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Quoting: tarmo888Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

It's not like we have many closed source Linux + ARM apps right now...

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I don't think that this is the right approach. As much as I want Linux to grow as a platform, this gives us an unfair advantage. The better choice will be to scrap/abolish such legislation entirely.

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Quoting: tarmo888Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

It's more a case that most devs are unlikely to do Native Linux builds.

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Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

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I'm usually not much for 2d side scrollers, but that video actually looked pretty interesting. Wishlisted!

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Just want to do what I always do when it's about Dome Keeper: RECOMMEND IT! Seriously it's so good. If you haven't given it a try yet, go for it! A fav game of mine.

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This is great of Carl. Someone needs to stand up against these moronic politicians. He's in a good place to do so!

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Right, we just need an official Valve Proton with NTSync now also.

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Awesome, I love this game and it'd be fun to play with my kids

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Still waiting for that sweet Wayland and 64 Bit update. Not being able to use the Steam overlay with Proton Wayland just sucks.

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Quoting: GustyGhostValve: "Wins" case against Rothschild patent troll
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Rothschild global influence:](https://files.catbox.moe/ba3ari.mp4)

Totally a coincidence that after this case we have NYC, Washington, and the music copyright lawsuits, right? Certainly this isn't a case of "the process IS the punishment."

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It wouldn't be Gamescope FSR, as that's stuck at FSR1. More likely they mean in-game FSR.

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I always interpreted "4K at 60 fps with FSR" being that you'll use Gamescope's FSR upscale for 4K with games that you can't run at that resolution natively, so verified requiring 1080p minimum makes sense as that probably upscales fine, but 30FPS maybe implies they're gonna rely on framegen? I'm really not a fan of that.

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On one hand it's silly to expect Steam to pay royalties for copyrighted material in products that are sold through their store. Especially considering the fact that publishers remove games when the licenses expire (e.g. Project Cars 2).

On the other hand, it would be neat if Steam paying the royalties meant that products containing copyrighted material could be sold through Steam as long as the royalties are paid; DDR/Audiosurf/GH clones could ship with a ton of songs, for example. Anyone could make a Harry Potter/Song of Ice and Fire/Lord of the Rings game.

Of course PRS will try to have their cake AND eat it, but that probably won't happen.

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Let's not forget literally every note of music ever produced by humans has been gobbled up by the "AI" parasites for FREE. Well if it's ok for them then logically "anything goes".

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This could potentially be an entry point for the equivalent of Nvidia's RTX Remix. Depending on the flexibility of these profiles, if this enables a normal user -without recompiling- to introduce their own shaders, enable/disable available fixes, it could be used to do more than just improve the performance/stability of a particular game.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: VreidicusPlaystation never released anything on steam i wanted to play so fine by me, bye bye Playstation..

I can't name you too many of their games I bought either, but I liked Horizon Zero Dawn / Forbidden West.

I love the Horizon series and I have around 325 hours combined across ZD, ZD Remaster, and FW. However, I will definitely not buy a Playstation, even if that means I will not be able to play Horizon 3. I buy only hardware where I can decide what to do with it, what OS to put on it, and where I can freely mod games. This walled garden approach that Sony is now taking will hurt them long term.

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Since I in this phase have rather low (work) capability, I will refrain from engaging to the degree I would wish with the core of the discussion, but accounting for that, I still want to add a bit of value I deem especially high:

First, I, too, want to praise everyone for such a civil, respectful and good-faith discussion of such a loaded and touchy topic 🥰! Especially considering this is the notorious internet! And to their credit, there are different perspectives what level of emotional expression is desirable in argumentation. Some believe that hiding one's feelings behind a over-intellectualized, seemingly-unbiased, impartial form of speech is quite dishonest and thus disrespectful.

Having learned a small bit about cooperative argumentation/discussion, I want to share some advice for having more informative and rewarding discussions:

• Defining terms. It sometimes gets called semantics and often gets skipped because it feels tedious and unrewarding. But a cooperative debate without it spends *a lot* of steam on half-nothing - leading to the realization that parties were misunderstanding each others point and a course-correction.


• Sharing your relevant context/background. Similarly to the previous point, our perspective on someone's arguments shifts noticeably when we realize where the argumentation partner is coming from. Way easier to front load it, rather than recalibrate the last X mins of input/understanding. E.g. knowing the context, you may want to tread more kindly and carefully in some subtopics due to their related difficult personal experience, or you may want to grant the other party more authority in some subtopics due to some of their past experiences, etc. It helps both parties guess at their own and each other's outlier biases as well. Now, this is a one comes with the caveat that - as with all vulnerability - it should be exercised to a mindful degree. Usually it should not be used with emotionally unsafe people (using it against you; spreading your intimate information) or in a permanently-public environment (like a public forum) where again it might be used by malicious agents. Train and trust your intuition.

Specific to this discussion, I agree with many things tuubi and eggrole said, but I was reluctant to "upvote" simply for my respect and partial agreements. Whereas my position aligned with Purple Library Guy's views much more completely. 2 small point I beg to differ in:

• I think the origin of a system (Enclosures for capitalism) doesn't bear much weight on judging the pros & cons of a system (which I felt we were discussing). Then again, it is not a universal that for me my moral beliefs permit temporary more-harm for longer lasting less-harm (which I rather don't believe capitalism to be). Devil is in the details.


• As for what pendulum swings the instability leads to: I broadly agree. I have taken to focusing less on the means (economic system) and more on the end goal (higher degrees of democracy(system for making collective decisions)) labeling things less as left=good right=bad (also because it adds to polarization, which is not the way to a better world imo). It is very debatable though whether a northern star or immediate next step is preferable as a public political focal point, seeing as getting an additional "and capitalism is very anti-democratic" into the public consciousness seems an uphill battle at best

Also I want to comment a bit on the topic of political agency, since I've notably thought and debated on it (if anyone is interested I can share a diagram, I've used to visually explain my stances with caveats noted):

• I agree that our tiny part in influencing governmental (or better yet international 🤩) policy is much more impactful than any individual action (e.g. incl. conscious consumerism aka voting with your wallet). I've come to believe that conscious consumerism and other lifestyle-choice-activism are mostly a means of distraction and polarization of the public (e.g. see BP's "carbon footprint" campaign). If only everyone were educated in the same ways as us, it might work to change the system. But we must take consensus and compromise-building as part of change-making not an immovable barrier to it. Yes, individual action has a non-zero effect - but every action also has an opportunity cost! I.e. same effort/time/money could be better spent on other methods.


• Exercising our right to democratic voting is a better entry-level means.


• Another highly approachable option would be having healthy arguments/discussions with various other people about the topics you care about, especially with people whom you disagree with (within your window of (discomfort) tolerance, ofc).


• And my third conclusion for methods of enacting political change has been, participating in collective action within the means of your privileges. Some people have been handed relevant skills and resources to even organize and carry banners whilst most should take pride in being a smaller cog in that social machine. Attending a protest about a movement/stance you care about is a very praiseworthy achievement!

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Quoting: hardpenguinHmmmmmm Debian Sid has only 550, the Experimental repository has 555, and the official NVIDIA apt repository has... 590.

I think I'll stick to the older driver as long as everything works. Although jumping on the bleeding edge is tempting, as always.

I've tried drivers up to 585 and always returned to 550 because of too many issues. So sticking with the older driver definitely not the worst idea.

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Finally, I waited SO LONG for them to add blur. I had to use OBS virtual camera previously just to blur out my background.

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Hmmmmmm Debian Sid has only 550, the Experimental repository has 555, and the official NVIDIA apt repository has... 590.

I think I'll stick to the older driver as long as everything works. Although jumping on the bleeding edge is tempting, as always.

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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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