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Does anyone know what systemd version SteamOS 3.8 uses? I'm asking because of a certain udev rules update. Thanks!

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: doragasuUnfortunately there's a growing probability of Denuvo moving to kernel level DRM. And if that happens, it's game over for Linux users. Not a problem specifically for me, I don't buy games with Denuvo DRM, but for the platform itself, it might be a big hit.

Do you have a source? Hope this doesn't happen

No source, that's just me guessing. But with Denuvo pricing reported as $25K per game per month + 50 cents per game sold, I am sure they are doing all they can to stay relevant, it's big money in here. And given their protection seems completely defeated, I suspect going to kernel level might be the next step.

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Bureaucracy is how society learns, remembers, and improves.
We need to systematize and create lasting institutional knowledge, or we'll just continuously make the same mistakes on every project and process. Part of that is learning to make and improve standards and processes. Learning how to learn better.

Actually, it's funny. "Learning how to learn" is one of those concepts the "superintelligence" doomsday guys are really scared of...

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For anyone who wants to compare against the Steam sale:
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/mt42026

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Quoting: LoudTechieYou're making the same mistake I made.

Where I make a mistake? The context was clearly not about NPC behavior, but about the marketing term "AI", which I usually avoid.

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Does anyone have good experience with VRR and/or HDR (games and video) in Fedora KDE? I'm looking for a different distro for a new AMD desktop.

I've used a docked Steam Deck occasionally, but obviously that's not especially capable for higher-end gaming. I assume I'd want to stick somewhat close to the SteamOS mould, and the work Valve have put into. . . is it mainly Plasma and Wayland?

I've used Mint Cinnamon a fair bit in a pretty casual way, and like the user experience. But I don't think they focus all that hard on modern display or gaming features.

I was considering Bazzite for a while. I briefly used Bazzite GNOME on a Steam Deck LCD (KDE wouldn't install), and didn't have a great time with it. Some of their dev team shenanigans have been a bit off-putting too.

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"Obey the laws here on Manaan, human." - Droid on Manaan

"Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope... Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds." - HK-47

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Quoting: benstor214

Quoting: melkemindI'm always impressed with how fast they work. They put out an initial workaround with Proton Hotfix on the same day it stopped working, and now they already have it in Experimental.

Makes you wonder how easy it would be for the devs to test the update before pushing it. 🤔

Sadly, they didn't try for Linux at all, even for Steam Deck verification. Meanwhile, they released a native MacOS version. The studio execs clearly have a bias since it can't be about Macs having a bigger player base in 2026.

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I didn't know that The Sovereign had a tech agency in Germany. I wonder if he dresses up as David Bowie still. I guess this explains Iggy Pop living in West Berlin back in the day. :P

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⚽🏎️🏁

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Can't wait for Re-DENUVO with double and triple the DRM appearing in games.

How long before this software suit requires age verification and constant camera feed to ensure you aren't doing something they don't like... like having fun...

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Quoting: EWGIf a higher price tags equates to higher quality builds and wages for those making it, then I'd be happy to eat a few more peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and wait another pay cheque if necessary to buy something.

You make it sound like having more PB&J sandwiches is a bad thing.

I’ll tell you right now that it is not.

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Dissen bombad.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: sarmadFor example, it should be able to detect that you are aiming precisely at a target behind a wall, or other similar things that are impossible without cheating.

That is a good example why classic algorithms are better than LLMs which are basically algorithmic lossy archive files. It is something like MP3 for all kind of data where the timestamp is the input (prompt, randomization number and so on). The important part is "lossy", because it loses information on the training process. This causes fail predictions as not being able to do correct maths. I just asked CGPT on duck.ai "What is the math result of 13/73²?" and the result was "13 / 5329 ≈ 0.002438 (rounded to 6 significant figures).", while the real numbers are 0.00243948... this was not even a rounding failure.

If we take this approach to your gaming situation, there are precise position parameters and time frames. The server can calculate precise if such an action could be possible - easy triangulating math. Why would you want to predict if it was possible or not if you just can calculate it? And AI probably does not even go the math route, because another one is "easier" (which does not mean more correct).

AI in games is good for things like animation prediction, can save resources while being much more natural than classic systems. But there is no benefit in using it for anti-cheat (except it may costs less at development, but it can damage the companies reputation in return).

You're making the same mistake I made.
[AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) isn't [machine learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning)
It's the capability of computational systems to preform tasks typically associated with human intelligence.
As proof I will provide an example from the gaming space.
Far for the AI boom we've been calling the behavioral logic behind npcs the AI.
That logic is coded in no machine learning involved, yet we call it AI.

We nowadays associate it with machine learning, because most modern AI companies use mostly machine learning to achieve their goals, but that's just an artifact of our time.

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Quoting: sarmadFor example, it should be able to detect that you are aiming precisely at a target behind a wall, or other similar things that are impossible without cheating.

That is a good example why classic algorithms are better than LLMs which are basically algorithmic lossy archive files. It is something like MP3 for all kind of data where the timestamp is the input (prompt, randomization number and so on). The important part is "lossy", because it loses information on the training process. This causes fail predictions as not being able to do correct maths. I just asked CGPT on duck.ai "What is the math result of 13/73²?" and the result was "13 / 5329 ≈ 0.002438 (rounded to 6 significant figures).", while the real numbers are 0.00243948... this was not even a rounding failure.

If we take this approach to your gaming situation, there are precise position parameters and time frames. The server can calculate precise if such an action could be possible - easy triangulating math. Why would you want to predict if it was possible or not if you just can calculate it? And AI probably does not even go the math route, because another one is "easier" (which does not mean more correct).

AI in games is good for things like animation prediction, can save resources while being much more natural than classic systems. But there is no benefit in using it for anti-cheat (except it may costs less at development, but it can damage the companies reputation in return).

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Quoting: melkemindI'm always impressed with how fast they work. They put out an initial workaround with Proton Hotfix on the same day it stopped working, and now they already have it in Experimental.

Makes you wonder how easy it would be for the devs to test the update before pushing it. 🤔

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: sarmadSingle player games should have no anti-cheat protection.

As I understand it, Denuvo is not anti-cheat. Just looking at its full name, it is anti-tamper DRM -- it performs a completely different function.

Oh, my bad. I thought it was for anti-cheat.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: sarmadMultiplayer games should depend on server-side AI based monitoring

Agree with "server-side", disagree with "AI based monitoring". I would probably one of the first people getting banned for not hacking, because I play games like games and not guided (as 98% of all players these days do). AI is discriminating based on their trainings data. It is common sense that it should not be used for surveillance and Monitoring to filter cheaters is nothing else.

That's a good point. I'm not sure how the AI is trained to detect cheating. But it certainly shouldn't be trained on expecting you to play like everyone else; it should be trained on more raw data that includes the whole game world, not just how the player behaves. For example, it should be able to detect that you are aiming precisely at a target behind a wall, or other similar things that are impossible without cheating.

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Finally a good news from Germany. There are also not much since conservatives lead the country again.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis actually seems like a pretty good idea. There are going to be standards and standards bodies, and what they do is going to have an impact. So apparently these guys are saying "Gee, it might be kind of good if some of the open source programmers who have to deal with the results, who write the plumbing of our digital world, could have a voice on those bodies that make the standards." That makes a fair amount of sense to me.

People bitch about bureaucrats, but without them what you have is Somalia.

Also standards primarily benefit open source, because contrary to big tech monopolies it doesn't have a centralized management structure for smooth integration, nor a big tech master dependency that dictates terms.

Standard openness is preferential, but optional in this.
Thanks to POSIX bsd, MACOS and Linux coexist in app development space, thanks to C porting Linux to a new architecture is no more than writing a solid compiler, thanks to transitional docx Libre Office can compete with Microsoft office, etc.

Apple just forces everybody to recompile, rewrite and redo all their programs to their next architecture.
Linus can't do that, but he can hide changes behind standard C and POSIX interfaces.
Microsoft can just demand printer drivers.
The bsd team can't do that, but they can support driverless printing standards.

On the bureaucrats part.
Yeah, bureaucrats do good work.
Bureaucrats are the backbone of the power of the civilian parts of government.(planning a coup, try doing that without money and your every move published)
Bureaucrats are what makes customary law tick and thus keep the juridical branch in check(for a large part this is what went wrong in the USA).
Bureaucrats allow one to launch asymmetric economic sanctions.
Bureaucrats are the checks in checks and balances.

I do admit I think the EU gives them a little bit too much legislative power(the exclusive right of amendment as an executive branch of government), but that is because it was founded and nurtured by them.
Also they are boring and that is a good thing. The will of the people is absolute, but also fickle. Spread elections and the boring parts of government are what allows a democracy to middle out this fickle will into one direction.

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Whatever nitpicks I've had over the choice of applications, I've been using Bazzite since 2024 and have found it to be an excellent distribution. It was easy to set up, and has been very stable. An immutable distro is not for everyone, but for me it's ideal.

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This article got me thinking about Commodore BASIC, which was also written by Microsoft. I discovered that Commodore BASIC had been open sourced in September of 2025. I then went to commodore.net the home of the company has been manufacturing new C64 computers for over six months. They have named these systems "Commodore 64 Ultimate." The system that I discovered that might be of interest to some of the GoL crowd is:

Commodore 64X PC with OS Vision

https://commodore.net/store/commodore-64x-pc/

The description of this system is:

Order the computer optionally paired with Commodore OS Vision 3.1, the free Linux-based operating system for PCs developed and maintained by Commodore® – it’s your escape from big tech, digital noise, and constant surveillance. No tracking. No ads. No toxic social media. And, if you choose, no web browser at all – for a truly distraction-free, child-safe experience.

Commodore OS Vision includes dozens of classic Commodore games and emulators for every one of our systems, from the Commodore PET to the Amiga.

The Commodore OS can be downloaded from: [https://www.commodoreos.net/CommodoreOS.aspx](https://www.commodoreos.net/CommodoreOS.aspx)

I will likely not be purchasing a system or downloading the ISO, but it amazes me that hardware/software released back in 1982 is still a thing. That being said, I still have my C64 and C128 in the basement. :)

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Linux_RocksI remember running Fedora 3

Never existed. You mean Fedora Core 3? I remember when the rumors starting flying that Red Hat 9.0 was the end of the line. It was true; Fedora Core replaced it. At this point, I no longer remember when they dropped "Core" and then started with the sub-branding, like "Workstation".

Ah, Wikipedia remembers: Fedora 7 dropped "Core" because it merged in the "Extras" repository; I think that's what remains as EPEL for the server variants to this day. Same article says "Workstation" didn't come until Fedora 21.

Oops, my bad. You're right, I totally forgot about the name change. Yeah, it was Fedora Core 3.

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I really want to give it try in virtualbox but the live iso (kde) will not boot so I gave up on it. I prefer Manjaro anyway which is as powerful but much easier of use.

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Thank you Germany for your continued support! 🥰

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Shame it's using denuvo, though not surprising

Kinda funny because isn't denuvo kinda redundant now and doesn't prevent piracy anymore?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Linux_RocksThat's actually pretty cool, especially the finding the printed source code in his garage. lol

Now if they wanna actually be cool, they'll open source all the way up to MS-DOS 6.22 and either open source Windows 3.11 or make it freely available on their site. They've got no money to lose in doing so and it'd just be easy PR for them.

If they do that, wonder if they'll first pull out whatever they did to make sure Lotus wouldn't run . . .

AFAIK, they didn't have to implement any specific anti-Lotus or anti-Borland sabotage code. They simply didn't expose functions in the public api that would let software by those companies to run efficiently; all the while their own office suite, IDEs, etc., made use of appropriately optimized private functions.

So it's unlikely that a smoking gun could be found; it's how things work (?!) when the private company owns the whole software stack, & hides the code from the rest of the world.

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I, too, prefer attempts towards integrity, accountability and sources. If we want to be fair, we have to tolerate differing opinions. If I wanted to be in an echo chamber I would turn to an AI chatbot instead.

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This actually seems like a pretty good idea. There are going to be standards and standards bodies, and what they do is going to have an impact. So apparently these guys are saying "Gee, it might be kind of good if some of the open source programmers who have to deal with the results, who write the plumbing of our digital world, could have a voice on those bodies that make the standards." That makes a fair amount of sense to me.

People bitch about bureaucrats, but without them what you have is Somalia.

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Quoting: hardpenguinWhat kind of silly moron cheats in Rocket League of all games???

Look at the screenshots in the article. That right one is highly suspicious! 😄

Honestly, for a studio now owned by Epic, it still has a pretty decent implementation. Still able to turn it off and do your own thing outside of the official servers is something that most devs would never do. Especially if they rely on skins for monetization.

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