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Quoting: eggroleFurther, I am hesitant to call anyone extremist when they simply have a diffent opinion. Is it really extremist to want to stop immigration and deport some of the current immigrants? Compared to rounding them up and shooting them - an actual extremist view? You might not want that, but is wanting that (the deporting, not executing) really extreme?

[sarcasm] Well, and is rounding them up and shooting them really extreme? Compared to torturing them slowly and then eating them - an actual extremist view? [/sarcasm]
You can always pretend (X) isn't extreme if you can find a vile enough (Y) to compare it to. What's not extreme is justice and equal rights for all.

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Quoting: eggroleExtremism is created when there is a lack of communication

No it isn't. Different political camps never communicated much and probably never will. Extremism is created when the system as it is fails to meet the needs of large and increasing numbers of people, when lives become precarious and even those who are doing all right fear that this might not be a stable situation. At that point, people look for someone to blame, and there are two basic answers:

Answer 1: Blame the people in charge. This is the obvious answer since the people in charge are, well, in charge. If things are screwed up, who else would be responsible? But this gets more radical if people notice that the current situation, bad for them, is actually enriching the people at the top (as it is today). At that point you start to think they're not just getting things wrong, they're screwing you over deliberately.

Answer 2: Blame groups who have no power, but who seem different. Outgroups, aliens, people who trigger xenophobia. This is the stupid answer--like how are these scapegoats supposed to have caused any of the problems--but it is the answer that gets the propaganda funding, because the people in charge really want everyone who's upset to believe it's the fault of anyone but them. And when people are afraid and angry, blaming the outsider is a strong instinct, so it works pretty well. But it is simply wrong, not to mention evil.

(It's particularly wrong in today's world, where if there are a bunch of immigrants it is because the exact people siccing you on immigrants ruined the countries people are fleeing, whether by war or predatory trade practices or coups and destabilization. For instance, if the US and Europe hadn't deliberately broken Iraq, Libya and Syria, the mass immigration to Europe from those regions would not have happened. Anyone who doesn't want lots of immigration, the last thing they should do is vote for fascists, because they're always militarists who will create crises that cause immigration.

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Oh please, fuck victim blaming and shaming immigrants or apologizing to that shit. Bigotry and xenophobia are bullshit regardless of anything that's going on. It's not the fault of any of the immigrants that imperialism has destabilized and/or brutally exploited and oppressed their home countries, forcing them to leave. Which is something that the petty liberals (Blair, Obama, and Genocide Joe, etc.) are all equally guilty of as the assholes in the right (Bush, the Orange Moron, and the Tories, etc.).

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Quoting: ChrisznixPerfect timing. The rightwing party of germany just claimed almost 20% in one of the lands...🤮

Quoting: Geppeto35Yesterday, the French municipal elections also saw a historic breakthrough for the far-right party, which openly aligns on nazis and fascists roots, helped (as right before the WWII) by the traditional right wing that fears a true left elected.

Sadly, it smells like our generation could be "all out of bubblegums" in the next decade in this mad world!

Has anyone ever stopped to ask those voting this way WHY? I don't follow European politics closely so I could be wrong about this, but from what I can tell the major voting point is immigration and the downstream effects (like increased housing prices as one example).

Add to this, people calling them Nazis for wanting something different than you might want will only exclude them and dig them into their positions. If you are an open-borders proponent (or whatever the issue might be), you won't change any minds calling people names and telling them they are wrong/dumb.

Extremism is created when there is a lack of communication, and I see this divide worsening as people seemingly refuse to engage civilly with one another. Futher, I am hesitant to call anyone extremist when they simply have a diffent opinion. Is it really extremist to want to stop immigration and deport some of the current immigrants? Compared to rounding them up and shooting them - an actual extremist view? You might not want that, but is wanting that (the deporting, not executing) really extreme? If so, can I argue that importing them is at the other end of extreme? That is an honest question. FYI I don't think either position is truly extreme.

Alot of these people tend to be misled by the goverment though.. "it's not our fault your life is shitty, its that immigrants fault"

Take Brexit here in the UK for example. Everyone I know who voted to leave was due to immigration.

Yet under the EU we could send illegal immigrants to the EU country they entered from, then brexit happened

Subsequently, the small boat crisis wasn't a thing pre-brexit, but not seen a single brexiteer who will acknowledge this and instead beat their chests and still act like brexit was a good thing.

Critical thinking needs to be used more with right wing parties, instead of being so biased about their opinions all the time

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Quoting: eggroleMy monitor is only 1440 and while I'm sure I'll go to 4K someday, it won't be any time soon.

Same here. I think of 1440p as being the happy medium between 1080p and 4k, giving you a slightly crisper image, without the overhead that 4k requires.

When it comes to games, I can play at 1080p without complaint. I'm not exactly the most difficult person to please on this front. I mean sure, I can see the difference 4k makes, but it's not so much better that I feel the need to spend $1500+ on a new GPU.

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Does it mean that FSR4 is now open source, and will be usable for Nvidia cards too?

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Does Red Dead Redemption work now or does it still need fixes apart from the syscall patch?

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FSR 4.1 is already available as DLL, which you copy in your game prefix.
Newest-Beta OptiScaler and Proton-CachyOS can do this, too, afaik.
It does also work for RDNA3 via FP8 emulation as did FSR 4.0 before.

My hope, perhaps, maybe, if possible... a new INT8 DLL for RDNA2, that would be great!

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Quoting: eggroleSo ML to unblur the blur added by the other pass of ML.

I wonder what the "next level" of this stuff is. I don't see a push for 8K - everyone I know is either happy with 4K or even lower. My monitor is only 1440 and while I'm sure I'll go to 4K someday, it won't be any time soon. So what I'm getting at is, if they've built a tech that is all about upscaling but we end up staying at 4K (forever?) what is the upgrade path? I can't see them shrinking the source much. I would doubt you'll see 360p rasters scaled _well_ to 4K.

Further, I wonder if you replaced all the "wasted" transistor space on these chips for raw raster, what kind of numbers would we be getting? It might not be more/much more, but I would expect similar results minus some of the *-tracing stuff. Which, everyone I know turns off anyway.

It isn't about going lower and lower render resolution, that just happens because more stuff is rendered, but your PC stays the same.

It isn't about upscaling, it's about managing what to do during the limited time. Instead of brute-forcing all the pixels, they could render less pixels and do more complex render. Instead of lowering the quality of the world, they could just lower the render and upscale it.

There is no point of adding more resources for raster if all that developers want to do is more raytracing.

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Quoting: eggroleSo ML to unblur the blur added by the other pass of ML.

I wonder what the "next level" of this stuff is. I don't see a push for 8K - everyone I know is either happy with 4K or even lower. My monitor is only 1440 and while I'm sure I'll go to 4K someday, it won't be any time soon. So what I'm getting at is, if they've built a tech that is all about upscaling but we end up staying at 4K (forever?) what is the upgrade path? I can't see them shrinking the source much. I would doubt you'll see 360p rasters scaled _well_ to 4K.

Further, I wonder if you replaced all the "wasted" transistor space on these chips for raw raster, what kind of numbers would we be getting? It might not be more/much more, but I would expect similar results minus some of the *-tracing stuff. Which, everyone I know turns off anyway.

8k is officially dead (for now at least). The manufacturers aren't making them at all anymore, so you can't buy them even if you wanted to (which you shouldn't.) -- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/lg-joins-the-rest-of-the-world-accepts-that-people-dont-want-8k-tvs/

I do live video streaming engineering as my career. I can tell you first hand that the VAST majority of content I handle is still 1080p. Like probably 95%. Occasionally we will get a 4k ingest, but it's not often. For decent bandwidth, you also need a 4k signal to be hevc 265, whereas a 1080p signal is just fine on good ol ancient avc 264. For stuff in post, a lot more is rendered out in 4k and streamed out in 4k, but even for some of the edits our team does, a lot of the source is delivered in 1080, and then they upscale it on the render so it's just fake 4k LOL

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Quoting: ChrisznixPerfect timing. The rightwing party of germany just claimed almost 20% in one of the lands...🤮

Quoting: Geppeto35Yesterday, the French municipal elections also saw a historic breakthrough for the far-right party, which openly aligns on nazis and fascists roots, helped (as right before the WWII) by the traditional right wing that fears a true left elected.

Sadly, it smells like our generation could be "all out of bubblegums" in the next decade in this mad world!

Has anyone ever stopped to ask those voting this way WHY? I don't follow European politics closely so I could be wrong about this, but from what I can tell the major voting point is immigration and the downstream effects (like increased housing prices as one example).

Add to this, people calling them Nazis for wanting something different than you might want will only exclude them and dig them into their positions. If you are an open-borders proponent (or whatever the issue might be), you won't change any minds calling people names and telling them they are wrong/dumb.

Extremism is created when there is a lack of communication, and I see this divide worsening as people seemingly refuse to engage civilly with one another. Futher, I am hesitant to call anyone extremist when they simply have a diffent opinion. Is it really extremist to want to stop immigration and deport some of the current immigrants? Compared to rounding them up and shooting them - an actual extremist view? You might not want that, but is wanting that (the deporting, not executing) really extreme? If so, can I argue that importing them is at the other end of extreme? That is an honest question. FYI I don't think either position is truly extreme.

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I never really got into FMV games or interactive movies or whatever you want to call them, but this looks like it might have a better balance of gameplay vs cut scene. And real actors inside a rendered game world? In my opinion that worked pretty well in Cyan's classics and of course the wonderful Tex Murphy adventures.

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So ML to unblur the blur added by the other pass of ML.

I wonder what the "next level" of this stuff is. I don't see a push for 8K - everyone I know is either happy with 4K or even lower. My monitor is only 1440 and while I'm sure I'll go to 4K someday, it won't be any time soon. So what I'm getting at is, if they've built a tech that is all about upscaling but we end up staying at 4K (forever?) what is the upgrade path? I can't see them shrinking the source much. I would doubt you'll see 360p rasters scaled _well_ to 4K.

Further, I wonder if you replaced all the "wasted" transistor space on these chips for raw raster, what kind of numbers would we be getting? It might not be more/much more, but I would expect similar results minus some of the *-tracing stuff. Which, everyone I know turns off anyway.

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Quoting: Serious_TableI am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.

Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!

How does it work on linux? My kids ask for and I see a lutris entry. Do we have to do tricks, cause it don't work with the Java edition?

As Liam said, it's available on Steam (which is where I bought it) and it works great with Proton. If you're using it on the Steam Deck, you'll want to login to your Microsoft account from desktop mode first, but it will then work just fine in Game Mode.

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It appears that they didn't replace the girl's face, so should be ok.

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Quoting: g000hLeave Meta platforms. Stop using WhatsApp, stop using Instagram, stop using Facebook.

Quoting: g000hUse Adblocking technology like uBlock Origin and Ghostery.

Done. Haven't used social media for over 10 years. Been using adblockers for even longer.

Unfortunately, where I live, the community is obsessed with Facebook.

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Quoting: Geppeto35

Quoting: Serious_TableI am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.

Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!

How does it work on linux? My kids ask for and I see a lutris entry. Do we have to do tricks, cause it don't work with the Java edition?

Just buy it on Steam?

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Quoting: Serious_TableI am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.

Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!

How does it work on linux? My kids ask for and I see a lutris entry. Do we have to do tricks, cause it don't work with the Java edition?

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I had to check to make sure this wasn't a Don't Starve sequel from Klei.

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Yesterday, the French municipal elections also saw a historic breakthrough for the far-right party, which openly aligns on nazis and fascists roots, helped (as right before the WWII) by the traditional right wing that fears a true left elected.

Sadly, it smells like our generation could be "all out of bubblegums" in the next decade in this mad world!

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Quoting: praz01Why is this even being done? As someone else said in these comments Flatpak Steam already works brilliantly with marked improvements in performance over native. I'm reluctant to invest in another container implementation when I'm so heavily invested in Flatpak. Is this another Snaps? Why can't they tweak the existing flatpak implementation?

LOL what on earth is this comment.

• flathub steam app is not published by Valve


• flathub steam app is not supported by Valve


• Valve themselves recommend using the native deb


• flathub steam app is WAY out of date (7 months ago was most recent update)


• flatpak steam has lots of issues and problems being reported by users


• your "marked improvements in performance" comment is misleading. I'm assuming you mean because of the libraries? This has a positive effect on some systems and negative effect on others. So it is DEFINITELY not an improvement for everyone on all systems.

using the flatpak steam app is fine, just please don't go around telling people this version "works brilliantly and performs way better" ... it's simply not true.

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Quoting: VerglasI am not tech-savvy enough to understand exactly what this is about, but that screen shot of TA Kingdoms brought a warm and fuzzy feeling to my stomach.

That screenshot made me want to start playing it. It has been sitting in my library for over 10 years and I never installed it.

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Flatpak Steam is crap, but I'm OK with people thinking otherwise.

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Perfect timing. The rightwing party of germany just claimed almost 20% in one of the lands...🤮

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I am not tech-savvy enough to understand exactly what this is about, but that screen shot of TA Kingdoms brought a warm and fuzzy feeling to my stomach.

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Quoting: Wolfgang RoseThese days I always checkout 'who owns' a particular software. I checked out 'Opera Norway' and noted that the company was floated on the NASDAQ, ergo it will have lots of American investors and will likely cater to US tastes and business norms. In my experience as a developer/tester/project manager, I know most US firms will make all the noises to comply with GDPR, but will often breech intentionally as 'part of business'. In contrast Vivaldi is still privately held (not floated) - so right now at least is still within GDPR.

I'm not being anti-US, I'm just taking precautions against a prevalent business culture that is actively hostile towards its customers. At the moment the only US tools I'm using are Steam (as I have such a large back-catalogue) and Lutris. I'd opt for Heroic Launcher instead, but it is just not as flexible as Lutris. I use CachyOS which is a Deutsch distribution based on Canadian Arch.

Still hoping to see GOG.com bring Galaxy to Linux, then I can remove Lutris from the equation.

Props for the CachyOS and Vivaldi love: what Opera started Vivaldi very much has improved upon.

But your Us focus confused me; isn't Opera owned by the Chinese now? [Link to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)

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A number of VBScript compatibility fixes.

I'm interested in this one actually due to a very very old app

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I am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.

Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!

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Quoting: praz01Why is this even being done? As someone else said in these comments Flatpak Steam already works brilliantly with marked improvements in performance over native. I'm reluctant to invest in another container implementation when I'm so heavily invested in Flatpak. Is this another Snaps? Why can't they tweak the existing flatpak implementation?

Why would anything run faster in Flatpak than outside?

As built/as tested! Unless you can match lib versions on your native OS with one tested by Steam/Lutris/Heroic or compiling wine/proton and fine tuning it, this is optimal. Most of the benchmarks out there are on Snap vs deb, but same holds for flatpak vs native.

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Weird, currently playing GoW: Ragnarok and have no PS-SDK issues with the earlier Proton-GE build.

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