Quoting: williamjcmIn the case of point #2, I'd like to mention there's a British game that actually allows this: Talisman Digital Edition (by Nomad Games). You can buy DLCs for the game on Android, iOS, GOG, or Switch, and use them with the Steam version just fine, as long as they're registered to your Nomad Games account. And except for the Switch version (Nintendo doesn't like games accessing DLCs bought from outside Nintendo's system), same the other way around, too. Bought a DLC on Steam ? You can access it from the mobile game, or the GOG version.

And Valve has been okay with this for years already.

And even outside of games that tie DLC to user accounts, there are plenty of visual novels that sell their "+18" DLC on their own site, outside of Steam, which can then be added to the game no matter where the user bought it - including Steam.

So far, I haven't seen any credible points in this lawsuit.

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And if anyone's looking for something similar in the style of VGA "simulators", I recommend Thunder Helix.

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For what it's worth, the developer elaborated a bit more on the process behind the decision in this comment on Kickstarter.

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Finally! It's been quite some time since I last tried to use my Index, but for a long time I kept getting soft-locked by the "looping 'updating' behaviour" - even when removing all my workshop subscriptions - until I finally just gave up; so this is a very welcome fix to see!

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Quoting: dannielloIf I'm not wrong chatgpt.com / copilot.microsoft.com it is website/cloud service. The same like google.com search. It cannot work off-line by design (without downloading all bigdata - so in case of large AI models like ChatGPT/Copilot it is impossible, because it would require download the internet:)

So what is the point for local NPU units? Except of course PR to sell additional fake features, i.e. some functions of website copilot.microsoft.com will be unlocked only when local NPU will be detected, but it is fully artificial limitation - some kind of DRM...

You can very well run models similar to the ones you mentioned locally. Some of the common uses that you might already find in your phone, for example, is stuff like assisted photo manipulation and handwriting recognition.

None of the models require you to download the internet, but some of the bigger models can be gigabytes in size. Remember, they don't contain the data they're trained on, but something more like the common links between each piece of data.

If you're curious to give it a try, I can recommend ollama as an easy way to get started.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI don't see the applicability of a specialized "AI" doohickey to general purpose computing. How is this going to help me watch or even process video, or play games, or do a spreadsheet, or browse the web? And if it isn't, why is it a selling point that I have to pay for it?

But it's not like I know anything; I didn't know there would be a point to specialized hardware bits even for doing actual AI stuff.

Some of this is actually what I'm trying to use it for on my machine. For spreadsheets, it's nice to be able to say "make a column that does A and B calculations on X and Y" and for web, I've been poking at auto-categorising my bookmarks into sensible folders - same thing with my growing collection of notes. One of the reasons I haven't gotten that far with it, is precisely because I'd prefer not to send my data to a third-party service, so running it on local hardware (with decent speeds) would be very nice.

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I don't understand why NPUs are being put into CPUs and GPUs at this stage. For fully custom systems/ecosystems, like the Apples, sure, I get it, but for everything else, the tech doesn't seem evolved enough to put into such main parts of a system, when it's going to need an upgrade in 6 months anyway.
Why aren't they just daughterboards until we reach a baseline for performance?

P.S. I don't get the negativity surrounding "AI" processing units - they just help process models locally. Just like a GPU isn't necessarily used to play pirated games, a desktop-focused NPU has a similarly small chance of being used to mimic other people's work without permission or whatever other nefarious uses some companies think up for the tech.

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Quoting: Mountain ManHow dare Nintendo protect its intellectual property!

But... that's not what they're doing here?

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Quoting: PhiladelphusProps for an inventive trailer, I guess…? What did I just watch?

It's educational though, innit? I had no idea Athens was like that.

As a corporal being currently inhabiting a physical location in Athens, Greece, I can vouch for its authenticity. The frogs part is mostly at night though.

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"There are over 27 thousand abandonware games in world-wide circulation. That is more than half of Steam's current library"
Great, we're one sentence in and I already don't trust this video
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/steam-now-has-over-100000-games-listed/

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