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I am concerned on RDNA2 it will be just a label, more or less. Not supporting INT8 natively will make it a burden to emulate.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Cyba.Cowboydevelopers and PlayStation alike have shown very little interest in it.

I guess it's a question of catching the fad at the right time. Remember PlayStation Move, when they needed to compete with Wii's sudden popularity?

PlayStation Move actually ended up being really useful when used in combination with PlayStationVR (the latter was specifically designed to make use of it, presumably because there wasn't much interest in PlayStation Move as a stand-alone product)... I still have my PlayStation Move controllers around here.

But you're absolutely right - timing is everything.

And I'm not yet convinced that the Steam Frame will get virtual reality to take off... But it might catch some of market share with its other uses, such as the ability to stream movies wirelessly from a giant "screen" pretty much anywhere there's an Internet connection. If it spurs interest in virtual reality again though, great - I'm the guy that still believes the Holo Deck is the future of entertainment.

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Quoting: EikeI didn't check for the latest cases, but I would be surprised if the wave is not due to AI checking out software

Single findings for sure. But the wave? It is probably due one security researcher found a vulnerability with LLM, other security researcher just need to look for similar patterns. Even in pre-LLM-times researcher where doing this to ensure no criminals finding similar vulnerabilities. So I would be surprised if LLM would play an important(!) role in finding the second and third bug.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: pbDoes the fact that lithium mine workers have a high mortality rate deter us from using cellphones? Does the fact that microplastic is silently turning oceans into deserts and probably give us all kinds of cancer deter us from buying stuff in plastic wrapping?

I can't speak for others, but I am an adult that indeed tries to find a way in this toxic industry to avoid such issues. Do I have a cellphone? Yes. But it also runs Linux on purpose to have a lifespan that exceeds any smartphones lifespan and is repairable/upgradable, with all the uncomfortable things on top and with contributing towards to make it a viable option for everyone some day. Same with other products. Where ever I can I try to avoid negative environmental impacts. It is not always possible, because just as LLMs the industry is forcing bad products onto us lust like LLM everywhere, if it makes sense or not.

There are a lot of people doing the same as me. They probably have other areas where they shine more than me, but we cannot be perfect in an industrial environment where such choices require a lot of enthusiasm, while it should be a no-brainer.

That's the point a lot of people miss - there's a lot of really easy ways to improve your own footprint, it's not case of you having to remove every single thing from your life. But something like using generative AI is an easy choice not to use.

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No need for Bigscreen, but probably good for others. Somehow funny they put in Kate onto the screenshot. It is not the first piece of software I would think about when using a TV.

I am more interested in Union and may setup a VM to give a look.

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Quoting: pbDoes the fact that lithium mine workers have a high mortality rate deter us from using cellphones? Does the fact that microplastic is silently turning oceans into deserts and probably give us all kinds of cancer deter us from buying stuff in plastic wrapping?

I can't speak for others, but I am an adult that indeed tries to find a way in this toxic industry to avoid such issues. Do I have a cellphone? Yes. But it also runs Linux on purpose to have a lifespan that exceeds any smartphones lifespan and is repairable/upgradable, with all the uncomfortable things on top and with contributing towards to make it a viable option for everyone some day. Same with other products. Where ever I can I try to avoid negative environmental impacts. It is not always possible, because just as LLMs the industry is forcing bad products onto us lust like LLM everywhere, if it makes sense or not.

There are a lot of people doing the same as me. They probably have other areas where they shine more than me, but we cannot be perfect in an industrial environment where such choices require a lot of enthusiasm, while it should be a no-brainer.

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Finally, a native 10-foot UX that lets regular Linux GUI apps scale perfectly to the big screen! 🙏

This is going to be massive for docked handhelds, Raspberry Pi-based HTPCs, and SteamOS consoles. Dropping out of Steam into desktop mode on the TV will finally be manageable with just a controller, or even a standard TV remote.

Let's hope this entices Android/Google TV app developers to finally hop over to true Linux.

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Still haven't upgraded anything for the previous two and not to worried about this one either. It either requires access through a remote exploit or breaking into my home. Either of which are significantly worse in terms of damage.

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We're seeing a wave of Linux security issues lately as it has become a bigger focus

I didn't check for the latest cases, but I would be surprised if the wave is not due to AI checking out software and sometimes [finding decades old security flaws](https://medium.com/predict/an-ai-found-a-27-year-old-bug-hiding-in-openbsd-it-cost-less-than-50-to-find-it-489064e9178c) that no human found in all that time.

And yes, that's is a risk and it is making our software more secure at the same time.

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Quoting: omeganebula

Quoting: geckofish52Hoping the big picture overlay stops being so laggy. I'm on KDE Plasma CachyOS

It's web tech, so unfortunately it's always going to be laggy or stuttery, sometimes even on obscenely powerful hardware. I doubt they'll ever rewrite it in Qt Quick for example, which could actually be smooth, native, and efficient, with better battery life.

While I'm not happy with those web apps either, browsers can do amazingly well (non-stuttery) things these days.
No, I don't think web app is the (main) reason here.

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While this may sound alarming, it's nothing compared to the problems being found in Windows lately - [(Link)](https://www.pcworld.com/article/3139152/microsofts-may-updates-patch-120-security-flaws-in-windows-and-office.html)

It's good that they are being discovered and reported.

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good, for as much as I think Steam Input is a great system it being closed-source and Steam-exclusive makes it something I'm weary about reliance on. I can't imagine why Steam Controller doesn't work with X-input out-of-the-box when all of their other hardware works with or without official Steam software...

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Quoting: Renzatic Gear

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe horror!!!

Not for me. I still haven't heard Baby Shark, even after all these years.

These posts are the first time I ever heard of this. And I have two young daughters...

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I don't wish to pry, but if you got married then congrats!

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: KimyrielleIt's perfectly fine to be against AI. But these people behave like a vicious lynch mob who go after anyone who disagrees with them. I lost respect for the anti-AI crowd a while ago, when vitriol and hate took the place of logic and reason.

And who or what is being lynched so viciously by this supposed mob? A corporation's bottom line? A CEO's quarterly bonus? They've made tens of millions with the game already, they'll be fine.

Try using less emotional language if you want to accuse others of abandoning logic and reason. Until then, I find it very difficult to respect your hot take.

You know, when other people decide to use a technology you don't agree with, in most cases, you have a right to STFU and respect their choice, even if you don't like it.

Oh did you feel disrespected? I'm sure people who protest with pretty much the only tools they have at their disposal also feel disrespected when they're called a vicious lynch mob. When you pretty much call them stupid and ignorant. You might seriously want to think about the language you use if you want to be taken seriously and not seem like a total hypocrite.

And no, I've never taken part in review bombing so I'm not taking this personally. I do strongly dislike the way generative LLMs are marketed and used currently, but that's mostly based on my professional experience, and also based on my personal respect for human beings, human made art, human artists and developers, and of course the environment.

Quoting: KimyrielleYou dislike AI? Don't use it! Don't buy products using it. Write essays why you feel it's bad. Or take your protest to the corporations that make money with it. That's all fair game. What's NOT fair game is review-bombing a game that isn't even using AI, trying to destroy the livelihood of the people that made it. Because that's what review-bombing is trying to do - hitting their bottom line.

First of all, AI tech already hits people's "bottom lines" way harder than any review bomb ever could. And secondly, most people working in software are not given a choice and are pretty much forced to work with LLMs if they want to keep their jobs. In fact, this is the first time I can remember that domain experts and entire tech (and art) departments are overridden by top management on the tools they use to do their work.

Protesting against corporations is obviously only effective if it hurts their bottom lines, so that's pretty much the point. No protest is ever effective if it doesn't cause disruption and inconvenience (or loss of revenue) to the ones being protested. Remember, these are all paying customers. They've already bought the game or they couldn't leave a review on Steam. They can't protest by not buying the game because they've already done it. But of course they could go write essays for these corporations to ignore. That'll show them.

Quoting: KimyrielleThat's the entire point the poster I quoted made, and I happened (and still do) to agree with. Apparently that nuance is/was lost on you. Then I again, there is a reason why I came to the conclusion that AI-haters suck at logic. Your posting is actually just proving my point.

There was no nuance in your post. It was pure hyperbole and loaded language. You label anyone with a grievance against generative LLMs as "AI-haters" and ignore everything they say. Possibly because you've got a dog in the race? Don't answer that, it's pure speculation. I just don't understand why you feel attacked when a Chinese corporation feels consequences for their incompetent marketing.

This is a corporation that made a stupid choice and is now feeling the effects of that choice. (Not even an indie dev who simply abandoned all societal and environmental concerns, along with their artistic integrity, in the hopes of an easier way to make cash, just because they feel entitled to it.)

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Quoting: scaineJust another hammer - small catch, every time you use it, someone dies. But yeah, it's just another tool. Would you use that hammer?

I hate to say that I think many people would actually still use that hammer if hey deemed it better than other hammers. Does the fact that lithium mine workers have a high mortality rate deter us from using cellphones? Does the fact that microplastic is silently turning oceans into deserts and probably give us all kinds of cancer deter us from buying stuff in plastic wrapping? Every day we make choices that are killing someone somewhere and while some choices have more direct consequences (e.g. speeding through the city or running the red light), some others are completely disconnected and comfortable to ignore. You probably wouldn't use that hammer if one of your family members or neighbours would die, but a random one of 8B people?

Ursula LeGuin explored this topic in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and I don't think much has changed in the last fifty years. Shirley Jackson in "The Lottery" suggests that even if the sacrifice wasn't anonymous, we'd still be willing to make it if it assured our collective well-being, but I'm not so sure of that - I mean, why would we sacrifice one of ours if we could sacrifice two (or five) from the other end of the world instead, right?

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Quoting: Savor592I can't stand the crap made with it.

Well, then it appears to me that you *do* have a sense of aesthetics. ;-)

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Speaking of the controller: is it normal to take that long to ship? My delivery process of the Steam Controller is still stuck at "packaged"...

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI wouldn't be trying to find the bleeding edge packages all the time.

I remember back in those days using Ximian's "rug" aka "red carpet" for installing their bleeding edge GNOME-centric packages. Ximian got bought by Novell, eventually became Xamarin and made Mono, and nowadays they manage .NET at Microsoft. Crazy how the guy who made a little spreadsheet app called Gnumeric ended up with that career path.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: PhlebiacNot sure what the timeline was for other package formats, but Yellow Dog fixed this for RPM with yum - in 2003, according to Wikipedia.

Maybe, but as I recall, Yellow Dog was specialized for Mac hardware!

Sure, but yum was not restricted to Yellow Dog Linux. It's "Y"ellowdog "U"pdater "M"odified to work on other systems. The YellowDog predecessor came a few years earlier (see Wikipedia). Nowadays, yum has been replaced with dnf, but it had a long run.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Purple Library GuyDependency. Hell.

Not sure what the timeline was for other package formats, but Yellow Dog fixed this for RPM with yum - in 2003, according to Wikipedia.

Maybe, but as I recall, Yellow Dog was specialized for Mac hardware! Which I didn't have any of. And Debian had it beat, but you'd have to figure out how to install and use 2000s era Debian. At a certain point Mandrake came up with urpmi and that was a big help.
And the thing is, in those days the software ecosystem was pretty bad, so you were always trying to grab the very latest version of, say, abiword or whatever, in hopes that would fix some of your problems. Nowadays pretty much all the software is just fine so even if it was still hard to install, it wouldn't be as big a deal because at least I wouldn't be trying to find the bleeding edge packages all the time.

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Quoting: F.Ultrayou cannot write "HDMI compatible" without using the words "HDMI"

That is generally protected, and not a trademark violation. "This ointment is Band-Aid compatible" isn't that different from "this cable is HDMI compatible". No one thinks the ointment is made by Band-Aid, just that they work together just fine.

Consumers generally don't care about official licensing, as long as it works correctly. Surely you are familiar with the inkjet printer racket? Less expensive ink cartridges are compatible with the brand name printers.

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Quoting: pbYou and all of the people who have a sense of aesthetics, Mr Hudson.

Now don't be so harsh. I have no sense of aesthetics whatsoever and still wish GenAI would just vanish from reality as I can't stand the crap made with it.

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Quoting: scaineJust another hammer - small catch, every time you use it, someone dies. But yeah, it's just another tool. Would you use that hammer?

*yes, that's an exaggeration, but it feels like absurd arguments like that are the only way to land the point in the face of tech-bro'ism these days.

not at all, people losing their jobs and not being able to find another one, might mean people will die.

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This might be the closest to a single-player digital adaptation of the board game that we'll ever see. I played the demo for what felt like a few minutes, but turned out to be over an hour. I think I'll end up grabbing it sooner than later.

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"Our original goal was to lower the barrier to creation. In past contests, we saw players with great ideas and scripts who couldn’t fully bring them to life because they weren’t familiar with tools like editing, modeling, or animation software. We hoped AI could be a more accessible tool that lets more people take part."

sigh, what happened to literature? have anyone there ever read an book? if they want to include people who dont know how to use editing software, modeling, animating etc, why not make an category "best idea" and other "best execution" ?

serious, are people that dense?

"To us, AI is just another tool. What we truly care about is the idea, the expression, and the final work."

speaking of not knowing how to read the room, they dont know how to read the room?
just an tool? they mean an plagiarism machine that create a bunch of slop without an soul?
they literally doubled down on it by simplifing it to "just a tool" as if there was no difference for other tools.

caring about the "final work", as if the effort the artists put into it were meaningless.
an good drawing is the personification of the effort an artist put into learning how to draw and drawing an specific piece of work, not just one "hey, look, it looks cool right?" content.
hell i hate the world content.

future generations who grow up with ai, will never understand what is looking at an piece of art and geting inspired, desiring to be as good as the artist one day and actually puting the effort into it.

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Wonder how well this will work compared to RDNA4 cards. Hopefully we get some decent comparisons.
Not expecting it to be better then what the open community has already figured out, but you never know I guess..

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Quoting: PhlebiacSounds like an invitation for a new variant of Rickroll.

Yeah, I kinda set myself up for this. :P

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneI know you did not quote me, but:

Quoting: KimyrielleYou know, when other people decide to use a technology you don't agree with, in most cases, you have a right to STFU and respect their choice, even if you don't like it. You dislike AI? Don't use it!

What a joke! Even if someone does not use LLMs, they still have to pay the price, as all of us. As told above via environmental costs, some living close to new mega data centers increasing their power bills a lot, others cannot buy any longer 16 gigs of RAM and if I have to research 3 times as much as in pre-LLM-times and sell my product, my customers have to pay for the additional time, no matter if they use LLM or not. And who pays for all the copyright holders which works are stolen?

To turn your own words against you: If you want to use LLMs, don't put the costs onto all of us and future generations and pay the whole bill yourself (including paying for work that is part of the LLM archiv). Respect their choices and don't put slop everywhere under their noses. If you do so, no one will complain any longer. But I bet, that claim of "respect" is a one way ticket...

I am not going to dissect that drivel, but what part of

What's NOT fair game is review-bombing a game that isn't even using AI,

is so hard to understand, really? All of it?

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Quoting: ahjolinnaAI isnt going anywhere ...

Neither is chlamydia, and I ain't inviting that in my life either.

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