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I think I bought the first one because it looked decent and was a Linux native game. But then they basically gave up on the Linux version.

I did finally play the game about a year ago. I quite liked it.

The gameplay was fun. The 'city' interludes between the combat areas felt kind of pointless, with only a few basic quests. So if they could tune that up, it would improve the game.

This was also one of the few games that I think I enjoyed more because I attempted to chase all of the achievements. Attempting speed runs and no death runs in the game was fun.

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Quoting: PhlebiacThey say screen saver, but it's really just a lock screen, is it not?

The blog post sort of addresses that point, pointing out that screensavers now are less about having an animation to prevent burn in and more about privacy.

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Quoting: MohandevirI'm starting to hope for a barebone version of the Steam Machine. I already have a 2tb nvme to put in that thing. Soddim would be pricey, but I would be willing to take it on me. I want the Steam Machine extras (wake from controller/suspend resume, low noise level, etc...)

The idea is good... for a startup or a pc store, not a serious player and not someone trying to take on consoles, so I wouldn't count on it.

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most of the people who use linux speak english, so USA might be one of the places where linux is used the most, banning all USA states would reduce the linux marketshare a lot...

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I'm starting to hope for a barebone version of the Steam Machine. I already have a 2tb nvme to put in that thing. Soddim would be pricey, but I would be willing to take it on me. I want the Steam Machine extras (wake from controller/suspend resume, low noise level, etc...)

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Everyone knows what the situation is, but no one wants to admit it. Even Valve.

It is obvious that, especially Steam Machine, CANNOT premiere in such market situation. Period. When it will be possible? No one knows. Theoretically it could be still in 2026 but I very doubt it.

But it would be "bad PR" so even Valve pretend that nothing changed and premiere is still targeted 2026. (But actually, it's still progress - no one is talking about Q1 or even second quarter anymore)

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They could use this extra time to polish up the Linux client with 64 bit and other things that don't rely on semiconductor manufacture.

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Quoting: CarollyA majority of distros aren't even based in the US, so good luck with that.

But I'd imagine it would just be thrown out of court regardless. California cannot impose their laws outside of their own jurisdiction. There's a reason that products sold in my country don't carry Prop 65 labels, and there's a reason that most products sold in America don't, either. If it were that simple the California AG would be suing people left, right, and centre for failing to comply with Prop 65 labeling legislation outside of state.

A good majority of them are still doing business in the US, if not outright in California/Colorado. There is also the question of organization and hosting/mirroring - I doubt it'd get enforced to THAT extent, but it is possible for them to order non-compliant OS to be dropped by hosters and mirrors. Even gitlab likely gets a decent amount of money from users / companies in California / Silicon Valley, nevermind the direct donations that major distro like Arch receives.

With Canonical and Red Hat covered, if the law moves forward, I can see happening is the dbus gets implemented anyways. Downstream distro not in US can likely avoid it.

Another alternative I could see is an opt-out during install process. Insert disclamer that installing user is above 18, blablabla, and it gets installed without the age confirmation subsystem.

The question then becomes how long until they force application to have to check for the user age bracket indicator as well. Because the law, from my reading, isn't just for OS distributor, but also application creator.

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Quoting: Stellawith the Ptyxis terminal you can easily open a new container session from a dropdown in the UI, Konsole did not have this until very recently (we're still waiting for the merged commits to land in an actual release, but you'll be able to select your containers if you right click the 'new tab' dropdown)

It hasn't landed? I've been just right-clicking tue New Tab dropdown and entering my distrobox just fine this month. Granted, I'm on Arch and I already got 6.6 and I don't remember if I've been using it since before then, so I might be mistaken.

It was as easy as setting up the profile to start with a distrobox enter. Like so:

Spoiler, click me

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Quoting: kit89I do believe they should have age statements, and other additional meta information stored within the file, or data sent to a device.

In the UK, media (DVDs, Blurays, etc) have an age restriction as well as additional details about what content one can expect to see.

This meta packet could be standardised, and the device that has been asked to open a file can check this meta packet to determine if the user's account has the correct permissions to do so.

This means no personal data is being sent to a third-party, a parent can decide to override the default behaviour if they choose.

I really don't like these laws that dictate 'how' something should be implemented, it should be specifying the 'what'.

Now that makes sense, but how are they then gonna decide what you find acceptable from a "moral" standpoint? 🤔

(moral not as a vague synonym to ethical but moral as in acceptable by <insert appropriate cult of choice>)

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: EikeYou don't actually, literally think that you are talking to/writing with a hole in a backside. People get a money fine for insulting.

So what you are saying, is that you have to pay for the "privilege" of insulting (figurative) assholes.

Erm, no. It's forbidden, and I don't think you would get through with always paying. The punishment would rise on repetition (as it should). Furthermore, those fines are based on your daily net income. ("Tagessatz"/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine), so people with bigger income couldn't easily just "pay it away".

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Competition is always good for consumers, I guess. Specially when it comes from Xbox/M$ 😆

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Slay the Spire was one of those games that despite being single player had this slowly increasing player base (not counting short peaks of course) that went up to 20k peak daily players. This is what happens when that collection of regular players dives onto the new thing.

The unintended flex by the devs on twitter towards Marathon was absolutely hilarious though.

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I do believe they should have age statements, and other additional meta information stored within the file, or data sent to a device.

In the UK, media (DVDs, Blurays, etc) have an age restriction as well as additional details about what content one can expect to see.

This meta packet could be standardised, and the device that has been asked to open a file can check this meta packet to determine if the user's account has the correct permissions to do so.

This means no personal data is being sent to a third-party, a parent can decide to override the default behaviour if they choose.

I really don't like these laws that dictate 'how' something should be implemented, it should be specifying the 'what'.

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I'm very happy that they did seem to deliver after all this time -and also the choice to use Godot, for those devs that still treat it as a sub-par engine compared to Unity or GameMaker.
If I have to complain about something, it's that for my currency, $10.50 -which is the asking price out for early access (and because I own the first game, otherwise it would be $12), it's more expensive than I thought it would be, like... $7~

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Quoting: EWGAnyway, maybe it's time to switch to BSD. 😉

If Linux distributions are required to comply, so are BSD variants. The law doesn't grant exceptions.

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In Other News today, Sony decided to lose on PC gamer income.

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Quoting: Carolly... handles US trade sanctions with, e.g., Russia.)

I listen to [RadCap](https://www.radcap.ru) Internet radio stations. They're based in Russia and cover dozens of genres including chiptunes! Doesn't matter what VPN server I'm connected to -- they'll broadcast to anyone and I haven't had a DNS server nor VPN provider prevent me from tuning in.

Also, LiveJournal is owned by a russian company. It's severely gone down hill, and I recommend [Dreamwidth](https://dreamwidth.org) but, LJ is still widely used by US citizens and I think there's a paid tier to remove adverts and gain extra features/allotments. Haven't tried that, obviously.

So, *shrug*.

Anyway, maybe it's time to switch to BSD. 😉

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I think this is a good thing. I’m in general not a fan of EA, but if I have the option i would probably buy some games in the future. If it’s really worth it and nice discount. IMHO Linux as gaming platform is good enough. And when you see the rumors about w12, I would prepare as EA for a mass migration to Linux….

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How about a maximum age for politicians instead?

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How is it cheaper to implement something once instead of implement something only in specific parts of one country? 😅

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Quoting: GoEsrApple were the ones fighting against it, as I said. The point is, per your original comment, that laws applied in important markets like the EU and the US do tend to just be applied globally because it's easier and cheaper.

No, you are misunderstanding: it's not "laws tend to be applied globally". They are not, in any way. It's corporations that adopt *globally* a standard/convention required by laws in one market if it's cheaper and easier than splitting their product lines/procedures.
Please tell me how it's easier and cheaper for, let's say Ubuntu, to implement age checks in the EU if those checks are required by US laws.
And btw those checks could actually be against EU privacy laws...

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Ya know, I used to want to live forever. Or, at least a century or three. Now, I have changed my mind. lol.

Restore to a previous save point and try again?

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After installing this, I happened to get the Steam survey on the next start of Steam. It says my video card is Mesa llvmpipe!?? Not sure that's a new problem, but I'm fairly certain it used to report the video card correctly.

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"He pulled the wrong tooth! (hahahaha!!!)"
"Only one man would pull the wrong tooth! (Heehehe!!)"
"It's Clouseau! (bwahahaha!!!)"
"KILL HIM!!! (Woohahahee!!!)"

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Microsoft is never seeing another dime from me.

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Well, they could just start to remove the AntiCheat for single player completely.

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Does is have a campaign? There are so many games I want to play this year, so I like games which have a clear ending so I can go on to the next one. ^^

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I've got a FEVAH, and the only thing that can cure it is MORE TRANSPORATION!

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Quoting: ScottCarammellI would love to see how California would try to go about banning Linux as a platform for non-compliance. Just...love to see how they would try.

This.

Most Linux distros don't have a bazillion-dollar company like Canonical behind them and even in cases where they do, suing said company can only do so much to stop the distribution of a non-compliant operating system... For example, if they sued Canonical, it wouldn't be all that difficult for somebody to strip the Canonical-protected stuff (e.g. logos and trademarks, proprietary code, etc) out of Ubuntu and offer it as a "Canonical-free" distro that is still "non-compliant".

I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like all these Linux distros are getting paranoid on something that can't really affect them in Real World terms.

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