I went for the Ryzen7 9800X3D at the tail end of last year and it was already more than I wanted to spend on a CPU! I didn't think any of the Ryzen9 chips were worth the money, tbh. God knows what this will cost when it lands!

I wish AMD would focus on GPUs. Now, more than ever, they could establish themselves competitively in the GPU market. With Nvidia prices being absolutely exorbitant, a half-way decently priced upgrade to the 9700XT would be well received by people like myself still rocking the 6800XT or even the 7900XTX.

It wouldn't even need 5090-like speeds! Who's gonna pay over 2 grand for one of those?? It just needs to be a decent upgrade on their current "flagship" model, which barely competes with the 5070.

Ah well. I can dream.

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This sounds absolutely incredible. If they've genuinely created intra-distro consistency, that's a HUGE win for Linux as a gaming platform. Now, Valve, what are you going to do about that shitty kernel-level-anticheat problem?

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I enjoyed my time in Starfield, but not sure I could stomach going back to it, at least not so soon. For me, it was all about the spaceship designer, and even that was often immensely frustrating because parts were so spread through the various systems.

This does sound pretty cool though, so maybe later in the year.

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Remember the wine-pun era? This is worse. 😅

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I love the idea of Manjaro - Arch, but with milestones (stable releases). It sounds like the power of Arch, but without the constant fear that every update will bring issues. And pamac - lovely. They've actually addressed one of the biggest issues (for me) of Arch.

But now that I'm on CachyOS with its built-in Snapper/BTRFS integration, I have that comfort anyway. If I do an update and my system has issues, I just reboot and choose the snapshot before the upgrade via Grub. Easy.

I still miss Pamac though. I haven't looked to see if it's portable to a generic Arch install.

I hope Manjaro get their organisational ducks in a row. It would be great to see what they could achieve without constantly having to fight internally with each other.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: BladePupperThe cards you get are used to play the actual game whereas the skins from say CS2 are basically only used to cash in and maybe pay for a steam game.

Agree with most of your post except this bit. MtG packs are not "necessary" to play the game. You buy the base pack and you're good to go.

That is . . . true in some sort of technical sense. But it has nothing to do with the actual experience of anyone playing Magic.

Yeah, I know. I spent hundreds of pounds building my various MtG decks back when it first launched. I just wanted to point out that technically (definitely technically) you don't need booster packs to play the game.

Now where's my Serra Angel...

https://www.cardmarket.com/en/Magic/Products/Singles/Alpha/Serra-Angel [External Link]

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Surprised that I played nearly ten hours of the first one. I remember enjoying it, but it looks like this was back in 2017, and I didn't have much of an online cadre of pals back then, so the lure wasn't really there.

Love the look of this. Definitely going on the wishlist!

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Quoting: BladePupperThe cards you get are used to play the actual game whereas the skins from say CS2 are basically only used to cash in and maybe pay for a steam game.

Agree with most of your post except this bit. MtG packs are not "necessary" to play the game. You buy the base pack and you're good to go. Then every pack you buy afterwards is a lottery. The only difference is that, yes, MtG cards influence play, while Valve's lootboxes tend to focus on cosmetics.

But I don't think that's actually relevant. It's still a loot box at the end of the day, so I think they're right to point it out.

Also, I don't think Valve was entirely positioning it as "they're doing it, so we can too", it was more just pointing out the inconsistency of how gambling laws are applied.

I didn't know about the Chinese law requiring odds to be displayed. That's awesome.

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Quoting: federico_cba

Quoting: scaine"I'm doing a thing people hate, so instead of not doing that, I'll continue to do it, but hide it better"

That's a bold position to take in any project, let alone a FOSS project. And just because he can use it in non-slop manner (maybe? hopefully?) it doesn't absolve him of the ethical concerns many of us have about genAI.

You can use in a non-slop way, carefully reviewing the generated code and making adjustments and refactors. Something that he can do as an experienced developer. It would be different if he was blindly accepting the AI generated code.

Here's a counterpoint that I found to be a really interesting read:

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/03/what-is-code-review-for.html [External Link]

But I do agree with you somewhat. If you're a truly excellent, experienced developer, then you might be able to use genAI in a non-slop way - keep the generated code to snippets and run extensive unit/UI tests on the outputs, etc. But if you're that experienced, you probably rarely need to lean on genAI in the first place.

And running all those unit/UI tests for the generated code will probably mean that, overall, you haven't saved any time anyway. Which is what they found in this study a year ago.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ [External Link]

Maybe (probably even) genAI code is much better than it was a year ago? But still, ethically bereft nonetheless.

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"I'm doing a thing people hate, so instead of not doing that, I'll continue to do it, but hide it better"

That's a bold position to take in any project, let alone a FOSS project. And just because he can use it in non-slop manner (maybe? hopefully?) it doesn't absolve him of the ethical concerns many of us have about genAI.

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