This is about micro-transactions specifically. Tim Fortnite is arguing that games sold on Steam should be able to offer in-game purchases with payment options outside of Steam.
It’s very similar to Epic Games v. Apple, where Apple had required in-app purchases for iOS apps, notably Fortnite, to be handled through their app-store so they get a cut.
One big difference that I see here: On PC, a developer isn’t required to use Steam to distribute software. Players often prefer Steam because Valve has made Steam a great option and has lots of good-will with players. Still, Steam does dominate a massive portion of the PC market.
And a 30% cut is high. Especially for smaller games with less financial resources. As a developer, that’s a trade-off you’d have to choose. I think it’d be best to offer the game on multiple platforms.
For Steam-bought games, I think having an option to pay off-platform would be fair, but I think the option needs to remain available through Steam too. For many games, I don’t want to give my payment details to yet another developer, company or third-party.
Silent Hill 2 if it was a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols:
I hypothesize that playing games which let you reload cancel mainly reinforces this bad habit. Even with unlimited ammo/mags, getting caught reloading doesn’t matter if you can stop and shoot right away. For me, it was when I played Insurgency: Sandstorm a handful of years ago that I unlearned this habit. Also Battlebit, MW22 and Helldivers II all punish reloading too frequently, through either staged reloads, limited mags/ammo, or both.
Apex is a security risk to have installed at this point.
In fairness to Respawn, if what they say is true, that it’s not ACE (which based on the description of the issue, sounds truthful), it doesn’t particularly raise red flags for client security.
But any game requiring a Kernel Anticheat to play is a security risk. At least here it’s EAC, which has a lot of development efforts and doesn’t require running from boot. But as a player, that’s still a trade-off you’re choosing by playing these games.
Letting players manage and host their own custom servers/lobbies helps. Admins can monitor and ban players in real-time. I know that doesn’t lend itself as well to dedicated servers (and thus opaque server-side anticheat), battle royales, ranked matchmaking and SBMM, but I see that as a reasonable solution for fair PvP games, especially older or smaller ones.
Persona 5 is great and already mixes up the formula in many ways (gun). But many players just don’t care for RPGs regardless.
I enjoyed what I played of Catherine! They don’t have to scrap RPGs, just mix it up and release other projects.
Tbh tho I don’t have the best opinion of Atlus. They really screwed the RPCS3 project years ago, at a time when there was no official option for playing Persona 5 on PC. The project survived, but they wiped any mention of Persona 5, even in the game compatibility list.
I watched my friend play Dead Island 2 at its launch. The gore system is absolutely brutal, with zombie flesh and bone all layered and dynamic. Also the game has really solid lighting without (afaik) a heavy reliance on realtime raytracing tech.
I know melee combat is the focus, but I can’t really speak for the gameplay beyond that. I think there’s value in trying it for the gore system alone, especially at that price and if there’s other games in the bundle you would want to play.
Hi, earlier I was able to use the Dualshock controller on Ubuntu fully functionally, but since last upgrade right joystick moves 'an invisible cursor' only inside Steam. ...
By default for libinput, the controller touchpad always controls the mouse cursor. So I needed to disable that.
In my desktop configuration, my mouse cursor hides itself after 5 seconds of inactivity. I’ve found that Steam Input doesn’t register as mouse movement, despite successfully moving the cursor, so the cursor remains invisible. I have a (Hyprland specific) command I run to disable that config option temporarily, so that way I can use Steam Input to control the mouse cursor.
The right joystick mapping to it sounds like Steam Input’s default “Desktop Configuration”. I’d check that to see. I personally have the desktop configuration pretty much empty, but I have the touchpad set to control my mouse cursor under “Guide Button Chord Configuration”, so if I hold the PS Logo I can move my cursor with that.
-san is a suffix used in Japanese that denotes respect for someone. I’ve see it translated to English often as Mr. or Mrs., but we don’t have the same honorific system and in many cases those don’t make sense or sound right, so they’ll just keep it as Neptr-san in the translation.
Howdy there! I posted here a while ago sharing a script to a video guide on how and why someone might want to switch to Linux and I wanted to share the finished product now that it is complete. My goal with this script was to create something explaining why an average person might want to stop using Windows and what Linux can do ...
I did. Tbh I think there’s plenty of other people who do too. Once you’re comfy in an environment, you stick to it until you have enough reason to switch. And you’ll inevitably become a power-user if you solve enough problems, tinker enough, etc.
picture of a chat between two people.
first person: "Heyyy"
first person: "Tell me more about yourself"
second person: *sends a one page pdf "About me.pdf"*
first person: "PDF😭😭👀"
second person: "Am tired of telling people about myself"
Hmm, well I think my favorite thing about myself is that I’m quick-witted. Situational comedy when I’m with friends or family tends to come pretty naturally to me, and I think choosing to not talk or quip in some situations has been a skill that’s taken more cognition.
My top 3 interests (as of lately):
PCs, especially the Linux ecosystem and PC hardware/overclocking
3D printing/Modeling/Electronics
Personal health, like I’m trying to learn more about nutrition, exercise and habits. It’s been tricky to find good, free resources on like weight training and exercise tbh. I have gotten back into Beat Saber, it’s a great option for exercise, but this time I don’t wanna injure myself from overuse or anything, so I’m treating it more like exercise.
Tbh, my immediate reaction would be to say 2022, when I had a partner and a solid friend group who I’d go and do with. I certainly felt the most lucky back then, but I think I do look back at those times with rose-tinted glasses.
Actually the most lucky? Probably right now— I’m learning and adjusting to adult life in a way which I don’t think I had previously. I think that type of independence and freedom opens the door to self-actualization.
Also not to brag but I got a bomb-ass sugar cookie I’m yet to eat so maybe I’m riding the high of that!
Yeah, that’d be like the web browser equivalent of going into the Windows registry editor and changing a value in there. Like, it’s there, but unless you already know what you’re looking for, it’s not really an option.
This teaser was damn intense at the game awards. I was very much like “what is even going on” and feeling pretty uncomfy. Incredibly gruesome, gorey and explicit.
And then it showed “Larian Studios” and I understood. What a reveal!
Woman wearing a labcoat, standing and looking blankly past the camera, with the caption, “my mom says we can mix bleach and ammonia together in a poorly ventilated space if it's okay with your mom”
A lot of my friends have said they prefer girth, fwiw.
Jokes aside, that’s a good point. HDMI/DisplayPort, like USB, pass digital signals over many small cables in a bundle. With how much data uncompressed high res images consist of, I doubt there’s a lot of redundancy or parity the way there may be for Cat6 cable using TCP. At a certain point, without a powered repeater cable, the image will probably not work (or not reliably). Idk if that would appear as “no signal” or dropped frames, though.
Passive adapters don’t have much power to work with for signal processing… Idk how different the image signals themselves are between HDMI and DisplayPort, but I know from working with EDIDs that there’s many optional modes and features for both, like multiple audio/videos streams (3d video, surround sound, hdmi arc), different colorspaces, HDR and VRR. I’d be surprised if any passive HDMI-to-DP adapter supports more than the most common modes and features.
A meme styled like the “I receive / you receive” Meme format. At the top, it says “Starting full system upgrade…”. On the left, under “I receive,” it says “Total Download Size: 5982.67 MiB” and “Total Installed Size: 22816.87 MiB.” On the right, under “You receive,” it says “Net Upgrade Size: –699.29 MiB,” making fun of the fact that Arch updates often reduce used space even though multiple gigabytes may be downloaded
That reminds me of Chaotic AUR, though it’s an online public repo. It automatically builds popular AUR packages and lets you download the binaries.
It sometimes builds against outdated libraries/dependencies though, so for pre-release software I’ve sometimes had to download and compile it locally still. Also you can’t make any patches or move to an old commit, like you can with normal AUR packages.
I’ve found it’s better to use Arch Linux’s official packages when I can, though, since they always publish binaries built with the same latest-release dependencies. I haven’t had dependency version issues with that, as long as I’ve avoided partial upgrades.
re: edit: Thanks ^^ I like to think of it like a cuddle pit. On YouTube it always brights up a gentleman pecking his Pitbull tho ><; , and armpits seem to be a valid interpretation too.
We are happy to report that, thanks to our partners at Nixxes, we have reached that goal much sooner than expected. By completely de-duplicating our data, we were able to reduce the PC installation size from ~154GB to ~23GB, for a total saving of ~131GB (~85%).
FWIW, the game has some gorgeous volumetric lighting, fog and effects. I do think it looks more current-gen than many other games, and it doesn’t rely on heavy raytracing options to do it.
It’s still ridiculous though, especially considering the game doesn’t support any modern algorithms for upscaling, but defaults to upscaling anyways.
Though, I know it didn’t have the budget of many AAA games and the engine has been long-since unsupported, so props to Arrowhead for doing as much as they have!
Lowkey makes me question whether the theories of publishers inflating file size to monopolize gamers hard drives and, thus, their time, could carry more weight than I previously thought.
I know Nanite can enable some massive assets to ship, so maybe that’s part of the current file size situation. Also uncompressed audio can be really big!
But this is like 1/6 the file size, without reducing quality or compressing data… that’s insane!
Nuclear is also a good option. It has the potential to scale up to our generation needs faster than green energy, and it can still be environmentally clean when any byproduct is handled responsibly.
Do I trust my government (USA) to enforce proper procedure and handling? Not really… but I do think we’re less likely to have a nuclear accident in the present day. Modern designs have many more fail safes. And I think it’d still be much cleaner than burning fossil fuels.
I think they need to coexist, though. I think a goal in the far-future should be a decentralized grid with renewable energy sources integrated wherever they can be.
I just saw the GamersNexus benchmarks and I wondered to myself, why do they have so many problems with Nvidia on Bazite? I've used PopOS with my RTX 30 graphics card and I've essentially had performance parity with Windows. ...
I’m on Arch, with Hyprland as my Window Manager. I use an RTX 3070.
For Wayland specifically, the driver was next to unusable for a while. I jumped ship from Windows in Sept. 2023. Beginning with driver 560 iirc, it got a lot better, plus their engineers pushed a lot of changes across the Wayland ecosystem to implement explicit sync support (a net positive, but before this, Nvidia was too stubborn to implement implicit sync, so bad screen tearing was unavoidable). Also there’s been a slow migration to using the GSP processor on newer cards. They claim it can improve performance, which may be true, but I also recently learned it helps them keep some more parts of their code closed-source, which is likely why it’s required to use the open source kernel modules.
At this point, though, it does feel very smooth and I can play games like The Finals at competitive framerates!
But relative to my performance under Windows, it’s still worse, mainly in average framerate. Like others have said, DX12 games seem to be hit hardest. I sometimes have to run lower settings to compensate. Also, if my VRAM gets filled, Xwayland apps all break, so I have to be very careful with higher quality texture quality especially.
Anyways, to answer your question, I think an average gamer doesn’t notice the degraded performance, without benchmarking or comparing framerates back to back— it still runs pretty smooth and framerates are still pretty high. If they aren’t happy with it, they’ll drop quality settings or resolution, just like they’d do under Windows.
Yep! The article title is a bit misleading, as the Steam Machine is still x86_64. Which is good imo: that’ll have better compatibility and the power draw/thermals matter less there than in a handheld or headset.
The Frame is the arm-based hardware Valve is going to be shipping.
But their work on FEX is taking ARM compatibility into the future, much like how their work on Wine/Proton has taken Linux compatibility to a new level.
Anyways, I agree with the article, that it’s going to extend to more than the Frame as support matures. ARM CPUs (or RISCs in general) are the future for non-desktop processors; I’d argue Apple has already been there with their M-series laptops, though not to nearly the same extent with gaming.
I feel like this is a good argument for drm-free games and stores like GOG. Not that you as a consumer can always choose that, as many games don’t offer that option, but for the ones that do, there’s less barriers towards playing it in the future or in environments where it’s not originally intended.
There is steamcmd, an official command-line tool— I’ve only used it for game servers, and I don’t know if it includes the Steam runtime/resources, but I know it lets you download games.
You could look at Goldberg Emulator too. I know it’s used often for piracy, but idk about its legality on its own.
I see way more posts complaining about Windows users complaining about switching to Linux than I have ever actually seen of Windows users actually complaining about switching to Linux.
Yeah, Lemmy has a disproportionate amount of Linux desktop users, probably because the users who don’t use Windows out of principle likely won’t use Reddit. Plus, if you hang around Linux spaces specifically… yeah, it’s all like-minded users. It makes sense you’d just see memes from that perspective.
In other spaces, I have seen so much complaining about Windows, especially since W11. I personally had to install tools to change behavior or debloat Windows right up until I left. But I think those spaces are harsher on the idea of “switching to Linux” because it gets brought up every time, but doing so would take more effort and learning than complaining does. Also many users can’t or won’t forgo Windows-only apps.
Anyways, I think there’s embellishing on both sides, and a lot of it comes from a vocal minority. I think most Linux users aren’t insufferable about it, and I think most Windows users just haven’t considered it worth it yet to migrate and relearn.
The development release Wine 10.19 is out now for the compatibility layer that powers Valve's Proton, here's all that's new and improved. Early next year we should see Wine 11, and then at some point Proton 11 too! ...
I’ve already noticed having an easier time running old Windows games under Wine than on Windows natively— a handful of years ago, I found the disc for Tomb Raider Gold, but it was having me install a bunch of “missing Windows features”, and I never did get it to run. Tried recently on my 2013-era laptop and, beyond needing to invoke Wine on the executable, it played right away!
TL;DR: Valve launched the Steam Frame VR headset with an Arm-based Snapdragon chip, aiming to run Half-Life: Alyx natively and streamed from PC. The new hardware features a "Frame Verified" status for optimized games, while rumors suggest two upcoming Half-Life titles supporting PC and VR cooperative play.
The article’s title is ass, HL: Alyx already has a native Linux build. They’re working on an arm build.
That said, last I checked it’s generally recommended to run the Windows version through Proton instead, since it performs better that way. Maybe we could see that change?
I think the touchpads lend themselves especially well to otherwise KBM titles, like simulation or RTS games— really any game that heavily relies on a cursor. I think they’re a good option for other titles too, especially with Steam’s powerful controller configurator. I don’t deny the learning curve, though!
But the gyro features alone are game changing! I more than anything want to see it become the standard for all controllers and games, with capacitive sticks or buttons for enabling it, the way the Steam Deck has integrated them.
The difference between Gen AI and Sony v. Universal feels pretty substantial to me: VCRs did not require manufacturers to use any copyrighted material to develop and manufacture them. They only could potentially infringe copyright if the user captured a copyrighted signal and used it for commercial purposes.
If you read the title and the description of the article, it admittedly does make it sound like the studios are taking issue with copyrighted IPs being able to be generated. But the first paragraph of the body states that the problem is actually the usage of copyrighted works as training inputs:
The Content Overseas Distribution Association […] has issued a formal notice to OpenAI demanding that it stop using its members content to train its Sora 2 video generation tool without permission.
You compare Gen AI to “magic boxes”… but they’re not magic. They have to get their “knowledge” from somewhere. These AI tools are using many patterns far more subtle and complex than humans can recognize, and they aren’t storing the training inputs using them— it’s just used to strengthen connections within the neural net (afaik, as I’m not an ML developer). I think that’s why it’s so unregulated: how to you prove they used your content? And even so, they aren’t storing or outputting it directly. Could it fall under fair use?
Still, using copyrighted information in the creation of an invention has historically been considered infringement (I may not be using the correct terminology in this comparison, since maybe it’s more relevant to patent law), even if it didn’t end up in the invention— in software, for example, reverse engineers can’t legally rely on leaked source code to guide their development.
Also, using a VCR for personal use wouldn’t be a problem, which I’d say was a prominent use-case. And using it commercially wouldn’t involve any copyrighted material, unless the owner inputs any. Those aren’t the case with Gen AI: regardless of what you generate, non-commercially or commercially, the neural network was built using a majority of unauthorized, copyrighted content.
That said, copyright law functions largely to protect corporations anyways— an individual infringing the copyright of a corporation for personal or non-commercial use causes very little harm, but can usually be challenged and stopped. A corporation infringing copyright of an individual often can’t be stopped. Most individuals can’t even afford the legal fees, anyways.
For that reason, I’m glad to see companies taking legal action against OpenAI and other megacorps which are (IMO) infringing the copyright of individuals and corporations at this kind of a massive scale. Individuals certainly can’t stop it, but corporations may be able to get some justice or encourage more to be done to safeguard the technology.
Much damage is already done, though. E-waste and energy usage from machine learning have skyrocketed. Websites struggle to fight crawlers and lock down their APIs, both harming legit users. Non-consensual AI pornography is widely accessible. Many apps encourage people, including youth, to forgo genuine connection, both platonic and romantic, in exchange for AI chatbots. Also LLMs are fantastic misinformation machines. And we have automated arts, arguably the most “human” thing we can do, and put many artists out of work in doing so.
Whether the lack of safety guards is because of government incompetence, corruption, or is inherent to free-market capitalism, I’m not sure. Probably all of those reasons.
In summary, I disagree with you. I think companies training AI with unauthorized material are at fault. And personally, I think the entire AI industry as it exists currently is unethical.
I read in the comments of your previous snapshot post that the Wayland default had some issues with cursor theming… perhaps that’s why it’s reverted? Odd either way.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" [refer to in-app purchases] ( finance.yahoo.com )
No way.
Anyone else does this?
Apex Legends hackers wrestle control of characters from other players, but Respawn urges that it's under control ( www.pcgamesn.com )
Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life ( arstechnica.com )
Porn is porn rule
I should have typed QUEER PORN instead but editing images on my phone is a pain. ...
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'It's Coming to a Turning Point': Persona, Metaphor Director Says Atlus RPGs Must Attract 'A Wider Audience' ( www.pushsquare.com )
a genda rule ( feddit.org )
The 2026 Carnage Collection from Humble Bundle brings some fun games to begin the year [Dead Island 2, Trepang2, Hellboy Web of Wyrd, Maneater, Laika: Aged through Blood, Warstride Challenges...] ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
Anybody using Dualshock PS4 on any Linux desktop?
Hi, earlier I was able to use the Dualshock controller on Ubuntu fully functionally, but since last upgrade right joystick moves 'an invisible cursor' only inside Steam. ...
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Add a third, larger bar for "knowing the right people" skills
Linux For Your Grandma - A Linux guide for those that are not super techy ( tilvids.com )
Howdy there! I posted here a while ago sharing a script to a video guide on how and why someone might want to switch to Linux and I wanted to share the finished product now that it is complete. My goal with this script was to create something explaining why an average person might want to stop using Windows and what Linux can do ...
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Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in Ferrari crash ( www.nbclosangeles.com )
War Thunder's infantry closed beta testing will support Linux, as confirmed in the official development news
https://warthunder.com/en/news/9837-development-war-thunder-infantry-testing-details-en ...
about rule
picture of a chat between two people.
first person: "Heyyy"
first person: "Tell me more about yourself"
second person: *sends a one page pdf "About me.pdf"*
first person: "PDF😭😭👀"
second person: "Am tired of telling people about myself"
Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
Firefox vs LibreWolf: Two Very Different Takes on AI
Divinity - Official Cinematic Announcement Trailer ( www.ign.com )
Science Rule
you know you want it
Where do you see yourself in 30 years???
Valve Responds To Steam Machine's HDMI 2.1 Display Support Controversy [HW support is there, but "The HDMI forum" doesn’t allow with OpenSource drivers] ( hothardware.com )
Arch be Like
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HELLDIVERS™ 2 - HELLDIVERS 2 Tech Blog #2 - Steam News ( store.steampowered.com )
We are happy to report that, thanks to our partners at Nixxes, we have reached that goal much sooner than expected. By completely de-duplicating our data, we were able to reduce the PC installation size from ~154GB to ~23GB, for a total saving of ~131GB (~85%).
Arrowhead is public beta testing a "slim" PC version of Helldivers 2 which reduces install size from 154 GB to 23 GB ( store.steampowered.com )
See link for instructions on how to join the test
Factual btw
Have Nvidia drivers on Linux gotten worse over later generations?
I just saw the GamersNexus benchmarks and I wondered to myself, why do they have so many problems with Nvidia on Bazite? I've used PopOS with my RTX 30 graphics card and I've essentially had performance parity with Windows. ...
Beyond Steam Machine: Why Valve's New ARM Support Shouldn't Be Overlooked ( www.digitalfoundry.net )
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A mansion that my friend built in our survival server!
"The Steam client is now 64-bit. [...] Systems running 32-bit versions of Windows will continue receiving updates to the 32-bit Steam client until January 1, 2026." ( steamcommunity.com )
How I Feel Hanging Out in Linux Communities On Lemmrule Lately ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
I see way more posts complaining about Windows users complaining about switching to Linux than I have ever actually seen of Windows users actually complaining about switching to Linux.
Nvidia and AMD could kill some low- to mid-range graphics cards as memory shortage crisis intensifies ( www.techspot.com )
Wine 10.19 released as we head towards Wine 11 ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
The development release Wine 10.19 is out now for the compatibility layer that powers Valve's Proton, here's all that's new and improved. Early next year we should see Wine 11, and then at some point Proton 11 too! ...
Valve reportedly cooking native Linux version of Half-Life: Alyx, optimized for Steam Frame VR ( www.tweaktown.com )
TL;DR: Valve launched the Steam Frame VR headset with an Arm-based Snapdragon chip, aiming to run Half-Life: Alyx natively and streamed from PC. The new hardware features a "Frame Verified" status for optimized games, while rumors suggest two upcoming Half-Life titles supporting PC and VR cooperative play.
Mocked-up images of a new Steam Controller appear, as speculation rises around Valve revealing new gaming hardware this week [Eurogamer] ( www.eurogamer.net )
Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't ( www.pcgamer.com )
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