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Quoting: Purple Library GuyMy year of the Linux desktop was somewhere around 2000, I can't remember exactly. The Linux desktop sucked really hard back then, but so did Windows 98, so.

There is something unbeatable about the early 2000s Linux desktop aesthetic. I'm nostalgic for it and I wasn't even there for it!

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Quoting: g000hLet's go through your arguments then, shall we? First, you agree with some of my points, so I'll only counter where your points differ:

While Amazon does host third-party sellers, your declaration that this facilitates small business overlooks the predatory nature of the platform's ecosystem. Amazon is both a referee and player, making it a clear conflict of interest. During 2020, Amazon systematically used non-public data from third-party sellers to identify successful products and then launch competing Amazon Basics versions to undercut them. Additionally, Amazon takes advantage of algorithmic bias when promoting marketplace items prioritising products with higher profit margins for Amazon even if they are more expensive or lower quality than third-party alternatives. Often sellers that try to sell outside Amazon's ecosystem are penalised.

The existence of other competitors does not disprove the abuse of market dominance - It merely indicates the market is large enough to sustain a few giants. However Amazon is the largest of these with the greatest marketshare, and is still the one to focus attention on. Amazon has successfully driven out competition in niche markets. The book industry (for instance) is nearly monopolised by Amazon. forcing independent bookstores to close or struggle immensely.

Before Amazon there were thousands of independent online retailers. Now the market is heavily consolidated, thanks to Amazon's damaging influence. The presence of Temu and Ali Express does not negate the fact that the biggest player, Amazon, has used its logistics network and capital reserves to engage in predatory pricing (selling below cost) to crush competitors. Only to raise the prices later, once dominance is secured.

Your contention that supporting local business requires dropping globalist capitalism, i.e. some things need global scale: This is a false dichotomy. One can advocate for fair labour practices, ethical tax contributions, and consumer protection without rejecting globalisation or efficiency of scale. The issue is not globalisation itself, but the unregulated concentration of power that allows a single entity to dictate terms globally.

Your argument relies on a "straw man" fallacy, i.e. that criticising Amazon equates to wanting to abolish all global trade. The reality is that Amazon's specific business practices - data exploitation, predatory pricing, and anti-competitive behaviour - These all harm the small businesses and consumers. Amazon is a monopoly that uses its size to stifle market diversity.

GOOD. Instead of throwing out generic talking points, you are now addressing specific concerns.

The book industry issue is complicated. Blaming just one source, Amazon, is as much a "straw man" fallacy as you accuse me of below. The retail market has changed. Small publishers, instead of just wholesaling to bookstores, are now selling direct. Consumers seem to have embraced "mail order" over brick-and-mortar stores. I have no problems finding small online retailers for most books that interest me. E-book formats certainly haven't helped the situation. Like computer video game stores, the bookstores are being forced to adjust. To argue that globalism has not played a part in this complex issue would also be naive. I, for one, lament the loss of the local bookstore. Browsing online is just not the same as browsing the shelves in a bookstore.

Your argument relies on a "straw man" fallacy, i.e. that criticising Amazon equates to wanting to abolish all global trade.

I made no such argument. You're reading too much into my comment. By all means, criticize Amazon but be specific about your complaints. Using generic talking points just diminishes your argument.

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I wonder if this was riven by the accidental leak and outrage, or more Valve and Steam hardware. Either way a huge win for gamers.

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That's good for the Steam Machine I guess.

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Gave 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. 😅

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The environmental impact of events which leading to a huge amount of people using LLM in an excessive way. Who is taking the responsibility of this? Are they even aware how much power it would require in additional, just to create the slop-content of this event? If they had to pay all of this, their 75k$ would not be enough to pay the bills.

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Quoting: SirMCJeagerThat wasn't appropriate. Review bombing a perfectly good game like that over a contest. I wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.

Right?

It's perfectly fine to be against AI. But these people behave like a vicious lynch mob who go after anyone who disagrees with them. I lost respect for the anti-AI crowd a while ago, when vitriol and hate took the place of logic and reason.

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Why the original releases and not the Redux later editions? It seems like a waste of effort.

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Had the "stuck hover windows" issue and thought maybe it was Wayland misbehaving; there'd been an update recently and I'm too tired to track down root cause. Or whose fault, whichever. :)

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Well the marketing team was split between doing either a youth chain smoking competition, public service worker harassment tiktok videos, or flash mob twerking at hospice care centers. But like any good head of marketing, they settled for something where participants could generate buzz while sitting from their couch at home that would maximize drain on society without requiring consumable commodities, going outside, or physical (or even mental) exertion. Real party animals if you ask me.

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Loved Talos 1, got about halfway into it, then life came at me hard and I had no brainwidth to go at the puzzles in my moments of downtime. I'll buy 3 to support the devs and hope that I can pick up where I left off on the series.

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: JarmerThe endgame was not really properly thought out, so hopefully they listen to fans and fix that here.

What do you mean? Wiping everything on the map in the first time was not what they wanted? 🤔

LOL.

I actually never even did finish the first game because it just got so boring :( I think I did like a half dozen or so battles where the enemy never even got a single turn, ever. So then there's no point to anything. Why even upgrade anything? Why change any abilities or etc etc etc. And for a tactical game where there isn't much else outside the battles: I kinda just moved on to other things.

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What? A "number go up" game that actually has a reasonable time to an ending? TAKE MY MONEY!

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Quoting: slayerthechickenis this still the bad timeline just with sprinkles of hope?

Nope, this is still the timeline of despair. But now we have better visuals to go along with it. :D

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Quoting: SirMCJeager... I wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.

It will when the "ai"-nonsense stops.

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There‘s no Hope. They’re giving this to us, because we won’t be able to get any new GPUs I bet and now they’re throwing us a bone. A tasty bone though.

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I burned out on the first part mainly due to trying to find the hidden stuff, so I still have not finished it. I think I watched some speed runs of the second part and it looked too open for a puzzle game.

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Quoting: scainethe 20+ reasons why genAI is a curse

I'm still convinced that the only real description for gen AI is that it is a weapon for the ultra wealthy to be used against the rest of the people.

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Quoting: JarmerThe endgame was not really properly thought out, so hopefully they listen to fans and fix that here.

What do you mean? Wiping everything on the map in the first time was not what they wanted? 🤔

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To us, AI is Just another tool.

So, you don't understand then. Not gonna regurgitate (again), the 20+ reasons why genAI is a curse. It should be obvious by now, but there are still execs out there who love the fact they don't have to pay humans anymore. Fuck 'em.

Quoting: SirMCJeagerThat wasn't appropriate. Review bombing a perfectly good game like that over a contest. I wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.

What do you suggest people do with their anger and frustration at genAI when it's promoted as gleefully and as ignorantly as this?? This is the perfect answer to such total lack of awareness of the negative impacts of genAI. Execs want it, NO-ONE ELSE WANTS IT. But no matter how many capital letters we use, we'll still get dumb takes like an AI competition to promote yet more use of "just another tool".

Just another hammer - small catch, every time you use it, someone dies. But yeah, it's just another tool. Would you use that hammer?

*yes, that's an exaggeration, but it feels like absurd arguments like that are the only way to land the point in the face of tech-bro'ism these days.

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Quoting: SirMCJeagerI wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.

That's the thing, really. AI is being forced upon people throughout all aspects of life and that's not how you make something popular. Quite the contrary.

And review bombs work. It's one of the few ways in which consumers can fight back.

I wish all this AI bs would stop because it's the only tech that requires mandatory usage quotas to justify more investments.

Every other unpopular idea/tech that yeilded this level of backlash should have been abandoned by now but we keep pushing it while it's actively being a detriment to society from all the perspectives in which you can analize it (energy use, profits, job loses, copyright infringement, ...).

So, no. People will not let this go because people hate this shit.

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I do not understand how anyone supposedly in the marketing realm can fail to read a room this badly.
I'm almost impressed.

While I don't think review bombs are an appropriate form of protest against non-game issues, I also realize people don't have anything more powerful available to them, so 🤷‍♂️

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Quoting: Linux_Rocks

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Quoting: LinuxwarperGoogle is increasingly a great example of a company that used open source like a cheap prostitute, excuse my vulgarity, and now they are shutting down Android.

One could also argue the same thing with Apple and macOS. As at the start, Apple were touting the open source origins of Mac OS X.

Not really the same. Apple butchered Darwin, sure (never mind CUPS, OpenGL support, and probably others), but it never covered anywhere close to what was under AOSP. All Apple cared about with Darwin marketing was attracting whatever Unix fans they could.

My bad, I just remember them being all like "*BSD this" and "open source that" with Mac OS X and software. I also remember there being a thing with the Yellow Dog Linux people at the Apple Store near me too. I was really surprised about that, even back then.

One of their tricks which sadly worked is swift.
MacOS is completely POSIX/UNIX certified.
This means it's completely possible to write forward compatible and platform agnostic code for MacOS, but if you actually want in the appstore or signed by Apple you've to use their completely separate functions set, which is neither of these things forcing you into their developer tools.

Wine succeeded, only because Apple needed it.

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Dumb shits doing dumb shit things, and they will learn nothing from this because despite the tweet, they do NOT understand.

There's nothing creative about making some generative ai monstrosity vomit up hallucinated tosh they stole real artists work to train their torment nexus machines on. 🤬

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: LoudTechieIt's also scary, since I want to design complex tools and not be thrown under the bus next revolution.

Haha yes, that is also very true. But I think as long things are done with best will it is very unlikely. The revolution usually starts when something goes very very wrong.

I'm not saying I fear to be the one to trigger it(a little bit though, I've written some code with guillotine potential).
I'm saying I fear to be one the people taken down with the ones to blame.
Mobs aren't really known for their discerning eye in who to take down.

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That wasn't appropriate. Review bombing a perfectly good game like that over a contest. I wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: F.UltraPayment was never the issue though and AMD is and have been for years a HDMI licensee. There is nothing with these patches that would or could make HDMI Forum not get payed exactly what they where payed before.

I think the logic (from an artificial scarcity hoarding viewpoint) was that if they didn't keep the spec super secret, companies could just make stuff without giving them money. Which they didn't like the sound of. But, as you say, you still need to give them money (and AMD did) for the compliance tests and the sticker, and that's where the prestige is. "Proper" hardware companies will still give them money to remain "proper," and fly-by-night won't-conform-to-the-spec companies weren't going to give them money either way.

But companies making stuff without giving them money would be breaking trademark law and thus open to be sued by HDMI Forum, aka the reason that you pay for the specs is not to get access to the specs but to be allowed to sell products labelled with HDMI. And the fee for the specs are minuscule, only $10k per year (or $5k for low volume manufacturers), the real money is the per sold item royalty (up to $0.2 for high volume and flat $1 for low volume) since that times millions of devices per year adds up quite significantly.

And fly-by-night would not be affected by open drivers since they already have the specs (they are ofc widely spread in China for free). But I guess that some of the members where afraid of that and others have now countered, we simply don't know who it was since all 80+ companies have voting rights (and their votes are not made public).

Trademark law is weak compared to what the HDMI forum wields to keep others from releasing HDMI compatible stuff.
I'm talking copyright, contract law and patent.

No it is only trademark, there is nothing to copyright (aka you releasing a HDMI product that is not licensed cannot breach copyright) and the patents in HDMI only covers things like how cables and connectors are constructed not the things that the driver implements. And trademark is not weak here since if you want to sell a cable the end user wants to know that it is HDMI compatible so you have to mark it as HDMI somewhere and the second you do without a license then you are breaching trademark.

If its based on existing HDMI work it can break copyright and patents can still be wielded.
Trademark is weak, because its legal coverage much more limited and its punishments are much less bad.
For trademark the infringed party needs to proof the trademark infringement is misleading to consumers and you can't use it to get an existing product from the market, just its marketing.
Also dodging trademark can sometimes be as easy as not describing your product as "HDMI", but "HDMI compatible" or simply using the same shape as HDMI for your port.

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This is great, maybe I switched timelines or something, is this still the bad timeline just with sprinkles of hope?

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Been waiting for this one for a long time! I have precious little time for games these days, so I tend to hold off on early-access titles until they actually launch to a positive reception. I'll have to set aside some weekend time to take a look.

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Unfortunately without the native Linux ports from Steam. But still very nice.

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