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Why not just a simple thumbs up/thumbs down.

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Quoting: scaineI always find the disconnect between enterprise/management and the general public on GenAI absolutely amazing.

It blows me away that no one in the Marketing Department says, “There are people out there that passionately hate GenAI. Maybe we should spin this differently. We will probably get flamed for this.” Instead it’s, “lets run with a press release that says we are cheap, evil and don’t care about our employees.”

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While I subscribe to some of the Steam forums, I've not used any of the awards. The amount of posts about the changes today is getting annoying.

I don't use points and I'm careful about the forums. I find the forums extremely limiting and think they should allow simple emoji icons without having to use Steam points.

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New GOG owner Michał Kiciński also mentioned in regards to Windows how "It's such poor-quality software and product, and I'm so surprised that it's [spent] so many years on the market. I can't believe it!".

that is HUGE!

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I hadn't encountered this particular problem, but if this helps fix it that's a plus.

I just wish it didn't still take five clicks to give an award*. Imagine if you could simply hover over the "Award" button, a palette of options pops up (easier now, since there are fewer), you click the one you want**, then a "Confirm" button, and that's it.

*Click the "Award" button, click the award you want to give, click "Next", click "Give Award", then click the "Close" button.

**Or, even better, select more than one to give concurrently.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe US was a better place to live when it had more "nanny state" and that's no co-incidence. So was Canada, so was Britain.

If anyone thinks that there is less "nanny state" now than there was before, they are deluding themselves.

I suppose it depends on your definition. Most people who use the term generally use it to mean "Government doing anything useful". So, building housing, "nanny state"; providing health care, "nanny state"; social safety net, "nanny state"; regulations saying your food can't be poisoned, "nanny state". And, there is a lot less of all that stuff than there used to be in, say, the 70s. If you use it differently from that you're very much in the minority and can't be surprised if people misunderstand you.

Hmm... I thought the use of the phrase would be obvious but your definition is definitely different than mine. However, I can see how your definition could overlap and eventually evolve into mine -- government interference and hand-holding, as if their citizens are all children that need constant guidance (as one would expect from a nanny to her/his underage charges). In recent years, that has been very prevalent.

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(Hugh Laurie as Prince Regent voice)
Well, hurrah!

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Quoting: PenguinFor reference: the Mint team updated their Xfce flavor (from 4.16 to 4.18) in Mint 21.2.

Uhm... I have Mint 21.3 XFCE currently. It ships with Xfce 4.16. The update actually happened with Mint 22.0. We likely won't see Xfce 4.20 until Mint 23 comes out.

As @AsciiWolf pointed out, it has to do with the base version of Ubuntu they rely on. The only exception is Cinnamon, which the Mint Team manages themselves.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe US was a better place to live when it had more "nanny state" and that's no co-incidence. So was Canada, so was Britain.

If anyone thinks that there is less "nanny state" now than there was before, they are deluding themselves.

I suppose it depends on your definition. Most people who use the term generally use it to mean "Government doing anything useful". So, building housing, "nanny state"; providing health care, "nanny state"; social safety net, "nanny state"; regulations saying your food can't be poisoned, "nanny state". And, there is a lot less of all that stuff than there used to be in, say, the 70s. If you use it differently from that you're very much in the minority and can't be surprised if people misunderstand you.

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Quoting: suchValve 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.

Why can't GOG work with Valve on this? Why do they need to compete? Perhaps I'm suggesting too radical a change in mentality for contemporary business thinking...

It's interesting, especially here.

I mean, let's assume that GOG and Valve put in an equal amount of work, resources etc. Looking at it from a traditional business point of view Valve has the larger share of the market, so it will benefit more while investing disproportionately less. Effectively, GOG would be paying for Valve to make more. Of course, as this Linux situation currently stands GOG is basically choosing not to benefit from development that Valve is essentially giving out for free. It's right there, they just need to make the effort to pick it up and run with it. Even from a capitalist point of view that market is a growing one, albeit still small and probably not with the potential to overtake Windows. Maybe. Even that cost didn't seem to make business sense to GOG... up to now.

Maybe that's why business people are cagey about Linux support. It's got those weird "not everything has to have a price tag" and "long term plans over short term profit" things going on.

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Quoting: mr-victory@TheSHEEEP the problem with the Clown emote was that people (clowns, dare I say) deliberately wrote idiotic posts with the intention of receiving clown reactions and/or Steam points. So with the lack of clown reaction, you may start seeing fewer idiotic posts.

Well less idiotic posts as 'bait', the organic idiotic posts will remain 😆

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe US was a better place to live when it had more "nanny state" and that's no co-incidence. So was Canada, so was Britain.

If anyone thinks that there is less "nanny state" now than there was before, they are deluding themselves.

Personally, I am a fully adult citizen. I don't need the government holding my hand and warning me about the dangers of things that are more than obvious. I am capable of assessing my own risks and moving forward as I deem appropriate.

I'll concede to your point about laws governing unethical behavior, however.

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In my experience, Heroic is so effortless and versatile that I don't think I'd use Galaxy even if it had native Linux support.

Agreed. And it's to the point where I actually don't know what they could contribute to the likes of Heroic. Every GOG game I have is click Install then Play.

Is there some sort of missing features and integrations they could help with ?

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Quoting: mr-victoryThe installed version of Office is made sometime in 2022 for Windows 7 and is 32 bit. It doesn't receive updates.

Uhm... a 64-bit version of MS Office has been available alongside the 32-bit version since Office 2010. The version you appear to be referring to is Office 2021, which is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit and would have been made for Windows 10. Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 7 in 2015, after all. Office 2021 is still supported.

FYI, the latest offline version is Office 2024.

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Personally, I'm all in on the idea of working with existing open source game management tools. It would be the wiser approach for them to take.

While I've gotten used to their DRM-free script-based Linux installers, I would love it if they moved the Linux offline installers to AppImage, with all of the dependencies incorporated.

Offering up something like the Steam Linux Runtime libraries for the open source tools to use would be great too. Lutris has one of their own and Heroic taps Steam somehow (not sure which one they use but it's not Runtime 4) but neither are as comprehensive as Steam themselves. That would really help, I think.

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We all live in our own bubbles. I thought people didn't really care either, until more people in my own life starting talking about how they're using it. Plenty of them just switching off when I mentioned the dangers of blindly trusting things like ChatGPT.

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Quoting: legluondunetThey still provide an old 1.14 version...

They depend on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and LTS Ubuntu releases tend to be awfully outdated, unfortunately.

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I've notice a difference in how Japanese people view AI usable its much more relaxed and not really seen as anything bad. I have a Japanese 3d artist that has started to used AI (he has trained a model himself and released it publicly) and he released a music video with heavy AI use and the Japanese comments doesn't really bring up AI usage at all but every English comment is PLEASE DON'T USE AI and others saying they lost respect for him. So it maybe that Cygames genuinely never expected the back lash.
Now my sample size is small just being with in one guys community so I might be wrong but this is what I've observed.

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People from Cygames' community that complain about the idea of them using AI are such hypocrite. Cygames is a gacha-making company that exploits gambling addicts for profit.

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Quoting: suchValve 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.

Why can't GOG work with Valve on this? Why do they need to compete? Perhaps I'm suggesting too radical a change in mentality for contemporary business thinking...

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Quoting: legluondunetWhen will they update Flatpak version? They still provide an old 1.14 version...impotants bugs have been fixed since 1.14 version.

Probably in the next version, which will be based on the upcoming Ubuntu LTS (26.04). Honestly, I got a bit disappointed with Mint during the current LTS cycle (24.04), since they haven't updated Xfce and MATE with their newer versions.

For reference: the Mint team updated their Xfce flavor (from 4.16 to 4.18) in Mint 21.2. Now, Xfce 4.20 is more than one year old and it could have been part of two Mint releases at this point. Things got even worse for MATE users, since the newest MATE release (1.28) is almost two years old.

I know that Cinnamon is their baby, but it feels odd that in the previous LTS they updated the Xfce during a point release and now completely ignored it - it wouldn't be so bad if they didn't do that before. And if my memory serves me right, Xfce is the second most popular Mint version.

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Quoting: scaineI always find the disconnect between enterprise/management and the general public on GenAI absolutely amazing.

I'm terribly confused by the disconnect between online realms (Gol, discord, reddit, you name it) and real life interactions. People I talk to take chatbots as a given and use them all the time. I use chatbots not so often (and when I do, mostly for research, it is just so good at that) because the few times I used them I noticed mistakes.

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When will they update Flatpak version? They still provide an old 1.14 version...importants Flatpak bugs have been fixed since 1.14 version.

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With how expensive the Points Shop items are and with Valve being stingy whores with the whole no more free event items. I honestly don't feel bad that people were point farming or doing whatever for clown awards. I also feel that the bitching about the clown awards and the behavior for them was overblown by some people. Who cares? It's not like most of the reviews are good anyways. Steam is a cesspool just like everywhere else.

I feel like Valve making Points Shop items more expensive (at least it seems that way) and them not giving away the free event items anymore is both in poor taste and them not reading the room. The Points Shop items practically cost them nothing and with most people struggling with everything, they should've went against that trend and at the very least kept the free event items. It's just another reason to be critical of Valve to me. I used to not dislike them as much as other gaming companies. Now? Fuck them and Gaben.

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Quoting: Tethys84Uhm... this is really old news now. Like from earlier last year. I could swear I even saw this reported about on here before.

Enhanced SC v1.4a was literally only released yesterday, as noted in the article.

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Finally! The clown award needed to be gone a long time ago. People totally abuse that to bully others with whom they disagree. You would see them piling onto reviews that were disliked in order to discredit them. I've had people do that to me on the Steam forums when I tried to argue against the incel, right-wing extremists who are attacking games for existing because they don't cater to them exclusively, and I was bombarded with the clown award. I can't help but wonder what took Valve so long. Now, they just need to eliminate the forums altogether because they are just one big cesspit.

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Quoting: scaineI've seen some enthusiasm for GenAI in the general public, but (and maybe I'm in a bubble of my own making now), most people I speak to simply ridicule it, or more often, actively revile it.

There are some people that are quite enthusiastic. In 2024 I met an older man at the end of a guided tour at the zoo and he said that every time he was learning a new tune for whatever instrument that he played he questioned ChatGPT about the specifics of said tune. In hindsight I'd like to know the accuracy of the “information” provided by these queries.

I'm convinced that the real applications of AI that provide a benefit to society are limited to the natural sciences – especially biology – and environmental research where automatic classification is a huge boost in efficiency like trying to determine which Lemurs are scattered in the remaining disconnected forests on Madagascar to prioritize reforestation or to track behavioural changes in animal populations caused by changes in the environment.

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I think you've missed what the Daily Show showed with the “circle” animation – the (incredibly dangerous) artificial inflation of the financial system.

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Edit: I forgot to mention that the Cygames post reminds me of Sir Humphrey from Yes Minister.

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Quoting: minidou

Quoting: scaineI've seen some enthusiasm for GenAI in the general public, but (and maybe I'm in a bubble of my own making now), most people I speak to simply ridicule it, or more often, actively revile it.

The vast majority of people do not care.

That's not my experience. Working in an enterprise of nearly 2000 staff, there are plenty of opinions and cooler-chat about GenAI and as I say, most people revile it. Maybe you meant the general public... but again, I see mostly negativity on various social media platforms.

Surveys tend to agree. https://civiqs.com/results/ai_impact

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Uhm... this is really old news now. Like from earlier last year. I could swear I even saw this reported about on here before.

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They are "Proud". Yeah, okay. The new owners only bought it last year. They have had little to no involvement with it as it's been in development for years. This is almost certainly about saving money. It’s quite despicable. What they are really saying is, "We don't want to spend more money on this; Vortex is fine the way it is, so deal with it. I really hope this blows up in their faces. It's only a matter of time before they ruin the site and Nexus mods dies. Probably will begin with massive censorship of mods. I don't expect my lifetime unlimited membership to survive much longer either. I'm sure they will come for that at some point soon.

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