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Quoting: gbudny@Hamish

Thank you for the article.

Can you play Quake: The Offering for Linux with GeForce2 MX 400?

Quoting: dubigrasuThat Nvidia white splash brings back sweet memories, the first "serious" card that I used for gaming on Linux was a Geforce4 MX, and it was the card I used to play Doom 3 with.

You reminded me of how painful it was to play Quake 4 on Linux with this graphics card back in 2005. I remember that Doom 3 didn't have a better performance, but it was a long time ago. I started to enjoy playing both games when I had a more modern computer with an Intel 2 Core Duo.

Well, at the ridiculous (as we see it now) resolution of 640x480 it wasn't that bad. Probably the framerate wasn't also that great, but something like 30 fps was so sweet for a PS1 player like me, accustomed with 24 fps or less, add some overclocking, some graphical tweaking, the TV placed 2 meters away (less sensitive to low fov and fps)...it was great! 😄

From what I understand Quake 4 was more graphically intensive than Doom 3, but I did played it with the same card (...I think?), both awesome games. Apparently these Linux version had some features disabled, which would explain them running better on Linux, but my eyeballmeter couldn't see a difference back then. It still was a blast.

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Quoting: Mountain ManTo be fair, we're still far behind Europe where you can and will be arrested for posting "offensive" messages on social media.

You can be punished for say calling someone an a**hole. Not for stating an actual opinion. (You do not really believe that a person is a backside - it's not an opinion, it's all insult.) I fail to see a problem with that.

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Quoting: omer666My Linux PC at the time was a Pentium III too, but it was equipped with a Matrox G200, which I was very satisfied with. I don't really remember what kind of performance I was getting though...

[Edit] Or maybe it was a G400... now I can't remember 😅

On my list of nice to haves would be, alongside any kind of Voodoo card to experiment with, a Matrox G400 Max as it seems like it would be a good showcase of the best the free graphic stack was capable of at the time. Good luck not breaking the bank on any of those though.

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Quoting: hell0And the return of that api can only be changed with root access to the device.

And that will never be true either. Because what API it calls is a browsers / apps decision. It can always return yes and never ask the OS. So getting a portable version of a browser always saysing yes is done half asleep by kids.

It is not a sane implementation. It is plain stupid.

Because it does nothing. And it does not put any responsibility to the device owner. The responsibility is there already. It just puts more information to companies, and more control to big tech, and less freedom to people.

Politics is always about power. Do not let nice words mince your thoughts. It is never about you. me or any people. It is just about power and influence, by any means necessary to get this power.

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I had an MX 400 but that was in a PowerMac G4 Superdrive.
It was the very first proper GPU I ever owned, and as an OEM offering, it was very capable.
I ended up replacing it with the mighty ATI Radeon 8500 which was in another league...

My Linux PC at the time was a Pentium III too, but it was equipped with a Matrox G200, which I was very satisfied with. I don't really remember what kind of performance I was getting though...

[Edit] Or maybe it was a G400... now I can't remember 😅

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Nice, with that, the game returns to my wishlist (after a long abscence).

I'm in no hurry to buy though, for one thing, this is a remake of a game that I felt was already "modern enough" with the 2014 windows-HD release.

For another thing, unlike many, I never felt this title "stood out" that much among the RE-games. Finally, due to the prolonged use of DRM, this version already feel like quite an "old title" (relativly speaking)

So...cheap enough price and I'll buy at some point.

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Quoting: LinasMost likely they realized that it did not protect anything either.

The publisher pays for DRM. Those numbers likely stopped making sense.

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It starts with asking for your birth date, but how long before they want more - and for other places to create similar laws? It's a slippery slope.

No, it's not a slippery slope. Please stop spreading this fallacious argument. Many politicians in the US and abroad are pushing for actual ID scanning now. CA could've done that here if that was truly their endgame.

If age verification systems of some kind are inevitable (and this blog has speculated in the past that they are) then this is the most privacy-respecting solution that has been legislated so far to my knowledge. An on-device and completely fungible input of some kind that is then abstracted before being broadcast elsewhere. It's so privacy-respecting that it's actually completely useless if the parent doesn't set up the device before the kid uses it.

We'd much rather have this law become the model than the laws similar to what Texas and the UK have passed, where they want each individual website to separately verify ages by having the user give them personally-identifiable information like IDs and selfies. This would lead to dozens of companies and "trusted partners" handling personally-identifiable information in potentially wildly differing ways. Such a situation nearly guarantees this info getting leaked on a long enough timeline.

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I really wasn´t expecting this.

The game was already great. With automation it might become one of the greatest.

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I've moved my desktop PC to the living room, and missing the HTPC feeling. I might give Bazzite a spin to have consistency with the Deck.

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I believe this is among the most sane implementation of age gating I've seen so far.

As defined, it can be (should be) entirely on device and only provides the relevant info. The responsibility falls with the device owner to perform the age check and not some dodgy third party.

Sounds like a much better solution than most parental control softwares available today, which are either invasive, fallible or both. Instead of a website/program displaying a popup "are you over X" it'd call an api which answers yes/no. And the return of that api can only be changed with root access to the device. I really don't see any harm in that, it does not provide any more info than you already do when answering the same age popup on steam/a porn website/etc.

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Quoting: CaldathrasIronically, before I discovered that Linux was viable, I had always used ATI GPUs in my gaming rigs. I suspect that a big part of my choice was that ATI was Canadian.

Yep, ATI cards seemed to be more common out here in Alberta largely for that reason too I suspect, in comparison to Nvidia or even 3dfx at least based on what my family encountered while working in IT. Granted, they were not putting Voodoos in many business or home user machines. But we have salvaged many a Radeon card.

Quoting: gbudnyCan you play Quake: The Offering for Linux with GeForce2 MX 400?

Yep, it runs just the same as with the Rage 128 Pro, you are limited to the glquake.glx binary for 3D acceleration.

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@Hamish

Thank you for the article.

Can you play Quake: The Offering for Linux with GeForce2 MX 400?

Quoting: dubigrasuThat Nvidia white splash brings back sweet memories, the first "serious" card that I used for gaming on Linux was a Geforce4 MX, and it was the card I used to play Doom 3 with.

You reminded me of how painful it was to play Quake 4 on Linux with this graphics card back in 2005. I remember that Doom 3 didn't have a better performance, but it was a long time ago. I started to enjoy playing both games when I had a more modern computer with an Intel 2 Core Duo.

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I can't help but read that headline as "Resident Evil 4 remake has enema, protector DRM removed" 💩

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As a parent, this is not thought through and completely unnecessary.

My kids use mostly family devices. So they would have my age verification or that of my wife.

To add injury to failure, I would not provide my kids with an account actually telling their age. In an age where information is power, I would not put their information out there. Or as late and little as possible. Especially considering the many data breaches.

This has nothing to do with parenting. This will not improve anything or secure anything. Nothing will but you. Parenting stays the same job. Watch your children, watch their actions and try to keep them as secure as possible.

The only one looking at what kids do should be the parents trying to protect them. Not OS and application developers trying to exploit them.

Age verifications change nothing. Parenting does. And parents need to take the time and be responsible to actually do their job.

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Quoting: Mountain ManTo be fair, we're still far behind Europe where you can and will be arrested for posting "offensive" messages on social media.

And my home, Australia, is doing everything it possibly can to try and mimic Europe... 🤔

Quoting: loggeI am sorry to inform you that the term "protect the children" is actually used everywhere where a law would otherwise be hard to enact. All these laws popping up everywhere recently are not about children, never were and nowhere will be.

The famous selling point for every piece of legislation - "If you actually care about the safety / well being / etc of the children, you'd support this!"

Give me a break.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guynone of the politicians care if it works or ever will work.

Absolutely. Politicians only care that they appear to be doing something about a perceived problem. All that matters is that they stay in office and continue to collect from the gravy train.

This describes 99.9% of politicians globally... And yes, that even includes the politicians I support or mostly support.

The days of "What can I do for My People?" are long gone; now it's only "What can I do for myself?"

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Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeHopefully enough people will buy Capcom titles on GOG to try and show those suits at Capcom that they don't need all this drm nonsense

Well, for my part, I rarely buy Capcom games but, if I do, I will only buy them on GOG.

That being said, the only Capcom game that I have is the first Dragon's Dogma. Have yet to play through it, though...

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How disappointing. No Linux version on GOG.

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Never could get the Windows-based demo to work in Linux. I had really wanted to try this one out but I'm not going to buy it sight unseen. Besides, will Steam let you install it on desktop Linux?

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This looks like it could be fun, especially if it sticks to real species instead of made-up ones.

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Ironically, before I discovered that Linux was viable, I had always used ATI GPUs in my gaming rigs. I suspect that a big part of my choice was that ATI was Canadian. Nvidia was the brand hardcore gamers used. That wasn't me.

When I moved to buying used laptops, I had also discovered the wonderful world of Linux. It was much more common to find used laptops from the twenty-teens with Nvidia Optimus GPUs than with AMD. I would have loved to have a laptop with an AMD GPU but I couldn't find anything comparable to the Nvidia options. So, I adapted and now I am an Nvidia user.

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The highlight of my morning so far was discovering a creator who makes [felted nudibranchs](https://woolcreaturelab.com/) (including my favorite species!), so I'm definitely picking this up when I can afford it. 😃

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Quoting: Purple Library Guynone of the politicians care if it works or ever will work.

Absolutely. Politicians only care that they appear to be doing something about a perceived problem. All that matters is that they stay in office and continue to collect from the gravy train.

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In addition a new Race Day expansion will arrive on March 10th giving you options to transform streets into courses for motor racing, running, and cycling events.

Can't wait to see what wild and wacky race courses people create using this feature. 😆

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Quoting: eggroleI actually agree that there has never been any "pure" capitalism (or socialism) ever enacted. When you talk about Enclosure (and the other countless examples of gov intervention on behalf of the fat cats), I don't see that as an outgrowth of capitalism. I see it as corruption.

See, I think that is a misinterpretation. For instance, the Enclosures in specific wasn't either corruption or an "outgrowth" of capitalism--it was a foundation of capitalism. But more generally, capitalism is the whole system. It cannot exist without government support; before you even get to corruption, there is contract law, laws against fraud, the creation of money, and so on and on. The "marketplace" exists because government created the conditions for it to exist, and the people using the "marketplace" are going to be involved in shaping just what conditions the government is making. So if you have a system of government part of whose job is to enable the existence and activities of a class of private property owners who seek profit, individual profit-seekers enlisting the government to enable their individual profit is just an outgrowth of that, not an anomaly. Even back in the day, Karl Marx's analysis of capitalism included government--he said "The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."

Note that none of this speaks directly to whether capitalism or socialism or whatever are good. I'm very much into that kind of value judgement, but I feel you can't really make such judgements until you have a pretty good idea what you're judging.

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This is really one of my favorite indie games recently. It already plays fairly well on the SD, so I'm looking forward to the native version.

I've been following since finding a post from the developer on reddit, their partnership with micro-prose, etc. Its nice to see a genuinely good game from a passionate developer getting the recognition it deserves!

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Quoting: eggroleThere will always be some people that want a free lunch and they will exploit whatever (economic) system they are in. I'm sure there was tons of corruption in the USSR or even a little corruption in some uncontacted tribe in the middle of nowhere.

This is true as far as it goes. Even hunter-gatherer tribes seem to need to work to keep things egalitarian; there's this interesting custom in some of them where, if some hunter brings in say a deer, everyone almost ritually rubbishes the deer, saying it's in bad shape, probably not much good meat on that, maybe it was sick . . . just to make sure nobody gets any ideas about being the mightiest hunter in the tribe.

But at the same time, there are differences. Capitalism as an economic system is founded on the idea that what you want is more money. That isn't universal. Feudalism is founded on the idea that what you want is more land . . . and, to a fair extent, more glory. So you're going to have more corruption, in the sense of doing dirty deeds to get money, under capitalism than under feudalism. It's hard to cheat your way to more land, you have to commit some violence; the endemic sin of feudalism was not corruption, but nobles and kings starting tons of territorial wars. The Soviet system . . . I don't think in the end they really managed to make a new system "take", partly because it was an authoritarian top-down thing, partly because it was always under so much pressure from outside. The commissars still kind of thought like capitalists in terms of what they wanted and how they cheated.

If you could establish a full democratic socialism that wasn't really thinking in capitalist cultural terms, it would probably have some kind of characteristic sin, but I don't think it would be corruption in the sense we think of it. Now personally, I think that in the end, all the individual goals we've seen in unequal societies, whether it's land, money, perceived closeness to God or whatever, are all in the end placeholders for the desire for respect. People want to be respected, looked up to; that's the charge that our evolution in social bands built into us. My ideal would be societies where the goal was mainly back to respect, rather than placeholders for it, and which tried to spread respect broadly. I suppose there, the sin would be faking and calumny . . . attempts to get or deny respect on false pretences.

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