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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: VreidicusPlaystation never released anything on steam i wanted to play so fine by me, bye bye Playstation..

I can't name you too many of their games I bought either, but I liked Horizon Zero Dawn / Forbidden West.

I love the Horizon series and I have around 325 hours combined across ZD, ZD Remaster, and FW. However, I will definitely not buy a Playstation, even if that means I will not be able to play Horizon 3. I buy only hardware where I can decide what to do with it, what OS to put on it, and where I can freely mod games. This walled garden approach that Sony is now taking will hurt them long term.

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Since I in this phase have rather low (work) capability, I will refrain from engaging to the degree I would wish with the core of the discussion, but accounting for that, I still want to add a bit of value I deem especially high:

First, I, too, want to praise everyone for such a civil, respectful and good-faith discussion of such a loaded and touchy topic 🥰! Especially considering this is the notorious internet! And to their credit, there are different perspectives what level of emotional expression is desirable in argumentation. Some believe that hiding one's feelings behind a over-intellectualized, seemingly-unbiased, impartial form of speech is quite dishonest and thus disrespectful.

Having learned a small bit about cooperative argumentation/discussion, I want to share some advice for having more informative and rewarding discussions:

• Defining terms. It sometimes gets called semantics and often gets skipped because it feels tedious and unrewarding. But a cooperative debate without it spends *a lot* of steam on half-nothing - leading to the realization that parties were misunderstanding each others point and a course-correction.


• Sharing your relevant context/background. Similarly to the previous point, our perspective on someone's arguments shifts noticeably when we realize where the argumentation partner is coming from. Way easier to front load it, rather than recalibrate the last X mins of input/understanding. E.g. knowing the context, you may want to tread more kindly and carefully in some subtopics due to their related difficult personal experience, or you may want to grant the other party more authority in some subtopics due to some of their past experiences, etc. It helps both parties guess at their own and each other's outlier biases as well. Now, this is a one comes with the caveat that - as with all vulnerability - it should be exercised to a mindful degree. Usually it should not be used with emotionally unsafe people (using it against you; spreading your intimate information) or in a permanently-public environment (like a public forum) where again it might be used by malicious agents. Train and trust your intuition.

Specific to this discussion, I agree with many things tuubi and eggrole said, but I was reluctant to "upvote" simply for my respect and partial agreements. Whereas my position aligned with Purple Library Guy's views much more completely. 2 small point I beg to differ in:

• I think the origin of a system (Enclosures for capitalism) doesn't bear much weight on judging the pros & cons of a system (which I felt we were discussing). Then again, it is not a universal that for me my moral beliefs permit temporary more-harm for longer lasting less-harm (which I rather don't believe capitalism to be). Devil is in the details.


• As for what pendulum swings the instability leads to: I broadly agree. I have taken to focusing less on the means (economic system) and more on the end goal (higher degrees of democracy(system for making collective decisions)) labeling things less as left=good right=bad (also because it adds to polarization, which is not the way to a better world imo). It is very debatable though whether a northern star or immediate next step is preferable as a public political focal point, seeing as getting an additional "and capitalism is very anti-democratic" into the public consciousness seems an uphill battle at best

Also I want to comment a bit on the topic of political agency, since I've notably thought and debated on it (if anyone is interested I can share a diagram, I've used to visually explain my stances with caveats noted):

• I agree that our tiny part in influencing governmental (or better yet international 🤩) policy is much more impactful than any individual action (e.g. incl. conscious consumerism aka voting with your wallet). I've come to believe that conscious consumerism and other lifestyle-choice-activism are mostly a means of distraction and polarization of the public (e.g. see BP's "carbon footprint" campaign). If only everyone were educated in the same ways as us, it might work to change the system. But we must take consensus and compromise-building as part of change-making not an immovable barrier to it. Yes, individual action has a non-zero effect - but every action also has an opportunity cost! I.e. same effort/time/money could be better spent on other methods.


• Exercising our right to democratic voting is a better entry-level means.


• Another highly approachable option would be having healthy arguments/discussions with various other people about the topics you care about, especially with people whom you disagree with (within your window of (discomfort) tolerance, ofc).


• And my third conclusion for methods of enacting political change has been, participating in collective action within the means of your privileges. Some people have been handed relevant skills and resources to even organize and carry banners whilst most should take pride in being a smaller cog in that social machine. Attending a protest about a movement/stance you care about is a very praiseworthy achievement!

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Quoting: hardpenguinHmmmmmm Debian Sid has only 550, the Experimental repository has 555, and the official NVIDIA apt repository has... 590.

I think I'll stick to the older driver as long as everything works. Although jumping on the bleeding edge is tempting, as always.

I've tried drivers up to 585 and always returned to 550 because of too many issues. So sticking with the older driver definitely not the worst idea.

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Finally, I waited SO LONG for them to add blur. I had to use OBS virtual camera previously just to blur out my background.

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Hmmmmmm Debian Sid has only 550, the Experimental repository has 555, and the official NVIDIA apt repository has... 590.

I think I'll stick to the older driver as long as everything works. Although jumping on the bleeding edge is tempting, as always.

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Quoting: princechmm but any news on the totally broken XFCE desktop compositor...? Anything later than 570 completely borks it.

I sympathize, I love XFCE although I don't use it anymore. Maybe you can use an alternative compositor like compton instead?

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I've started to use Fluxer for a couple of people, might self host at some point.

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Per the Wikipedia page on PRS

In 2008, PRS for Music began a concerted drive to make commercial premises pay for annual "performance" licences. In one case it told a 61-year-old mechanic that he would have to pay £150 to play his radio while he worked by himself. It also targeted a bakery that played a radio in a private room at the back of the shop,a woman who used a classical radio to calm her horses and community centres that allowed children to sing carols in public.

and

In October 2009, PRS for Music apologised to a 56-year-old shelf-stacker at a village in Clackmannanshire for pursuing her for singing to herself while stacking shelves. PRS for Music initially told her that she would be prosecuted and fined thousands of pounds if she continued to sing without a "live performance" licence. However PRS for Music subsequently acknowledged its mistake.

Seems like a very vomit inducing group of people and their lawyers. They think I should pay them if I play a CD or tape in my own home while doing basic chores. Nothing is really ownership or having a proper license to use it for myself unless they get a cut.

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Man, this is almost even more laughable than the bullshit Shotbolt is throwing around regarding price parity for free (!) Steam-Keys...

Seems the UK has a knack for crazy lawsuits now? 😆

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good old-fashioned copyright trolling. it never ends.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: scainePure greed. Plain and simple. Just a bunch of copyright trolls.

Why be paid for our music once when we can bully storefronts to be paid for the exact same effort multiple times!?

Exactly. It goes beyond storefronts too. These organizations are bureaucratic parasites that unfortunately have been legally sanctioned to do this (at least, in Canada, they have).

I used to sit on a civil government board that oversaw a community hall. Our manager brought to us a demand that the facility pay a fee to cover music played or performed in the facility. This was the first I'd ever heard of such a thing.

The manager investigated further and discovered that not only was there a group with their hands out for playing pre-recorded music or for live performances but there was another parasite demanding "royalties" on behalf of the composers, authors and -- of all things -- the publishers too. Their ability to collect these "royalties" is actually backed by Canadian law. Furthermore, there is some sort of connection to the World Trade Organization as well.

While trying to recall the name of the initial group that contacted us, I discovered that, in Canada, there are FOUR federally-sanctioned nonprofits with their hands in the music royalties pie. It is obscene.

Studies have shown that very little of the fees actually make it to the composers and performers of the music. IMO, it is just a parasitic scam to enable the existence of these trolls.

We have something similar like that here in Sweden, can't remember the name off the top of my head, that gets to take a portion of every storage media sold because it could be used to pirate music...

And surprise surprise, the money goes not to artists but to the large record firms that just pockets it.

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We need to bring the content to other places.
These Bridges can break anytime, can't use official APIs and rely on sold accounts partially.

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I like the smell of a good lawsuit in the morning.

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Not sure if I am imagining things, but to me the dragon quest hd-2d games feel more like sprites plopped in 3d worlds rather than the pop-up 2d world aesthetics of octopath.

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I've been using CachyOS for about a year and so far, it's been great! I have two machines I use for gaming and it hasn't given me too much issues with the games I'm playing. I haven't had the desire to distro hop like I used to do back then now that I've used CachyOS.

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I like Valve, but I'm not giving them any sympathy on this. Lootboxes and gambling suck.

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Honestly when it asked me to make a password after updating I uninstalled it. :/ It should have been something you opt-in to setup.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: Linux_RocksNot about to weep for Valve if they lose.

Yes. I guess it's important to keep in mind that evil deeds don't suddenly become less evil when a company does them that we might otherwise find sympathetic.

Lootboxes or other dark designs have no place in games, and if developers don't change their ways voluntarily, it's perfectly fine to have to courts/lawmakers force them to. Even if it's Valve.

Yep. Totally right. Valve deserves to be held responsible, in this particular case (lootboxes), but the current news is not about lootboxes.

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Quoting: skaplon

As a recommended driver it means "This driver meets the quality levels applied to Windows drivers that pass testing in Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL), therefore providing the same attention to driver reliability, robustness, and performance for non-Windows operating systems (e.g., Linux)" according to NVIDIA.

So we need to wait a bit more so it gets to the bare Linux quality levels to actually pay it any attention

Here's some very fresh examples of that WHQL quality:

https://www.techpowerup.com/346802/nvidia-releases-geforce-595-59-whql-game-ready-drivers

https://www.techpowerup.com/346977/nvidia-geforce-v595-71-drivers-reportedly-restricts-voltage-on-rtx-50-series-gpus

All issues got fixed in an emergency release they dumped outside of their regular release channels, and without bothering with WHQL.

Nvidia drivers are so bad that you should not be touching them until you know it's safe to do so.

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Modernize Live Media, the one feature I was interested in, got pushed to 45 or later due to it not being near ready.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2139918

Not sure why I am seeing multiple sites (Phoronix too) publishing this old/wrong info.

Do they just post the press release without verifying? Yeah they do.

PLM is showing black screen with cursor for me.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksNot about to weep for Valve if they lose.

Yes. I guess it's important to keep in mind that evil deeds don't suddenly become less evil when a company does them that we might otherwise find sympathetic.

Lootboxes or other dark designs have no place in games, and if developers don't change their ways voluntarily, it's perfectly fine to have to courts/lawmakers force them to. Even if it's Valve.

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Not about to weep for Valve if they lose. lol

(Is there an echo in here? :P)

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Not about to weep for Valve if they lose. lol

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Quoting: BumadarValve should talk to Sony, if a hacker can do [this (sorry its on X)](https://x.com/theflow0/status/2030011206040256841) imagine what they can do together 😀

For anyone who cares and didn't know - there are a number of sites rehosting/mirroring content from Twitter/X (and some other popular, yet objectionable sites). E.g. replace x.com with nitter.net in the address bar (used to be a bit easier pre-Musk) like so: [nitter.net/theflow0/status/2030011206040256841](nitter.net/theflow0/status/2030011206040256841)

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Come to the CachyOS side. We have cookies ^^

Friendly and helpful community. Works stable for me (only one time my internet broke because the systemd maintainer in Arch desided to acticate a broken feature).
And it feels super fast. Seems the CPU specific packages really make a difference.

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Cool, now hopefully they'll add tester jobs on their hiring page. I tried to get a job there, cause they're here in Detroit, but didn't even get an interview. D:

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As a recommended driver it means "This driver meets the quality levels applied to Windows drivers that pass testing in Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL), therefore providing the same attention to driver reliability, robustness, and performance for non-Windows operating systems (e.g., Linux)" according to NVIDIA.

So we need to wait a bit more so it gets to the bare Linux quality levels to actually pay it any attention

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hmm but any news on the totally broken XFCE desktop compositor...? Anything later than 570 completely borks it.

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Harry: This doesn't change anything.

Spoiler, click me

couldn't immediately find a photo of the scene so a text reference will have to do.

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I am not a native English speaker, but I doubt this being a reason why I didn't understand the point of this lawsuit, nor almost any sentence of this legal bureaucratese nonsense.

I can see the lawsuit will fall apart, because Valve doesn't have anything to do with it.
Developers and publishers make games, they hire composers to write music, or buy licences for existing music. Then they publish games in Steam, claiming all content in games was obtained legally. What Valve can do with it, except take down games that break law, when they get DMCA complaint?

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