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Because of the size of most LLMs, we simply couldn’t ship them in the installer anyway, so opting out at first run is simple: they just won’t be there.

I was also thinking this yesterday. Especially if they’re going to support any language other than English, including the models in the installer directly would create a huge amount of bloat. It wouldn’t have made any sense for it to be opt-out.

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Quoting: PyrateReally hope Mihoyo or whatever they're called now go the Stellar Blade route and make a traditional game for once.

I am afraid they won't. Let's face it, their shady designs are a lot more profitable than traditional games. There is a reason why 100% of the entire mobile market is based on shady designs.

It's not only that, though. I played both Genshin and Honkai: Star Rail for years. In the end they lost me because of their writing going completely bonkers in too many ways. In Genshin, their world building stopped making sense a while ago. They just add stuff whatever and whenever they feel like that, no matter if it makes sense for the setting. In Star Rail, their latest chapter was incredibly convoluted for no apparent reason, and the story stopped making any sense after the first 30 minutes or so, and had what I consider one of the top 5 dumbest endings in gaming history. The first chapter (Belobog) was amazing, but their current lead writer has no clue how to construct a believable plot, really.

In the end, maybe my biggest hope is someone else with deep pockets delivering a good single player anime RPG.

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Great. Help me rename, tag, and sort all of my photos and other images.

Same with text files and other documents. Fix my Markdown mistakes. Convert MD to basic HTML to post on forums. Provide a TOC from headers on longer articles I've written.

Help me manage my workspaces and windows. Prompt me with sensible window rules automatically and nudge me to be organized. Take a look into which Librewolf profile I'm using and ensure it stays in the proper Activity.

There are simple, useful usecases for more advanced, personalized computer help tools.

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Think this is pretty much DOA, given closed sourced and based on Unity. Not that big of a deal these days though, just disappointing to be honest given the original ZSNES.

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I'm very concerned about this platforms future to be honest. As Liam said, the performance is absolutely atrocious. I have a Ryzen 7 5800X and a RX 9070 and even in the most visually simple games, I struggle to hit 30-40 fps at 1440p. I'm also worried that the platforms focus on monetizing your creations is going to lead to a Roblox situation where the platform is filled with simple predatory mobile-like games or cheap clones of more popular games to make a quick buck. Heck, when I was playing the open beta a few months back, things were already that way.

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Their first post was clear enough - local, optional and easy to shut off. The sad part is really where they thought their second post would stop the rage coming from the same people who already didn't read the first. It only takes "AI" somewhere in the first line to make these people go reach for the pitchforks. Objectivity and reason has left this discussion a while ago.

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Unfortunately even if it were half this price I'd struggle to justify it given my wireless Xbone controller w/ rechargeable batteries has been working well for almost 14 years at this point. I hope they sell well as they seem to be building on really good fundamentals.

I feel like Steam keeps narrowly missing me with their hardware releases in terms of price/features (Steam Machine vRAM, Steam Deck availability, not into VR w/ the Steam Frame, etc.), which is a shame because they do good work.

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FSR4 support alone would make the steam deck 2 way better than the first

but who knows: maybe valve comes up with an upscaler for the new steam machine, which also works on the deck

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Not being open source (and especially being based on Unity) makes this almost DoA, doesn't it?...some of those features are pretty neat, but that seems like a very odd choice in today's emulation landscape.

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I've really been jonesing for a Steam Deck over the past year, as it was either that or snake cabling under the walls/flooring to the basement TV room. This news might have me content to wait rather than get the now 3-4 year old console, especially considering they've been out of stock here for over 5 months now. Hope they keep the good work up!

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Quoting: spacemonkeyToo expensive for a controller I want, but don't need

This is exactly me. I only ever use controller gaming on the couch with my buddy, and we have two 8bitdo controllers that work perfectly fine and combined cost LESS than this single valve controller. Wow that price.

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So we've been working back from silicon advancements and architectural improvements

So basically a guarantee SD2 will be arm based? Especially with their recent advances in fex?

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Man Crying Suns was (is) sooooooo good. I have high hopes for this as well. Please be good!

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Quoting: Liam DaweWhen I eventually get one, it will be the true size test. I have tiny hands.

From what I have seen it looks perfectly fine for small hands. I am more afraid it will feel tiny in my enormous mole hands xD Guess I will see when I get one. I really like the Steam Decks ergonomics so I think the controller should fit as well.

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Are Canonical and Mozilla the same place? LOL it seems like they are doing the exact same things step by step. And by "same exact things" I mean "stupid dumb bullshit nobody asked for but is being forced down our throats".

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Hmmm this all sounds wonderful except for the closed source. I wonder why. Oh well, next time I want to play a snes game, we will probably use this!

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I last played this nearly two years ago! 8 hours I put into it in that early stage. It had some potential, but the confusing turn-order manipulations, and slightly clunky UI (like you could only drag connections from one side, I think?) made it a little underwhelming.

Looking forward to giving it another shot!

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Looks absolutely wild. Another wishlist! ANOTHER!

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I definitely see that board rooms are genuinely enthusiastic about genAI and want to see it adopted everywhere, usually for "efficiency gains" (and I'll put aside for another discussion that this almost always means, but is never explicit said, "firing staff").

So there's a massive disconnect between these higher-management decision-makers, and the people who actually use the product that the decision-makers influence. Even the slightest awareness from these board execs would have prevented the need for Seager's hurried clarifications. He genuinely must have thought - "whoa boy, people are gonna LOVE this!" and out comes the press release.

Then, suddenly, bafflement from Seager/Canoncial, and damage control.

I'd say it's embarrassing, but that makes it sound like a little "whoopsadasie, sorry about that". Instead, this is deeply disrespectful. They're making decisions about a well-loved project, but without any awareness of a) the people that use it, or b) the complete shitstorm that MS went through just a handful of months ago by doing a very, very similar thing (yeah, yeah, it's local models, blah blah).

And I know this... that they have no awareness... because otherwise these simple clarifications wouldn't have been necessary at all - they'd have been explicitly mentioned in the initial release.

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Looks fine as a kind of grown up Roblox, but...

Publish to Steam: Coming soon... take your game standalone on Steam, royalty-free.

Urgh. Like finding quality on Steam isn't hard enough. Christ.

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Valve is not a perfect company but at least they have an admirable approach to making hardware.

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Hell yeah, I'll be checking this out over the weekend.

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Quoting: tmtvlBecause other people have already called out good old Dungeon Siege, now I'm curious: is the second image Sacred?

yeah is sacred from gog

added games name in main post

😀

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I played this last year using their launcher, so unless they changed anything since then, this should work a-okay under Linux. I remember it actually worked brilliantly and read that it worked day zero on Linux in the Beta tests.

Really hope Mihoyo or whatever they're called now go the Stellar Blade route and make a traditional game for once. Their teams talent and passion is immensely evident, but it's unfortunately shrouded in FOMO tactics and gambling schemes. Zenless Zone Zero is a love letter to western entertainment, japanese animation and storytelling in general, would kill for a non-FOMO version.

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“Opt-in” and “easy to remove”…
Yes, I can see how these tidbits of information were impossible to incorporate in the original press release and had to be moved to a separate damage control “clarification”. They are just too big. /s
I agree with @syylk: it is silly to observe that these two words were left out of the original release. Not that it would make any difference to me, I won’t touch their distribution with a 10-foot-pole.

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With the current situation, they daring to give a date for the SD2 would be quite crazy.

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Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: Cley_FayeUbuntu'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.

usually I would think that on any linux system managing packages and services is so straightforward that it's hard to truly enforce anything. But then what if you have something like a snap daemon running that basically does whatever it wants on its own like windows does, and disabling it may also have consequences you don't want? hard to say but it's a bit suspicious (also I'm not really sure what people already have to do to "debloat" ubuntu cause I never really used it)

Debloating ubuntu these days is relatively trivial, and the "bloat" part is largely exaggerated. The "bloat" here is an extra package/software manager, and a nagging screen that pops up in terminal, both of which can be removed with relative ease. It's laughably little compared to a windows debloating process: snapd and his ilk can be removed with a few commands, and the ubuntu advantage can be removed by installing a fake empty package instead.

Still, the intent is there; ubuntu advantage in particular is a direct dependency of most metapackage that ensure you get a usable system, and not using these metapackages is a pain in the butt. Since we're talking open source, there's no way to make things absolutely inevitable, but Canonical sure could get very aggressive with extra layers of bullshit, which they did not do so far.

It's not ideal, but even now, I think the situation is relatively fair to everyone. KDE Neon, for example, explicitly built over Ubuntu LTE, have such an empty package to disable this part.

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Ah, snaps. PERFECT. Go for it. Woo! Go go go. Since I remove everything snap from every installation, I'm a-ok with that.

*ahem*

More seriously, if they stick to their word about opt-in, visible onboarding, and all that, there's little room to complain for. Sure, it's another piece in the "AI everywhere", but the option is likely to always have materialized somewhere; better have it with full human control.

At least, as long as they stick to their words, which is not granted.

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I find always... uhm... interesting to see how some corporations need to run to the damage control room right after announcements (that they fully know are cause for concern), and they rush to "clarify" only after the fecal matter meets the bladed air blower.

But never before that.

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I am satisfied with my GameSir Tegenaria, but I will buy one. I love the Deck's controller layout, and that's what this is.

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