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Getting flashbacks to the absolute shitshow 2 years ago when Fedora had another brilliant proposal that people went to war over, I thought I recognized Fabios name from the discussions. If you forgor, perhaps purged your memory banks or just live under rock-sized boulders, you may interwebsearchnaningans the following: F40 Change Request: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)

I saw the writing on the wall then and abandoned Fedora. It's unfortunate because the software is great but the developers have become toxic to the user and say what you want but there is a clear influence by RedHat and it's not a good one. It's totally legitimate for users to say they will leave if they feel abandoned by the product and Fedora is abandoning the well being and needs of the users. They are becoming like Microsoft where they think they know what is in the users best interest better then the users themselves do. Anything they decide to do is correct because THEY THINK it is in the best interest of the users even if the users don't. Some of these developers seethe with contempt for users while claiming to be looking out for their best interests. It's fine if you're going to have that perspective, it's your right. But it's against the history and values of what Fedora used to be. Granted they've removed some of the privacy language since the telemetry fiasco but at this point they might as well say it's made by developers, for Redhat but you're free to use it if you want. I've comfortably settled in Debian since then and I'm much happier.

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Glad it's the series! I have a 1070 and when in built it 6 years ago, I was expecting to keep it for 8-10 years.. oh well. It still runs everything I want to play (and probably almost everything on the market). I guess I should research AMD's offerings and see what's out there. Hopefully nothing too expensive, lol!

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Flatpak ain't the answer this time either.

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Interesting. I've heard of pcsxr but not of pcsxc2.

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Don't you think Flatpak will face the same problem as Ubuntu and Fedora?

I do not understand what you want to say by this? You mean removing 32bit support from flatpak?

Well if this should ever be the case. Then I would agree with all of your denying the removal of 32bit. For me Flatpak is all about compatibility. But I do not see this happening any time soon (hope this will age well). But forcing every distribution to drag around 32bit libs just for Steam ... I don't think Valve should be allowed to hold us all hostage with this.

I mean they [Valve] can do 64bit. Apple already forced them to do so for MacOS as they nuked 32bit a long time ago (With no compatibility, Linux at least has it)

If you visit Steam for Linux forums regularly, you see people having all sort of problems with Flatpak, like no access to other hard drives or the microphone not working. I'm sure this all is solvable, but it does create additional problems for people that the "pure native" (I'm missing a good expression here.) version does not have.

No surprise this is what a sandbox is suppose to do. There are indeed ways to solve this.

a) Valve to update Steam to make use of Protals or
b) To grand the missing access using Flatseal or KDEs build-in application permission tool

The first one would not just make it work more streamlined with Flaptak but also make it much more distribution and desktop environment agnostic.

While other than grand access to additional drives I never had any interferences with flatpak as a whole. Mic, Webcams, Capture cards, Stream Decks etc. do work fine though.

I think this whole discussion would be a lot more calm if ppl would have adopt Flatpak at a larger scale and therefore knew how to use it.

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Don't you think Flatpak will face the same problem as Ubuntu and Fedora?

Why would it? That's antithetical to the concept of Flatpak itself. The purpose of it is to provide sandboxed environments for applications that contain the exact dependencies they need. These dependencies are not installed to the system resources directory (/usr) like typical libraries, and it would make absolutely no sense to disallow the use of i386 libs since they aren't actually touching the base OS. Also, the other things you described are trivial problems to work around. The Steam forums are going to be filled with Windows users, so of course they're not going understand it. If they had any semblance of understanding, they wouldn't be asking for help on the Steam forums. Y'know, a traditionally unreliable source of technical information.

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Cast n Chill
Keep Driving

will probably get into some Signalis on the upcoming trip we have planned.

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They still do get the next driver. The next driver series. So I think it sounds more dangerous than it is at the moment.

That's not what this article says though... It explicitly states that NVIDIA will be ending driver support for the aforementioned cards.

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Wow, this actually looks really good. I'm not a big tactical gamer but might need to make an exception for this one. They certainly nailed the feels.

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First they charge more money and now with the latest bundle from today (1st July) ALL items/keys have an expiry date:

Must be redeemed by July 1st, 2026 by 10:00 AM Pacific Time.

Sick move. Previously this only happend for selected titles probably where the publisher forced them to do but now it appears to be their.. wait for it.. choice?

I wonder if this is against the law (at leats in the EU) to just take away things from you that you actually bought.

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Does the 1650 series not count as Pascal?

When Turing came out there was market demand for chips on the new architecture but without ray tracing capability so the price could be lower; that's the 1600 series.

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Does the 1650 series not count as Pascal? Apparently it's Turing, so I get to avoid the end of support for now

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@Leahi84

I was in the retail computer industry at that time. I kept having to reassure customers that the computers we were selling were not affected by the problem. I could not believe how the media blew things up completely out of proportion. But, then, given the media's behavior since then, I am not all that surprised anymore.

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I have a Pascal GPU. I knew it had to happen eventually. At least we're getting some decent advance warning. It has been nice having a GPU under active driver support for a while...

I really hope that Nvidia hands over the support for these GPUs to the NVK team and does whatever's necessary to open up full access to these chips as well. If they're not going to support them, then at least give the community what it needs to support them in Nvidia's place.

I know, I'm not going to hold my breath but a guy can hope...

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>2038 is the hard cut-off date for 32-bit applications. After this date, 32-bit applications will not be able to measure time accurately.

At least we know about this so far in advanced, and since it's Linux it likely won't blow up on the news or anything and create public panic like Y2K did. I was 15 when 2000 happened and it was insane how much end of the world stuff was going on to do with Y2K that ended up not happening. Never want to go through that again.

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They still do get the next driver. The next driver series. So I think it sounds more dangerous than it is at the moment.

And the 580 branch will be carried in distro repositories for a very long time, just like all the other legacy branches.

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This looks pretty cool. That whole Gorman scene from Aliens - "What are we supposed to use... harsh language??". I love it. There had better be a "Game Over Man" joke in there somewhere!

10 days to go! Damn.

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Does streaming from my main PC count?

It does as far as I'm concerned, but doesn't for Steam's year-end stats.

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Most reviews I've seen are pretty clear that spice (the most important late game resource) can only be gathered in a meaningful amount in the PvP zone, where smaller groups get annihilated by large guilds.

I don't feel like pouring dozens of hours in a game where I will be stuck in a dead end situation.

First of all, you don't need spice for anything if you're PvE focused. All the PvE content can be cleared with the next best tier of items.

Even as a solo player, farming spice is pretty chill if you don't go for the biggest fields. And even if you do get caught, the only thing you will lose is the spice you farmed that session. Ornithopter can be instanly stored in your backup tool, where it cannot be damaged or eaten by the worm. And for farming you can wear a trash stillsuit, so you don't even care about being eaten by the worm.

And that was before the latest patch, which turned 60% of the endgame into PvE zone. And even top tier rocket launcher equipped can never catch the basic thopter with a storage module now, much less with boosters.

If you don't participate in endgame PvP, then you will not need to remake your stuff. So you can just spend a week farming for the MK6 equip you don't even need for PvE and never enter Deep Desert again, if you don't want to.

The game has a good story and 100 hours of pure PvE gameplay. If you want to skip all that, because of PvP concerns, it's your loss.

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One of my favorite emulators.

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What have you been playing recently?

I bought the first Assassins Creed on a whim and enjoyed it alot more than I thought I would - I have the second lined up to get to soon. Currently close to finishing Red Dead Redemption and also liking it alot more than I expected to. I kinda dropped out of gaming for most of that gen and I missed some really good things.

Does streaming from my main PC count? Got extended time off for the upcoming holiday so I'm gearing up to finally start on Clair Obscur.

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I had the same issue as Pyrate a while ago. After switching to the flatpak version it worked perfectly fine.

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On deck I've been playing Okami HD. I chose that to play in the garden (fleeing the indoor heat) because it's relatively bright and games like Little Nightmares are just to dark to play outside on a standard steam deck.

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What have you been playing recently?

I played through Old Skies, the Wolfenstein games, and Planet of Lana, with a little bit of Tempopo. The little one's played Spyro and Jelly Car Worlds.

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HDR streaming theough Sunshine broke for me and this has been the case for a while. Never bothered to try and fix. Maybe I should look into it today.

Thanks for bringing the news of this big update to my attention.

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10xx still covers around %10 of Steam survey and is more than enough for some people. They got the cut too early and new Mesa drivers can't properly support them due to no GSP.

They still do get the next driver. The next driver series. So I think it sounds more dangerous than it is at the moment.

(It gets closer to my GTX 1660S though...)

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10xx still covers around %10 of Steam survey and is more than enough for some people. They got the cut too early and new Mesa drivers can't properly support them due to no GSP.

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All codes have been sent out :)

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As far as I know the main issue isn't that we can't reclock the GPU (I some where heard that either the 9xx or the 10xx series can be reclocked) but that we can't change the voltage which makes the reclocking meaningless.

IIRC, the problem was controlling the fan itself. If it can be controlled separately, like in a laptop or something, it could work.
I roughly remember a Nouveau dev running Hollow Knight smoothly on one of these "non-reclockable" GPUs that way.

The overall idea is the same though. Nouveau devs cannot control the parts they need to control to run these cards faster.

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How to install it?

$ sudo apt install mangohud



Yes, yes, I know it says so here:

Certain distributions also have a mangohud package in their repositories, but they're not always up to date. And the install method is different for each individual distribution. The above method covers all.

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