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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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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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