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I bought....Seafarer The Ship Sim!

It's slow, it floats! I'm going to call my ship BoatyMcBoatBoat.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: subzeroThis doesnt seem to be working for me, i am on the official steam version of the game and i followed all the steps but for some reason the browser menu doesnt seem to detect the EA app on my computer that's already open, i am on fedora cinnamon

Since the guide covers two games, which game are we talking about? Battlefield 3?

yes im trying to play battlefield 3, apologies

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I absolutely recommend Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader!
I already have more than 120 hours in that game and I still have much too see.
This game has entertained me all these hours without ever feeling as if I was just playing some boring shore simulator.

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I just added up my wishlist. £3125, that's during the sale 🤮 and not counting stuff that isn't out yet 🤮🤮

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: doragasuToo late, today I switched to LibreWolf after literally DECADES of loyalty, and everything is working great, I'm not going back unless things change A LOT.

Also about that killswitch, let me guess, it will be opt-out and will reset each time a update is installed, right?

btw read those settings above. They are currently enabled in Librewolf too.

@Lofty
This contradicts with @redneckdrow's observation (and @toru9999's too) in the other thread:

Quoting: redneckdrow

Quoting: toru9999about:config
browser.ml.enable -> false
problem solved

Just checked, this is the default in Librewolf.

I'm not able to confirm this setting at the moment. Have you looked into it?

My 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

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To play devil's advocate... Firefox incorporaing random AI features for whatever corporate funding / CEO schmoozing in addition to normie appeal, while also making it easy to disable AI, seems like a least worst case for Firefox in the current moment without plunging itself into further irrelevancy.

I for one am not keen on having to install a chromium based browser so I'm feeling pretty generous towards Firefox doing what it has to do to survive.

And for all the Stallmanites on here, there are obscure FF forks for you, WHICH Firefox's continued existence and survival (which may require some corporate AI BS) depend on, I might add.

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If they really wanted to give us privacy and agency in how we use it, they would give us a very simple opt-out for all AI features. But like other companies and organisations - they won't, because they need to force people into it to make numbers go up.

Not sure, if this hasn't been available at the time of writing, but they have said, that there will be one killswitch, that turns everything AI off.

And to be honest, I can't remember seeing anything AI, after turning the some of the newer features off.

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Quoting: hell0

Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeI might pick up Lego Skywalker saga over the sale to continue with that splitscreen/couch co-op fun

In case you missed it, lego voyagers recently released (split fiction like).

Picked that one up on release :)

And yeah agree it's very like split fiction with it's focus on working together!

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Quoting: xavi

Quoting: suchOtherwise, I liked what I played of Hollow Knight and will get back to it someday, but I'm not that into the idea of a harder sequel so I have zero interest in Silksong. I do really like the devs, though, so if I do finish Hollow Knight and feel up for more...

I've 100 % Silksong and... yes! it is more difficult than Hollow Knight. But the standard end (end of act2) is not very difficult. If you want more then you start act 3 and it gets lot more difficult.

When you see an area is difficult or it could be a boss... better do another route if you are not prepared. Encourages exploration that is very good on this game.

Now in my second run I'm 90% and I continue enjoying it a lot.

Note in my first run some Act 3 bosses needed 20 tries... and now with 2-5 tries it is enough. In 2nd run I'm with Reaper crest that makes everything easier.

Yeah, I'm not the type to play a game several times in quick succession, and I don't care for maxing games, achievements etc. That said, I usually do want to experience what I can reasonably presume is the entire game, so I would feel compelled to continue in this case.

Not a soulslike fan, either. I largely do enjoy exploring in those games as well as the design outside of combat, but the whole package there just isn't satisfying for me to overcome the bits I don't care for.

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It took them 43 releases to realise they needed more formal testing procedures? Wow, that's rather amateur to put it mildly.

And Fedora 1 wasn't really a new distro, it was technically just a new Red Hat Linux release under a new name.
Also now that I think about, when I first read about it it didn't mean anything to me (and tbh I don't really remember what they said), but now it sounds like it was probably one of those greedy "we're locking our distro behind a paywall, but don't worry, you can still use our beta quality stuff" 😅

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I 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. The theme may change but when you've played one, you've played them all. They just lack the depth of a well-made single-player game for me.

I also resent paying full price just to get the software then having to pay a monthly subscription fee to actually play the game. I realize that the financial approach of these games has changed somewhat since the advent of microtransactions but then I fall back to my impressions in the first paragraph. Even being free just doesn't make them any more enjoyable for me.

As you can probably tell, it's been a long time since I've even looked at one. MMOs -- and online games in general -- just don't sync with me, what can I say.

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I'm assuming that you can enable ml by copying a Firefox profile to Librewolf.

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: doragasuToo late, today I switched to LibreWolf after literally DECADES of loyalty, and everything is working great, I'm not going back unless things change A LOT.

Also about that killswitch, let me guess, it will be opt-out and will reset each time a update is installed, right?

btw read those settings above. They are currently enabled in Librewolf too.

@Lofty
This contradicts with @redneckdrow's observation (and @toru9999's too) in the other thread:

Quoting: redneckdrow

Quoting: toru9999about:config
browser.ml.enable -> false
problem solved

Just checked, this is the default in Librewolf.

I'm not able to confirm this setting at the moment. Have you looked into it?

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Quoting: subzeroThis doesnt seem to be working for me, i am on the official steam version of the game and i followed all the steps but for some reason the browser menu doesnt seem to detect the EA app on my computer that's already open, i am on fedora cinnamon

Since the guide covers two games, which game are we talking about? Battlefield 3?

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This doesnt seem to be working for me, i am on the official steam version of the game and i followed all the steps but for some reason the browser menu doesnt seem to detect the EA app on my computer that's already open, i am on fedora cinnamon

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ARC Raiders and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 are both amazing games released this year

I would also include Witchfire Early Access, but it looks that one came out late last year.

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

Yep! It's also from Atom Team which is a great dev. I've had this on my wishlist for a LONG time. Very exciting! Probably going to wait for the 1.1 update to play since it adds content to the base game.

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Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeI might pick up Lego Skywalker saga over the sale to continue with that splitscreen/couch co-op fun

In case you missed it, lego voyagers recently released (split fiction like).

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Quoting: Kithop

Quoting: williamjcm25.3.0/1 had a bug that forced me to downgrade to 25.2.7 if I wanted to use SteamVR, so let's hope that one's fixed too.

Also had to do the same thing here. Not in 25.3.2 but it looks like there's a Merge Request open with a fix!

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/836#issuecomment-3665458999 -> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38987

Yup, that's the issue I ran into. Well, I guess I'll keep my Mesa packages pinned a bit longer, even though Arch doesn't like partial upgrades.

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: LoudTechieI don't think more chatbots and such will make Firefox better, but there is one recent AI feature of Firefox that although I don't use it I think is very good.

The build in translation capability. I had to download all kinds of sketchy extensions to get that to work right for my uncle and now I can just flip a setting.

As far as I'm aware, and I am no expert so I could easily be wrong, but translation is generally Machine Learning (ML), rather than Large Language Model (LLM), which the chatbots and generative AI are built on. It does fall under the "AI" umbrella, but doesn't have the same issues as LLMs such as rampant plagiarism, enormous energy use, black box processing that cannot be audited, generating misinformation, etc. So therefore not really a big issue despite both being under the same umbrella.

Machine learning is the base category. LLM is a subcategory of machine learning.

My understanding of the training methods of Mozilla are insufficient to classify it, it as a LLM, but it certainly is an LM(language model).
I would guess based on their github and budget that it's not(LLM requires self-reinforcement learning, which costs a lot).

Copyright wise all translation is the creation of derivative works although many nations tend to have personal use exceptions(in this case this matters, because I'm talking about the act of translating the webpage not the act of training the model).

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?

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

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I bought The World Next Door (I played the demo and liked it) and Misericorde Volume Two (I loved the first part). Considering I have a large backlog to work through, I don't think I'll be buying anything else this year.

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I'm not sure what I expected, but I was in the beta of this one and really could not get into it. It was "just" a rather generic survival/crafting game for me, with respawning baddies in those caves, even if you built it your home. I mean, come on. Basic takeovers like that should be expected to work in todays survival games.

Also there was no story there that I could detect, just a huge desert and... That's about it?

Very, very underwhelming.

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Calling Firefox a product multiple times makes my soul cringe.

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Quoting: _wojtekIMHO the issue with Firefox "adopting AI" is way overblown. Yes, AI is not great (especially if it's done with speculative bubble and cash burning by big-tech) and it's questionable ethics wise but… sometimes it's usefull and people do use it…

Also what's the alternative? Crappy reskins of chromium? :/

Librewolf
Zen Browser
Waterfox

there you go, three alternatives that have no ai integrations whatsoever.

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I wound up getting five games last night.

for desktop:

• Ghostwire Tokyo


• The Forgotten City


• Underrail

for deck:

• Legend of Grimrock 2


• Caravan Sandwich

Probably most excited for Underrail on desktop. On Deck, last night I tried Grimrock, but unfortunately it's a victim of that god damned steam deck verified bullshit that I hate so much. It says its verified, but it most DEFINITELY IS NOT. Ragehate that shit so much. The controls are so bad it's unplayable. They basically didn't make any kind of control scheme at all.

So I quickly gave up, and will probably refund.

On the other hand, Caravan Sandwich is SUPER FUN! So glad I picked that up!

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Quoting: LoudTechieI don't think more chatbots and such will make Firefox better, but there is one recent AI feature of Firefox that although I don't use it I think is very good.

The build in translation capability. I had to download all kinds of sketchy extensions to get that to work right for my uncle and now I can just flip a setting.

As far as I'm aware, and I am no expert so I could easily be wrong, but translation is generally Machine Learning (ML), rather than Large Language Model (LLM), which the chatbots and generative AI are built on. It does fall under the "AI" umbrella, but doesn't have the same issues as LLMs such as rampant plagiarism, enormous energy use, black box processing that cannot be audited, generating misinformation, etc. So therefore not really a big issue despite both being under the same umbrella.

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I don't think more chatbots and such will make Firefox better, but there is one recent AI feature of Firefox that although I don't use it I think is very good.

The build in translation capability. I had to download all kinds of sketchy extensions to get that to work right for my uncle and now I can just flip a setting.

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Quoting: BrandonGeneIt's shocking to me that none of these big companies have made the realization of "Hey, you know what would go over really well? Committing to NOT adopting AI in our product." Out of anyone, it should've been Mozilla.

Mozzilla is mostly(80%) funded by google the one with the money decides.

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Quoting: suchOtherwise, I liked what I played of Hollow Knight and will get back to it someday, but I'm not that into the idea of a harder sequel so I have zero interest in Silksong. I do really like the devs, though, so if I do finish Hollow Knight and feel up for more...

I've 100 % Silksong and... yes! it is more difficult than Hollow Knight. But the standard end (end of act2) is not very difficult. If you want more then you start act 3 and it gets lot more difficult.

When you see an area is difficult or it could be a boss... better do another route if you are not prepared. Encourages exploration that is very good on this game.

Now in my second run I'm 90% and I continue enjoying it a lot.

Note in my first run some Act 3 bosses needed 20 tries... and now with 2-5 tries it is enough. In 2nd run I'm with Reaper crest that makes everything easier.

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