entropicdrift

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

It fixes issues with games. If the game has no issues with regular Proton then the answer is generally "no".

In fact, with regular Proton you're much more likely to have pre-compiled shaders available for your system through Steam, which should improve performance by reducing stuttering.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I'm a software developer too, funny that.

I have also read the proposal. They ask that if it is not feasible, that publishers put an expiration date on their products, to clarify that the "game purchase" is actually the purchase of a limited-time license that is not guaranteed to continue working. The current practices are deceptive.

So firstly, that's extremely easy to achieve, no more onerous than a decent warranty (or even a disclaimer that there is no warranty and it's never guaranteed to work), but also, there are third party hosting companies that game publishers could hand off hosting duties to without open-sourcing, creating a final "single player only" patch, or otherwise creating a gentler off-ramp to allow the community to continue to maintain games on their own dime.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Only naive, entitled gamers would demand such a wild thing. It's not going to get past any courts

Which is why the SKG campaign is specifically not demanding that. Pirate Software has misrepresented the stance of the SKG campaign consistently in his videos. Seriously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I tried out the Deep Research feature for it today using my work account. It worked pretty well, not perfectly, but well enough. I chatted with it after it completed its report and it was able to hold the research and the report itself in context to answer my follow-up questions quite comprehensively.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Got that AMD fine wine technology

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I agree with your overall point, as a long time Linux, Windows and Mac poweruser who has shepherded many into a new OS in the past. People who don't like to explore new/different technologies as a hobby get quite comfortable with whatever they're used to and the way that it works and then quickly lose empathy for those that are earlier in their journeys.

Just to clarify on the Linus Pop!_OS thing, he didn't read the prompt that said he was about to uninstall his desktop environment and then typed in "yes I understand this can break my system" or something like that, which had been added as a prompt to keep people from not reading the warning. Anyways people got mad that he did that because he literally ignored the warning and the meaning of the words he had to type that had been added to idiot proof the thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ProtonDB is probably a better choice these days for finding tbe compatibility of games specifically.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd say Linux (the kernel) is the motor/engine and Mint (the distro) is the chassis. The chassis defines the shape of the vehicle and its size class, for instance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Books at book stores don’t generally have graphic violence and gore.

...seriously? Go read The Boys or Chainsaw Man or Gantz

[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 days ago

Yeah, for real. This is only wholesome if you ignore the dystopian context

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The one I've had the longest is 4 years old. So far so good. They have lower heat output than they otherwise would due to lower friction. Other than that they're quite ordinary drives in terms of use.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I buy 14TB enterprise helium-filled HDDs off serverpartdeals for like $140 a pop. 4TB for $100 is a bad deal

 

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