Hey, I'm old, and this looks great! Why all the negativity?? 😆

It does look very Monster Hunter, but that's a good thing in my book - not only can I only play the first one (the rest are encumbered by Denuvo), but the MH games are so slow-going and grindy. This is an opportunity to have that experience at a slightly better pace. Fingers crossed.

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This looks excellent. Brilliant idea. Feels like it has hints of Backpack Hero, too, slotting new cards/abilities into your toolkit for experimentation.

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Quoting: scaineDuckduckgo did a survey [External Link] asking their userbase if they wanted AI features. They closed the poll after a week or so, 175K votes counted, and 90% said no, they don't want AI.

Yes, it's very skewed - DDG's userbase is privacy-focused. But "tiny but super vocal butt-hurt minority" is a shitty and antagonistic way to describes people's perfectly valid dislike of this planet-burning technology.

Asking in good faith: If non-local AI features were able to operate in an ecologically viable way, would you then not dislike AI? Are there other aspects about ML/AI that keep you from engaging with it?

I've already answered the bulk of this here, so no point repeating it: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valve-tweak-steam-ai-disclosure-form-for-developers-to-clarify-its-for-content-consumed-by-players/?comment_id=288587.

To answer you more specifically, a few of those issues I outlined could definitely be addressed, yes. Will they? Probably not. I suspect the ship has sailed on most of them, such as plagiarism / non-attribution. We'll see.

Quoting: NociferAI is selling like hotcakes, so Mozilla have decided that they need to provide these cool new trendy AI features out of the box

I don't actually think that's the case. Which is why they're adding adverts to ChatGPT, for instance, and also see Satya Nadella's plea that more people need to use it. Perhaps it's selling better in the Enterprise/Corporate world, and maybe that will fuel the AI growth that Nadella is desperate for - but you should be going into any AI tool with eyes wide open here - this technology is front-loaded. It is NOT paying for itself, and so it will either become heavily subsided by adverts, or sustained by a significant monthly subscription.

And the advertising element gives me serious concerns. It's bad enough that I'm profiled by Google via email, calendar appointments or searches... imagine what insight ChatGPT would get if it had all my "private" conversations with a chatbot over years of use. Does ChatGPT have an incognito mode? Yes, it does. Do you trust it? I don't.

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Quoting: _wojteksadly tiny but super vocal butt-hurt minority

Duckduckgo did a survey [External Link] asking their userbase if they wanted AI features. They closed the poll after a week or so, 175K votes counted, and 90% said no, they don't want AI.

Yes, it's very skewed - DDG's userbase is privacy-focused. But "tiny but super vocal butt-hurt minority" is a shitty and antagonistic way to describes people's perfectly valid dislike of this planet-burning technology.

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Honestly not sure that's enough to get me playing again. I think at this point, I'd probably only drop back in for more varied PvE content - which would mean some actual variety in the enemies you face and more story missions to carry you along. Maybe that's what the new challenges are?

But I absolutely loved the shield-flying you do, and the vehicles. And the gunplay was great, it's just a shame there was only like about 4 enemies. And the base-building was satisfying. It was such a good 120 hours...

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Ah, I think you're right. That's a bit unfortunate then. Sounds like he's bitter about the situation and would refuse to relinquish his perceived part-onwership status to spite them. That's a shame.

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Bazzite is smart to remove people like this as they become giant resource drains in the end.

I disagree. It was well written and had examples of where friction was causing issues. But as Liam notes, looking from the outside in, it's impossible to say who's in the right. Just unfortunate drama.

Interesting not at the end where Antheas claims that Bazzite can now never be attached to hardware officially. Not sure I understood the why of that.

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Nope, no breaks so far. It did happen previously, when I was originally on Endeavour a couple of years back. Then I switched to Siduction for a couple of years. Just recently back on Arch, this time via CachyOS and it's been a great experience.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Curupira

a significantly reworked installer, which also now includes bootloader selection

I can vouch that CachyOS installer included a bootloader selection screen since I've first tried it (more than a year ago). Maybe even earlier. :)

I'm not too clued up on it, but it seems it was done differently before. Direct from their blog post "bootloader selection has been moved directly into the installer".

Yeah, it's weird. When I fist installed this, about 8 months back, it asks if you want Grub, SystemD-boot or a couple of others. So it's technically been there for a while. I wonder how it's changed that warrants that update message?

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Legal gears slowly grinding, huh? Two years to get to the point of "yeah, let's review this".

I wish this was a case against Amazon for Kindle Unlimited, instead of Valve for Steam game pricing, but there we go.

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