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I can see the possibility of an unintended consequence of this situation with memory and storage. I could see this impacting the sales of new AAA games hard, since the business model of AAA game development has always included pushing up the hardware requirements with each new release. Very few PC owners are going to be upgrading while the prices are high, so odds are they won't be buying these new AAA games either. The AAA developers are not likely to change their development targets, so I foresee sales plummeting and possibly a few big development houses going under.

Of course, if I'm wrong about their flexibility, the upside is that we might see more efficient coding, less bloat and lower system requirements. That would be a very positive outcome of this situation!

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Quoting: whizseHow matplotlib's attempt at moderating AI submissions went:
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

Oh brave new world, that has such LLMs in it!

Brodie Roberdson on youtube made a video on youtube about it. I could not stop laughing.

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Quoting: LinasWe will have to go back to tape drives and floppy disks soon.

At least until those sell out in the next few weeks.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: whizseHow matplotlib's attempt at moderating AI submissions went:
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

Oh brave new world, that has such LLMs in it!

I heard about this the other day, because Ars Technica then ran (and [removed](https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/) ) an article, which used AI which entirely made up quotes about it all.

Had heard about the matplotlib saga but not the deliciously ironic arstechnica fiasco that went along. Rotten cherry on top of the moldy cake.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut it doesn't seem to be available in any distros as user friendly as Mint. One of these days I'll give it another look.

Fedora KDE is user friendly. Not having Nvidia drivers pre-installed ≠ not-user friendly. Windows comes without drivers pre-installed as well and people think that OS is user friendly. There's no harm in websearching "install nvidia drivers fedora Linux" and learning a thing or two about package management in the process. It's good practice long term.

So, first of all "user friendly" is a very vague term and I'm willing to agree that Fedora satisfies it. "as user friendly as Mint" is less vague, and I have never heard anyone claim Fedora satisfies that.

As to that second thing, no. I learned a thing or two about package management back in the 2000s. It was really annoying, as soon as they existed I moved to distros that did not make me do that. There is a finite amount of stuff I am capable of knowing a thing or two about, and a near infinite amount of stuff that would in some manner be useful to know, and I'm sorry but guts-details of operating systems is not in my top 1000. Computer people always think their particular area of knowledge is the one everyone really ought to know, but as far as I can tell there is no real basis for that believe

This turned argumentative real quick.

I didn't say Fedora is as user friendly as XYZ, I just that is, and in the midst of your confusion you seen to agree.

Secondly, your claim about wanting dsitros that "did not make you do [package management]" and that there's a finite amount of stuff you're capable of learning. I'm puzzled because A: what distros don't make you manage your packages? :D do you mean using GUI such as an app store ? Well Fedora KDE has the Discover store that let's you do that. And B: literally what else is there to know about a Linux system at all if not simple package management tips ? do you claim dnf install/update/remove is a difficult thing to understand and learn ? Genuinely, tell me one other thing that's more important for a new user to learn about Linux other than learning how to properly install apps and update their system.

Also, for the last unfounded assumption here: I'm not a computer people, I'm in med school.

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If there's one thing we were missing on, it was cheap unpolished garbage games made with free, broken, and mismatched assets, tied up with under-developed gameplay, and lackluster everything all around. Really, that's a genre of game that have little to no representation at all. /SARCASM.

And now they want to automatize their production. Great. Never have I seen a specie so hell-bent in self-destruction, and willing to shift in higher gear as needed in doing so.

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Balanced take: there is no conspiracy, this is simply a market reaction, and once these data centres are built but the envisioned demand does not materialize, prices for all components will fall as data centres stop being built.
I thought about panic-buying HDDs too, but they're expensive now, and anyways I have nothing to store.

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Quoting: KimyrielleWell, if that's the best you can do to defend your knee-jerk "solution" to the problem, I am glad you don't have any say in the matter, so cooler heads than yours can look for one. *shrug*

It's not up to me to fix it, I presented an opinion for essentially triage to stop the immediate rapidly bleeding-to-death situation. You do understand it's a crisis, yes?

I don't have to defend my opinion to ban all AI-generated slop here or anywhere, you may take for granted that it extends to all professions, areas and industries. Slop is slop and detrimental to anything it touches. There are legit use cases for the technology, however rare. Slop is never acceptable.

I have the highest hopes Godot can find an actual solution since there seems to be little chance of escaping slopageddon. 😫

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: PyrateCould say this about a lot of Linux projects, or just any open source project really, but Plasma is the gift that keeps on giving. No enshittification, just continuous improvements. We can't stop winning.

KDE Plasma updates are the few I look up to. Back in 5.24 I was installing betas to get some features early, I haven't installed a beta in years but dammit the changelogs still have gems.

Quoting: LoftyI have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard'

I use wayland but there is a bug not affecting X11: moonlight and seemingly nothing else can disable vsync so I get higher input latency.

https://discuss.kde.org/t/1-frame-latency-on-moonlight-only-on-wayland-cannot-turn-off-vsync/40157

ohh that's not good because i do use sunshine/moonlight.

I'm guessing the bug is specific to my hardware though, the problem appears to be that nothing can turn off vsync so I have higher latency. You can test yourself by bringing the server next to client, opening the website below and shooting a video at slow motion.
https://dregu.github.io/frameskip/

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Quoting: eggroleI'm constantly going to bat for AI, but even I can see this is total bullshit. While AI has its place, it is nowhere nears "prompt and spit out a game". I think you can argue that AI can help in places like concept art, voice acting, modeling (as in UML), or helping with code (more of a glorified search engine assistant), but spitting out whole games is a bridge too far at least considering the state of the technology today. Maybe a year or 10 from now things will be different.

All that said, this feels like another attempt to goose the AI bubble. All the Nvidia/OpenAI investment "controversy" lately is showing a lot of cracks, or should I say pins, around the AI bubble. This might be an attempt to delay those pins a little longer.

Just to say this site is a luxury, to get opinions like these and articles like Liam's.

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They're taking away our right to own private computers

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I'm constantly going to bat for AI, but even I can see this is total bullshit. While AI has its place, it is nowhere nears "prompt and spit out a game". I think you can argue that AI can help in places like concept art, voice acting, modeling (as in UML), or helping with code (more of a glorified search engine assistant), but spitting out whole games is a bridge too far at least considering the state of the technology today. Maybe a year or 10 from now things will be different.

All that said, this feels like another attempt to goose the AI bubble. All the Nvidia/OpenAI investment "controversy" lately is showing a lot of cracks, or should I say pins, around the AI bubble. This might be an attempt to delay those pins a little longer.

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Quoting: KillYourFM

Quoting: suchHDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

I bought 3 WD Red Plus 12TB HDDs for my NAS project two months ago. I paid $229 each. Now the cheapest I can find that model in stock is $369. TWO MONTHS LATER. It's absolute madness out there.

I had some HDD issues recently, and I've been slowly toying with the idea of setting up a NAS, but it's either been time, money and always the issue of space, so I downsized instead and kept putting it off. I guess that's it for that for a good long while.

I bought a factory recertified 16TB half a year ago. Largely out stock at this point, double the price if you can grab one, and there's no stock available anywhere that I'd consider it a good idea to buy from.

Not paying for cloud, that's for sure. They can sell me drives for my local setup, or they can stuff it.

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Quoting: KoopaJust great! to the ramageddon, now you have to add the slopmageddon... any other mageddon I am forgetting?🤣

We got mageddons coming out our ears these days.

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Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut it doesn't seem to be available in any distros as user friendly as Mint. One of these days I'll give it another look.

Fedora KDE is user friendly. Not having Nvidia drivers pre-installed ≠ not-user friendly. Windows comes without drivers pre-installed as well and people think that OS is user friendly. There's no harm in websearching "install nvidia drivers fedora Linux" and learning a thing or two about package management in the process. It's good practice long term.

So, first of all "user friendly" is a very vague term and I'm willing to agree that Fedora satisfies it. "as user friendly as Mint" is less vague, and I have never heard anyone claim Fedora satisfies that.

As to that second thing, no. I learned a thing or two about package management back in the 2000s. It was really annoying, as soon as they existed I moved to distros that did not make me do that. There is a finite amount of stuff I am capable of knowing a thing or two about, and a near infinite amount of stuff that would in some manner be useful to know, and I'm sorry but guts-details of operating systems is not in my top 1000. Computer people always think their particular area of knowledge is the one everyone really ought to know, but as far as I can tell there is no real basis for that belief.

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We need a tickbox when submitting a PR affirming that no AI was used for writing this code, and if you're found to be in violation, you're banned from contributing to any open source projects* (first infraction - one month ban, second infraction - six month, third infraction - lifetime). Yes, I know people can create new accounts, but the whole reason they are doing it is "building reputation", colouring these green boxes and stuff like that, so it should be deterrent enough.

(*) it would probably be a good idea if the project maintainer hand a control on whether to use this setting and to what extent.

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Am I trippin'? I am pretty sure it has been running Proton through UMU for quite a while now?

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Part of me is like "man now minecraft can't run on anything" but also vulkan support have been here since 600 series nvidia with kepler and HD 7000 series AMD with GCN 1 both from 2012 so as long as your gpu isn't more then 14 years old you can still play as long as they don't go past vulkan 1.2 because of kepler. I'm not sure about the laptop side with intel so that concerns me. I don't know how kepler does with vulkan I know it does terribly with DX12 my GT 640 is dead so I can't check for myself. I just hope this doesn't effect too many people.

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Just great! to the ramageddon, now you have to add the slopmageddon... any other mageddon I am forgetting?🤣

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Freedom finds its way.

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Quoting: princecThe latest drivers from Nvidia completely ruined my XFCE experience unfortunately, entirely breaking the compositor, which had to be turned off. Attempting to drop back down to the (known working) 570 drivers left me in "broken computer hell", booting to a black screen, which took a couple of days to fix. Grr. I am loathe to try the new 580 drivers as it's probably still the case that XFCE is broken.

I will probably have to accept that Mint really wants me to use Cinnamon instead, which I suppose is no great hardship.

I am running Linux Mint 22 XFCE with the 580 series driver. I haven't experienced the problems you've described. I'm on an older GPU, however. I also run at a resolution of no more than 1920x1080 (usually 1440x810 in game). Perhaps that accounts for the difference.

Maybe try @clatterfordslim's suggestion? Might work with the 580 series driver as well.

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Depending on how much better this is going to make the game run, I wonder how much Sodium and Optifine(along with other mods like Rubidium) are going to be effected by this.

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Quoting: clatterfordslim

Quoting: princecThe latest drivers from Nvidia completely ruined my XFCE experience unfortunately, entirely breaking the compositor, which had to be turned off.

You have to turn the inbuilt v_blank off inside of xfwm to fix the screen flickering, after installing the newish 590.48.01 driver.
Here is the fix, unless you already know then ignore.
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -s off
Then reboot your system. Switch on Pipeline Composition in NVIDIA-Settings and you won't have any more problems.

Have you give any source for this fix?

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Quoting: elmapulone solution that i saw that WILL cause backslash... was to charge to submit an issue, and refund if the issue was legitimate.

that would limit how much the "ai bros" can flood the repo with bad submissions, and help pay the costs of reviewing the submissions

Now this could work.

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Quoting: mindedieBan is simple and simple things are practical.

“There is always an easy solution to every human problem–neat, plausible, and wrong.”

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Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: F.UltraThey could take 0% and still violate the DMA so no (IE was included for free in Windows, this still violated their monopoly situation in EU). This is about abusing your position as a gatekeeper and not about some specific cut. Funnily enough you have now changed your tune from 30% to (or some other amount) so it seems like you are in agreement that this is not about the 30%.

No, you just have it backwards: It's not like the commission conceived rules & then checked which companies are violating them. No, there were complaints by (European) companies (like Spotify) that Apple is hurting their businesses. It was recognised that some big players are abusing their market power & then constructed rules to counter said effects - like taking 30%. All other concessions by Apple (taking less) became effective after the DMA was already in progress (but nowhere near being passed) or after being in effect (to conform with the DMA).

So yes, the DMA has parts specifically about Apple's (& Google's) cut which was 30% when it was initially conceived.

I think the Internet Explorer was never in dispute for the DMA because it was already dying/dead but yes, there are other provisions to counter different effects, too (like bundling software). Obviously the DMA is not all about Apple.

IE was never part of the DMA because that happened years before DMA was a thing plus that the IE case never needed something like the DMA since Microsoft have a monopoly so the ordinary monopoly laws was applied. The DMA is a way to address market related issues in the technology domain even though each individual company might not have a monopoly as such, hence the new definition of being gatekeepers.

Like monopoly laws the DMA is all about not allowing people with monopoly (or near monopoly) position to abuse their status as monopoly in one area to gain advantages in another area, for Microsoft this was them using their monopoly among Operating Systems to try and get an advantage when it came to Internet Browsers.

Likewise with the DMA this is about gatekeepers not being allowed to use their position, like Apple being gatekeepers of their Appstore, to get advantages in the payment sector. Which have ZERO to do with a specific cut.

That Apple cut back its cut was not part of them being compliant with the DMA, them allowing other payment providers for in-app purchases for apps in their Appstore was what made them compliant. So the single reason that Apple cut back on their cut was to keep people using their payment option instead of moving so some of the 3d parties that they just allowed.

And it is you that have it backwards, Spotify complained about Apple in 2019 but the initial plans for the DMA was made in 2014 during the Juncker Commission, the same commission that gave us the GDPR and that removed the cell phone roaming charges within the EU. It was never about Apples, Google or anyone else:s cut, it was always about regulating the behaviour of the Big Tech firms.

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Something else... someone knocks out "their" game at the click of a button, tries to sell it and then the consumer comes back with a bug report - "crickets/tumbleweed".

Unless I'm being silly and don't realise these games will be created perfectly coded 🤔

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Quoting: dpanterBan AI-generated everything.

This would be a fine idea if they knew what was AI-generated without taking the time to go through and figure it out. But apparently nobody's saying their stuff is AI-generated.

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Quoting: princecI will probably have to accept that Mint really wants me to use Cinnamon instead, which I suppose is no great hardship.

What it says to me is that NVidia really want you to use AMD instead, but in this era of sky-high prices that's probably a significant hardship.

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Quoting: princecThe latest drivers from Nvidia completely ruined my XFCE experience unfortunately, entirely breaking the compositor, which had to be turned off.

You have to turn the inbuilt v_blank off inside of xfwm to fix the screen flickering, after installing the newish 590.48.01 driver.
Here is the fix, unless you already know then ignore.
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -s off
Then reboot your system. Switch on Pipeline Composition in NVIDIA-Settings and you won't have any more problems.

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