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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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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: 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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Hi, I hope Valve wins, and this parasite has to pay Valve's legal costs plus a very large compensation payment

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I hate lootboxes, but at least Valve allows to sell them on steam marketplace, and add funds to steam wallet. Weekly drops from CS2 funded almost all games i bought in the last 4 years lol. So for me it is a mutually profitable business.

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The PLM sounds nice!

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Quoting: mr-victoryHow are you self hosting? Is the server on your home network or on a hosting provider?

Quoting: SlayerTheChikkenYeah I'm self hosting matrix now.

In my opinion it's not really "self hosting" if it's not running on a machine you control, might as well slap it on AWS with cloudflare in front like everything else then :P That's just a personal opinion though..

But I'm using this https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm as they finally added Element Call support which was the last major puzzle piece.

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How are you self hosting? Is the server on your home network or on a hosting provider?

Quoting: SlayerTheChikkenYeah I'm self hosting matrix now.

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Quoting: middle_pickupLMAO Just in time for everyone to delete their Discord account.

Yeah I'm self hosting matrix now with https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm

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Quoting: middle_pickupLMAO Just in time for everyone to delete their Discord account.

Leaving it is like leaving whatsapp (or telegram or whatever depending on where you live) you end up deserted, though can be done if you just chat with your friends and aren't in any communities

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI did notice that video backgrounds were a thing recently while video-chatting with my brother. Nice to see that finally happen.

What does doing "\@everyone" actually do? It's unclear from the patch note.

It was working the same as @everyone (mentioning everyone giving them a notification), but without warning you that you're sending a very broad notification

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Quoting: SlayerTheChikkenJust letting you guys know the reason for the removal might have to do with it being defeated again, they are likely removing it from older titles before the high seas get to it for reputational reasons. Just speculation though.

I was actually thinking the same thing. voices38 has been doing God's work.

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Valve: "Wins" case against Rothschild patent troll
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Rothschild global influence:](https://files.catbox.moe/ba3ari.mp4)

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I did notice that video backgrounds were a thing recently while video-chatting with my brother. Nice to see that finally happen.

What does doing "\@everyone" actually do? It's unclear from the patch note.

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Sounds similar to what Owlcat did right?

Speaking of Stardock: Elemental Reforged leaves EA next week!! wooo!! Man the releases are just so many. TIME. WHERE IS MY TIME. I NEED MORE.

Today was Greedfall 2, and next week is Elemental Reforged. And I have like a dozen others that are recent too!

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I always thought the very definition of "indie" is NOT having a publisher...

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Quoting: Eocene84I mean, Valve knew what they were doing all this time. They had to have known they were playing with fire. They've been playing Russian roulette with this stuff, and the bullet may have finally struck. They could have and should have stopped years ago, but I have a feeling greed overruled rationality, as it usually does.

That being said, I doubt this lawsuit gets anywhere near billions. Hopefully it puts an end to this practice though. Hey, if Valve loses this revenue stream, then maybe they will be incentivized to make new games.

These are my exact feelings as well. Lets put an end to this miserable practice. It's for sure hurting people.

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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.

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