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Subnautica 2 is the most wishlisted game on Steam? That's surprising to me. Not that I think the game is bad, but if you asked me what the most wishlisted game on Steam is I don't believe I would even think of Subnautica.

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There's far far worse on Steam that is not behind forced age verification.

I suspect they are trying to stir up some controversy, for PR purposes. It's the same developer as Hatred - remember the big stink over that game when it came out?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatred_(video_game)

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Quoting: Mountain ManPlayed all day with the Steam Controller. I can say it's the best controller I've ever used.

I have the same feeling. Mine arrived yesterday, but so far I've enjoyed the experience. I like the feel, the ergonomics, and especially the hardness of the bumper buttons (several of my old Steam Controllers had broken bumpers after extensive use).

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneThat idea exists for decades and all times it was tried ended up in banning potential serious developers. I mean, just give a look how Reddit moderators do their job. We all heard about the horror stories of people getting banned for non harmful content if it just contains a minimum amount of critics to a topic. If I can ban you in the network, you are banned everywhere, not just on my project, even if I did not ban you for AI usage, I just need to tell you used AI.

Not even speaking about situations like Github writing "co-authored by Copilot" on non LLM PRs.

The mind behind this idea is great and I would support it, but the real world situation just shows that it harms more than it actually helps. The FOSS-community needs to think about a better solution.

That's fine and all, but the horrors of moderation even before AI tended to pale in comparison to the horrors of no moderation.

But anarchy! We must have chaos and burn it all to the ground. It's the only true path to liberation! 🔥 (I'm just kidding, anarchists of GOL. lol)

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Quoting: F.UltraPayment was never the issue though and AMD is and have been for years a HDMI licensee. There is nothing with these patches that would or could make HDMI Forum not get payed exactly what they where payed before.

I think the logic (from an artificial scarcity hoarding viewpoint) was that if they didn't keep the spec super secret, companies could just make stuff without giving them money. Which they didn't like the sound of. But, as you say, you still need to give them money (and AMD did) for the compliance tests and the sticker, and that's where the prestige is. "Proper" hardware companies will still give them money to remain "proper," and fly-by-night won't-conform-to-the-spec companies weren't going to give them money either way.

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Meanwhile Amazon is one of those horrible companies ruining society. They treat their workforce like slaves. They move their profits to offshore tax havens to avoid paying corporation tax in the countries where they operate (so the country loses out). They abuse their market dominance to drive competitors out of business, they damage small businesses. After they have killed off competition, they increase the price of their own replacement products, so the consumer loses out. They don't have good product vetting on their store pages, with lots of unsafe devices being sold. Like Google, they harvest massive amounts of consumer data, impacting people's privacy.

I urge people to move away from buying things on Amazon. Potentially use Amazon to find a product, but then buy it from a local store instead.

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I always find the anti-fanboyism in the comment sections of these articles funny. Don't get me wrong, fuck Nintendo and any evil corporations and their legal teams, but I also find the whole criticism of Nintendo not releasing stuff on PC too dumb. Console exclusives were always a thing and Nintendo still relies on it. PC is just another platform and it isn't Nintendo hardware.

That being said, Nintendo shutting down stuff like this is stupid and so is their attitude towards emulation. I also feel like Nintendo should instead leverage the talent of the community and hire them as contractors to help them improve Nintendo Online releases. (Since nobody directly hires anymore in this dystopian hellscape.) These decomps could easily be something of a "Nintendo Online Plus" title on the Switch 2 and they'd be cool to see on there.

I might not have any interest in these decomps, cause I've got Nintendo hardware, but I'm glad that people enjoy them. Even if they "sail the seas" to do so.

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When we Will able to set colorspace in wayland? I still have to rely on edid hacks to set the correct 4:4:4 RGB color mode.

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Quoting: BumadarI can't really find how they got passed thr HDMI Forum licensing?

Most likely someone at HDMI Forum finally realized that an open source implementation is not the danger to their business model that they first thought. And this was true the entire time, just that they had to figure it out, their business model is selling a license to carry the HDMI2.1 label and that you have to do regardless of where your implementation comes from and regardless of if its open or closed.

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Quoting: BumadarI can't really find how they got passed thr HDMI Forum licensing?

My guess: HDMI 2.2 will be the new "no license" situation. HDMI 2.1 has a data transfer rate of 4k @120Hz and some monitors already allow 4k @240Hz (which DisplayPort can handle btw). So there is a good argument for companies to implement HDMI 2.2 and pay for it (even if it is just for advertisement). I think they only want to get payed for the newest license. This way they allow older specs to be implemented, which strengthens their market position (better have it build in everywhere to be present everywhere than taking the last cents they can get).

Payment was never the issue though and AMD is and have been for years a HDMI licensee. There is nothing with these patches that would or could make HDMI Forum not get payed exactly what they where payed before.

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Quoting: scaineThat was then, this is now. I think the whole situation needs a rethink. It's not a coincidence that multiple project have to create AI policies due to slop.

I agree with the "rethink". But not just by us 2-3 people here. More in a greater community, especially those dealing with issues. Your idea with StackExchange has another issue: it can block out newcomers that are required to keep projects alive on long run. At the end it requires a complex answer to this question. But I also cannot tell how it should look like.

In my opinion all FOSS projects should create LLM policies, no matter if they are pro or con. That makes rules clear for everyone and stops drama before it has the chance to begin. I also did it on my own project pro-actively to make a statement and to make rules clear from begin on.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThat's fine and all, but the horrors of moderation even before AI tended to pale in comparison to the horrors of no moderation.

The comparison was not "moderators vs no moderators", but "moderators vs super moderators". Every project has its own moderator by default (at least the project owner, often additional maintainers). They can kick you out of the project even if you did nothing wrong - and that is usually "fine", you can move on and support another project. But if such moderators become "super power", they can kick you out of a huge amount of projects all at once. That was my critic in my previous post.

The question is: what kind of moderation solves the issue best? I just don't know, yet.

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I wonder how intel is involved with the ghoul willies.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneThat idea exists for decades and all times it was tried ended up in banning potential serious developers. I mean, just give a look how Reddit moderators do their job. We all heard about the horror stories of people getting banned for non harmful content if it just contains a minimum amount of critics to a topic. If I can ban you in the network, you are banned everywhere, not just on my project, even if I did not ban you for AI usage, I just need to tell you used AI.

Not even speaking about situations like Github writing "co-authored by Copilot" on non LLM PRs.

The mind behind this idea is great and I would support it, but the real world situation just shows that it harms more than it actually helps. The FOSS-community needs to think about a better solution.

That's fine and all, but the horrors of moderation even before AI tended to pale in comparison to the horrors of no moderation.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneThat idea exists for decades and all times it was tried ended up in banning potential serious developers. I mean, just give a look how Reddit moderators do their job. We all heard about the horror stories of people getting banned for non harmful content if it just contains a minimum amount of critics to a topic. If I can ban you in the network, you are banned everywhere, not just on my project, even if I did not ban you for AI usage, I just need to tell you used AI.

Not even speaking about situations like Github writing "co-authored by Copilot" on non LLM PRs.

The mind behind this idea is great and I would support it, but the real world situation just shows that it harms more than it actually helps. The FOSS-community needs to think about a better solution.

That was then, this is now. I think the whole situation needs a rethink. It's not a coincidence that multiple project have to create AI policies due to slop. Tools like Openclaw make this kind of thing very hard to counteract, because the AI won't give up - ban it, and it'll just create a new account and re-submit, over and over.

I suspect that the only way to truly police this, ultimately, is using a system like StackExchange, where pull/merge requests simply aren't allowed - you go through a step-ladder of ever-so-slightly-increasing rights, as your reputation rises, until, eventually, you are trusted to contribute within the boundaries of the policies of that project.

Sadly the infrastructure for this doesn't exist. Yet.

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I assume the Ghouls will sneak up on you as they are going commando?

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I don't think I've seen melee combat handled as "meatily" as this since Elderborn, which is still the king for melee combat, imo. A crown held by Dark Messiah for far too long.

Interesting that they have gunplay too though. Hopefully that doesn't make melee useless, as in so many games.

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A paper trail can still be there without leaking personal data like mailadresses and full names to spammers.
I also assume that this old style approach deters people from joining eventually.

On the actual topic.
Do we have most of the HDMI 2.1 spec covered by now or is there anything else missing?

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Quoting: Mountain ManI used my OG Steam Controller right up until the new one arrived on my doorstep, and I had no problem making the switch, although oddly enough, the original now feels oddly clunky in comparison.

I do have to bend my thumb a little more now, and yeah...I'm being whiny. :P

After playing some Boltgun with both flickstick and the trackpad, I'm starting to think that the gyro is even better in the SC2 than it is in the Steam Deck, which I thought was A+ class.

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Quoting: Renzatic Gear

Quoting: Mountain ManPlayed all day with the Steam Controller. I can say it's the best controller I've ever used.

I just got mine. I decided to use the old Steam controller while waiting for the new one to arrive as a sort of last hurrah for it. Now, because of that, I've gotta get used to the lower trackpad positioning. I kinda screwed myself on that front.

Other than that, I'm liking it. It's great at Brotato!

I used my OG Steam Controller right up until the new one arrived on my doorstep, and I had no problem making the switch, although oddly enough, the original now feels oddly clunky in comparison.

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I don't have a credit card, so I guess I'm fooked :-(

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Quoting: BumadarI can't really find how they got passed thr HDMI Forum licensing?

My guess: HDMI 2.2 will be the new "no license" situation. HDMI 2.1 has a data transfer rate of 4k @120Hz and some monitors already allow 4k @240Hz (which DisplayPort can handle btw). So there is a good argument for companies to implement HDMI 2.2 and pay for it (even if it is just for advertisement). I think they only want to get payed for the newest license. This way they allow older specs to be implemented, which strengthens their market position (better have it build in everywhere to be present everywhere than taking the last cents they can get).

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Quoting: awfulsauceIt appears one of my worst fears when it comes to FOSS and AI is coming into fruition.

AI makes a lot of wannabe developers lazier because they don't try to understand what results they're getting from it and think that's the be all end all to solving the problem.

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Quoting: The_Real_Bitterman

Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: The_Real_BittermanThere are people not using the official flatpak? Geez ...

It's actually news to me, I think last time I checked it still wasn't official, and it had a bunch of issues like shipping an old version of discord for months because the current one used a version of electron that broke something. And of course they had to use some weird hack to make an old version work with current servers.

Then it wasn't the official flat, yes. But it is official since a long time now. I bet there was even an article her on GoL abut it.

Yep, here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/discord-for-linux-gets-flathub-verified/ 3 years ago

It's verified but it's not official. Here: https://github.com/flathub/com.discordapp.Discord/issues/343

Just because it's verified it doesn't mean that Discord is actually the ones developing/packaging it and, as a result, the flatpak has issues. There's a reason the flatpak isn't linked anywhere on the official discord website.

You clearly do not know how verifying work on flathub. You have to be the owner of the com.discord domain and add a link to the discord flathub page or at least the PR where you want it to be verified. So someone at discord has put up a link/token on their homepage to link to flathub. So yes it is developed by discord and therefore official. See: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-users/verification (or an authorised official 3rd party)

Therefore, what ever you've checked is just plain wrong. Just looking at the maintainers of the github repo doe not tell you anything.

Also the only thing flunky with the flat is that it can not sniff on your running process to show all your servers what your playing or which music you're listening too.

Unless an application specificity uses the discord RPC to tell discord it is running. App -> RPC -> Discord then Discord will show, also the flatpak. What is not working is Discord -> /dev/proc *Sniff, Sniff*

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The article does note each store the keys are for as well.

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I can't really find how they got passed thr HDMI Forum licensing?

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Quoting: CaldathrasHow does that work now? Do you have to play the games through the Luna service or are the codes/keys still independent of Amazon, as they were before?

There's a bunch of codes for GoG and some other services. No need to ever touch that luna stuff.

I swear, I forget that this is a thing that exists and is available the second I close their site, until I'm reminded of its existence by peoples on social networks :D

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Quoting: Mountain ManPlayed all day with the Steam Controller. I can say it's the best controller I've ever used.

I just got mine. I decided to use the old Steam controller while waiting for the new one to arrive as a sort of last hurrah for it. Now, because of that, I've gotta get used to the lower trackpad positioning. I kinda screwed myself on that front.

Other than that, I'm liking it. It's great at Brotato!

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Quoting: tmtvllet's hope they make more than 20 controllers next batch

Actually it was 200! But 150 went to TikTokYouTube-‘reviewers'/influencers, 30 went to actual reviewers who know what they’re doing (Hi @Liam 👋🏻) and the rest got bought up by scalpers and their botnets.

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How does that work now? Do you have to play the games through the Luna service or are the codes/keys still independent of Amazon, as they were before?

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I broke down and bought it.

Discount if you have the other 2 games.

(I saved a whopping 4 bucks)
:P

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It appears one of my worst fears when it comes to FOSS and AI is coming into fruition.

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