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News - Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit
By CatKiller, 20 Dec 2025 at 3:05 pm UTC

Is there specific bug you're waiting on being solved?
Remote Play audio playing on the host even when you've turned off the "play audio on host" option remains super annoying.

News - Valve discontinuing the last Steam Deck LCD model
By kuhpunkt, 20 Dec 2025 at 2:32 pm UTC

It's already Out of Stock over here in Germany, so no chance to even get it anymore.

News - Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit
By Creak, 20 Dec 2025 at 2:31 pm UTC

The way I see it, Windows users are the beta testers, for once 😂

News - Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit
By fenglengshun, 20 Dec 2025 at 2:24 pm UTC

Hm. Wonder if extest will need updating for when 64-bit Steam for Linux launches. It was an annoyance for me on NixOS as it throws errors due to ELFCLASS32 and LD_PRELOAD issue or something.

Though, for that matter, I do wonder how update rollout and dependency changes will be handled across the board.

News - Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit
By spacemonkey, 20 Dec 2025 at 2:10 pm UTC

I would like to be able to wishlist games I already own, so I can gift them when they are discounted.

News - Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit
By poiuz, 20 Dec 2025 at 2:10 pm UTC

It just shows: There's a reason why most Linux work is done by third parties & not directly by Valve.

But we should give some credit to Valve: It must've been rocket science to port such a bloated software like Steam to 64-bit.

News - Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting
By Feist, 20 Dec 2025 at 1:38 pm UTC

Quoting: Beta VersionSwordhaven: Iron Conspiracy has just been released from early access and has a native Linux build.
Yeah, I bought this and a couple of hours in, I'm very happy with my purchase. Almost feels like I'm playing good old "Baldur's Gate" for the first time again.

The game also has the neat feature that lets you switch between Turn Based & RTwP with a button press, something I feel all games like this would benefit from.

News - Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
By LoudTechie, 20 Dec 2025 at 1:03 pm UTC

Quoting: emphy
Quoting: LoudTechie...
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?
Haven't got the time to search for the source, but I understood mozilla uses open datasets for their models, i.e. permission was granted or copyrights expired.

I find it amusing, by the way, that the single "ai" browser feature that is actually useful to me is rarely advertised as being such. Even the "anti-ai" vivaldi incudes it without it raising a single eyebrow.
This could be my fault.
I treat AI as equivalent to ML, but they're different words.

Wikipedia defines AI as
[Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence)
and ML as
[Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data, and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning)
.

If we take these definitions.
Aimbots are AI by this definition, but is translation AI.
It's an application of Machine Learning, but that wasn't the question.
Do we typically associate translation with human intelligence and problem solving.
Is someone appear more intelligent when they can successfully translate a sentence or would we say that communication through a matching language is the intelligent part and thus using a matching a language to the one used toward you is AI.
I would argue the first, because people tend to think that people who use complicated text are more intelligent, meaning that understanding of language is more intelligent than the capacity to communicate. I disagree with my preceived majority, but that doesn't change that it's commonly associated with human intelligence.

News - Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes
By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2025 at 12:01 pm UTC

The now playable list is mainly what Valve and Proton devs have been able to properly verify they work.

News - Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting
By CyborgZeta, 20 Dec 2025 at 9:32 am UTC

I went ahead and bought the remaining Trails games I didn't have; Trails into Reverie, Trails through Daybreak and Trails through Daybreak II (Horizon isn't out yet/

It'll be some time before I actually get to those games, especially if I decide to wait for the remake of Trails in the Sky SC. If I go ahead and play the original (plus 3rd Chapter), then it'll still take me a while to get to them.

News - Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
By emphy, 20 Dec 2025 at 5:34 am UTC

Quoting: Bumadar
Quoting: CentrisToo late. Already got rid of FF.
Maybe I am of an older generation, but why this on/off view?
Mozilla says they going to do AI in the future somewhere, it's not clear exactly how or what this exactly means or how it will be incorporated but you drop it like a hot potato and suddenly overnight they are evil.
The world is many shades of gray, not just black and white, see how it onfolds and then take a decision.
Because "ai" was merely the proverbial straw?

For years now, mozilla has failed to truly address the issues the organisation has with corporate bloat and the addiction to their so-called ethical monetisations.

Imo, this recent carfuffle with fake intelligence is merely a symptom, not the problem.

News - MicroProse announce a revival of the retro Geoff Crammond Racing series
By UnixOutlaw, 20 Dec 2025 at 1:18 am UTC

Never played these - but - I'd love to see Stunt Car on Steam... Sure I've probably got it on floppy somewhere and could probably run it in DOS-BOX...

News - Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes
By scaine, 20 Dec 2025 at 12:57 am UTC

Quoting: linuxor001Chronology wasn't playable before? how did i play it
It might have been a regression in 10 that didn't exist before. Nothing to worry over - I've seen that said about a few games I've had perfectly good experiences with!

News - Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
By emphy, 20 Dec 2025 at 12:49 am UTC

Quoting: LoudTechie...
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?
Haven't got the time to search for the source, but I understood mozilla uses open datasets for their models, i.e. permission was granted or copyrights expired.

I find it amusing, by the way, that the single "ai" browser feature that is actually useful to me is rarely advertised as being such. Even the "anti-ai" vivaldi incudes it without it raising a single eyebrow.

News - Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
By Cybolic, 20 Dec 2025 at 12:27 am UTC

Another thing that really bothers me about these marketing statements, is the blanket statements of calling everything "AI".
"AI" doesn't actually mean anything and could be anything from a local ML model that can, say, give names to colours based on the "training data" that could be the list of X11 colour names, to a deepfake slop machine that uses the power budget of a city.
When an announcement like this is made, with practically no actual information other than "ridiculous buzzword that's either a decade old technology that can run locally on your watch, or a privacy nightmare of a planet destroyer - who knows! Go shareholders!", how is anyone supposed to take it seriously and come away with any other interpretation than that they just don't care which it is, as long as "money might happen"?

News - Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
By Cyril, 19 Dec 2025 at 11:41 pm UTC

"You will have a clear way to turn AI features off. A real kill switch is coming in Q1 of 2026."

A lot of people have their eyes on them at the moment and will look at them in 2026 about this.
They have no room for more mistakes, they better have that "killswitch" to work perfectly without any flaws or ambiguity.
Because some AI features have already been implemented without that kind of clear switch and it's been like a headache to disable all of them through the about:config panel, and again check that after updates etc (not to mention that it's only for tech-savvy people, that's a problem itself).
So yeah, it's pretty easy to see how a lot of us have lose their trust, I don't blame them.

I agree with Liam on this: "but the fact that they're still pouring resources into AI is a problem". I just hope that AI bubble won't sink Mozilla entirely because of that.

News - Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
By ScottCarammell, 19 Dec 2025 at 11:25 pm UTC

That's...better, I guess.

Ah well. Already switched to Floorp. Had your opportunity Mozilla, sorry

News - Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting
By Taros, 19 Dec 2025 at 11:10 pm UTC

  • Shadow of Tomb Raider

  • ACE COMBAT™7: SKIES UNKNOWN

News - It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
By Cyril, 19 Dec 2025 at 10:49 pm UTC

Quoting: Jarmer
Quoting: tmtvlThe LibreWolf devs, on the other hand, have already stated that they won't be able to keep development going if Mozilla implodes.
yeah that's the most worrisome. I wonder about Zen in that case as well. Oh well, once Orion for linux releases, I think I'll be all-in on that on every machine I have (desktop / laptop / tablet / phone).
Dude, ahah! How many browsers have you tested?! 😄
I was just reading here and there comments to decide which one I should choose and then you drop another one that I never heard off. 😆
On that note thought, I was wondering the main difference between LibreWolf and Waterfox but the tmtvl's comment cleared that out for me. I'm not sure yet if I change my browser, but if I do I don't want to do it again the next year or so...
But if anyone of you have a comparison's site of all these browsers I'm still interested indeed, and I'm sure I'm not the only one!

News - Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting
By tfk, 19 Dec 2025 at 9:41 pm UTC

I bought....Seafarer The Ship Sim!

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

Guide - How to get Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 online working on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck
By subzero, 19 Dec 2025 at 9:04 pm UTC

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

News - Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting
By Sakuretsu, 19 Dec 2025 at 8:57 pm UTC

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.

News - Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting
By GoEsr, 19 Dec 2025 at 8:09 pm UTC

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

News - Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
By Lofty, 19 Dec 2025 at 7:59 pm UTC

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

News - Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
By geckofish52, 19 Dec 2025 at 7:54 pm UTC

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.

News - It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
By razze, 19 Dec 2025 at 7:48 pm UTC

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.

News - Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting
By Doktor-Mandrake, 19 Dec 2025 at 7:45 pm UTC

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!

News - Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting
By such, 19 Dec 2025 at 7:33 pm UTC

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.

News - Fedora proposal put forward to improve "production stability and incident management"
By rustynail, 19 Dec 2025 at 6:57 pm UTC

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" 😅