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So up to now, Steam Deck support wasn't really . . . Satisfactory.

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I wrote a piece on my blog about the (lack of) ethics in AI, but this piece about coding standards stands out in the context of Graf espousing AI code generation. Maybe it'll improve... but right now, all it does is slow you down.

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That was early 2025. By now, ai should have improved the slowdown to 25%.

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Never could get along with the kde desktop's breakability.

They still get their share in my yearly round of open source donations, though. Kde's software fits really gracefully in my xfce setups. Kupfer, kwrite, kolourpaint, okular, falkon, kdeconnect, ...

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I am a yearly supporter. Currently supporting KDE, Thunderbird, Blender, fsf. Just the software I and my family use every day.

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I wrote a piece on my blog about the (lack of) ethics in AI, but this piece about coding standards stands out in the context of Graf espousing AI code generation. Maybe it'll improve... but right now, all it does is slow you down.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

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Off Topic: Recently, Selaco caused my Steam Deck to crash so badly that it simply shut down and then starts with the Boot Loader menu.

Of course, I initially thought it was a hardware defect, and I still do. On the other hand, I have used the Deck frequently with other games since then and have not experienced any further issues. Has anyone experienced this issue with Selanco?

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If you have any feedback after trying the updated Demo, I'd love to hear it.

Only a couple of games in, but a few QOL pieces:

1. When placing a tile, it's jarring that I can't right-click to cancel placement (I have to press escape).
2. When viewing my deck, it's jarring that I can't press escape to exit (I have to press the "back" button).
3. I got a "forbidden" card who's name I forget, that occupied every outside tile, but was meant to have "ghost". But when I played it, it wasn't ghosting, so I kind of ruined that turn - it occupies so much of the moon that I couldn't play anything else! Also, I suspect I'm misinterpreting its effects - not sure I understood what "resonance" does, but since I couldn't play anything after playing it, I never got to experiment!

Loving the new cards, and the base character feels more rounded with lots more cards providing "Focus", which I love.

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This whole AI conundrum is not going to end well for humanity.

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Just donated as well. Plasma and KDE Applications have been powering my life for years, just can't say enough good things about them.

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Hopefully the new fork will have a sane build script now; because currently the thing that builds GZDoom is an odd concoction of shell scripts & CMake recipes.

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I set up monthly donation years ago 🤎

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1 - 44 yr old close friend - very tech savvy - mostly used for work - should be easy I think.

To me, those "very tech savvy" are the worst to convert. People who are ignorant in computers just learn what some icons do and that is enough. For all the rest they ask you. People who have some deeper knowledge on Windows tend to become very cranky moving to Linux, because they are used to be the ones people come for help, now they find themselves to be the ones that need help. And a lot of them move back to Windows because they resist changing.

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kinda looks like a no-mans-sky type of game? Added to wishlist!

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This is wonderful news! I'm glad the team decided to make positive moves and get away from the ai-garbage-slop and a dickhead team lead.

The regular zdoom page still tells people to go download gzdoom, but I'm hopeful over time they'll change that recommendation or at least add uzdoom.

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Using llms and then when people raise concerns he just says "Feel free to fork the project under a"

Couldn't even be bothered to give a proper reply, shows how much he cares I suppose.

For me I'm just shocked but suppose I never knew the lead of this engine was such a massive knob-handle

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Just like with FSR4 on RDNA3-, people were saying it couldn't be done and that it was impossible to implement because [].
Now this guy did it and proved us all wrong!

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Graf has a history of being a major dick, and hyper controlling. Though I'm shocked he'd stoop so low as to use llms to write his code. I remember his massive tantrum over the glitched mod Lilith. I hope Rachael abandons him for this project. She's been really great and I'd hate to see her go down with him. I also hope game devs that use gzdoom will switch to this and not give Graf anymore attention.

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Hopefully retail projects like selaco will move over to this new fork

Really disappointing reading this, gzdoom deserved better

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Hard to imagine the Linux space without KDE nowadays isn't it?

Hard to imaging the computing space without KDE. Remember that Safari's and Chrome's rendering engines are KHTML forks.
Granted, I'm not sure how much of much of KHTML actually remains in WebKit and Blink 😅

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Feel free to fork the project under a

Imagine being so mad you can't even tell them to fork it correctly.

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Donated!

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I will definitely donate them something next month. They sure deserve much support!

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Happy Birthday KDE! I donated 150€ yesterday because these guys are awesome and deserve all our support. I likewise cannot imagine Linux without KDE, everything else feels clunky. And we've seen what happens when projects are too dependent on a single sponsor such as the Red Hat/Fedora situation and Fedora getting pressured to adopt AI now. In such times it's important to support independent projects to keep them alive forever so they can keep making great stuff

I also got a nice new Katie Avatar as a thank you for donating so it was worth it

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Fixed controller support not working with the Server Manager

Finally. It was really annoying to disable controller support to click "join", then re-enable controller support, to the point where I preferred leaving controller support off.

I would prefer mouse+keyboard input to be enabled at the sane time, but this finally makes the controller support usable.

Just a few of the reports that I found a few months ago (their interface is hard to search, no labels or moderation):

• https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/67f6c6f26b7c57319636596c


• https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/67f4c4a96b7c57319636529a


• https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/68489e056b7c573196383713


• https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/67ed9af96b7c573196362e97


• https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/67eee3276b7c5731963634db

And there were more. Mind you, this is was just after the beta dropped, I imagine that they received many more reports on the topic.

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Hm. I must be missing something here.

I tried nouveau with my 3080Ti, and got around 10fps in DRG (and yes, I checked that it was actually in use). Switched back to nvidia-open (yes, I know, "open"…), got back to 120fps (limited in-game to that).

I'm sure some people will enjoy the availability of DLSS, and it sounds like a fun thing to do from a technical perspective, but unless I'm missing something *huge*, having decent baseline performances sounds more important than that for large scale usage.

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This is probably the single most important thing that NVK needs to be a viable option as a driver alternative.
Nvidia exclusive features are a big reason why people buy those GPUs and DLSS in particular has been a huge advantage over AMD until FSR4(and even then DLSS still has the edge).

It's obviously still far off but the fact you can use those features on open source drivers without explicit support from Nvidia is fantastic. In the future we might have drivers in the kernel like the AMD ones with most RTX features and we won't need to wait for Nvidia to address issues (like the DX12 performance regressions).

This is huge for Nvidia usage on Linux and one of the major things SteamOS needs for an official public release.

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I played the demo. The core concept is fun (obviously) but there's too much "microtransactions", I don't want to manage boosters, perks, traits or whatever else there is. It distracted me and eventually driven me away from the actual game.

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I can't be the only one having stability issues on Steam Deck after the last "Stable" update right? Several games (Deltarune, Viscera Cleanup Detail, Halo MCC) either refuse to run or will hard crash the whole console after 5-10 minutes forcing a reboot.

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Age verification should be illegal. This world has gone crazy. The ruling cast is infested by predators.

The world has gone crazy, but with those statements, you fit right in!

Maybe step outside a little, take a walk, take a few breaths.
Less tinfoil, more nature.

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@Purple Library Guy ... huh, I didn't think of the font stuff. And he does a lot of document work currently in office365. Thankfully, the company he freelances for the most has already told everyone they're ending their subscriptions to o365 at the end of the year and they expect everyone to use LibreOffice from then on out and whatever file syncing/sharing service they want. So he was already planning on moving off of office, BUT that is a really good point on fonts. Damn. Thank you though for mentioning it because now I can get in front of that problem!

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