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"HINO" reminds me quite a bit of "Neverending Nightmares" - a good thing - and "KILLA" just looks lovely in general; good start!

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I don't mind it, but I also don't use Ubuntu. Honestly, the thing that put me off most in all of this was the mention of Snaps, since I've followed the seemingly popular opinion that they're Flatpaks with a vendor-locked store, etc. I am more averse to Snaps than open source, open weight, carefully-used AI.

The best way to get most people to use less AI is to make them understand it. There are strong reasons that the bigtech AI firms target low AI literacy and try to get everyone hooked.

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Quoting: TimeFreezeLets hope the controller works without Steam as well.

I bet you can also run it on electricity. I mean, some people can't get coal.

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Lets hope the controller works without Steam as well. I dont play only on Steam......

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100 US dollars will make it too expensive in my neck of the woods. Maybe next year if it goes on a good sale discount.

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Quoting: EikeStar Wars day, RLY?!? :D

May the haptic feedback be with you.

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Having a controller with back paddles that aren't just macros of other button presses would be nice. I have an EasySMX X20 and the back buttons are completely useless in the vast majority of games and since they're not emitting anything of their own so Steam Input doesn't see them.
I don't know why the controller space seems to still be basing their bindings on Xinput (which forces every manufacturer to fake an Xbox controller), Microsoft deprecated it years ago.

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I hope the Canadian pricing is an error... because 99$ USD is roughly 135$ in CAD right now... not 149$.

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I'm eager to get one as well as a diehard Steam Controller-Stan. Liam will you be buying one soon or is it possible Valve ships you one for review if you ask politely?

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May the force be with you.

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I just ordered one and it says Batch 10. So, maybe in 2026? 😅
I have been on the fence for a framework laptop for years now. Also, the 16gb ram alone was $335CAD.
Not sure if I'll put Ubuntu on it or see if Bazzite has decent support.

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Ugggghhhhhh, there's no escaping the AI crap. Leave me alooooooone!

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I'm willing to give it a shot, even at its steep MSRP. Right now I use a Sony DualSense controller if I need a d-pad and a wireless Xbox 360 controller otherwise. 360 controllers' springs tend to loosen over time and (shocker) aren't manufactured anymore, so I'd really like to find something modern that feels comfortable to use. Xbox One controllers feel worse to me in basically every conceivable way unfortunately.

If the d-pad is to my liking, it may even replace my DS controller. 🤞

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: mrdeathjrThis d7vk version in my case work ok with mesa 26.2-dev

That's a surprise. The top picture is the original Dungeon Siege (one of my faves). I thought it used DX9.

How about that -- I just checked PCGamingWiki and the API is indeed DX7. It must have been GOG's custom DirectDraw wrapper that made me think it was DX9.

Yeah many think same about dx9 on dungeon siege but in reality this game use dx7

however d7vk results are very impressive

😀

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Too big for my taste. Btw, I have fairly big hands and long fingers. Yet, I don't see myself spending hours with it. 8bitdo Pro 2 will remain my favourite as it seems.

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Star Wars day, RLY?!? :D

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Beware of the siren's song, Caldathras 😝

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I think whenever I next decide to do a distro-hop, I'm going to actually jump over to CachyOS and give it a proper thorough spin to see what I really think of it.

I've been giving that some serious consideration myself. The last time I ventured into Arch territory was Manjaro.

The only thing that puts me off is the rolling release nature of the distro, since I operate on legacy hardware. I guess I've also become used to the stability of the point release approach offered by Linux Mint.

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It will probably irritate some of you, but I used AI to help me build my Nextcloud, Pi-hole and Wireguard instances. It also helped me configure my router consequently and install GraphenOS on my Pixel 7a phone. I corrected it's missteps along the way, but If I could do all that stuff with a local personnal AI, not linked to the untrustworthy Big Techs, I'd be willing to give it a go.

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This is so awesome! I use and love cachy, and pretty much my ONLY complaint was that octopi was like learning dark sorcery to use, but now look at this update! It's like they listen to their users! wohoo!

here I go off to update!

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Quoting: mrdeathjrThis d7vk version in my case work ok with mesa 26.2-dev

That's a surprise. The top picture is the original Dungeon Siege (one of my faves). I thought it used DX9.

How about that -- I just checked PCGamingWiki and the API is indeed DX7. It must have been GOG's custom DirectDraw wrapper that made me think it was DX9.

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Quoting: Xpandernice, but i seem to lose about 2-4% perf when i bring mangohud overlay up in games.
with steam overlay fps thing ther's no perf drop.

Can't say I've noticed that but, then, most of the games I play are outside Steam (GOG games via Heroic or Lutris). I'll have to watch for that next time I play a Steam game.

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I'm really enjoying my time on CachyOS. It's like Arch without the stress - the grub-based integrated snapshots which run every time you run a pacman command takes a lot of the stress out of running with Arch.

They do a couple of things I don't like, like using Fish shell by default, but that's easily undone.

I'd also prefer that they install ChaoticAUR by default, like Garuda do, but again, that's easily installed from git.

It's probably the least I've ever had to tinker with a distro post-install.

I'd still love it if they had some kind of Discover integration (which appears unlikely), or incorporated paman, for a GUI-based package control. Octopi is somehow more obtuse than Synaptic, which is impressive. [Edit, and I somehow totally skipped over the headline about Shelly!! DOH!]

But hey ho. That's just quibbling at this point. Everything else is just so slick.

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Loved the first game, despite how stressful it was. And unlike Rebellion's Alien Deathstorm, there's a (slim) chance that this sequel won't be encumbered with Denuvo, so I have my fingers and toes crossed for this!

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Automatic hate reactions for absolutely every decision that Canonical makes is completely normal. It's bizarre.

But for the first time, I'm with the haters.

It's just so strange to look at the absolute shitstorm that MS weathered recently by adding Copilot to everything in Windows and think "yep, we should do that, people obviously want more AI in their operating systems."

Are they blind? It's baffling.

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Quoting: rcritThe first game took me forever to get through because I couldn't handle long gaming sessions: it was too intense. The very remembrance of hiding in a locker while it lurked outside gives me goosebumps.

You mean like this? 😇


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This sounds like a really reasonable approach to me (local inference, optional "for those who want it" etc), but I am not surprised by the amount of automatic hate reactions they're getting here anyway.

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More stuff Mint will have to rip out. Soon it might be time for them to look at making the Debian base the default.

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I’m still surprised to see so many open source/libre developers and companies on the nazi social network after everything that’s happened. It’s not a good look.

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Quoting: Cat_fanIMO there are only three features using LLM which should be installed by default (on a desktop setup): LLM based text-to-speech, LLM based speech-to-text/voice commands and image description tied to tts.

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Because they are accessibility features.

While I will readily admit that these tools can be useful, including them by default might induce a false sense in both developers and users that those accessibility needs have been taken care of, while in reality entrusting them to LLMs leads to countless errors that can mislead users in ways that they may not be able to discern. I often turn on subtitles when watching videos in English where the audio isn’t great or the accents are tougher for me to interpret, and the number of times I see sentences being misattributed, proper names being turned into other words or just plain misheard words changing the meaning of utterances—even in captions made by humans—is seriously worrying. I have the ability to hear what’s being said and notice the errors, but not everyone does.

If someone chooses to install a similar tool, they probably understand its limitations, and quality control is on them. But if it’s provided by the OS, how clear does the OS make it that results are unreliable, and what ways does the user have to mitigate it? And does it come at the cost of implementing actual, reliable accessibility content descriptions?

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