Quoting: dziadulewiczInspired by this tried Fedora 38. The videos still don't play on Twitch and other video platforms... Even though the codecs were checked to install. Then i tried to go to rpmfusion website as adviced to click those two links https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration:

Graphical Setup via Firefox web browser

1. First enable access to the free repository. For users of gpk (gnome package kit) or kpackagekit in Fedora that is easy and basically only one step: just click on one of the following files, depending on what distribution you use and then follow the default options that Firefox and Package Kit offer by clicking Enter a few times (¹):

RPM Fusion free for Fedora 36

RPM Fusion free for Fedora 37

this > RPM Fusion free for Fedora 38

RPM Fusion free for Fedora Rawhide

RPM Fusion free for RHEL 9 or compatible like CentOS

RPM Fusion free for RHEL 8 or compatible like CentOS

RPM Fusion free for RHEL 7 or compatible like CentOS

2. Once that succeeds, you can enable access to the nonfree repositories by clicking on one of the following files, depending on what distribution you use and then follow the default options that Firefox and Package Kit offer by clicking Enter a few times(¹):

RPM Fusion nonfree for Fedora 36

RPM Fusion nonfree for Fedora 37

and this > RPM Fusion nonfree for Fedora 38

RPM Fusion nonfree for Fedora Rawhide

RPM Fusion nonfree for RHEL 9 or compatible like CentOS

RPM Fusion nonfree for RHEL 8 or compatible like CentOS

RPM Fusion nonfree for RHEL 7 or compatible like CentOS

And it made no difference. Youtube plays videos though that's it. I don't know what is Fedora team doing but obviously something is done wrong. Of course at least the videos should play. What other tweaking is the user supposed to do to get the damn videos play?

It all comes back to non-free codecs, which Fedora won't ship because of patents and license fees. If you want to get around the problem easily just install your Firefox and other multimedia apps from Flathub and be done with it. If you want to go the more troublesome road, you follow the RPM Fusion Multimedia instructions, with the potential exception of the parts that talk about mesa-freeworld. RPM Fusion is a fast way to break something if you don't pay attention when DNF tells you that an update has broken dependencies.

Eventually the codec problem will solve itself as platforms abandon H.264/H.265 and move to AV1.

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Seems decent enough if you just need a launcher that pulls your games into one place from distinct sources. It happily discovered all my Itch, GOG and Steam games and seems to properly shell out to the correct launcher with XDG. So, kind of a launcher of launchers, which is really only useful if your library is scattered. I suppose I could also manually add a few games that I currently manage in custom app directories. Doesn't seem like it does a whole lot of actual management, but what it does it seems to do well enough.

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Quoting: damarrinIt's not his job to say why the regression happened, or rather it is only if he decides it is. It’s Canonical’s job to keep their system in shape, or put pressure on Gnome to fix their shit if the problem is on their side and can’t be fixed by others.

Well, technically it's not his job to even provide benchmarks unless he decides it is. But it certainly would be quite nice if he proposes a hypothesis he'd at least take a moment to test it, considering he'd realistically only need one of the systems switched over to a small WM or something and one test to verify it. It's hard to believe the article had to come out so quickly that there wasn't any time to set that up.

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I tried it quickly on my Fedora Silverblue 37, my full PC info is naturally in my profile.

I was positively surprised that the game ran even without me applying any containerization to it. Often tarballed binaries require some libraries that aren't installed on the base system of a Silverblue install, but this one seems to not need any. That gives a fairly strong indicator of cross-distro compatibility. I also ran it via Lutris on the Flatpak runtime and it executed there too, so people who run their Steam via Flatpak (like many do on Silverblue) should not have issues with it either.

There were only two notable issues I ran into.

First one is a minor issue that the game cannot necessarily be faulted for, which is that the game takes long enough on initial load without reacting to signals from GNOME for it to trigger the "Application is not responding" pop-up. It's not really a big deal because that happens with plenty of games and I'm not sure if Unity will allow anything to be done about it anyway. Regardless, people on GNOME generally aren't going to be too surprised by this and it's not going to be any sort of a deal-breaker. If it can be fixed though, then that's all the better.

Second issue I ran into was a weird one. Basically, if you mash escape while the game is starting it apparently doesn't load into the main menu and instead gets stuck. I repeated this a few times and I seem to be able to reproduce it consistently. If you don't touch escape during start up the game loads into the main menu without issues.

Edit: Forgot to mention that the game looks pretty cool! Kind of a blend of Jupiter Hell and Duskers, very atmospheric. Will be checking it out further on release for sure.

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Quoting: ScytaleRollings is an old school feminists and feels threatened, that something on scientifically very thin ice could (or a very young trend, or at least not as well researched until now) undermine women's rights.

Scientifically on very thin ice according to whom? Medical consensus across numerous studies shows that gender affirming care has better outcomes than the alternatives. If JKR thinks so, she's hardly an subject matter expert with her BA. And this idea that bigotry is justified because we should entertain baseless, hypothetical threats to women's rights is ridiculous. If I went on a campaign against washing your hands because washing your hands could undermine women's rights, should I really be given the benefit of the doubt?

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Quoting: Renzatic Gear

Quoting: SamsaiYeah, we are at the point where it would be better to have cooler and smaller stuff, yet as nanometers go smaller, the gaming systems slowly turn into watercooled mainframes that eat as much electricity as small villages

Hey, comeon now. There's no reason to over-exaggerate here. It doesn't require as much electricity as a small village. It uses, maybe, enough energy to power 4 washer/dryer combos, max.

That's barely even half of a small village.

Depends on the village. Some villages wish they had 4 washer/drier combos worth of electronics.

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If they are pushing the silicon so hard that the cards start melting, maybe they are due for a big rethink. The 4080 already has a stock TDP of 320 W (and we know the card vendors will try to push it if they can) and that would never fly for me, too hot, too costly, too loud.

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Quoting: ShabbyXPretty sure can't license code written against unity as GPL. That would require unity's code itself to be GPL-compatible.

I don't think so. The GPL license requires derivative code to be licensed under GPL, and obviously Unity is not derivative work, more like the opposite. It should be possible for you to write a GPL'd piece of code that plugs into a non-GPL system and still enforce all the requirements of GPL when it comes to your code. Obviously you cannot enforce them on the whole system.

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So long, hope we never meet again!

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I have barely scratched the surface of Isonzo, but I think some people are being really quite unfair to the developers. Verdun and Tannenberg play out quite differently from one another and Isonzo seems to change up the formula again, so it's not like they are just releasing the same game with new maps. The main gameplay objectives have changed between all three games and the maps work very differently.

Also, it's not like the developers just release a game then then immediately move onto the next. Verdun came out of early access in 2015, Tannenberg released out of early access in 2019. Both games received some updates along the way, although Verdun obviously got more content updates. This would be an entirely ordinary release cadence for shooter franchise.

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