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Btw, it is easy to build Optiscaler from git on Linux.
Here is script: https://pastebin.com/TW17k7Fr

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Quoting: SirMCJeagerI'm not as concerned about who they interact with as many people here have been stating. The amount of left-leaning bias and 'passion' is a little concerning in these comments. We should commend this company for the good they do, rather than condemning them entirely based on a few interactions with someone who holds a differing view.

I am not concerned about who they interact with, but I don't like that they actively and financially support a known racist and bigot like DHH. Which makes me unwilling to support them, so that I do not support the hate by proxy.

If that doesn't sound reasonable to you, I suppose that shows your own bias. Willing indifference is an active political stance.

Looking up about him, just seems like a conservative who doesn't like the influence of Islam and the negative influence of illegal/asylum immigration into Britain.

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Quoting: rea987Among the old id Tech 4 titles, only Doom 3 and Doom 3 BFG received source code and source port releases. Quake 4 and Prey got Doom 3 source code based engine reimplantation made by the community. ETQW, Wolfenstein (2009) and Brink received no source code release or a modern port.

I was aware the Quake 4 port was largely playable but how is the Prey implementation? Has anyone made fully polished versions of these?

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Best worst thing that has happened in my gaming time recently.

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At this pace I will be able to resell my RPi 5 16GB for the price of a Steam Deck 😅

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What would be an epic move, is when you could launch your games by using this game. This would be pretty meta.

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There's no joke here.

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Quoting: neolithET:QW is already id Tech 4. Does that still count as old enough? 😄

Well, ETQW was released in 2007, I guess it's old enough. 😆 Among the old id Tech 4 titles, only Doom 3 and Doom 3 BFG received source code and source port releases. Quake 4 and Prey got Doom 3 source code based engine reimplantation made by the community. ETQW, Wolfenstein (2009) and Brink received no source code release or a modern port.

Despite that Makron's Horde community is still continuously develop mod, maps and custom content for ETQW which supports Linux, x86 macOS and Windows.

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LOVE IT! instawishlist. I'll get to it "soon" I swear.

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Not That Shocked dot gif

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This is very underrated software. I use it to run FSR4 in Control and previously Cyberpunk (before it got native support) and it works totally fine on my 7900 XT. Cyberpunk would always have shimmering foliage, even with XeSS. With FSR4 the shimmering is completely gone. And in Control FSR4 massively improves image clarity, since it only supports DLSS and some really basic unspecified upscaler which always ends up looking blurry. Setting it up was surprisingly easy too.

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Quoting: SzkodnixToday I won't believe anyone 😁

If it's a joke from the RPi Foundation, it's a really bad one.

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Quoting: rea987Enemy Territory: Quake Wars begs to differ. 😬

ET:QW is already id Tech 4. Does that still count as old enough? 😄

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When I read the news, I checked when I last played this game. It was August 2017, some time after I finished episode 2. I probably forgot how to play this game entirely. 😆

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Quoting: williamjcmSame group that sued Valve back in 2019 on the subject of Steam not allowing transferring accounts or selling individual games, by the way.

While UFC-Que Choisir won the initial trial, Valve won the appeal, and the Cour de cassation (the French equivalent to the US' Supreme Court) upheld the appeal's ruling.

I mean, if they only go for the sure fire cases, there would be no advocacy at all.

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Quoting: omer666Well that's good news, because it was the last legacy id software related game that was missing a source port

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars begs to differ. 😬

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Today I won't believe anyone 😁

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Quoting: EWG(note that social media and social networking are different things. I presume the former to be in reference to facebooger and the like.)

Social media means services based on social interaction around user-published content (or media). So Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc. YouTube counts as well, but classic chats and blogs like IRC, Matrix and this site do not. Certain features in some communication platforms like WhatsApp and maybe even Discord might put them in the social media category.

Admittedly there are some fuzzy boundaries and differing definitions. This isn't hard science.

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recent shift in the VR market

Anyone know what this refers to? VR didn't take off like they hoped (just like the last few attempts)? Or something else?

The VR market is 80% Facebook, and Facebook have recently reorientated away from VR gaming - closing studios and calling off hardware partnerships, and making their VR ecosystem thing a phone app instead.

It would be quite a good time for Valve to swoop in with a cheap device that can play all those games without any retooling from game devs, but RAM crisis.

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Quoting: Durandalsupported an unapologetic white supremacist..

I would very much like to see examples of this. That's a horrible thing. From anything I've seen, nothing has directly been the offenders words.

He's been vocal on his opinions on social media, so finding things "in his own words" shouldn't be too hard.

There's plenty of articles summarizing it, such as this.
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

Thanks for a link. I don't have social media so, it's unlikely I'd be able to find/see anything on such platforms.
(note that social media and social networking are different things. I presume the former to be in reference to facebooger and the like.)

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This was my Tomb Raider 🥰

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Quoting: SirMCJeagerI'm not as concerned about who they interact with as many people here have been stating. The amount of left-leaning bias and 'passion' is a little concerning in these comments. We should commend this company for the good they do, rather than condemning them entirely based on a few interactions with someone who holds a differing view.

I am not concerned about who they interact with, but I don't like that they actively and financially support a known racist and bigot like DHH. Which makes me unwilling to support them, so that I do not support the hate by proxy.

If that doesn't sound reasonable to you, I suppose that shows your own bias. Willing indifference is an active political stance.

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recent shift in the VR market

Anyone know what this refers to? VR didn't take off like they hoped (just like the last few attempts)? Or something else?

Definitely a part of it.
Those old enough will know that this was like the fifth time or so VR was touted as the "next big thing"/"the future"/etc.
And of course it didn't take this time, either, at least not to the level of mass success some were hyped into believing.

But also: Current price & availability for any kind of electronic hardware - within and without the gaming sphere.

Add that to a product like this, basically a free online hangout - these concepts have already failed so many times before (remember the first hangouts of comparable kind in the late 90s/early 2000s, with avatars and stuff?).
It adds this extra step to hanging out together digitally, I am honestly surprised it lasted as long as it did.
And as it turns out, that was because the devs poured their own money into it.

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recent shift in the VR market

Anyone know what this refers to? VR didn't take off like they hoped (just like the last few attempts)? Or something else?

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Quoting: XpanderI'm using MATE on arch. The attraction for me is that the thing just works without breakages or problems.

Sounds like the main point here is: "it doesn't change". I can see the value in that, but if everything else around it changes, it will only last so long before it can't continue. Others have mentioned X11 being deprecated - it's barely getting security fixes these days, and mostly for Xwayland.

Quoting: Caldathrasadding Wayland support does not equal removing Xorg support.

It does not. But GNOME 50 dropped X11 support. KDE plans to drop X11 support soon (they already split out the X11 stuff in preparation for it). Any desktop environment planning to stick around will support Wayland, and may drop X11 support if they end up with too few active users. That could take a long time in some cases, sure.

Quoting: CaldathrasI have heard that Fedora and Ubuntu intend to ship with Wayland as default

I think that happened nearly a decade ago with Fedora. Of course, with Nvidia support for Wayland being very poor for so long, X11 continued to be well supported as well. I tried running Wayland a few times over the years (on Nvidia), but it never lasted long - too unstable. But things have improved a lot, and I've been using it for the last couple months.

Quoting: Purple Library Guyextensions tend to break when GNOME gets a significant update

Unfortunately true, but that doesn't happen TOO often, and most extensions either get updated, or forked into working versions. I haven't dug into all the arcane details, but I've occasionally hacked up a few when that happens. From what I've seen, it's mostly user-editable / not compiled code. Of course, most "end users" don't want to do that. But the "official" extensions, including the "classic desktop" ones, are kept up to date and don't break.

A variety of desktop environments is great, and as long as MATE continues functioning for you, that's also great. I keep hearing good things about Plasma 6.x, and 5.x before it; I think KDE 4.x was the last time I spent any time with it. Back then, I found it too Windows-like (in look and feel, and stability-wise).

I certainly disliked GNOME 3.x in the early days, with their heavy focus on biased choices and removing options, but these days I appreciate being able to customize it with extensions. A few I like:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6682/astra-monitor/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4679/burn-my-windows/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4648/desktop-cube/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5446/quick-settings-tweaker/

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Well that's good news, because it was the last legacy id software related game that was missing a source port

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Omelette du fromage!

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