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Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: sarmadThe snap file format and client side tools are completely open source. What's proprietary is the backend, i.e snapcraft.io, which is fine.

Doesn't that kinda mean that snap being open source is pointless to a large extent? It's like an open source client for a proprietary messaging service

Almost. Technically you can fork the snap front end to make it point to other backends, and I think someone has already done that, but practically such a fork won't be popular since the upstream is locked to a single backend and Canonical won't accept such a change to be upstreamed. I think if we didn't already have Flatpaks and AppImages such a fork would've been popular, but at this point Snap is a dying format outside of IoT.

Dying? Oh....
So why is it being installed by users on literally dozens of distros...? 🤔

Because it's not dead yet, but it will be. The deciding factor here is not the users; it's the developers; and most developers are going flatpak. Eventually, users will also switch to flatpak when they see more and more packages maintained in Flathub by the original developers, while the snap version is maintained by the community and is lagging behind in terms of updates.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: sarmadThe solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

Why should ethics be the responsibility of government? That just brings more "nanny state" interference in everyone's lives. Ethics should be personal and exercised on the individual level. The corporations will switch gears soon enough once they realize their policy is garnering very few customers.

From the perspective of legality, however, there is the matter of the violated copyrights ...

Not the responsibility of the government, rather the responsibility of the judicial system. But you'll need the politicians to amend the copyright laws to make it more clear to the idiot judges who still can't see the mass scale copyright infringement that is going on here.

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First impressions have been incredible! After installing the launcher on my Deck and logging in (I tried to log in to the launcher on Fedora but it for what ever reason would not open the pop up link, maybe you've got some ideas) I got 2+ hours to just immerse myself in the exploration and foundation of a house.

Some time after that I tuned into Kweebec Corner's stream on the side. Him and his co-creators in voice call gave what I consider a good representation of everyone's experience. Everyone is clueless about the mechanics, things different from a Minecrafter background, and surprised by some of the wilder features like what happens when you drink Mosshorn milk, or that trees regrow. Finally getting to experience cluelessness for the first time again is delightful.

I picked up a few valuable tips while viewing the stream, like how you absolutely MUST enable health bar visuals in general settings, unless you like testing your luck on who will die in combat first. Dagger spamming is also THE movement strategy.

Bugs I've encountered are the rendering of water freaking out and flashing, and maybe some mob AI jankiness. The visual map is another case where the behavior is weird. It should retain any chunks that have been explored, but it seems to either remove them from cache on death or only show chunks that are currently rendered which makes the feature far less useful. A few players mentioned respawn points at beds not working, which got annoying fast, but I didn't face that bug. What to take away from this is that the bugs do not significantly take away from the game, more significant are the rougher edges of the mechanics that make it feel like the pre-release it is.

Timed crafting is odd, stack sizes need improvements, and movement in some places needs work, but what we have right now as of day one release is very good, and this is the worst state Hytale is ever going to be. The 2 years of development funded by the pre-orders alone, added to Simon's 10 year pledge, ensure the game will become stronger in updates. After 8 years in development hell, cancellation, and revival, we're only now just beginning!

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AI isn’t some abstract future threat it’s automation, just like the machines and robots that have already replaced countless factory, retail, and logistics jobs. Now AI can automate not just cognitive work but, eventually physical labor too, meaning even jobs people thought were safe could be at risk. Automation removes work quickly, while job creation and retraining lag far behind, leaving millions behind in the process.

The bigger question is this if automation and AI keep replacing work faster than new opportunities appear, what will people do for a living? And if people can’t earn income who will buy the products and services these automated companies produce? This isn’t fear-mongering it’s basic math. Productivity may rise, but without people participating in the economy, the system cannot function.

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Quoting: XpanderPersonally i don't care if its done in a way it doesn't annoy me.

Never seen this or similar line before...

One thing using tools (terrain, robot-voice generator and/or similar) with proper attributions, but whole "AI" with totally legit "training" and many other s**t surrounding it.

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That new WoW64 looks promising.

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Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: sarmadThe snap file format and client side tools are completely open source. What's proprietary is the backend, i.e snapcraft.io, which is fine.

Doesn't that kinda mean that snap being open source is pointless to a large extent? It's like an open source client for a proprietary messaging service

Almost. Technically you can fork the snap front end to make it point to other backends, and I think someone has already done that, but practically such a fork won't be popular since the upstream is locked to a single backend and Canonical won't accept such a change to be upstreamed. I think if we didn't already have Flatpaks and AppImages such a fork would've been popular, but at this point Snap is a dying format outside of IoT.

Dying? Oh....
So why is it being installed by users on literally dozens of distros...? 🤔

You're right. I suspect this is a case of wishful thinking...

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I wonder, is this the first example of a commercial flatpak?

(I don't do flatpak, so I don't know...)

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Quoting: Vladimir-DimovSadly, I have no way to get this game because it's unavailable on Steam. 🤮

See article above. You get it from Hypixel's website.

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Quoting: sarmadWhile I agree there is a lot of immorality in AI, avoiding it just puts you at a disadvantage since everyone is using it. So, you'll be harming yourself, not the unethical AI companies. The solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

"Everyone is doing it" is shallow reasoning that doesn't hold up to scrutiny. I'd argue that you're actively harming yourself when you choose to use GenAI because you've robbed yourself of learning something new. Then add in the harm you're causing to others in the industry you've denied an opportunity to contribute to and the harm inflicted toward those whose content was used without permission in the first place, and I think you have plenty of reasons to never use it regardless of what others are doing. Harming "unethical AI companies" is not the goal in the first place.

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Of the new series since Voyager, I have only ever watched Lower Decks and Picard. None of the others interest me. I lost interest in DS9 after Voyager began and never watched more than one or two episodes of Enterprise.

Lower Decks was a HOOT and, Picard, well ... it's Patrick Stewart!

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Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: sarmadThe snap file format and client side tools are completely open source. What's proprietary is the backend, i.e snapcraft.io, which is fine.

Doesn't that kinda mean that snap being open source is pointless to a large extent? It's like an open source client for a proprietary messaging service

Almost. Technically you can fork the snap front end to make it point to other backends, and I think someone has already done that, but practically such a fork won't be popular since the upstream is locked to a single backend and Canonical won't accept such a change to be upstreamed. I think if we didn't already have Flatpaks and AppImages such a fork would've been popular, but at this point Snap is a dying format outside of IoT.

Dying? Oh....
So why is it being installed by users on literally dozens of distros...? 🤔

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Quoting: sarmadThe solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

Why should ethics be the responsibility of government? That just brings more "nanny state" interference in everyone's lives. Ethics should be personal and exercised on the individual level. The corporations will switch gears soon enough once they realize their policy is garnering very few customers.

From the perspective of legality, however, there is the matter of the violated copyrights ...

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Quoting: Numerfolt

Quoting: AsciiWolfAnd Mastodon is sadly even more toxic than X/Twitter.

Oh, that's interesting, I haven't encounterd much toxicity on Mastodon so far 🤔

Excited for Hytale tho!

Mastodon is very fragmented(by design).
Maybe he caught a very toxic server.

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Quoting: sarmadWhile I agree there is a lot of immorality in AI, avoiding it just puts you at a disadvantage since everyone is using it. So, you'll be harming yourself, not the unethical AI companies. The solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

AI companies are currently operating by dotcom logic.
The more users you've, the more you'll be able to lock in in the future and thus the more valuable your shares.
Boycotts do work to influence that metric.

This same logic also applies to this "disadvantage". The goal is vendor lockin they will try to get you to rely on their products to the level that you can't ditch them and they've many great minds working on that goal.
You'll pay a hefty sum when the time of income finally arrives.
Right now you're at a disadvantage if you use AI, because they're buying your dependence with low prices.

Spoiler, click me

This also, why deepseek was such a shock.
It used a(known, but for good reasons avoided) cheaper method for training to achieve equal results and marketed it.
It presented the threat that someone without trillions in capital could compete with their champions.

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Quoting: jurquizoFirst of all, great guide. I tried following the steam method and I couldn't find the folder of the Steam installation folder to change the shortcut, I think it is because I installed Steam via snap and I can't find similar paths inside the .snap folder. Could you help me?

Ah, that's an interesting one. Snap is a whole different can of worms.

Could you try looking in: ~/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/steamapps

See if the compatdata folder is there? Once we find the correct path, I'll add it to the guide.

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Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: sarmadThe snap file format and client side tools are completely open source. What's proprietary is the backend, i.e snapcraft.io, which is fine.

Doesn't that kinda mean that snap being open source is pointless to a large extent? It's like an open source client for a proprietary messaging service

Almost. Technically you can fork the snap front end to make it point to other backends, and I think someone has already done that, but practically such a fork won't be popular since the upstream is locked to a single backend and Canonical won't accept such a change to be upstreamed. I think if we didn't already have Flatpaks and AppImages such a fork would've been popular, but at this point Snap is a dying format outside of IoT.

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I'm a little surprised. He could have just taken it down temporarily with the explanation he provided and then ran a kickstarter to raise the funds to pay a human artist to replace the genAI artwork. Perhaps it is not worth the extra effort?

Kudos to that new girlfriend though!

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First of all, great guide. I tried following the steam method and I couldn't find the folder of the Steam installation folder to change the shortcut, I think it is because I installed Steam via snap and I can't find similar paths inside the .snap folder. Could you help me?

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While I agree there is a lot of immorality in AI, avoiding it just puts you at a disadvantage since everyone is using it. So, you'll be harming yourself, not the unethical AI companies. The solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

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Subscribed! Waiting for it on my podcatcher. 😊

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Quoting: Vladimir-DimovSadly, I have no way to get this game because it's unavailable on Steam. 🤮

It's available as a Flatpak.

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Would be still nice if there was a Peertube mirror of this.

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Wine has caught up with Windows in version numbering.

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It's incredible how far things have come from the days when I was banging my head against the wall just trying to get Ultima Online to run correctly under Wine.

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Quoting: benjamimgoisThanks for the post Liam ! GamingonLinux recognition makes a lot of difference.

Goverlay started as a GUI for overlay (mangohud), but the scope got broader. I'm thinking about rebrand the project. Maybe some community feedback / suggestions would be cool.

I can't believe nobody suggested GOLverlay 😝

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Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: sarmadThe snap file format and client side tools are completely open source. What's proprietary is the backend, i.e snapcraft.io, which is fine.

Doesn't that kinda mean that snap being open source is pointless to a large extent? It's like an open source client for a proprietary messaging service

Not entirely. If the file format is open source, then other backends could be written and they would interoperate with the client side tools (you might have to change a little bit of stuff in those tools that currently just point to Canonical's back end, but presumably that part would be trivial). It's certainly not ideal though.

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Sadly, I have no way to get this game because it's unavailable on Steam. 🤮

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Awesome, now we need his girlfriend to talk to Activision about CoD7.

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Changelog are so impressive!

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