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Quoting: StellaI should get through my massive backlog before buying anything new 😆

Me too.

I really hope the Steam Winter sale of 2046 will have some good sales.

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Quoting: StellaI thought I read something somewhere about the 64-bit client being unable to launch 32-bit games?

PCGamingwiki says this about the Linux client:

User requests for a native 64-bit client have been denied by Valve on numerous occasions since 2014, purportedly since such a client would be unable to launch 32-bit games.

I wouldn't think so. Your 64 bit environment is able to start 32 bit Steam, why would the chain break if one more application is 64 bit?

64 Bit wine can't launch 32 bit applications.
I think they calculate proton to be part of the Steam client(with which I agree), while the 32 bit trickery of the windows api did come build in with Windows(Win 11 is trying to change this, but thanks to legacy applications like Steam this is currently being maintained)

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Glad I picked it up at 20% off, at £350 it's abit of a harder sell when the oled model is available for an extra £120

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Quoting: elmapulAI claim one more victim.
not that i wanted the LCD model anyway, but not only AI is taking people jobs now its making everything more expensive for the people who still have jobs.

What does AI have to do with the LCD model being discontinued? AI isn't affecting LCD production at all.

More likely people just weren't buying the LCD model enough to warrant the production costs for Valve.

i think the LCD model was sold at lost, but not the other ones, i'm not the only one who thinks that, someone did the math on how much those stuff cost (someone who work at this type of industry, i forgot the name of the person)

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Quoting: zany130Anyone get a strange new option under external gamepad settings after updating?

I wonder what it's for. Maybe new steam controller?

It's called "Pair an Ibex Controller over USB"

And clicking pair gives an error saying no steam controller is plugged in


Ibex is the new Steam Controller. Has been reported months ago.

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Quoting: Shaddycat

Quoting: elmapulAI claim one more victim.
not that i wanted the LCD model anyway, but not only AI is taking people jobs now its making everything more expensive for the people who still have jobs.

What does AI have to do with the LCD model being discontinued? AI isn't affecting LCD production at all.

More likely people just weren't buying the LCD model enough to warrant the production costs for Valve.

I imagine they're saying the rising cost of parts made the LCD models unreasonably expensive to produce given their price, hence why the other models remain. Which of course may or may not be true, but I'd believe it.

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Anyone get a strange new option under external gamepad settings after updating?

I wonder what it's for. Maybe new steam controller?

It's called "Pair an Ibex Controller over USB"

And clicking pair gives an error saying no steam controller is plugged in


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Excellent, that means I now own a Limited First Edition model! 😆 In thirty years it'll be 'retro' and 'hip' again when we're all use eye-implants that form images directly on our retinas!

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Quoting: Shaddycat

Quoting: elmapulAI claim one more victim.
not that i wanted the LCD model anyway, but not only AI is taking people jobs now its making everything more expensive for the people who still have jobs.

What does AI have to do with the LCD model being discontinued? AI isn't affecting LCD production at all.

More likely people just weren't buying the LCD model enough to warrant the production costs for Valve.

im starting to wonder if Ai is going to be used as shield to hide behind mismanaged economies and billionaire class hording all the wealth and struggling to pay fair taxes.

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Quoting: CyrilDude, ahah! How many browsers have you tested?! 😄
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But if anyone of you have a comparison's site of all these browsers I'm still interested indeed, and I'm sure I'm not the only one!

hahah I work in video streaming tech, so I am deeply interested in browsers just in general :) Here you go I'll give you my personal feelings for them:
(btw all of these have no ai integration, I won't use a browser that does)

• Librewolf - firefox fork with a privacy focus as the core of it - sometimes a little too much. I was forced to undo some of its hardening to make basic sites work (maps for instance, some gaming sites, etc) which if you undo too much then ... ??? But overall it works really well, and it strips out all the mozilla fuckery from regular firefox like pocket, ai garbage, etc.


• Orion - completely custom build from the Kagi folks - based on webkit. This is so unique and I love it. Currently only avail for macos and ios, but linux build is coming soon. Privacy focused but softer I would say compared to Librewolf, which IMO is a good thing. I don't need to go undo a bunch of stuff to make basic sites work. One killer feature for me is the ability to make two completely separate icons in my macos dock for different profiles. So like I have a personal icon and a work icon, which opens two completely separate windows. Love this. I'm sure other browsers could do this, I just found it really easy with Orion. Once they release the linux build this will be the only browser I use on all devices.


• Zen Browser - I'm typing this comment from this browser right now. I feel .... meh ... about it. It's REALLY powerful in terms of features. But I think it's just a little too much in the feature set for me. Mostly I just want a browser to be private, have good extension support and then get the F out of the way. Zen does have good privacy and extensions but it also has an INSANE amount of power user features like compact mode, a ton of unique keyboard shortcuts, on and on and on. Which is cool and all but I'm not going to memorize a whole new slew of keyboard shortcuts for only my browser. And some of the features are so unique I can't really remember how to activate them when switching from my laptop to desktop for instance which is just frustrating. It's also vertical tabs ONLY, and I'm an ancient person, so I've never really gotten used to vertical tabs. I really should but ... ???


• Waterfox - have only basic testing experience with this one. I think some others might be able to comment better on it. It did work well in my testing.

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Quoting: LoftyMy version is the Flatpak, idk if that is any different from any other sources. Perhaps there was an update recently, i did check early yesterday.

thx

I'm using the AppImage myself. browser.ml.enable does default to false but, for some reason, mine was set to true. Don't know if I wasn't paying attention and set it to true by mistake or if it shipped that way. The only thing I import is the bookmarks. I always manually configure the settings and plugins.

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Quoting: adolsonFinally got around to buying Tunic. What a great game! Just finished it, and now working on Clair Obscur.

OMG have such a fun time. That was my game of the year in whatever year it came out. My friend and I played it coop on the couch on the big screen tv, and it was such a blast trying to decipher the manual and explore the world!

We loved it so much we both wound up buying the physical print manual.

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Quoting: StellaI thought I read something somewhere about the 64-bit client being unable to launch 32-bit games?

PCGamingwiki says this about the Linux client:

User requests for a native 64-bit client have been denied by Valve on numerous occasions since 2014, purportedly since such a client would be unable to launch 32-bit games.

I wouldn't think so. Your 64 bit environment is able to start 32 bit Steam, why would the chain break if one more application is 64 bit?

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I thought I read something somewhere about the 64-bit client being unable to launch 32-bit games?

PCGamingwiki says this about the Linux client:

User requests for a native 64-bit client have been denied by Valve on numerous occasions since 2014, purportedly since such a client would be unable to launch 32-bit games.

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Quoting: spacemonkeyI would like to be able to wishlist games I already own, so I can gift them when they are discounted.

Maybe an add to 'gift List' button to avoid confusion.

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Interesting that they say they are discontinuing the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model, and not Steam Deck LCD. I wonder if we will see a new version with an updated chip, motherboard, and cut back to 128GB to lower costs.
Wasn't one of the highlights of the new Steam Controller that the new analog sticks were both better and cheaper?

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Quoting: CaldathrasI don't expect much more from these MMO's. In my experience, they all utilize the same formulaic approach to gameplay and have shallow, boring quests and storylines.

A long time ago when I put something like 10 hours into Guild Wars 2 I came to the conclusion that the problems of MMOs are that they are MMOs.

Many people together on different hardware, different internet speeds and in different locations. And somehow they need to make that mess work in gameplay. No surprise that major sacrifices need to be made.

Same with story. If have people from every level of progression together in the same game, then there are some severe limitations as to what you can do.

After that I decided MMOs are not worth my time.

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With family visiting since November mostly been playing Capcom vs SNK & Crazy Taxi on ReDream. I did start Yooka-Laylee on Steam with my wife. We are still on the 1st world trying to beat that race lol

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Quoting: elmapulAI claim one more victim.
not that i wanted the LCD model anyway, but not only AI is taking people jobs now its making everything more expensive for the people who still have jobs.

What does AI have to do with the LCD model being discontinued? AI isn't affecting LCD production at all.

More likely people just weren't buying the LCD model enough to warrant the production costs for Valve.

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AI claim one more victim.
not that i wanted the LCD model anyway, but not only AI is taking people jobs now its making everything more expensive for the people who still have jobs.

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A 256GB OLED model would be nice to bridge the price gap a little bit. But it seems like Valve is focusing on 2 versions for their other hardware so it wouldn't be too surprising if it's gonna be the same for the Deck.
A shame for the budget option but hopefully they'll be able to keep the prices for the OLED ones consistent despite RAM insanity.

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Quoting: CreakThe way I see it, Windows users are the beta testers, for once 😂

Ikr! There's also more work to be done for the Linux client, using Wine/Proton in WOW64 mode should hopefully solve most of the concern around 32-bit games. I know Valve has concerns about old 32-bit native Linux games, but personally I question how much of that concern is necessarily warranted. Most of them will have Windows versions that you can run through Proton, and its very possible they may run better than the native Linux builds since a lot of old games never received updates or bug fixes for the Linux versions.

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Is there specific bug you're waiting on being solved?

Remote Play audio playing on the host even when you've turned off the "play audio on host" option remains super annoying.

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It's already Out of Stock over here in Germany, so no chance to even get it anymore.

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The way I see it, Windows users are the beta testers, for once 😂

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Hm. Wonder if extest will need updating for when 64-bit Steam for Linux launches. It was an annoyance for me on NixOS as it throws errors due to ELFCLASS32 and LD_PRELOAD issue or something.

Though, for that matter, I do wonder how update rollout and dependency changes will be handled across the board.

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I would like to be able to wishlist games I already own, so I can gift them when they are discounted.

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It just shows: There's a reason why most Linux work is done by third parties & not directly by Valve.

But we should give some credit to Valve: It must've been rocket science to port such a bloated software like Steam to 64-bit.

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Quoting: Beta VersionSwordhaven: Iron Conspiracy has just been released from early access and has a native Linux build.

Yeah, I bought this and a couple of hours in, I'm very happy with my purchase. Almost feels like I'm playing good old "Baldur's Gate" for the first time again.

The game also has the neat feature that lets you switch between Turn Based & RTwP with a button press, something I feel all games like this would benefit from.

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Quoting: emphy

Quoting: LoudTechie...
Like all ML it's trained on data produced by people and thus at least subject to copyright.
Whether or not they've permission from the copyright holders to train their model with it I'm uncertain.
I would guess they've, because it's public which data they use and they've yet to be sued into oblivion.

[It's the most auditable model I've encountered in quite some time, but you still can't usefully attach a debugger to it](https://github.com/mozilla/translations)
It's translations certainly aren't perfect, does mistranslated information count as misinformation?

Haven't got the time to search for the source, but I understood mozilla uses open datasets for their models, i.e. permission was granted or copyrights expired.

I find it amusing, by the way, that the single "ai" browser feature that is actually useful to me is rarely advertised as being such. Even the "anti-ai" vivaldi incudes it without it raising a single eyebrow.

This could be my fault.
I treat AI as equivalent to ML, but they're different words.

Wikipedia defines AI as

[Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence)

and ML as

[Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data, and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning)

.

If we take these definitions.
Aimbots are AI by this definition, but is translation AI.
It's an application of Machine Learning, but that wasn't the question.
Do we typically associate translation with human intelligence and problem solving.
Is someone appear more intelligent when they can successfully translate a sentence or would we say that communication through a matching language is the intelligent part and thus using a matching a language to the one used toward you is AI.
I would argue the first, because people tend to think that people who use complicated text are more intelligent, meaning that understanding of language is more intelligent than the capacity to communicate. I disagree with my preceived majority, but that doesn't change that it's commonly associated with human intelligence.

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