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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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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.

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Meanwhile Amazon is one of those horrible companies ruining society. They treat their workforce like slaves. They move their profits to offshore tax havens to avoid paying corporation tax in the countries where they operate (so the country loses out). They abuse their market dominance to drive competitors out of business, they damage small businesses. After they have killed off competition, they increase the price of their own replacement products, so the consumer loses out. They don't have good product vetting on their store pages, with lots of unsafe devices being sold. Like Google, they harvest massive amounts of consumer data, impacting people's privacy.

I urge people to move away from buying things on Amazon. Potentially use Amazon to find a product, but then buy it from a local store instead.

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I always find the anti-fanboyism in the comment sections of these articles funny. Don't get me wrong, fuck Nintendo and any evil corporations and their legal teams, but I also find the whole criticism of Nintendo not releasing stuff on PC too dumb. Console exclusives were always a thing and Nintendo still relies on it. PC is just another platform and it isn't Nintendo hardware.

That being said, Nintendo shutting down stuff like this is stupid and so is their attitude towards emulation. I also feel like Nintendo should instead leverage the talent of the community and hire them as contractors to help them improve Nintendo Online releases. (Since nobody directly hires anymore in this dystopian hellscape.) These decomps could easily be something of a "Nintendo Online Plus" title on the Switch 2 and they'd be cool to see on there.

I might not have any interest in these decomps, cause I've got Nintendo hardware, but I'm glad that people enjoy them. Even if they "sail the seas" to do so.

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When we Will able to set colorspace in wayland? I still have to rely on edid hacks to set the correct 4:4:4 RGB color mode.

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Quoting: BumadarI can't really find how they got passed thr HDMI Forum licensing?

Most likely someone at HDMI Forum finally realized that an open source implementation is not the danger to their business model that they first thought. And this was true the entire time, just that they had to figure it out, their business model is selling a license to carry the HDMI2.1 label and that you have to do regardless of where your implementation comes from and regardless of if its open or closed.

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: BumadarI can't really find how they got passed thr HDMI Forum licensing?

My guess: HDMI 2.2 will be the new "no license" situation. HDMI 2.1 has a data transfer rate of 4k @120Hz and some monitors already allow 4k @240Hz (which DisplayPort can handle btw). So there is a good argument for companies to implement HDMI 2.2 and pay for it (even if it is just for advertisement). I think they only want to get payed for the newest license. This way they allow older specs to be implemented, which strengthens their market position (better have it build in everywhere to be present everywhere than taking the last cents they can get).

Payment 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.

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Quoting: scaineThat was then, this is now. I think the whole situation needs a rethink. It's not a coincidence that multiple project have to create AI policies due to slop.

I agree with the "rethink". But not just by us 2-3 people here. More in a greater community, especially those dealing with issues. Your idea with StackExchange has another issue: it can block out newcomers that are required to keep projects alive on long run. At the end it requires a complex answer to this question. But I also cannot tell how it should look like.

In my opinion all FOSS projects should create LLM policies, no matter if they are pro or con. That makes rules clear for everyone and stops drama before it has the chance to begin. I also did it on my own project pro-actively to make a statement and to make rules clear from begin on.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThat's fine and all, but the horrors of moderation even before AI tended to pale in comparison to the horrors of no moderation.

The comparison was not "moderators vs no moderators", but "moderators vs super moderators". Every project has its own moderator by default (at least the project owner, often additional maintainers). They can kick you out of the project even if you did nothing wrong - and that is usually "fine", you can move on and support another project. But if such moderators become "super power", they can kick you out of a huge amount of projects all at once. That was my critic in my previous post.

The question is: what kind of moderation solves the issue best? I just don't know, yet.

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I wonder how intel is involved with the ghoul willies.

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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.

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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 was then, this is now. I think the whole situation needs a rethink. It's not a coincidence that multiple project have to create AI policies due to slop. Tools like Openclaw make this kind of thing very hard to counteract, because the AI won't give up - ban it, and it'll just create a new account and re-submit, over and over.

I suspect that the only way to truly police this, ultimately, is using a system like StackExchange, where pull/merge requests simply aren't allowed - you go through a step-ladder of ever-so-slightly-increasing rights, as your reputation rises, until, eventually, you are trusted to contribute within the boundaries of the policies of that project.

Sadly the infrastructure for this doesn't exist. Yet.

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I assume the Ghouls will sneak up on you as they are going commando?

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I don't think I've seen melee combat handled as "meatily" as this since Elderborn, which is still the king for melee combat, imo. A crown held by Dark Messiah for far too long.

Interesting that they have gunplay too though. Hopefully that doesn't make melee useless, as in so many games.

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A paper trail can still be there without leaking personal data like mailadresses and full names to spammers.
I also assume that this old style approach deters people from joining eventually.

On the actual topic.
Do we have most of the HDMI 2.1 spec covered by now or is there anything else missing?

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