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Mostly I´m just happy to seem them acknowledge the existence of Anachronox.

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Quoting: syylkThis is a major win for FOSS. It means this burdensome spy-on-users fiasco is another selling point for non-proprietary OSes.

this whole situation is a BIG L!
baby steps! in a few years it includes open source!
do NOT give them an inch, or they will take a mile!!

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Quoting: wintermuteIsn't Android technically an Open Source operating system?

Yes and no.

AOSP (Android Open Source Project) is free software. But everything on top as Google Play services or any device lockdown as usual for Android devices (or smartphones in general, because of "smart") are proprietary. And even worse: what does AOSP help you if only proprietary systems are shipped, so that you may not even be able to install a ASOP-Fork as GrapheneOS on these devices?

To answer the question about "are smartphones affected?": while ASOP or its free software forks are technically not, all smartphones are affected by default. Pure Linuxphones on the other hand are not affected (as Mobian or PostmarketOS and many more).

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Quoting: wintermuteIsn't Android technically an Open Source operating system?

Well, it has an open source kernel, anyway. Not sure about the rest these days.

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Isn't Android technically an Open Source operating system?

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Hopefully this new screenshot tool will be able to take screenshots of games. That was my biggest problem of the existing one.

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I'll get one some day. I love the GB Operator, so this is a natural buy. I wonder how it will handle my games that I had translated to english using Voultar's stacking boards.

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Quoting: vic-bayFun fact, 95% of steam users were born on January 1st.

… 1970. If asked for something “more accurate”, at midnight UTC.

Anyway. systemd…

What do you mean by "systemd..." ?

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^ And don’t get me started about Pogs.

(I never actually gambled them but I still fiercely hold onto my sibling and I’s collection.)

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Quoting: tohurThere is STILL the Federal bill H.R. 8250 so this is no win just yet folks

At least the US folks have a foot inside the door. Let's label this as first good news on a stable of ****.

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Quoting: CaldathrasOh, believe me, back in the day -- long before the Internet existed -- kids found many ways to gamble with their collector's cards.

If you're playing for ante, then each player turns over the top card and lays it face up. This card is the ante; whoever wins the game will get to keep both cards.
-- Magic: The Gathering 4th Edition rulebook.

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Quoting: ShadowXeldronMetaverse? That's a buzzword I haven't heard in a hot minute. I thought it went out of favour when the NFTs became irrelevant. I thought large language models were the trendy thing at the minute.

I'm sure even as we speak, there are executives trying to find a way to combine those disasters. "Okay, hear me out--NFTs curated by AI!"

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Helps to be old fashioned I guess. I usually reach websites by typing the URL (well, for sites I go to a lot, just a bit of the URL--for Gaming on Linux I type "g" and the bar fills in the rest). Hard to end up at a fake site that way.

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Mixed news, and it will definitely quiet/reduce urgency for free software advocates.
Slightly good for us (who were probably going to fight/break it at every opportunity anyways), but more good for age verification.

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Quoting: EhvisGave it a try. Crashed the tutorial when I opened the tech tree before it told me to. Then twice it soft locked by requesting an action that it wouldn't let me perform.

Abandoned the tutorial and went to the normal game where I had no issues but the ones I created for myself. 😅

wow, the tutorial getting angry at avid users is still a thing?!

glad to hear the rest is now working fine... i tried this in the early days and it seemed like loads of fun but eventually it gridlocked my progress in the game outside the tutorial and i decided to wait before giving it a new try

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Quoting: MayeulCI had been thinking about designing something like that for a while

same!

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There is STILL the Federal bill H.R. 8250 so this is no win just yet folks

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its great that they opened an exception for us, but that feels like "first they came" , we are an noise minority that, if silenced, there would not be enough noise to change the law for everyone...

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You'd think that a publisher like SNEG would realize that

Delisted = Abandonware

which takes distribution of the games outside of their control... 😉

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Also available on GOG as ...

[Witchaven I & II Bundle](https://af.gog.com/en/game/witchaven_witchaven_ii_blood_vengeance?as=1636858786)

Significantly cheaper than buying the games separately.

(There might be a bundle on Steam too -- I haven't checked.)

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Quoting: SisterI think Valve left out the part of the comparison in which kids don’t use baseball cards/Pokemon cards/cereal box prizes to participate in illegal online casinos. 😅

Oh, believe me, back in the day -- long before the Internet existed -- kids found many ways to gamble with their collector's cards. They called them "games" and "trading" back then and adults mostly ignored the activities. Anyone who thinks kids haven't found ways to gamble -- and still do -- are deceiving themselves.

Collectors would kringe but I remember card toss games where the winner got to keep all the cards in play. Some cards has more value than others, as agreed upon by the players. It was a game of chance, so technically it was gambling. The only difference was that lives were generally not ruined when kids gambled.

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All the "age verification" bill are unconstitutional 1st Amendment violations and can be struck down in court.

Code is expressive conduct under Bernstein v. DOJ and Junger v. Daley.

Compelled creation of expressive content is still compelled speech (Wooley, Hurley, Janus).

Age verification mandates require developers to author, maintain, and deploy expressive logic they would not otherwise create.

The state cannot force a private actor to speak, design, or encode a message or system that expresses the state’s preferred policy.

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This will certainly increase the appeal of Linux for anybody concerned with privacy, but then the cynic in me wonders if there will be a push for corporations to enforce age requirements by restricting their websites and applications to only "approved" operating systems -- meaning ones that are intentionally designed to expose your personal data.

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Quoting: vic-bayFun fact, 95% of steam users were born on January 1st.

… 1970. If asked for something “more accurate”, at midnight UTC.

Anyway. systemd…

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Fun fact two: it is not about your real age, but about "are you adult" ... and most accounts are old enough or providing payment options that tell "I am 18+". ;-)

Quoting: vic-bayFun fact, 95% of steam users were born on January 1st.

And 4% on top randomize months and day as well to not look like an invalid date. ;P

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UE6 have same colors as Resident Evil 6... 6 is always violet ?

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I'm leaning more into indie games.
Because, here I am, waiting for Mina the Hollower on 29th May.
Or Abyss X Zero.
Or Moulder.
Sure, there are some other bigger games. Like Witchbrook, Nivalis or Alkahest.
And more bigger games with debatable studios and publishers, like Crimson Desert, HoMM: Olden Era or Avowed.
But as long as the games are working fine on linux I pay the money to play them.

I'm also waiting for some EA-games leaving their status to a 1.0 version.
For example, the demos from Alabaster Dawn, Monomyth, HoMM: Olden Era and Super Alloy Crush were fun.
And yes, i did buy some games in EA state, Valheim for example.
But that was the time I had friends to play with.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneWhile on the other hand, Steam probably has the age of most of its users anyway.

According to what I told Steam, I am 99 years old. 😂

Fun fact, 95% of steam users were born on January 1st.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneWhile on the other hand, Steam probably has the age of most of its users anyway.

According to what I told Steam, I am 99 years old. 😂

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For UE4 we had 27 versions before UE4.28 aka UE5.0 was published. And the reason for relabeling 4.28 to 5.0 were features as Nanite and Lumen ... not even Megalights or Substrate Materials. For what reason Epic would want to push a 6.0 at this point right now? Was this an AI-slop video?

Btw UE5 games can be optimized and Alkimia Interactive (Gothic Remake) wants to do exactly this with UE5.4 and want to show that their game does not even have micro-stuttering. Let's focus on this game and if they're right it is a developer issue on all the other studios, not an UE5 problem.

Also there are many misconceptions on UE5. If devs build in Nanite everywhere where possible, they also need to change their workflow a lot. For example you need to create models for foliage. Sprites as foliage are old tech and does not scale well with Nanite. But Nanite also does not like displacement, devs have to limit the amount of grass swinging, even if grass can be displayed 100km in distance (one of the main reason for using Nanite btw, I saw whole huge distance forests this way, created by an indie developer, showing me in private).
Another misconception is, that UE5 takes a lot of resources in general. Traditional GPU has to work more as more polygons become added. With Nanite the GPU requirement is directly bound to your screen resolution, no matter how much polygons are added. You have the same requirements for an empty scene as for a super high resolution models scene. And so there is a point before it is reached the classical methods (also functional in UE5) will be more performant, but beyond that point UE4 and other engines could just not compete with UE5. And whoever is using a 4K monitor requires even better hardware for even an empty scene.

Developers need to relearn their workflows to make optimal use of UE5 and many just put frame-gen or upscale to it to avoid any kind of optimization. The "fun" fact: UE5 removes the needs of many optimizations just as no need to build LODs or to bake lightmaps (which are indeed more efficient than Lumen, but also static and not dynamic) and devs still fail to do the rest of the work needed as proper instancing of meshs.

And of course, UE5 is not without problems. Running editor on Linux in Wayland causes a lot of issues and UE5.7 screwed up the whole editor UI (something I wounder if it was vibe-coded or just a super stupid human mistake).

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