Quoting: ElectricPrismMAKE A ROLLING RELEASE UBUNTU VARIANT

It kind of exists, it's called Debian. You just need to enable the testing (or sid) repositories.

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Quoting: F.UltraWhich is why I hate when people like LTT make claims like "if GitHub is only for developers then that means that Linux is only for developers" when the whole frakking reason we don't have hardware support for his GoXLR in Linux is due to the shady practises of Microsoft. Its a hill that we have to climb up, but the thing is that the hill is artificially created and keep on getting steeper and steeper as we climb it.

To add insult into injury, Github is owned by Microsoft. Github sure does have some usability problems, it doesn't matter if you're developer or not. Linus is just taking the mentality that he doesn't want to be developer bit too seriously.

Github just happens to be the place where the projects start. Some projects don't even bother with packaging and let distributions handle that.

I guess the difference is that with Windows, projects that don't have any kind of infrastructure yet, get way less attention. It used to be bit complicated to set up free development environment for Windows. With Linux all you need sometimes is just GCC and text editor, possibly Make on top of that.

As for GoXLR, somebody with Windows can be valuable. I think one of the first things to do with when creating new USB driver is to snoop the traffic between the Windows and the device. I have no idea how easy it is to just record the traffic and replay it on Linux without creating a driver first.

Optimally there would be official driver, but I would assume getting it accepted into kernel might take few rounds of reviews as it might take a while get used to the conventions.

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Quoting: dubigrasuIn any case, I don't think gaming as it stands today with local collections and expensive/bulky personal devices will survive for long. We are the last dinosaurs and we don't realize it yet.

Can't say I entirely disagree. I thought much the same about music streaming when it first landed, but I'm bought into that. But it succeeded for reasons that don't apply to cloud gaming.

Getting bit side tracked, but what's actually funny is that at least Spotify technically is only kind of streaming as the caching is quite aggressive. Spotify actually downloads the songs and puts them in local cache on the device. That has benefit especially on mobile devices that have unreliable network connection, so even if you lose connection, at least the current song will keep playing. And that's the online mode. Offline mode is able to work without network even longer (I think it needs to connect to Spotify servers at some point just to verify the license).

I can't remember for sure (might have been on some of the consoles like PS5), but I think games might be able to support something similar. So you could start playing the game before it has downloaded completely. Combine that to losing all the games if you cancel your subscription and that's already quite close to how Spotify works.

If that's any indication, even if Stadia model doesn't work, some hybrid model might. After all, music streaming is convenient enough as you don't think about what to store on the device and pay for individual albums. You can just consume.

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Quoting: F.UltraThe fork done by the FreeBSD team (libressl) was done because the FreeBSD devs wanted more control over such a central piece of software that had gotten stale. Due note that the funding that happened due to this went to OpenSSL and not to LibreSSL and while LibreSSL was the better library for a short while, the OpenSSL project got rejuvenated in the process and LibreSSL is now basically only used by FreeBSD and the distros and projects that went with LibreSSL are close to all back to using OpenSSL again.

It was actually done by OpenBSD folks, though porting it to FreeBSD might have been faster than to Linux. After all FreeBSD and OpenBSD share same 386BSD ancestry. Linux is it's own thing and thus is not by default compatible with things developed on other operating systems. Same thing applies on other direction too.

LibreSSL threw away lot of legacy things in order to improve security. So the goal wasn't just add features on top of OpenSSL. Which might explain why supporting LibreSSL hasn't been always that easy. Which might explain why supporting LibreSSL as OpenSSL replacement might have not been worthwhile once OpenSSL started to be good enough again.

Not that forking hasn't stopped to LibreSSL. Both Tink(Google) and S2N(Amazon) seem to roughly follow same ideals. I noticed that both share same license with OpenSSL, Apache 2.0. So they are able to share code if necessary. LibreSSL seems to be stuck with the older OpenSSL license.

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Quoting: mircallaThe demo's been out for a while and it's a lot of fun, sort of base-buildy/tower offense zeppelin Subspace vibes if you played that in the late 90s/early 00s. Fingers crossed for a healthy multiplayer scene!

Too bad the demo is no longer available. Descriptions have been more or less accurate so far. It would have to be simplified a bit in order to fit into the tower defense genre. Just having towers doesn't transform RTS game into tower defense.

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Quoting: The_AquabatI voted Valheim as best game of the year! sooo much fun, hope it wins.

I might go with that. Though I haven't played in a while as I have to go and get my stuff back. Maybe some day I'll get around doing that

I'm not yet sure about rest of the categories yet. I guess it's good excuse to buy one or two more games released this year.

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Played demo when it was available and it was already quite fun.

Quoting: tuubiOnce again, I'm very interested until I see the words "procedurally generated". I know replayability is important to many gamers, but I'd rather just thoroughly explore and enjoy a well-designed game world once and move on.

I don't know if Sail Forth actually benefits from procedural generation. 30 hours is already quite lot and games I have played that or more are in minority. Second playthrough would be on top of that.

Something like Civillization is bit of an exception. That really benefits from replaying and is also procedurally generated. In that it's easy to think of mid and long term goals, so there's no need to keep pondering if current landmass looks same than the one next to it.

Valheim might be bit closer match as it has also sailing and lots of travelling around. Valheim also has several unique terrains that start to look bit too familiar when you have been playing for bit longer time.

Have to see how Sail Forth turns out.

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Quoting: tuubiYou said "anyone forcing things through [...] now won't be warned of potential breakage." which is clearly a misunderstanding on your part. You invented a problem and argued against it. That's a strawman.

And of course I'm not telling you what you should do or think. Personally I think this change does improve the situation, though admittedly not by much. Then again, there's not much of a problem to fix.

I think there's two cases. Hopefully these clear things up a bit.

Case 1
User is blocked from doing harmful operation because user hasn't enabled the flag. User won't have any clue how to proceed as wording doesn't help in creating a bug report (this assumes that user is not able to go and fix the package).

Case 2
User has enabled the flag. If user reads the messages, it ends up in same situation than in the first case (If I remember correctly, APT might ask about proceeding before every installation). If user doesn't understand the output, user will proceed and hose the system or in best case give up.

Case 2 might be harder to fix. Though if APT still asks before proceeding, it might be as good enough for now at least. If somebody comes up with better solution, I would assume that it's possible to make bug report or pull request.

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Quoting: Glog78So in the end ... the user still needs to decide what he wants and not wants -> if a user can't decide in the first place if something is harmful how can he decide now? Will it stop him from doing harmful things ? Will it help him to understand the dependencies and why they are used ? Will it make him understand what is happen right now ? ... Most likely not and we might become a situation like under windows where user don't check anymore if they get an admin promt at all ... they just click it's fine someone on the internet told me to do so ... I would go so far that since you as someone who want to help can't be sure which packages are blocked by which frontend -> we will tell them to do on the commandline overruling the distribution protection ... Thats why i think we are on a complete stupid path currently ... we don't fix anything but we make it more overhead for people who are able to support those systems.

With Discover if you blindly click OK, you'll start reporting a bug. That might persuade at least few people not to google the command line alternative. After a while first hit in Google might even be that bug report. Discover doesn't tell you to google for command line alternative at all.

Discover of any GUI package manager doesn't really need to support use case of intentionally removing essential packages, result might be just black screen like what happened to Linus. Yes, APT has a roadblock which hopefully doesn't hinder normal operations as has been said already at least once. And it still has override for the cases where you actually want to break things.

Path of educating people to be more informed doesn't have to happen right away. Tinkerer distributions are also not going away. If you're curious you can still look under the hood, Linux still won't be Windows.

So in short, I would not be worried about stupid path yet.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: AnzaWhat I have read is that Godot is missing some funding, so it would make sense to collect most of the money for the project.

I was under the impression they gather quite some grants lately? (Ok, I know good developers aren't cheap.)

Too bad I wasn't able to find recent budget report. They do have target for funding four full time developers though on Patreon.

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