probably set me back 300 euro (calculated to inflation).
Of course I already played doom using a osbox remote displayed on a dec visualimage 2000 color X terminal (That's a physical thing for the young uns: a complete system just dedicated to let you log in into servers providing you with an X11 session over 10base5).

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From the blog:

To that end, we designed Thelio Io, a daughter board that manages thermal and chassis control while also providing a storage backplane for the drives in Thelio.

Now that is good news.

Especially since companies like Supermicro has shut down the root access to their motherboard controllers, thanks to some people calling root access insecure.
It's now very insecure (like any motherboard controller that has closed down root shell support) because it is now impossible to restrict access with ssh key only and firewall anything.

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Quoting: GuestAn engineer from Raptor Computing Systems (POWER9 desktops) recently laid out the details of what it means to have a fully open platform.

Indeed, it is impossible to say open when talking about intel architecture.
Of course open exists: 386 line, I think that's about the last one.
So if anybody says a broadcom, qualcomm or samsung is not open, then let him list the ones that are open.
I think the softcores in fpga comes to mind :-).
In any other case it is a slider with multiple entries. On exynos certain things are not available without the right signatures (actually only HDCP comes to mind). On old arm architectures, the java bytecode engine required a signature to enable (it's now obsolete, and nobody used it anyway).
But the intel architecture these days have secondary or actually primary controllers running software that you can't control or have insight into. That's such a big difference between not being able to HDCP your HDMI vs not knowing what your CPU does. Not being able to use HDCP is in the order of buying a cheaper CPU which have a few cores fused to disabled.

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Quoting: TheRiddickGame has a intense fog of war happening, is a bit annoying really.

You mean Level of Detail, popup of items.
It is annoying, yes, very much.
But at the same level as I've seen in Subnautica.
I guess they use the same engines :-).

I actually love what people create with PN.
The steamworks is a great addition to the game.
Instead of just watching videos, you can now create monstrosities of vehicles yourself by using someone else's blueprint. And it really is integral part of the game: you scan in your design, and game select it for publishing.

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Quoting: stankalovichBenchmarking Nvidia and AMD cards in Proton should now be a more true level playing field.

I doubt it's gonna change anything. I also never had this issue that is supposed to be being fixed.

I've never even seen examples of it, so I'm not sure why they'd be doing it; what games is it supposed to fix?

GTA V for example.
And there are more games that use nvidia dll's, that needed to be winestubbed to make them work.
I think GTA III, IV, SA and IV EFLC needed stubbing on an nvidia, as they worked almost directly on non nvidia.

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Quoting: Scoopta

Quoting: loggeHaha, now Nvidia gets their parts of being closed-source only! What a day!

I'm not sure what exactly you were trying to say but it sounds sort of like a dig on Nvidia yet you have an nvidia card?

He has a core i7-920, that's 2009 calling.
And an nvidia gtx 1060? How would that work?
@logge: I really want to know, because I have an 920 too. Still with 6GB, but the CPU seems faster than the i5 in my steam machine (with unfortunately an Nvidia card).
I wonder if an R9-270 would be able to run new drivers.

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I would really love Valve to make cloud streaming possible for users doing it themselves...
In the end cloud streaming suffers from latency, so I won't be really paying anybody for renting games.
Not all games suffer that much from latency though, and I even succeeded playing a mission in Saints Row 3 on a GPD WIN with about 1..3FPS (winning from a bunch of zombies).
So I want to be able to do it, my way, on hardware I have available (or rent).

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Will it work with systemd or sysv? :D

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Someone should make a VR build of that!
I wonder if bundle and put on steam (for free, depending on unity licensing) is allowed.

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Quoting: bubexelYes, ppl should know that world is full of haters, and they will hate you and your game. Doesn't matter what you do, its a fact. The best way is just to ignore those haters.

But it is hard. Especially when the hater targets you. This world of fully connected everybody, and everybody free to hate on others "freedom of speech", it's bad.
Either we should be taught at school to do less hating, or we should be taught at school to cope with haters on social media. I opt for both.
For my generation there is just no hope, we have to hide on social media just to prevent getting hated on.

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