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EAC supports Linux, but by doing so you're disabling a number of security features since you're making the anti-cheat run entirely in userspace.

Remember these games aren't Linux native either, so it allows Windows-using cheaters to lie to the process that they're on Linux and to only use userspace protection. The cheat then runs in kernel space and remains invisible.

The only realistic way to solve this on Linux is enforcing secure boot w/trusted kernels and then running the anti-cheat in sandboxed eBPF kernel space. Embark is looking at this approach.

Haiku feeds off the interest and fun it brings to its developers. If you put AI in the mix you can poison what they do for fun and sink the project.

They're doing this, it's the "use experimental SteamRT 3 client" in the interface settings.

I mean we're staring at apocalypse here so it's not like the alternative is any better.

We've had a lot of open systems and protocols, SIP, XMPP, Matrix, desktop Linux, Mastodon. It only gains adoption from the technologically savvy and fails to capture a regular user base.

My mother, a 70 year old retired special education teacher, got me and my extended family (21 people) on Signal. I didn't tell her about it, I didn't encourage her to use it, I didn't step her through the process. She doesn't know how to make a folder.

Signal hasn't beaten WhatsApp (which still uses Signal protocol) due to network effects, but it is a great solution for everyday users.

I actually went into reading this thinking I'd agree with you that "yeah that's such hyperbole they must have made something good", and to my shock the good things they have shipped they eventually ruined.

Examples: Edge (bloated with ads and Copilot), Office (now a subscription, hasn't evolved, annoying integration with copilot), Skype (dead), Halo (virtually dead), Doom (studio gutted), Visual Studio Code (locked down marketplace, replaced plugins with their own, now a giant GitHub copilot ad), Flight Simulator (massive regression with 2024)

You can assign a mobile device policy on the Mac, and the OS is image based (like a Chromebook). They are much more flexible than Chromebooks, you're not running Adobe Premier or Logic on ChromeOS.

The price is also close enough that its probably worth the migration.

I think Google completely failed to capitalize on its lead, and is probably making things worse by replacing the platform with Android and rebranding things.

Yea Chromebooks are wildly popular in American education. They've replaced the school desktop PC.

GitLab is a kitchen sink tool for all the good and bad that entails. Forgejo is much more lightweight.

It's not about crypto, its about process. Compare this action to one by Debian or Wikipedia where there's a formal proposal, time for written pros and cons with convincing arguments for each side, and a meeting where the vote is held and impact to stakeholders is discussed.

You can't make large changes like this without undermining your viability as stable infrastructure.

I don't like crypto but this is poor reasoning, hastily implemented, and given very little time for discussion. There does not seem to be any concrete plan for notifying impacted projects or giving them a roadmap to migrate.

This is unprofessional and severely harms their credibility. It's not what was done but how they did it, and I don't doubt that subsequent policy changes can and will be implemented in the same manner unless it's addressed.

just call it google grav

Their current product naming is still terrible.They went from the Xbox, to the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X.

The latest console is the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X

You don't need a grid forming inverter to re-synchronize with the grid, you only need a grid forming inverter if you need a complete cold start or to support a grid island.

In the context of our discussion, adding more capacity, that's exactly what's needed here. We're not replacing 100% of energy sources with solar, we are replacing energy sources with _renewables_ which is hydro, solar, wind, arguably nuclear as well.

Even extending your argument to "well we need to only have solar" then you need a grid forming inverter with batteries. That's not a massive increase in complexity or time and supports the "just tie them to the grid" statement.

Trying to use the analogy of a nuclear power plant, which requires 10-15 years (including permitting), is ridiculous. A solar plant is 2-5 (including permitting) - by comparison.

Yeah that's what an inverter does, the "tie them to the grid" part. Every solar system has them, and they can islanding or not.

That's not FUD though, they literally did that. Once trust is lost you don't just get it back. It takes a very long time to rebuild that.

Isn't solar the fastest energy source to spin up? Just take them out of the crate, put them on racks, tie them to the grid.

I bought a Synology Beestation just for this purpose. I don't need it to do anything else, just keep my pictures backed up.

I mean normally this type of discussion is silly, but in playing competitive shooters latency does make a huge difference, and it shows that XWayland is adding ~4ms of latency.

There is a native Wayland driver for Wine/Proton but it's enabled through an environment variable, not by default. This will probably be default in Wine 12/Proton 12 because Valve wants to squeeze as much performance out of SteamOS as possible. The gaming mode UI runs under Valve's own Wayland compositor (gamescope) already, but games are currently in nested XWayland windows.

A lot of the EKS disadvantages, I've noticed, are from AWS attempting to make things complicated. On the GKE side it's really set and forget, just pick a release channel to subscribe to.

AWS makes you do things like manage node OS and addon versions, which is pretty ridiculous. I feel like it only exists to lock people in to ECS/Fargate and make people assume Kubernetes has to be complicated.

Grok was ranting about "white genocide" in unrelated conversations just one year ago.

Plenty of competitive open weight models

Fortnite is UE5 and runs well on phones. There's a lot of studios who can use UE5 poorly, and not a lot using idtech poorly to compare against.

I am not a graphics engineer so I hope someone corrects me, but my understanding is that Unreal uses a deferred rendering pipeline to handle complex lighting, and deferred renderers only work with temporal anti-aliasing.

The FSR/DLSS upscalers are typically superior to TSAA and are a reasonable replacement.

I turn on my PS5 controller and it turns on my entertainment system and my game is right where I left off. All the games and the OS get silently patched while the machine is in "rest mode" too.

Steam Big Picture means I get to deal with launchers, games without a gamepad UI or designed for TV viewing, Windows Update (or on Linux, incompatibility), shader compilation, etc.

I don't see PCs replacing consoles any time soon, when I'm done working I don't want to deal with any of that stuff. I respect that some people do but that is "brain goes off" time for me.

Are you conflating Asha Sharma with Satya Nadella? Asha just joined Xbox, she had no role in any prior decision making.

Valve is working on a game codenamed HLX that apparently uses a ton of physics features. No idea what "HLX" means though.

Steam only exists because Valve forced players to install it, force an online activation, and permanently bind their retail copies of Half-Life 2 to a Steam account. They also forced patching which meant in an era of dialup you couldn't play your single player game for hours, and needed to be connected every 30 days or your game would stop working.

None of the console manufacturers pulled that shit, that Valve gets a pass is wild to me.

There is a tradeoff, the Steam Machine is double the price for worse performance and less storage.

Rockstar has already announced there's no disk for GTA 6, if you buy a physical copy it's just a download code.