I'd like these to have way more information in a drill-down fashion, yeah. Like maybe mesa is "too much" for the top level, but if I click on my graphics card, it would appear?

Same with block devices - list the total, but click to see the individual drives, then click again to see the partitions, and even the UUIDs.

Why do I want to see the UUID? Well, about the only manual bit of set up I need to do after installing a new O/S on my main PC is allow read/write access to my second drive. It drives me absolutely nuts that every single distro in existence will only mount it read-only, as if a second drive in MY OWN PC is somehow off-limits to me, until I find it's UUID, and enter its details in /etc/fstab. It's a weird relic in Linux that's never seen any kind of enhancement over the years.

Maybe this is one of those cases where I shouldn't be asking for the UUIDs... I shouldn't care about the UUIDs, because Linux should just mount my internal, second drive in a more sane way. That way I don't have to remember the LSBLK command.

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Good grief, the quality on show is incredible! Loving how far Godot has come in just a few years. I understand they have a process for consoles now, too, which is great, hopefully more improvements there over time, to help more developers make the smart choice.

I'm pretty blown away by that demo reel.

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I thought that trailer was quite cool!

I wonder how (if) they're re-imbursing previous purchasers/subscribers??

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Probably the only game I'd play on this is Destiny 2, but it's not worth my money, and I'm not a fan of the concept of cloud gaming, so it's a pass from me.

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Fixed an issue where PlayStation controller light bar settings did not stick when exiting the controller calibration page.

You can change lightbar settings for PS controllers in Steam?!? I had no idea. I've been using dualsensectl for that all this time.

I recently discovered that when you click into bluetooth settings in the notification tray, and disconnect your DualSense controller there, it automatically turns off the controller! That's pretty cool. I wish my bluetooth headphones would do that.

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I enjoyed The Cycle: Frontier for a while, back in 2022, but the constant drag of having to insure your kit for a decent run meant that the grind was a bit crazy.

But it was Dark and Darker that made me realise that extraction shooters weren't my bag. At least ARC is trying to match solos together... Dark and Darker was an absolute shit-fest. I remember, as a newb, I was walking around the waiting lobby, examining players randomly, and I came across a team of three, fully kitted out, and each member had at least (!) 15 healing potions. As a newb, I could afford, perhaps three. Sure enough, they were waiting at extraction. I hope they enjoyed the rusty sword I'd looted, and a couple of arrows. I never did find a bow...

Maybe ARC's community will prove me wrong, but these games almost always skew towards a small group of try-hards with too much time on their hands basically griefing newcomers. Too early to tell right now though.

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The (steam) reviews on TW:WH3 are shocking. I thought this was a well-loved series, and maybe the first two games are in a better place, but jeez - you rarely see "mostly negative" except on absolute stinkers! It's denuvo-encumbered too. Great.

Etrian Odessey is a weird one too - decent reviews, but ultimately a fairly weak remaster of a well-loved series, so it's a nostalgia cash-in... and it's denuvo-encumbered?! Pass.

The rest seem average to decent, but nothing stands out. I remember feeling genuine excitement when I was subbed to Humble Choice a few years ago. It feels like it's really nose-dived since.

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This is shaping up. I'm definitely excited for more Skyrim, which is bizarre, cos I've played it to death by now! It might get me back into Fallout 4 though, which I've barely scratched the surface of.

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Yeah, they lost a sale here, thanks to Denuvo. I never played the originals, but would love to have given this a try.

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That's a wild response, dziadulewicz. I'm not going to break it down line by line, as tempting as that is. I'll just re-iterate some of my position on it.

1. I'll start by being super-clear - we are definitely talking about genAI, not AI generally. AI has been around for decades and the neural networks that power them have had enormous benefits. It's marketed to niche areas where it serves a specific purpose. Great! Meanwhile genAI is glitzy, but it's also power hungry and sold to billions around the world. Power hungry x consumers = the planet burns. Or if that's an over-dramatisation, then here's a fact - three genAI advocates (Google, Microsoft and most recently Meta) have re-started three separate large-scale nuclear programs to power genAI.

2. genAI is incredibly inaccurate. I could go on, but that's the crux of it. It lies. All the time. Convincingly. And yet we're meant to rely on code it produces? Or excel functions? Or financial forecasts? Oh, we're not and we have to check everything ourselves? Yep, but then where's the efficiency gains? Turns out, there aren't any - go read that article I've mentioned twice in this thread already.

3. genAI is front-loaded on price. We're not paying the correct amount of money to use it. The genAI companies are losing BILLIONS when they offer this service. That's not sustainable, so what's the catch? I have theories, but honestly can't be arsed speculating here.

4. Until your comment, dziadulewicz, no-one would be crazy enough to suggest that genAI is going to enrich our lives soooo much that we'll actually have more free time to spend with family or donate our time to worthy causes. That's absurd. If people have more free time as a result of this AI "boom", it's because they've been fired from their job. This isn't a golden age of productivity and happiness. It's a bleak, sharp downturn in employment worldwide. That usually leads to several unpleasant trends: increased crime, decreased mental health, decreased life expectancy, etc.

I think I'm gonna unsub from this discussion though. It's pretty clear that most of us have already made up our minds on genAI. The next 24-36 months will see it swing one way or another, I think.

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