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Of note with this case is that Valve had already bought a licence for the patents. Then they got sued. So there was a case where they said, "actually, we already paid for this." Then they got sued again, so they took the gloves off.

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Quoting: Mountain Man$150,000 seems too small of a penalty. They should have added another zero.

As far as I understood (which is very limited), this is just this step and this actually sets Valve up further action. So I'd expect much more in the future.

Not the smartest move to try and screw over a company that actually has the resources to fight back.

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that really is a great bundle. There's about 1000 hrs of awesome content there.

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$150,000 seems too small of a penalty. They should have added another zero.

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Nothing in life is guaranteed, that's pretty trite, but with Mewgenics there were clear signs the second the media picked it up for the preview cycle. It's not even that it was praised, it's about the type of praise it received, and how it was framed. It wasn't brought up as a quaint indie game by oddball creator first, it wasn't as subjected (if at all) to your typical template-driven news/preview slop. It came across as though people who played it prior to release viscerally liked it and needed to tell you about how much fun they had. At least from what I was seeing it was as much a done deal as humanly possible.

Perhaps I have a career in industry predictions, I dunno ;)

Compare to something like the late Cyberpunk 2077 previews which were all extremely politely lukewarm, but also somehow framed to maintain the ridiculous level of praise from much earlier in that marketing cycle. You could've mapped pretty much the entirety of the design, system and content issues of that game right then, from the universally positive previews, without even looking at the game. Not with certainty, obviously, but the signs were all there.

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Quoting: syylkThanks for the enlightening answers!

(Yup, didn't think of TV gaming. 😁)

I don't know how usual that is, but I got the problem on the output side:
My company notebook, bought last year, doesn't have DP, only HDMI and USB-C.

Yeah, that's pretty much the norm with (business) laptops. Your docking station likely has DP outputs though.

It does, so yes, I'm not actually using HDMI. (Is it for beamers?!?)

Projectors and TV screens in conference rooms, in my experience.

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What's more interesting for me here is that the patent lawyers themselves (Meyler Legal PLLC and the lawyer himself Samuel Meyler) got held responsible for filing without due diligence. This I think is the first time a PLLC has consequences for patent trolling, up to now PLLC's have been in the shadows when it comes to patent trolling.

Hopefully this will mean that lawyers will be more resistant to being complicit in patent trolling. That could change the whole landscape.

Also, wow, that verdict document is properly damning.

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Quoting: vic-bayIf you see ai slop long enough, you will learn to identify it immediately. Yes, it is still a time waster, but it is nowhere as bad as it looks at the first look. Creating slop commits and pull requests takes way longer than reading it for half minute and smashing ban button.

That might be true, but Godot currently has nearly 5000 PRs awaiting review, and 50K closed PRs overall. I think that when you're dealing with those kind of numbers, it still adds up to a near-insurmountable problem.

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HUGE W

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Quoting: suchOdd thing to say. To me it's very obvious that a reasonably deep turn-based roguelike with some whimsy and personality, AND cats is more popular than the thematic downer that is The Binding of Isaac or the tough as nails meat grinder of a precision platformer.

I guess it's possible to spend years dedicating your life to something unaware of what it is that you're actually doing?

The point is - nothing in game development is guaranteed. We've seen lots of games fail that many thought would be a clear success.

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Quoting: vic-bayWhy HDMI cartel doesn't want HDMI on Linux? So more people won't use HDMI? Do they hate money, or did Microslop bribe them?

It's always about control. Even in this scale. Not so much about "money" (though that concept is a control mechanism itself too). What matters is power and natural resources, not some monopoly "money" (worthless in itself) or numbers on screens..

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Funny thing is that this is apparently not really that much of a change. Most of the functionality is already in Unity and it just requires tying a few things together. Which makes this statement primarily one for shareholders in an (apparently successful) attempt to raise the stock price.

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If you see ai slop long enough, you will learn to identify it immediately. Yes, it is still a time waster, but it is nowhere as bad as it looks at the first look. Creating slop commits and pull requests takes way longer than reading it for half minute and smashing ban button.

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Why HDMI cartel doesn't want HDMI on Linux? So more people won't use HDMI? Do they hate money, or did Microslop bribe them?

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Quoting: hardpenguinThis is getting ridiculous

This is Dark Souls of ridiculous situations.

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Polish power. Let's go gents!

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: syylkThanks for the enlightening answers!

(Yup, didn't think of TV gaming. 😁)

I don't know how usual that is, but I got the problem on the output side:
My company notebook, bought last year, doesn't have DP, only HDMI and USB-C.

Yeah, that's pretty much the norm with (business) laptops. Your docking station likely has DP outputs though.

It does, so yes, I'm not actually using HDMI. (Is it for beamers?!?)

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Quoting: pbinb4 they start selling headless terminals that have to be connected to the cloud, where all our files would reside (at a hefty monthly fee, of course)

Well, Chrome Books (Google) and Mobile Phones (Google and Apple) are not far off being headless terminals. The public uses them for consuming content, most of their functionality relies on cloud services (e.g. WhatsApp, Instagram, iCloud, Google Maps, Google Docs, etc).

People are already being manipulated into not having fully functional computers any more.

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On a good side of things: all those news finally convinced me to buy a Steam Deck while it's still available.

:).

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: syylkThanks for the enlightening answers!

(Yup, didn't think of TV gaming. 😁)

I don't know how usual that is, but I got the problem on the output side:
My company notebook, bought last year, doesn't have DP, only HDMI and USB-C.

Yeah, that's pretty much the norm with (business) laptops. Your docking station likely has DP outputs though.

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I'm starting to see this same issue with Minigalaxy. Someone made a massive AI made PR and after going through it 3 times to review it, they figured out they were unable to fix it and closed it.

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Quoting: syylkThanks for the enlightening answers!

(Yup, didn't think of TV gaming. 😁)

I don't know how usual that is, but I got the problem on the output side:
My company notebook, bought last year, doesn't have DP, only HDMI and USB-C.

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I'm sure glad I already have enough games to last me a lifetime, because gem discovery is going to get quite a lot harder...

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inb4 they start selling headless terminals that have to be connected to the cloud, where all our files would reside (at a hefty monthly fee, of course)

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Quoting: rustynailIirc on wayland vsync can only be disabled for games running in fullscreen

As I recall, "no tearing, ever" was a design principle from the start. It was much later that the option to allow tearing, such as for fullscreen games, was added. I forget the details, but I think it has to be specifically requested.

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Quoting: Persephone the SheepPart 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.

On linux side:
* Intel GPUs found in Intel Gen 6 & above have active support and vulkan 1.4, can run latest dxvk or vkd3d
* Intel Gen 5 has Vulkan 1.3, supports up to dxvk 2.5.3. Can run minecraft with zink.
* Gen 4 has 1.2
* Gen 3 either has 1.2 or nothing

Below has nothing

On windows side, according to the url, anything under gen6 has nothing. However I recall the same document mentioned 1.2 support all the way back to Gen 2 in the past.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005524/graphics.html

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it's not entirely clear if the HDMI Forum can (or will be able to) block people going with a trial and error approach to getting more modern HDMI features working in the open source drivers.

They can't forbid clean room reverse engineering. But they could definitely try to make life harder for people even without legal basis, just because they have money and lawyers to wave around. Hopefully this developer can get backing from EFF or someone who can advise how to fight off HDMI patent trolls.

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Quoting: mr-victory

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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/

Iirc on wayland vsync can only be disabled for games running in fullscreen

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This is what an actual independent game success looks like. Not what the Tencent-funded industry plant that Highguard masqueraded and rightfully failed to be.

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I'm all for making game development easier and accessible - but at what cost.

Chucking in a slopper does nothing to make development easier and accessible.

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