Quoting: Tiedemann

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Tiedemann

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: TiedemannI'm still waiting for the day I can turn off those damn notifications though, both in-game and when starting the client.

But... you can!?

I'm talking about achievements and inventory popups, not friends stuff.

So you want some and hide others?

I don't want any of it. It's distracting, looks out of place, sometimes cover UI elements, sometimes makes the game have a hickup on some machines etc.

All the games I've played have had progress, unlocks and all other stuff in-game. And for me that is where it should be.

I know I'm old, grumpy and weird but that's just how it is :P

Did you try disabling steam overlay?

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You truly are the king of kings Steam

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World of tanks with dinosaurs? Will be fun if they add the "human hunter" as DLC :P

EDIT: this could be the Carnivores revival!

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Quoting: EikeWhat I'm unsure about regarding manual compilation is if programs are usually equiped to uninstall (without leaving cruft) themselves...

That's 100% up to the dev as this operation normally depends of makefile uninstall rule (or similar).

If you ask me, unless you have a very good/mandatory reason to have a system wide installation, you should always install any piece of software that doesn't comes from your distro repos inside of a specific folder on you home directory. Safer & cleaner IMHO.

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Quoting: ShabbyXDoes it need root password everytime it applies settings? Does the whole UI run as root on startup? If the latter, no thank you! I would like to see the developer think about the security implications too.

If you have to modify GPU voltage or freq, you require privileges. I'm not sure how this application is implemented, but I would expect that only a daemon process is running with root privileges (similar to how feral gamemode works).

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Quoting: TermySupraland [External Link] for the last few days, really enjoying it :D

It's a drug

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Hope they do the same with Mesa. They normally get one or two stable versions behind (the same goes for llvm)

Quoting: NanobangCall me cynical, and paint me jade, but coming so close on the heels of their recent 32 bit lib faux pas, this feels a lot like a bone being tossed to gamers---a welcome, meaty bone, yes, but a bone nonetheless.

A bone or a learned lesson. Hope it's the latter...

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: x_wingThere are facts and what you like to understand.

All you showed me is a "may be". I showed you explicit statement, that says that account is required. No account - no [legally usable] backups. So please, let's not repeat this all over, unless you have other sources.

Yes, that's definitely a problem if Steam cease to exist... and if the user agreement has any value in that case (or if I decide to "follow the law" in such conditions).

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: x_wingLets stop playing this game of "what if" and "what I understand" and lets go for the facts:

Indeed, I see no point in further refuting your wrong claims. Just show me the source which says that Steam allows you doing backups and using them without Steam account. Or otherwise let's move on to other topics, because I'm not going to agree with you.

I showed you were it says that you can copy the SteamApps folders. Also you read the user agreement a noted the "may" in the sentence. So, explain me why Steam doesn't prevent to do what you say they don't allow me to do.

There are facts and what you like to understand.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: x_wingStill, they explicitly says that you may be able to use Content and Services without their Client or an Internet connection.

Without saying when. So you can't extrapolate from there. Basically they can interpret that like they want. So for the user it basically is equal to "you can't, unless we told you you can".

Even if you argue you can ask them to clarify the ambiguity, the worse part is the account presence issue. One of the points of DRM-free purchase is ability to use what you bought even if the store shuts down. Requirement to have an account prevents you from legally doing it.

Lets stop playing this game of "what if" and "what I understand" and lets go for the facts:

• It's a fact that you can backup your games by just copying your library folder (Steam doesn't prevent or invalidates your games data)
• It's a fact that running the client in order to run a games is optional, if not developers would not be allowed to release games without that feature

So, lets say that GOG and Steam cease to exist. What would be the difference between having a Steam game copy that works without the client and the GOG installer? Don't know you, but I don't need a piece of paper that tells me that I'm allowed to play something I purchased.

The fact is that no matter the source, both of us will always be able to play any DRM-free content.

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