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Bold statement. Even pro-AI people don't claim that it has a soul... 😄

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: CatKiller

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.

But companies making stuff without giving them money would be breaking trademark law and thus open to be sued by HDMI Forum, aka the reason that you pay for the specs is not to get access to the specs but to be allowed to sell products labelled with HDMI. And the fee for the specs are minuscule, only $10k per year (or $5k for low volume manufacturers), the real money is the per sold item royalty (up to $0.2 for high volume and flat $1 for low volume) since that times millions of devices per year adds up quite significantly.

And fly-by-night would not be affected by open drivers since they already have the specs (they are ofc widely spread in China for free). But I guess that some of the members where afraid of that and others have now countered, we simply don't know who it was since all 80+ companies have voting rights (and their votes are not made public).

Trademark law is weak compared to what the HDMI forum wields to keep others from releasing HDMI compatible stuff.
I'm talking copyright, contract law and patent.

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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.

For people who want to question this.
Remember that the xz-attack was build on a directed harassment campaign to get rid of the existing maintainer.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: LoudTechieI don't know whether a rule of thumb from political science is that useful for market observation.

Because it is actually also a political movement. The way complex tools are designed (that also counts for software) is always highly political, because it defines what people can or cannot do with it and how much they have to rely on this specific tool. Now many people decide to change the political paradigms in favor of more freedom, even if it also means not to be able to play everything. That is an actual political decision, if people do it in knowledge of it or not.

That would not apply between two companies (like Microsoft/Apple) where the tools are political pretty similar designed.

Okay, that's a very convincing point.
I can even point to the political effects the movement started having around the 3.5% mark.
The EU utilizing it to evade American power, major influencers talking about it and special open source provisions in the DSA and DMA.

Edit:
It's also scary, since I want to design complex tools and not be thrown under the bus next revolution.

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My Vencord/Vesktop install works every time I open it now, so I might chalk that up to these little improvements over time. Good to see!

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Is that Bastila? If so, why is her lightsaber blue? If not, why isn't that Bastila?
This game better be good.

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Quoting: LoudTechieI don't know whether a rule of thumb from political science is that useful for market observation.

Because it is actually also a political movement. The way complex tools are designed (that also counts for software) is always highly political, because it defines what people can or cannot do with it and how much they have to rely on this specific tool. Now many people decide to change the political paradigms in favor of more freedom, even if it also means not to be able to play everything. That is an actual political decision, if people do it in knowledge of it or not.

That would not apply between two companies (like Microsoft/Apple) where the tools are political pretty similar designed.

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Quoting: StellaI'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.

I don't think Lego Batman is going to run well either given the minimum recommended specs list 16GB RAM, upscaling and framgen for lowest detail @1080p/30FPS...
Optimization really is a lost art.

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Totally recommend it, bought it the same day it came out and its so much fun. It supports family sharing too so my two sons have been enjoying it. It was 10% off too if you owned a few other indie games in their bundles, but its under $10 normally.

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Quoting: Arehandoro

We are investing in KDE because it is one of the two major desktop environments used across Linux and plays a key role in how millions of people experience open technology

Maybe then support both?

Anyway, this is great news for KDE, happy for them!

They have done so for GNOME already though?

https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/gnome

Ah, amazing! :)

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That is completely awesome.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneFor 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.

I don't know whether a rule of thumb from political science is that useful for market observation.
Also 5% is still relevant according to this rule according to Lichbach as stated in your wikipedia article.
It's where the Free-rider effect counters potential counter movements.

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Steam Controller = Scream Controller

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I'm really curious if the improvements made to SteamVR for supporting the Frame will also benefit existing headsets.

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Quoting: Arehandoro

We are investing in KDE because it is one of the two major desktop environments used across Linux and plays a key role in how millions of people experience open technology

Maybe then support both?

Anyway, this is great news for KDE, happy for them!

They have done so for GNOME already though?

https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/gnome

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Quoting: pb> Wilhelm scream

TIL that's a thing

Welcome to the club! If you're one to watch movies, you're going to be shocked by how often you start hearing that thing. :)

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Quoting: StellaMandatory disclaimer that damage caused to your controller caused by dropping it isn't covered by warranty...

The joke might be that the scream indicates that the warranty is voided.

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Mandatory disclaimer that damage caused to your controller caused by dropping it isn't covered by warranty...

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Quoting: EhvisThe real joke is that the year of the Linux desktop was a long loooong time ago and people just missed it.

Yeah, 2022 if you ask me because steam deck launched

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Quoting: Arehandoro

We are investing in KDE because it is one of the two major desktop environments used across Linux and plays a key role in how millions of people experience open technology

Maybe then support both?

Anyway, this is great news for KDE, happy for them!

KDE is based on Germany, perhaps that is why KDE got the priority.

EDIT: KDE e.v. is based on Germany

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The way these AAA projects tend to go these days we'll see what's the take on AI on the 3rd game director when the team is on the second project restart and crunching 7 days a week to make 2032 and not get the studio closed even before the day 1 patch.

Not something I wish on the devs, but this is a bold statement that's smack in the middle of the honeymoon stage of development. Yeah, sure.

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You and all of the people who have a sense of aesthetics, Mr Hudson.

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The good: "I just find AI to be creatively soulless. It's hard to imagine where it’s actually helpful in the process. I’m just really unimpressed with it"

The bad: At least sometime before 2030.

The ugly: Me 😭

Jokes aside, the original KoToRs and the Mass Effect trilogy are also within my all-time favs, I'm really hoping for this one to be amazing.

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Ah, some quality reporting on important topics. This is why I follow GoL 🥰

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Love it 😂

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Quoting: CatKiller

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.

But companies making stuff without giving them money would be breaking trademark law and thus open to be sued by HDMI Forum, aka the reason that you pay for the specs is not to get access to the specs but to be allowed to sell products labelled with HDMI. And the fee for the specs are minuscule, only $10k per year (or $5k for low volume manufacturers), the real money is the per sold item royalty (up to $0.2 for high volume and flat $1 for low volume) since that times millions of devices per year adds up quite significantly.

And fly-by-night would not be affected by open drivers since they already have the specs (they are ofc widely spread in China for free). But I guess that some of the members where afraid of that and others have now countered, we simply don't know who it was since all 80+ companies have voting rights (and their votes are not made public).

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I actually waited for some of these features for a long time so I am glad they are doing it

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We are investing in KDE because it is one of the two major desktop environments used across Linux and plays a key role in how millions of people experience open technology

Maybe then support both?

Anyway, this is great news for KDE, happy for them!

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Quoting: scaineDoes it still have configurable on/off noises like the last one?

From what I gathered from all the reviews I think not... But since they do regular firmware updates I think that might actually be added later

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Nothing is sacred anymore

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