Valve said they’re actively working with nvidia to support their gpus. While I’m sure valve hardware will always be the primary concern, they seem to actively pursue the goal of SteamOS being more widely compatible.

They cannot if you back it up to a folder outside of the steam directory. Provided of course the game doesn’t use Steam’s DRM.

Yeah, while I don’t love kernel level AC, the argument that because it doesn’t stop cheating entirely it’s useless has always been so fucking shit. Barrier of entry is what matters, I don’t give a fuck if one in 100 games has a cheater, I do if it’s one in 5 (or worse which can easily happen when AC is complete garbage)

I don’t think I can think of a software where I find the menu more confusing than in MS office products. But then again I’m probably not using computers like the average person.

Ok, maybe blender, but that also has so many more options that it’s not a fair comparison

Statement: “There is no indication that the human brain cannot be modeled as a turing machine”

To disprove this, evidence to the contrary is required. It’s not at all the same as saying “The human brain can be modeled as a turing machine”. In that case they would need to prove that.

We simply do not know. Humans cling to their idea of somehow being “special” very hard with thought experiments like chinese room, and at all points neglect that there is no evidence that a human brain is actually different.

Generally I’d argue that the continuous nature of animal brains makes them quite fundamentally different from the very much discrete states of anything we program, but that still doesn’t mean it’d be impossible to simulate.

Most places have laws on this. Often, it is legal to film/take photos, but not to focus on individuals.

Easing local control is what that law was about (and it did think far enough to only include user facing). If there wasn’t a global tendency to move towards surveillance and identity verification I’d be all for it. As it is I have some reservations about slippery slope.

The law doesn’t require identity verification. It requires the OS to provide the age group of the user (set at install) to programs running on the OS. Something that, if adopted widely, would immensely help with allowing parents to control access (i.e. if they decide their kid should be able to see everything, just put them in ths age group for that, similarly they could also do that and manage it the same way as they would now. Or if they’re lazy as many parents sadly are, there is at least some enforcement of age control that someone thought about, without giving up any identifying info beyond an age group). Yes it could be circumvented somewhat easily, but as far as I see it that’s always a feature. A child being exposed to something accidentally has very different implications than actively trying to access it.

That last question sounds like an opporturnity to shill symphogear, so I can’t miss that. Watch symphogear

The eye brows visible under the hair and the eye style feel pretty anime coded to me tbh

We aren’t the data hoarder type either and doing this would break half the functionality. It’s old systems not built with data deletion in mind that rely on there for example always being a customer associated with a transaction. That customer might not have anything other than an ID anymore, but it needs the ID. And you’re usually not legally allowed to just delete financial transactions.

It can be rather helpful for some things but I’ve yet to see any actual data supporting it being “substantially faster”. To make something that works and is of equal quality, that is.

I mean if you’re just making the same slightly different website for different customers or similarly boilerplate stuff, I’m sure it’s substantial. But that’s not really most of dev.

Yes, and the laws (so far) are exactly that: you input an age, and provide that age to applications that want it. No further identity verification or anything.

I don’t like the law for the precedent but as it stands it’s a harmless, potentially even useful feature.

That’s why I think the law is bad, but it doesn’t really apply to open source software. You see the actual limit crossed, you can still fork the version from before that.

Even the law itself, as it stands, is pretty alright. It’s effectively just a parental control system, the OS needs to provide the user age to applications, but that age is just whatever you type at install, without any verification. In general, if enough applications implement it, that’s not a bad system to help protect kids without invading anyones privacy. Of course, it can be circumvented by the kid installing the OS themselves, but that possibility is a feature, not a bug.

The problem there is the slippery slope though.

There’s also an incredibly mysoginistic culture in many competitive games. Good luck using a mic as a woman playing CS, for example.

Completely agree though, more women in leadership and even just dev is a good thing, but for the most part people don’t really care who made a product, only how much they like it.

An IME.

I’m sure it’s possible to get it to work, but all I found the one time I tried to set it up was solutions that completely replace my existing keyboard, which is an issue because I use a custom layout. I tried making something work but only succeeded in somehow breaking everything (I forgot how I fixed it but I eventually did)

Arch with KDE btw if anyone happens to have the solution

They don’t license the samples that an artist might’ve licensed, but they “sell” them as part of the song. The same braindead logic from the lawsuit can be applied here.

Afaik it’s a displayport issue (because DP has the feature to detect if PC is on). I’ve had the issue on multiple monitors that it wouldn’t turn on the next time I booted the PC. After a lot of unsuccessful googling I finally found that the pc off-> monitor off -> pc on-> pc doesn’t see monitor -> monitor stays off apparently happens because of a capacitor not discharging properly, getting the monitor stuck in “pc off” state. Flipping the monitor power switch (or disconnecting the power cable) for 15-20 seconds has so far always fixed it for me.

But maybe there are other reasons too.

It’s just p2w with extra steps. Pay to get stronger, or pay someone to play for you to get stronger. When games are designed to either make you play a lot or pay to get stuff to make you stronger, some people will gladly pay to either feel powerful, or just skip enough of the grind that they can focus on what’s fun.

I kind of get it, but at the point where I’s be spending hundreds or make someone play for me, I’d just look for a different game.

It would need to have an atmosphere, so asteroids and most (all? Idk not an astronomer) moons are out.

Mars might be feasible at some point in the far future, but there’s still the lag problem of 3-20 minutes depending on time of year, so not very useful for anything user facing.

I’ve always acted assuming this to be possible, but it used to require either an unhinged individual or some other reason for a very dedicated investigation. The barrier being potentially that much lower is scary, particularly for anyone with a bit of internet fame that would rather stay anonymous