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Quoting: sarmadThe solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

Why should ethics be the responsibility of government? That just brings more "nanny state" interference in everyone's lives. Ethics should be personal and exercised on the individual level. The corporations will switch gears soon enough once they realize their policy is garnering very few customers.

From the perspective of legality, however, there is the matter of the violated copyrights ...

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Quoting: AsciiWolfAnd Mastodon is sadly even more toxic than X/Twitter.

Oh, that's interesting, I haven't encounterd much toxicity on Mastodon so far 🤔

Excited for Hytale tho!

Mastodon is very fragmented(by design).
Maybe he caught a very toxic server.

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Quoting: sarmadWhile I agree there is a lot of immorality in AI, avoiding it just puts you at a disadvantage since everyone is using it. So, you'll be harming yourself, not the unethical AI companies. The solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

AI companies are currently operating by dotcom logic.
The more users you've, the more you'll be able to lock in in the future and thus the more valuable your shares.
Boycotts do work to influence that metric.

This same logic also applies to this "disadvantage". The goal is vendor lockin they will try to get you to rely on their products to the level that you can't ditch them and they've many great minds working on that goal.
You'll pay a hefty sum when the time of income finally arrives.
Right now you're at a disadvantage if you use AI, because they're buying your dependence with low prices.

Spoiler, click me

This also, why deepseek was such a shock.
It used a(known, but for good reasons avoided) cheaper method for training to achieve equal results and marketed it.
It presented the threat that someone without trillions in capital could compete with their champions.

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Quoting: jurquizoFirst of all, great guide. I tried following the steam method and I couldn't find the folder of the Steam installation folder to change the shortcut, I think it is because I installed Steam via snap and I can't find similar paths inside the .snap folder. Could you help me?

Ah, that's an interesting one. Snap is a whole different can of worms.

Could you try looking in: ~/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/steamapps

See if the compatdata folder is there? Once we find the correct path, I'll add it to the guide.

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Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: sarmadThe snap file format and client side tools are completely open source. What's proprietary is the backend, i.e snapcraft.io, which is fine.

Doesn't that kinda mean that snap being open source is pointless to a large extent? It's like an open source client for a proprietary messaging service

Almost. Technically you can fork the snap front end to make it point to other backends, and I think someone has already done that, but practically such a fork won't be popular since the upstream is locked to a single backend and Canonical won't accept such a change to be upstreamed. I think if we didn't already have Flatpaks and AppImages such a fork would've been popular, but at this point Snap is a dying format outside of IoT.

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I'm a little surprised. He could have just taken it down temporarily with the explanation he provided and then ran a kickstarter to raise the funds to pay a human artist to replace the genAI artwork. Perhaps it is not worth the extra effort?

Kudos to that new girlfriend though!

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First of all, great guide. I tried following the steam method and I couldn't find the folder of the Steam installation folder to change the shortcut, I think it is because I installed Steam via snap and I can't find similar paths inside the .snap folder. Could you help me?

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While I agree there is a lot of immorality in AI, avoiding it just puts you at a disadvantage since everyone is using it. So, you'll be harming yourself, not the unethical AI companies. The solution to the ethical dilemma should come from politicians, but they are unfortunately too corrupt to do the right thing.

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Subscribed! Waiting for it on my podcatcher. 😊

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Quoting: Vladimir-DimovSadly, I have no way to get this game because it's unavailable on Steam. 🤮

It's available as a Flatpak.

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Would be still nice if there was a Peertube mirror of this.

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Wine has caught up with Windows in version numbering.

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It's incredible how far things have come from the days when I was banging my head against the wall just trying to get Ultima Online to run correctly under Wine.

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Quoting: benjamimgoisThanks for the post Liam ! GamingonLinux recognition makes a lot of difference.

Goverlay started as a GUI for overlay (mangohud), but the scope got broader. I'm thinking about rebrand the project. Maybe some community feedback / suggestions would be cool.

I can't believe nobody suggested GOLverlay 😝

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Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: sarmadThe snap file format and client side tools are completely open source. What's proprietary is the backend, i.e snapcraft.io, which is fine.

Doesn't that kinda mean that snap being open source is pointless to a large extent? It's like an open source client for a proprietary messaging service

Not entirely. If the file format is open source, then other backends could be written and they would interoperate with the client side tools (you might have to change a little bit of stuff in those tools that currently just point to Canonical's back end, but presumably that part would be trivial). It's certainly not ideal though.

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Sadly, I have no way to get this game because it's unavailable on Steam. 🤮

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Awesome, now we need his girlfriend to talk to Activision about CoD7.

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Changelog are so impressive!

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It took about 3 months for Valve to rebase to Wine 10 (then another 7 months to release the stable version).

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this moral panic is getting ridiculous

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I was disappointed by the fact that the announcement for Linux/Mac support was a Twitter exclusive. I have never had a Twitter account and never will. But this faux pas in no way compares to the Epic Games CEO, Tim Sweeny's comment concerning "Politicians demanding gatekeepers selectively crush the one that's their political opponent's company is basic crony capitalism." Crony capitalism has been very good to old Timmy boy. Yet one more reason to avoid Epileptic Games.

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As a... tolerator of VOY who's also aware how unlikely it is for us to get anything close to that level of quality with how Star Trek is being mistreated and mismanaged... I'm reasonably excited for this. I'll give that demo a try.

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Downloaded the launcher last night so I was ready this morning to download the game. I initiated the download a couple minutes after the release time. I was expecting the servers to be overwhelmed, but this was not the case. The download took very little time and the game worked flawlessly. At this point in time I think Hytale Studio's approach to game development is to "way under-promise and way over-deliver."

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The comments about gaming distros are getting so old. Bazzite for example is part of the ublue project, by no means a small project or one that isn't contributing to the wider Linux community.

More importantly, these articles are read by users new to Linux, or just considering Linux. It is ridiculous to handwave away distros that take huge strides in removing roadblocks from those users, whether via their rolling nature, auto updating, immutability, Nvidia driver inclusion, etc.

There are countless posts *daily* on the linux_gaming subreddit from users with no Linux experience who install Kubuntu or Mint after reading an article like this, and then have nothing but problems because they don't know what they are doing. The attitude from Linux old-heads and their gatekeeping desire that new users "learn the ropes" is incredibly cringe.

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I'm seeing three beards in the thumbnail. Now I want one too. 😊

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My beard constantly starts due to laziness, but I either get remarks about needing to shave or it starts itching and I shave in any case 😅

Impressed that your partner prefers your (likely scratchy) facial fur 😆

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​This wine version in my case after a 1 year of wine 10 appear some inresting thing like:

-compiled wine up around 900mb more in my case around 5.3gb with wine 10 and 6.2gb with wine 11

-files up too around 33.363 with wine 10 and now 35.531 with wine 11

Using NTsync work ok for many titles in my case, however using kernel 6.17 need activate ntsync module using this:

sudo modprobe ntsync

for verify if ntsync stay active can use lsmod, remember using lsmod after wine stay opened

if appear good ntsync must be appear in list with a number, this number dont be appear in 0 if appear in 0 dont stay active

Another interesting issue appear when you have active vulkan renderer (chain value) using this on wine registry

renderer
│ │ [Select what backend to use for wined3d. Valid options are:
│ │ gdi
│ │ gl
│ │ vulkan
│ │ The "gdi" option (and its alias "no3d") mostly exists for legacy or test reasons.
│ │ As of Wine 5.1, gl is the default and vulkan is still work in progress,
│ │ so don't expect great results with it yet.]

With this setting in my case appear radv renoir as graphic adapter, this dont appear with default renderer

Some thing more this key must be stay in both wine registry directories in my case:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D and too in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Wine\Direct 3D

Also using mangohud show renderer as damavand (wined3d appear with default renderer)



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Quoting: KoopaWhat has changed since the first reunion when the steam deck released?
Everyone now has a hipster beard!! 😂

Hipster?! I'll have you know mine started from laziness and now I'm not allowed to shave it off. The fiancée would not be happy 😆

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What has changed since the first reunion when the steam deck released?
Everyone now has a hipster beard!! 😂

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Great! I already have the supporter edition pre-ordered and looking forward to play it soon. :-) Also looking forward to see the official launcher on Flathub. ;-)

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