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Quoting: Highball

Quoting: TightRopeI am expecting another sub par product from the Wintel duopoly.
At least more competition is still good for pricing and quality.

Oh, I'm sure they will fuck each other over, as per usual.

Yeah calling wintel a duopoly is an insult to cartels worldwide.
They're two crappy monopolies, which hate each others guts and can't do without each other, because an older monopoly made them reliant on each other.

Microsoft has tried to leave x86 [6 times.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_on_ARM)(I count the copilot+ pcs as a seperate attempt, because it had extra features.).

Intel treats Linux as a first class citizen by providing open source drivers, patching the kernel and helping to develop compatible open source compilers.

They both fail hard at it, but they really try to kill each other, without committing suicide.

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this wine version in my case up around 600mb (compiled) compared before version (4.2gb with 11.9 vs 4.8gb in 11.10)

and now in my case begin work this:

😀

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Quoting: suchOooh, portable heaters. Noice.

[Intel has actually really really decreased their heat production to the point they're now competitive with the most recent ones in the M series.](https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/cpus/panther-lake-is-intels-m1-moment-but-can-it-beat-apple-silicon-we-put-these-new-chips-to-the-test)
AMD did too, but we're talking about intel here.

Turns out the issue wasn't with ARM vs X86, but 7nm vs 1.8nm, which is obvious in hindsight.

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Quoting: StellaIs that really worth doing though? I uploaded logs and gave really detailed information for 3 different games that have issues with Proton. The Witcher 3, Vampyr, Doom TDA. All 3 are Steam Deck Verified. In all 3 reports, i gave detailed repro steps along with proton logs, and the issue was 100% reproducible. In Vampyr, the report was specifically about a regression in Proton 8 or later on the Steam Deck. I have never heard back from Valve on any of these 3 reports. This effort feels like a waste of time now.😫

This. I have a plugin called decky-proton-pulse, and as soon as I started reading this I was excited to maybe work this in some native easy way, but I remembered that so many do these seem to be ignored. Maybe they are not though, and we just don't see what goes in in Valve's world. Perhaps they ingest these etc... for trends and fixes.

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May 01, 2019
Psyonix [Rocket League] is Joining the Epic Family!

"No, really. What does this mean for Rocket League?
In the short term, nothing will change at all! We’re still committed to providing Rocket League with frequent updates that have new features, new content, and new ways to play the game for as long as you’ll have us."

"What happens to the Psyonix team?
We are the same team that we’ve always been, only now, we have the power and experience of Epic Games behind us!"

It's in a corporation's interests to be dishonest and lie to you.

Now that the Linux Gaming community seems like it's getting older, it seems like they are not bamboozled as much.

I remember going solo in opposition to the "Microsoft <3 Linux" campaign reciting 30 years of Microsoft EEE history.

I don't know the particulars around this acquisition, but it feels pointless and scummy to even make a declaration "this is a change in ownership rather than a change in who we are"

This is probably another case of confession through projection, and we know Corpo speak is the inverse of what is stated.

RIP Rocket Leage.

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The duality of man:

• Steam: little-to-no restrictions on what's allowed → "There are too many low-effort games! It's impossible to find anything good to play anymore! They should have restrictions!"


• Flathub: implements restrictions on what's allowed → "They're hostile to developers! They're elitist gatekeepers deciding who gets in! They shouldn't restrict what's allowed!"

If you're in charge of a platform for distributing software – pick your poison, I guess. And best of luck t' ya. 🫡

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPYeah, you'll have to excuse me while I do not follow in this particular apocalypse prophecy cult after the last 200 or so also did not come to pass.

I never did myself, but I always was very aligned with natural science. And what's happening is as obvious as not to touch high power electricity and anyone saying the opposite is just an excuse to continue destroying the environment. The data is public, everyone can study it just like free software, because it is free knowledge. Not trusting in science and not checking itself just makes you sound like these people who believe in apocalypse prophecies.

What I am saying is no prophecy. I speak about real data based estimates. They can be less bad or worse ... the data of last 50 years were always too conservative (the real world data became worse). That also shows that we can compare old prediction with real world changes and know how well our year 2100 prediction is working. I usually would not care if it only affects yourself (just like these apocalypse prophets), but we even see (or experience) negative consequences right now.

It's kind of gotten a bit boring, honestly, the constant fear mongering, moralistic finger wiggling and the proselytizing.

It has nothing to do with fear. It is just a reality and I could write you a book and deliver sources from scientists to each single argument I would write. Boring is this "but my car, my AI, my other thing that I really really want to use, no matter what harm I do with it ... I mean I do no harm at all"...

You seem to have accepted already that people are no longer listening, so I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to achieve.
Maybe this is fun to you, in which case: You do you.

I accepted it, yes. But not because a few people do not listening. The main issue is the capitalism. We would not even talk about climate change any more, if we had a less destructive economy system worldwide. All climate change related fake news come from people who want to make money or for those stupid enough to trust them - so called [useful idiots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot).

Why I am still trying to avoid the worst case? Pretty easy: for the principle.
1) I don't want to be guilty and want to say to next generations "sorry, I tried my best, it was just not enough".
2) Who give up already has lost. When I play PvP on games and it is "clear" that my side loses the battle, 1/10 games will still be won, because I never give up. If all people of my team continue trying, we still win every third "lost game". So if I continue to try and enough people continue trying too, the chance to survive as species is not too bad. The damage until this date still persist for ever (species that are dead, stay dead). Also all the other damage that will recover will require thousands of years (even the damage we already did with 1.5K as the increase amount of nature catastrophes per year).
3) Every 0.1K more also makes our own life worse. Foot becomes more expensive, conflicts in the world can increase (climate refugees etc) and things like nature catastrophes will also increase in amount and intense, which also affects my home land. Enough good reasons to continue the fight against stupidity and egoism.

Anyway, that is a bit too off-topic here. The point is: we do not need to avoid LLM everywhere, but the increase in LLM usage this year will exceed 100 Million tons CO2 emission (probably far above) while all green energy that is used for these data centers is not available for other households (so they even green-wash this number). If we would already produce 100% green energy everywhere, LLM would not be such a big issue as is. But we did not even replace oil with electricity..

Does it matter?

Tell you me. I don't rely on LLM right now and my little usage can be done with a local model that costs my own power bill. People who heavily use it to code stuff (which requires the more 'til most potent models) will probably run in more issue if they build their whole workflow around it.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: TheSHEEEPYou do you. 🤷‍♂️

In other words: "I do not take response for my actions and I am fine with being part of the people destroying the planet and killing 95% of all species on earth." 🤦‍♀️ Great to live on costs of those who are not even born... (I did not even say to stop using LLM entirely).

Yeah, you'll have to excuse me while I do not follow in this particular apocalypse prophecy cult after the last 200 or so also did not come to pass.
It's kind of gotten a bit boring, honestly, the constant fear mongering, moralistic finger wiggling and the proselytizing.

You seem to have accepted already that people are no longer listening, so I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to achieve.
Maybe this is fun to you, in which case: You do you.

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneI did not even say "those who lack the skill", I say those who don't want to lose the benefit of LLMs, but will not be able to pay it any longer, once they have to pay the real costs.

Does it matter?
The outcome is the same - it'll either go away or (more likely) become used a lot less if the costs exceed the use.
Parts of the AI-related issues will definitely resolve themselves.
Others, not so much.

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Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrheaBillionaires are the enemy.
Yes, even Gabe. Sorry fanboys...

Two things can be true at the same time.

We can (and do) critizise Gabe and Valve for some of their business practices, while also supporting other practices.

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@Playingonlinuxphone you can set ddg search assist to "on demand", it does exactly what it implies (no nagging). Also is there a local alternative to search assist or similar tools, say just to re-rank the top 25 results? They are sometimes miraculous.

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Quoting: TuxeeSince I've been playing War Thunder in its native version for many years: Are there any benefits running the Proton version? (Even with all details cranked up to the max I constantly hover around 150 to 200fps on 2560x1600.)

I'm not sure if the Proton version can be used in multiplayer - is Anti-Cheat enabled on it?

Suppose it is. Otherwise a (fixed) "To Battle" wouldn't make any sense at all.

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and now uses wayland by default

"Hell, it's about time" 🚬👨🏼‍🚀

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPYou do you. 🤷‍♂️

In other words: "I do not take response for my actions and I am fine with being part of the people destroying the planet and killing 95% of all species on earth." 🤦‍♀️ Great to live on costs of those who are not even born... (I did not even say to stop using LLM entirely).

People who do bind themselves to AI usage because they lack the skills to do stuff without it, [...]

I did not even say "those who lack the skill", I say those who don't want to lose the benefit of LLMs, but will not be able to pay it any longer, once they have to pay the real costs.

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neat

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BEWARE: This game now maybe one more reason to move to Linux (or Win 11) if you hasn't yet and going to play this game:

This game's Minimum requirements explicibly EXCLUDES Windows 10 - either Windows 11 Home/Pro OS (despite still having some issues) is STRICTLY REQUIRED as minimum OS listed to even run it.

This means - no real ability to run the game without more modern (and possibly noticeably expensive) PC:
1. NO Windows 10 support, whatsoever;
2. NO older/cheaper GPUs support: like NVidia's GTX 9xx/10xx series like GTX 950-980Ti and 1050-1080Ti (1030 in even its DDR5 version is pretty bad as performance for modern games), nor AMD RX 4xx/5xx Series like RX 470/550/570/580. Especially on discontinued NVidia's GPUs on Linux, they might go unusable since Linux' kernel fully stops driver support for old NVidia GPUs at some point.
3. Due to lack of Windows 10 support, this game also rules older PCs with still capable CPUs, like: i5 6500, 6600, i7 6700, i5 7500, or i7 7700 which just CANNOT PASS Windows 11 requirements that will accept ONLY PCs from around 2018 and newer.

Unfortunately, in my country Bulgaria, we're lacking any sales with second-hand decent GPUs from actual verified retailer (not private people) from neither Nvidia nor AMD's with a actual cheap price! All second-hand used GPUs here are only GTX 7xx/9xx/10xx and RX 4xx/5xx - but all of those driver support's - basically DISCONTINUED! ANY Nvidia RTX (even theirs oldest RTX 20x0 series) and AMD's RX 6xx0/7x00/90x0 GPUs all are selling only brand NEW with PRETTY expensive prices... 🤮 (Unfortunately RX 6400 - cheapest sub-75W AMD's GPU is already gone from Bulgarian's physical IT hardware stores here.)

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There was a Blue Archive anime a couple of years ago. I watched the first few episodes and had no idea what the hell was going on there. I guess that's because I never played the game.

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Quoting: ArehandoroEat the rich. Whether they are whining moron or a super yacht owner.

[Although there's historical precedent for that solution,](https://allthatsinteresting.com/johan-de-witt) [the french method seems to be generally dominant.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror)

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: TheSHEEEPThe amounts of legitimate use cases for AI, without letting AI do the entire coding work and produce garbage, is huge.

Is it really "legitimate" to burn the world for such simple tasks? We are in the heaviest phase of the climate change. We cross the 1.5K difference right now and instead of consuming less energy as we should, we do the opposite with so called "AI" and burn more resources than ever, just to do what? Any 0.1K more destroys the earth in a way that is not repairable anymore, even if we could lower the temperature by 0.1K 10 years later. I know the fight is lost, people start using LLM for any tasks in their lives, they also drive cars and fly airplanes as there would be no issue at all. But everyone who does not participate and tries to reduce the footprint should be applauded. So I do with Flathub, even if their reasons are different, the result is the same.
Climate change is the worst part of LLM - even worse than all the real slop productions everyone hates or the LLM tools build in everywhere (yes I speak about you, Copilot).

You do you. 🤷‍♂️

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphonedo you really want to bind yourself to LLMs, which once day become locked behind paywalls that are impossible to pay with an average income? Right now we have 20$/€ per months subscriptions. In future you pay every single token on models that can cost into the thousands or even tenths of thousands per months depending on the usage.

People who do bind themselves to AI usage because they lack the skills to do stuff without it, will indeed have a hard time once/if that comes to pass.
But that is a self-solving issue - those people are just gonna drop out then.
The rest will use a useful tool as far as it will remain useful to them, and affordable. Once it isn't those things anymore, they'll just continue without it.

Although I'm not sure if that will happen first or the bubble burst...

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPThe amounts of legitimate use cases for AI, without letting AI do the entire coding work and produce garbage, is huge.

Is it really "legitimate" to burn the world for such simple tasks? We are in the heaviest phase of the climate change. We cross the 1.5K difference right now and instead of consuming less energy as we should, we do the opposite with so called "AI" and burn more resources than ever, just to do what? Any 0.1K more destroys the earth in a way that is not repairable anymore, even if we could lower the temperature by 0.1K 10 years later. I know the fight is lost, people start using LLM for any tasks in their lives, they also drive cars and fly airplanes as there would be no issue at all. But everyone who does not participate and tries to reduce the footprint should be applauded. So I do with Flathub, even if their reasons are different, the result is the same.
Climate change is the worst part of LLM - even worse than all the real slop productions everyone hates or the LLM tools build in everywhere (yes I speak about you, Copilot). Even worse than the increased prices (and I know many people are just not able to buy replacements - I feel with you, my PC is also not allowed to break any time soon).

Sure, it will probably not visible to anyone, but that is not the point. I think we all would benefit if people would stop using it for any single task and only use it in the few tasks where it really makes a huge difference. I am even using DuckDuckGo lite to avoid LLMs getting activated and burning resources in first place. I am also using LLMs, but as least as possible (and most of the time, because slop-webpages making classic research impossible from time to time).

And for those who are still not convinced (which tells a lot of those people): do you really want to bind yourself to LLMs, which once day become locked behind paywalls that are impossible to pay with an average income? Right now we have 20$/€ per months subscriptions. In future you pay every single token on models that can cost into the thousands or even tenths of thousands per months depending on the usage. I know a journalist who created costs of multiple hundreds of Euro per day (without using them in parallel). So you should at least ask yourself how much you really want to bind yourself to these tools for the moment you have to pay the real prices, plus the profit margin of the company that wins this LLM-race.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyOf course, one needs to actually get a hold of a Steam Controller, first...

My reservation is from May 9, and 3 weeks later no invitation to purchase yet...

I managed to reserve one my for my wife and I under our respective Steam accounts on May 8th (May 9th Australian time) - I even managed to do so a full minute before the reservation time, according to all of our Internet-connected clocks... But still nothing for either of us! 🤬

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Quoting: TuxeeSince I've been playing War Thunder in its native version for many years: Are there any benefits running the Proton version? (Even with all details cranked up to the max I constantly hover around 150 to 200fps on 2560x1600.)

My knowledge is a few months old and not 100% certain even then, but:
Native:
- Multiplayer
Lacking from native, maybe works in Proton:
- VR
- Raytracing (added to native by now)

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I don't get mad about Sweeney's hot takes, and you wouldn't too, if you'd knew he has "crazy scientist" mindset. It doesn't justifies his statements on twitter, but you will just understand that he is a bit out of touch when he gets distracted from math/programming stuff and jumps to discussing current trends.

And as he doesn't go deep in the trends, his hot takes and predictions often, if not always become true in the opposite way of what he thought was to happen. I'd prefer it to stay this way.

Regarding Steam Deck prices, it looks painful indeed, but it still has an additional value that other consoles simply can't give you: it is a general purpose PC without vendor locking. You can run applications on it, you can dock it into a setup with a big display and full sized keyboard. You can even take it to a conference as a backup device for your presentation in case if your laptop gets stolen or lost.

Even if Steam Machine will cost $1500 on launch day, so will do other PCs with similar specs.

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In the end, the issue is of course the one of filtering a deluge of mostly or purely AI-generated slop from legitimate commits.

The amount to sift through on public repositories is huge, and that is generally done by a human - who would then spend significant amounts of time looking at garbage code "produced" by some vibers.
Understandable that that's not a job anyone would want to do willingly, many probably not even for money.

The best workaround I see is to use the defensive tools available, as mentioned previously.
Those can at least filter out the most obvious offenders, and maybe raise flags for some other stuff so humans can then look at it.
It'll still be more than it used to be prior to AI tools...

But yeah, ultimately this issue has not been resolved in any satisfactory way for projects that anyone can send pull requests to.

Maybe the only solution is to no longer allow pull requests from any rando and only allow actually vetted team members to send PRs.
And then maybe collect potential changes "from outside" elsewhere, also in a way that should only allow actual humans to suggest them there.

But how?
🤷‍♂️

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I understand the sentiment and even mostly agree with it.

But the current way it is written is way too restrictive.
This is essentially going to kill Flathub if it remains like that.

Mostly because of this part:

Applications containing AI-generated or AI-assisted code, documentation, or other content are not allowed.

The vast majority of developers use at least AI-assistance in software development nowadays. A few years from now, you basically won't find anyone anymore not doing so (except a few luddites, I guess, but they'll find fewer and fewer gigs).

Besides being completely unable to verify that to begin with.

For example, if I use AI to answer me a bunch of questions about the code base in front of me, then make changes in the code on my own, that would still be AI-assisted.
Same thing if you want to switch some file to a different coding guideline, but let AI do it. Result would be identical to what anyone would do manually, but suddenly it isn't kosher anymore.
Or if you changed 100 lines of code, AI detected a typo and fixed a line for you.
Or even if you ran it on some code to detect issues and fixed those yourself.
The amounts of legitimate use cases for AI, without letting AI do the entire coding work and produce garbage, is huge.

Scratch the AI-assisted part of that requirement and I think it would be quite reasonable.

And this part, too, is just strongly eyebrow-raising:

These submissions can be rejected without any further review.

So someone as much as believes something was even just AI-assisted, bam! - that's it. 🤣

Quoting: Arthur PrazeresYou have defensive ai tools for that, like pangram and winston

They can of course detect some blatantly obvious stuff like entire commits & pull requests, etc. being made with AI.

But you cannot detect assistance, as it may not even lead to any code being written by AI at all.

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Quoting: StellaThose are all software fixes. They need to get the (unchangeable) hardware part right, which they seemingly did.

Hence why I always wait a year. The hardware looks great on paper, but the only way to tell if the software and the support is going to be good is to simply wait it out and see how the community reacts.

So far, it seems that everyone is praising the comfort and customisability, but there are still two glaring criticisms: the lack of support outside Steam and the high price point.

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Victim-complex meganerd retweets pro-piracy conspiracy-peddling anti-woke grifter, to push multi-billionaire video game CEO interpersonal beef, about average people being priced out of personal computing devices, due to probably the biggest cultiest scam in history.

🫡

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Billionaires are the enemy.
Yes, even Gabe. Sorry fanboys...

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Epic Games as a whole and Ti. Sweeney personally are one more tweet, one more game giveaway, one more pathetic lawsuit, one more paid shill away from finally overthrowing Valve, destroying Linux from every computer and mind on this planet, and securing the beautiful world of low-effort slop for the big AI and Chinese data-loving overlords Tim so adores.

Life truly imitates arts when you see people like this. Just an ego-lead contrarian in charge of a big business that, if managed properly, could probably be very beloved and viewed as a viable, profitable, worthy alternative with at least something of its own to offer.

Past years have been so disechanting about leaders of all kinds, often mostly thanks to their own unyielding desire to show themselves to the world and have its attention, only to reveal their unbelievable incompetence and teenage mindset. I can't help but think that the leaders of before were the same kind of petty idiots that will do anything in their power to try and make everyone love them, or fear them, or respect them, so much so that they're willing to make total fools of themselves through nonsensical arguments and proofs and accusations, so many time they start to belive whatever they've been telling others, in the end losing their identity to this twisted version of a human being that is only repulsing and toxic and best put into some most non-leading, unharmful role with no power at all.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyOf course, one needs to actually get a hold of a Steam Controller, first...

My reservation is from May 9, and 3 weeks later no invitation to purchase yet...

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Eat the rich. Whether they are whining moron or a super yacht owner.

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