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You and all of the people who have a sense of aesthetics, Mr Hudson.

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The good: "I just find AI to be creatively soulless. It's hard to imagine where it’s actually helpful in the process. I’m just really unimpressed with it"

The bad: At least sometime before 2030.

The ugly: Me 😭

Jokes aside, the original KoToRs and the Mass Effect trilogy are also within my all-time favs, I'm really hoping for this one to be amazing.

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Ah, some quality reporting on important topics. This is why I follow GoL 🥰

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Love it 😂

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: F.UltraPayment was never the issue though and AMD is and have been for years a HDMI licensee. There is nothing with these patches that would or could make HDMI Forum not get payed exactly what they where payed before.

I think the logic (from an artificial scarcity hoarding viewpoint) was that if they didn't keep the spec super secret, companies could just make stuff without giving them money. Which they didn't like the sound of. But, as you say, you still need to give them money (and AMD did) for the compliance tests and the sticker, and that's where the prestige is. "Proper" hardware companies will still give them money to remain "proper," and fly-by-night won't-conform-to-the-spec companies weren't going to give them money either way.

But companies making stuff without giving them money would be breaking trademark law and thus open to be sued by HDMI Forum, aka the reason that you pay for the specs is not to get access to the specs but to be allowed to sell products labelled with HDMI. And the fee for the specs are minuscule, only $10k per year (or $5k for low volume manufacturers), the real money is the per sold item royalty (up to $0.2 for high volume and flat $1 for low volume) since that times millions of devices per year adds up quite significantly.

And fly-by-night would not be affected by open drivers since they already have the specs (they are ofc widely spread in China for free). But I guess that some of the members where afraid of that and others have now countered, we simply don't know who it was since all 80+ companies have voting rights (and their votes are not made public).

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I actually waited for some of these features for a long time so I am glad they are doing it

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We are investing in KDE because it is one of the two major desktop environments used across Linux and plays a key role in how millions of people experience open technology

Maybe then support both?

Anyway, this is great news for KDE, happy for them!

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Quoting: scaineDoes it still have configurable on/off noises like the last one?

From what I gathered from all the reviews I think not... But since they do regular firmware updates I think that might actually be added later

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Nothing is sacred anymore

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The real joke is that the year of the Linux desktop was a long loooong time ago and people just missed it.

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Quoting: jordicoma

Quoting: LoudTechieThis sounds like real hacktivism.
Not the kind of fake hacktivism APTs sometimes pretend, but really someone who is trying to make a political statement by hacking.

Clearly unfinished and unprofessional
Explained: rm -rf / really?
It's  for driveLetter in {1}[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEVGHIJPLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]; do dd if=/sd$driveLetter of=/dev/null bs=1M status=progress; done
A siren really?
It's a well designed picture depicting some hacker group or a political manifesto.
Clear political aim.
Cheaping out(no server or payment infrastructure in use)
Self defeating focus(appimages and root compilations are more often in user space and wiping root isn't something non-privileged users can do. A good appimage design would at least do rm -rf ~ achieves still data destruction without needing privileged calls)
Aimed at individuals not organizations.(amd64 linux WII U emulators are more popular for consumers)
Meme reliant(rm -rf / is a memed destructive command the more thorough solutions aren't)

Also python packages shouldn't be run with access to git tokens, but that would require sensible defaults on this scale, which we're lacking.
We're once again dealing with non-reproducible build exploitation aimed at the self-compiling instead of the downloading group.

It's political for sure. As it says in te FAQ https://rentry.org/cemu-security-psa "If your locale is Russian then the malware does nothing." and "your location is Israel (it does this via locale and timezone checks) then it has a 1:6 chance that it will play a loud siren sound and run rm -rf /".
So I'ts a Russian o pro-Russian and goes anti Israel.

The exception says less than the target.
It could simply be a way of blaming in an innocent bystander.
The target does say something, because it shows who you want to hurt.

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I followed the links:
really this's a TeamPCP attack.
I thought they would be more professional from the scare I heard.

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> Wilhelm scream

TIL that's a thing

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For some people year of Linux desktop is when it reaches 5%, for others 10% or 20% or when Windows has less market share. But all these numbers do not care. The science call a movement to become successfully, when they have around 3% ([3.5% to be exact](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule)), which we reached last year. And everything proves it. It became a public topic, more and more companies recognize Linux (as Discord) and jump on the hype train to benefit from it. Sorry to say, but the joke is over and everyone still not seeing it is just showing a random opinion without any facts why 10% or 20% is so special other than "is a great number to talk about".

It is kinda funny to see Discord jumping on the hype train, because the philosophy of Linux is everything against what Discord stands for. Privacy, Freedom, Free Knowledge - everything hurt very hard by Discord. I hope they earn the Big Brother Award 2026 to get a standpoint back from the Linux community.

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Quoting: Stellaso much time and effort went into distro packages that could've been used to make the flatpak better😫

🥰

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I've seen how the leaked build of Forza Horizon 6 runs on the Deck and it doesn't even manage to hold 30 while being extremely CPU bound. That is not Verified Material.

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so much time and effort went into distro packages that could've been used to make the flatpak better😫

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Quoting: LoudTechieThis sounds like real hacktivism.
Not the kind of fake hacktivism APTs sometimes pretend, but really someone who is trying to make a political statement by hacking.

Clearly unfinished and unprofessional
Explained: rm -rf / really?
It's  for driveLetter in {1}[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEVGHIJPLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]; do dd if=/sd$driveLetter of=/dev/null bs=1M status=progress; done
A siren really?
It's a well designed picture depicting some hacker group or a political manifesto.
Clear political aim.
Cheaping out(no server or payment infrastructure in use)
Self defeating focus(appimages and root compilations are more often in user space and wiping root isn't something non-privileged users can do. A good appimage design would at least do rm -rf ~ achieves still data destruction without needing privileged calls)
Aimed at individuals not organizations.(amd64 linux WII U emulators are more popular for consumers)
Meme reliant(rm -rf / is a memed destructive command the more thorough solutions aren't)

Also python packages shouldn't be run with access to git tokens, but that would require sensible defaults on this scale, which we're lacking.
We're once again dealing with non-reproducible build exploitation aimed at the self-compiling instead of the downloading group.

It's political for sure. As it says in te FAQ https://rentry.org/cemu-security-psa "If your locale is Russian then the malware does nothing." and "your location is Israel (it does this via locale and timezone checks) then it has a 1:6 chance that it will play a loud siren sound and run rm -rf /".
So I'ts a Russian o pro-Russian and goes anti Israel.

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Does it still have configurable on/off noises like the last one?

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So with all those reviews not one tested durability?

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This sounds like real hacktivism.
Not the kind of fake hacktivism APTs sometimes pretend, but really someone who is trying to make a political statement by hacking.

Clearly unfinished and unprofessional
Explained: rm -rf / really?
It's  for driveLetter in {1}[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEVGHIJPLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]; do dd if=/sd$driveLetter of=/dev/null bs=1M status=progress; done
A siren really?
It's a well designed picture depicting some hacker group or a political manifesto.
Clear political aim.
Cheaping out(no server or payment infrastructure in use)
Self defeating focus(appimages and root compilations are more often in user space and wiping root isn't something non-privileged users can do. A good appimage design would at least do rm -rf ~ achieves still data destruction without needing privileged calls)
Aimed at individuals not organizations.(amd64 linux WII U emulators are more popular for consumers)
Meme reliant(rm -rf / is a memed destructive command the more thorough solutions aren't)

Also python packages shouldn't be run with access to git tokens, but that would require sensible defaults on this scale, which we're lacking.
We're once again dealing with non-reproducible build exploitation aimed at the self-compiling instead of the downloading group.

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Quoting: F.UltraPayment was never the issue though and AMD is and have been for years a HDMI licensee.

What CatKiller said. From point of view of capitalists they lose control about their property and they fear some money lose due open source implementation. Is this point of view garbage? Probably. But I never said that their logic makes sense nor that I agree with.

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Peak is missing from the bundle for me. 🤔

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I actually found this out from Emudeck Discord which linked to https://rentry.org/cemu-security-psa to see if you have a version which is impacted.

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Quoting: scaineA crown held by Dark Messiah for far too long.

Alright, time to reinstall Dark Messiah. 😆 Haven't played it in ages...

edit:

I actually had to verify my age on Steam in the UK to even see it.

At least it is available in your region. I am shit out of luck.

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I got my SC2026 yesterday so my testing of it is limited; I do like the look and feel and several of the conmplaints I saw online regarding ergonomics with smaller hands seem unfounded at least to my grip. Also I havent had any issue with pinching of my middle finger against the triggers that others have, I guess my holding position is different. One great thing is the back buttons are so much better than the ones on the steam deck, much easier to actuate.

However my one big problem is cursor input via the trackpads in games, the cursor is active and moves in games or at least it seems to, but the drawn cursor on the screen remains fixed in one spot. This seems to be some sort of issue with Wayland; I have seen a couple of "fixes" one appears to require Libei (Tumbleweed seems to have the library but support not compliled in as nothing works); another is some tool called "extest" havent tried installing that yet. I have currently switched to an X11 session and its working.

Should note that this problem is not limited to the SC2026, it affects the original SC, and potentially other gamepads.

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Subnautica 2 is the most wishlisted game on Steam? That's surprising to me. Not that I think the game is bad, but if you asked me what the most wishlisted game on Steam is I don't believe I would even think of Subnautica.

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There's far far worse on Steam that is not behind forced age verification.

I suspect they are trying to stir up some controversy, for PR purposes. It's the same developer as Hatred - remember the big stink over that game when it came out?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatred_(video_game)

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Quoting: Mountain ManPlayed all day with the Steam Controller. I can say it's the best controller I've ever used.

I have the same feeling. Mine arrived yesterday, but so far I've enjoyed the experience. I like the feel, the ergonomics, and especially the hardness of the bumper buttons (several of my old Steam Controllers had broken bumpers after extensive use).

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneThat idea exists for decades and all times it was tried ended up in banning potential serious developers. I mean, just give a look how Reddit moderators do their job. We all heard about the horror stories of people getting banned for non harmful content if it just contains a minimum amount of critics to a topic. If I can ban you in the network, you are banned everywhere, not just on my project, even if I did not ban you for AI usage, I just need to tell you used AI.

Not even speaking about situations like Github writing "co-authored by Copilot" on non LLM PRs.

The mind behind this idea is great and I would support it, but the real world situation just shows that it harms more than it actually helps. The FOSS-community needs to think about a better solution.

That's fine and all, but the horrors of moderation even before AI tended to pale in comparison to the horrors of no moderation.

But anarchy! We must have chaos and burn it all to the ground. It's the only true path to liberation! 🔥 (I'm just kidding, anarchists of GOL. lol)

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