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A company like Framework probably attracts many Linux users with their philosophy and all that. So it's not necessarily that surprising.
But they're not that small of a company anymore. Which means we're talking about quite a decent number of Linux users regardless.
Gotta love seeing a company advocating for repair rights, respecting the customer and embracing Linux being successful.

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AI in snap: see "slop in slop"

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Ubuntu's track record of allowing fine control over some features does not bode well. We still have to jump through hoops to remove "ubuntu advantage" on systems it is irrelevant (and no, it's not "completely harmless" to leave it there).

If they go in a way that gives full control to the user, with like a checkbox/prompt before enabling something new, who cares. If they go in a way that forces things on because "it's ok, trust us bro" and "who cares, it's just a little harmless extra nail in the coffin", then no. And, well, with Canonical really liking to force things over… we'll see I guess.

I know there are alternatives out there, but the less people will care about this, the more it will become prevalent. And when every major distro decides that it's ok to do that, we're screwed.

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If it's local inference and there is no tool access, then why not. But running an agent of your desktop with access to the internet and tools is completely insane. I use AI heavily, but it's all confined in a server in restricted containers where they can't do any damage if they eventually get taken advantage off.

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IMO 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.

And only the two first features should be active by default and opt-out with the first page of the installer asking if you want to keep them active or not. And the third features being opt-in with no model pre-uploaded (but uploading a local model being easy).

Because they are accessibility features.

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It seems they're going to shove AI down our throats whether we like it or not.

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Not surprising, given Ubuntu's track record...

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I didn't leave Windows for more AI in my operating system!

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Good bundle

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Man, the first one is the most horrifying game I've ever played.
Started it thrice, stopped it thrice and never gonna play it again, because it totally stresses me out.
After playing it for two hours I need a week off to calm down 🙈
Thus, great game, just not for me. 😆

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI own 9 XBONE controllers, 4 DS4s, 3 Steam v1 Controllers, and maybe 3 dozen 8bitdo mod and retro controllers.

That is a lot! Crazy! I never would... oh, don´t mind, i just opened the drawer with all my small retro- and audio gizmos. Yes. Okay. I want one to! :)

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Hopefully it is released for my bday in May and I can have an excuse for the purchase 😆

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Hype: The Time Quest

Goodness me, now there's a blast from the past. POP3D as well... reading the list is like stepping through a time portal.

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Quoting: suchLet's not forget that $99 does not include tax, so the actual price is actually higher.

Dollar sits pretty low these days, so still just over a hundred euro. Expensive, but not too bad if it's a quality controller. Isn't this thing trackable by the Frame? VR controllers are 150 euro, so it's still a good distance away from that.

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Last Night Last Call reminds of Red Strings Club mixed with the Ace Attorney series, promising!

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Wow - i usually am not too big of a fan of most survivors...but this demo really hooked me!
Curious about the long term motivation, but if the price is not too steep, this will be the first survivor i actually intentionally buy instead of just getting it in a bundle xD

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Reminder that PipeWire is now a Snap, so if you remove snapd, your system will be completely silent. I found that amusingly funny 😆

But seriously: packaging PipeWire as a Snap makes no sense to me. I'm not an expert though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

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nice, 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.

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pleeeaaase valve I NEED THIS

my xbox's kinda busted...

I'm playing on keyboard and mouse, I wanna get a controller out...

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I own 9 XBONE controllers, 4 DS4s, 3 Steam v1 Controllers, and maybe 3 dozen 8bitdo mod and retro controllers.

I anticipate Steam Controller to replace all of them simple because it will Work out Of Box, Steam Input is so damn good, and it has everything my Steam Deck has.

Valve if you're listening, in addition to the Black, please release a White Steam Controller, a Half-Life Orange Controller and some other Special Edition Colors -- I plan to buy multiple and need for IRL players to be able to visually differentiate between their controller, and mine.

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The original SC was $49.99 on release in 2015. Adjusted for inflation it would cost around $70 today, if I'm not mistaken.

I guess the new one is a little bit pricey, but nowhere near as expensive as Xbox Elite controllers or similar premium models.

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While I'd like it to be less, I don't think it's necessarily overpriced. I'm under the impression it's relatively well-built and repairable, it has IR beacons for VR tracking, it has the newer TMR thumbsticks, the touchpads from the Steam Deck that are supposed to be quite good...

I'd blame the broader economy, currency strength, component prices, expected sales volume loss by all the people who've been laid off not buying new gaming hardware, etc.

It's not like I'd want Valve to have made it "cheaper" in some way, that'd be worse.

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I was pretty disappointed to hear that the controller would be $99. But looking at other controllers on the market with less features, I didn't realise they were also in and around that price point (I thought a standard DualSense and Xbox Controller were £30-40 at most). My original Steam Controller was £50 and I remember thinking that was pretty expensive at the time, but I did it because I knew it was good hardware.

I guess given the price of other similar hardware on the market, it's not as overpriced as I was thinking. Before comparing prices and before reading this thread, I bawked at the idea of spending more than £50 on a controller at absolute maximum. But I guess that's how it is nowadays when buying first-party. Plus, as others have said, the features of this controller and the fact that it's made by Valve, and because it's exactly what I want (the Steam Deck controls but on a standalone controller I can use on my PC), I'm still going to buy it.

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Quoting: ranger671... I only ask you to wonder why?...

For the simple reason that RUST (and I say this as a die hard C developer) contrary to every other language out there have the potential to give security assurances of the resulting binaries. And having that assurances in the core set of utilities is a good thing.

Secondly since these are new implementations while the old GNU ones are extremely conservatively coded, they can use new and modern algorithms to make these utilities much much faster. For most users this will be an insignificant benefit but for some heavy script users there can be quite huge benefits.

Now the main issue is that some of these utilities are not 100% feature complete yet, but then if no one will ever put them into a distribution then the road to get there will be even longer.

The change of license is highly unfortunate but is something the upstream developers of these utilities decided to to.

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Let's not forget that $99 does not include tax, so the actual price is actually higher.

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95% of people agree with the verified rating for titles? I find this extremely hard to believe. Did they just survey like 20 people at the valve office?

The "verified" program is completely worthless for me. It REGULARLY verifies some games that are completely broken and difficult or impossible to play, while not verifying completely wonderful easy to play games. In its current form I really just wish it didn't even exist at all. I just ignore it completely and head straight to the discussion forum and do a search for "deck" and read up. There are LOTS of other gamers in my same boat because every single I do this there are lots of other posts / threads asking this same question. Thus, I find it extremely hard to believe 95% of gamers think this situation is fine.

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nice! Every since this was suggested in the forum here, I've been using it on most of my games. Using it right now for Pragmata. The steam overlay itself is too buggy (I can't believe it even exists in this form) and this mangohud works all the time no fuss. Love it.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Johnologue

Quoting: kuhpunktPrice leaked via an early review: $99

Damn. I was hoping for closer to 70.

Wait for a Steam sale, I guess. 😃

Quoting: scaineA hundred dollars will hopefully translate to around £75 or so, maybe less.

A dualsense (PS5) controller is still £65 and doesn't have the dual touchpad or rear buttons, so I'm pretty comfortable with that pricing if it pans out as I hope.

or around 84,45€, but well I think that one is gonna sell no matter of the price tag is 100€ or 70€.
Maybe later iterations will be priced a bit cheeper.

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A hundred dollars will hopefully translate to around £75 or so, maybe less.

A dualsense (PS5) controller is still £65 and doesn't have the dual touchpad or rear buttons, so I'm pretty comfortable with that pricing if it pans out as I hope.

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Quoting: suchIt doesn't (apparently) have all the features a, say, Sony controller would have, and it won't replace a mouse.

Let's see now, according to the announcement:

• Capacitive touch magnetic thumbsticks


• Grip sense to activate/deactivate gyro


• Twin touchpads with haptic motors


• 4 assignable back buttons

Basically seems like Sony's Dualsense but more to me, and it could conceivably replace a mouse in the same way a keyboard nub or trackball can.

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