MentalEdge

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 177 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

This from the man who thinks he's "competing" with Valve?

Valve is figuring out how to run games they didn't even develop on Linux, while Epic complains it's too hard to do for even their own games...

That's rich.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You should be able to get most games to work with some extra tinkering.

Got Armored Core running in HDR with this.

Also, I found it was enough to run the just the game in gamescope, no need to run the entirety of steam in a gamescope window. Just set the launch options for the game you want to enable HDR on.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I recall that at least on KDE, in the audio settings you can enable the ability to go WAY past 100% volume.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There's a tenet of game design that I really like: "given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of the game, so don't give them that opportunity".

This is that, supercharged.

Not to mention that like all LLMs, this thing will likely hallucinate, telling you about mechanics that don't exist, guide you towards a build that was nerfed to death five versions ago, send you on hunts for items that aren't in the game yet, or tell you to press alt+f4 to open the "secret menu".

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The article has literally zero info about what they are actually going to do. It's just people going "this is bad and these people are the worst, we do not want them here".

Ok? So what are you gonna do about it?

All it does is mention that "tech that can be a game-changer sometimes takes a long time" and I'm guessing that's referring to Riot's plans to use AI to mass-surveill all voice chats to detect harassment.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 22 points 5 months ago

"We were able to get so many people to buy GTA 5 twice. We want to do that again."

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago

Oh dear, had to pay a million dollar fine... What's this, a million dollar bonus? How did that happen?

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That is some serious "capitalism can solve anything and therefore will, if only we let it"-type brain rot.

This "solution" relies on so many assumptions that don't even begin to hold water.

Of course any utopian framework for society could deal with every conceivable problem... But in practice they don't, and always require intentional regulation to a greater or lesser extent in order to prevent harm, because humans are humans.

This particular potential problem is almost certainly not the kind that simply "solves itself" if you let it.

And IMO suggesting otherwise is an irresponsible perpetuation of the kind of thinking that has led human civilization to the current reality of millions starving in the next few decades, due to the predictable environmental destruction of arable land in the near future.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Depends on the malware.

With total access, nothing would prevent the malicious code from modifying the task viewer itself to make it ignore the resources it is using.

Accounting for every way malware might be discovered is difficult, but with enough system access, it's all possible.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

it's like a no-fly list, but for being alive

ftfy

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 178 points 6 months ago (13 children)

Even if someone did steal a mars-bar... Banning them from all food-selling establishments seems... Disproportional.

Like if you steal out of necessity, and get caught once, you then just starve?

Obviously not all grocers/chains/restaurants are that networked yet, but are we gonna get to a point where hungry people are turned away at every business that provides food, once they are on "the list"?

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Because they only work on one distro/package manager.

Distributing software is simply transitioning to work in a distro-agnostic way. It's only a matter of time until distros start updating flatpaks along with system packages. Many already do.

And some apps distributed as appimages self-update. (RPCS3 for example)

Not to mention that Ubuntu itself has basically ditched apt for snap.

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