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What is the purpose of the AI Studio, even? Is this announced anywhere?

(after clicking some links)

hmm they have 4 job listings:

* AI Specialist (image generation)
* Reinforcement Learning Engineer (Game Automatic Play Balance Optimization)
* Language Model Engineer
* Potential Diffusion Model Engineer
Cygames Al Studio Inc.

My interpretation is that they are trying to create in house machine learning and generative AI tools like how large studios have their in house engines. Trying to be optimistic, they may attempt to solve ethical issues caused by usage of 3rd party art in training of publicly available (off the shelf) models by developing and using their own models. Time will tell.

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Quoting: emphyI would vastly prefer for gog to spend the resources on officially supporting existing open source efforts such as heroic, minigalaxy, and lutris.

I would prefer that, too. We all learned not to have Galaxy available and relied on other solutions instead. Lutris in my case. I have no desire for another game library management tool. I got Steam and Lutris, and that's enough for me.

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Not that it needs saying again, but it kind of does.

We want Passion over Profits.

To know someone, somewhere actually cared about the 'product' they were shipping and not just sales figures. Ai has no soul, and it's an insult to the people spending their hard earned cash on something that they want to collectively share with the Artists who put their heart and soul into it.

If Ai has a soul then it's a stolen one.

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Long overdue. I'd go as far as to say: too little, too late.

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Gen AI isn't used in our products (meaning currently). We're only making an AI studio, which would then lead to gen AI being used in our products :(

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I hope Umamusume series won't be enshittified too soon.

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On the GOG YT channel he's talking how Steam ain't all that great (<cough> Galaxy <cough>) and how it's time to start... nibbling at the competition, primarily Steam. He's not wrong, but if Linux support is supposed to drive said nibbling I envision another failure. Valve is the funding/driving force behind mainstream Linux gaming, GOG can - at best - reach remora status to Valve's shark... ness here. Not that I'd mind solid, actual competition.

That aside... for starters, Galaxy needs a rework. Even with that rework, I don't see how it can touch Steam with these oldies that are hacked together to somewhat function on a modern OS. It's a lot of work to not really get that much closer to the Steam (imperfect, sure) ecosystem in that regard. And that's the spine of GOG's business. Indies, then? They've already tried that.

On a more personal note, the guy strikes me as a poser with a mid-life crisis... and with the ability to secure not insignificant funding, and some contacts in CDPR.

According to an insider from back in the day he wasn't playing that many games during CDP's later publishing times already, then he had a fairly publicised mental breakdown in the CDPR days (which was a tough time, yeah) complete with soul searching in The Ancient Orient etc. Now he's securing (apparently) external funding for some new retro toys and he's wearing retro t-shirts to convince people he is totes of the hood, dawg, yo.

I dunno. It's a fundamentally niche business, so let's see what's next in terms of "competing" with Steam.

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Shame, really.
Large amounts of clown awards were a good way to quickly notice idiotic postings without having to read them entirely.

The idea of "purely showing appreciation" sounds like coddling and participation trophy nonsense to me.
Only positive thoughts allowed, no critique please.
Not really my style.

I had no idea that points got transferred that way, though.
Then again, I assign no value to these points whatsoever as they are so plenty I don't think anyone could even spend them all.

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Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen + one lady 🤣

Linux can be for everyone and anyone. It's an operating system just like MacOS, Windows or Android. Has the Linux community been mostly full of elitists, pretend elitists, dabblers and actual community contributors for decades? Yes! You can be a power user with any OS, so having more people using Linux the way they want to be using it is actually a great thing. More Linux users help to release the Microsoft grip on computing, and that is the real end goal, folks.

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Nexus is run by posturing fools. But that isn't exactly news, is it?

Thankfully, the app is never really needed as all mods I've ever used can either be applied manually or there are game-specific apps.

The worst part is really the lack of alternatives to the Nexus website itself.
Some mods are only available from there.

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Quoting: MarianoIn a previous article someone posted about [Limo](https://github.com/limo-app/limo) but it hasn´t been updated for 9 months.

I used Limo to mod Skyrim on Linux with a lot of mods a couple of months ago. It worked great. I would really recommend Limo for anyone wanting to mod Skyrim on Linux. It could handle all special cases (for Skyrim at least).

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They could just contribute to Heroic in some way

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That, and GOG Galaxy does not support Linux.

I would vastly prefer for gog to spend the resources on officially supporting existing open source efforts such as heroic, minigalaxy, and lutris.

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It would be lovely if someone took the opportunity to launch an alternative to Nexus Mods. Their site usability and moderation has been severely lacking for as long as I can remember.

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Even without Linux as a factor, Galaxy by itself *barely* feels like something you can put much trust into in terms of functionality. I hope they can get developers that are capable of actually fixing it up, possibly redoing it as a whole, and take that as a basis for Linux support.
One can dream I guess, but I don't really count on much from GOG, just that their installers will be convenient someday.

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In a previous article someone posted about [Limo](https://github.com/limo-app/limo) but it hasn´t been updated for 9 months.

Now i searched and found an app for helping running Vortex on Proton: [NaK](https://github.com/SulfurNitride/NaK)

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* sigh *

Okay, okay, if they need my help, I will make myself available

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They'll try again.
Brave.
Lets see them compete.
I really hope it's a success.
It might inspire other stores to follow.

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Too little, too late.

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I wonder what the exclusive fullscreen in the changelogs mean? Does it mean that we can have display mode change through a game now or what? One thing that annoys me with for example Wreckfest is that i have a 4k TV that can do 120hz 1080p, but even when i change to 1080p in the game i can't set refresh rate to nothing but 60hz.

Exclusive fullscreen i think should help with that, but what does it mean now that it's in WINE? So that it works entirely like it's supposed to work or just works which it did IMO before cause i could play games that were exclusive fullscreen.

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Huh interesting. I didn't know it is such a problem. I enjoy the awards system, especially as a way to show my appreciation for solutions people post on the forums.

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Well this is extremely disappointing

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Oh come on. I can see the reason, but the argument could just as well have been "ditch the double work on Vortex, focus on the crossplatform". With Steam MAchine on the horizon, this would have been forward thinking.

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I've added the Steam Snap path into the guide now, thanks.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: jurquizoFirst of all, great guide. I tried following the steam method and I couldn't find the folder of the Steam installation folder to change the shortcut, I think it is because I installed Steam via snap and I can't find similar paths inside the .snap folder. Could you help me?

Ah, that's an interesting one. Snap is a whole different can of worms.

Could you try looking in: ~/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/steamapps

See if the compatdata folder is there? Once we find the correct path, I'll add it to the guide.

Thanks for the quick reply. The folder compatdata is in ~/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/steamapps, and there are a two folders with random numbers as names with the same created/modified date. In my case it was easy to find the correct because there were only 2 candidate folders.

*mod snip: we prefer note to have user scripts here, especially from an AI*

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Not pi number😅

Good riddance on the clown reaction

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Quoting: MrBelles... or that trees regrow.

Wait what.. really?!? 🔥

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Quoting: LoudTechieYou run MS365 through Wine.
That's how one recognizes a master of their craft.

It is fairly easy with Crossover. Crossover installs an older version of Office 365, applies some registry edits so the app runs and installs fonts. Then you log in with your MS account and register the product. If you have no license or choose to not sign in, a 5 day free trial starts.

The installed version of Office is made sometime in 2022 for Windows 7 and is 32 bit. It doesn't receive updates.

Using vanilla wine will not work, Crossover's wine has patches related to Office's licensing that vanilla wine lacks, so the app doesn't work on vanilla wine.

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Love to see some character development

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Quoting: CaldathrasI wonder, is this the first example of a commercial flatpak?

(I don't do flatpak, so I don't know...)

Official Minecraft launcher also has a flatpak

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