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- Comment on Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate 5 hours ago:
It was in some video interview with the project leads after the Steam hardware announcement.
- Comment on Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate 7 hours ago:
Not exactly. Proton is a Wine fork which Valve have stated they intend to merge back into Wine in the future (since they’re working on it with CodeWeavers). If you look at the code in GitHub, they’ve made a lot of changes to Wine and they’re not fully tracking Wine main (looks like they’re porting instead).
- Comment on Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate 11 hours ago:
Pretty sure it’s the other around now - Proton is a future release of Wine and at some point Proton will merge back into Wine.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 4 days ago:
Not entirely true. They’ll have black and white cameras at launch and have an expansion port on the front of the device for potential color cameras in the future.
They just said AR isn’t their focus for this device, not that it isn’t possible.
And I get it - everyone I know that already has XR headsets doesn’t bother with AR as the experiences are limited (and I imagine the union between AR gamers and tidy environments with clear surfaces is pretty small).
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 4 days ago:
Netscape Navigator -> Firefox Netscape Communicator -> Seamonkey
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 week ago:
Apple already has the Game Porting Toolkit which is made by CodeWeavers - D3DMetal can run a lot of Windows games like Proton’s DXVK/VKD3D. MoltenVK is a little behind to fully empower VKD3D on macOS; it’s not as smooth sailing as Proton.
The biggest issue is that Apple are still hoping developers spend the time to work on converting shaders to Metal, implement Game Center, UI and Accessibility features etc so the game feels like a native app.
Which is dumb. As was Metal (they should have just made Metal as a Vulkan abstraction layer).
Valve took the smart route and while they love developers using the Steam SDK, at least with the Steam Overlay they can still offer a native-like feeling experience.
Here’s hoping Steam Machine etc is incredibly disruptive as if it’s a decent workstation too, there’s a dwindling number of reasons to not use Linux (Adobe / Affinity / Office / AutoCAD / MinecraftBE / Fortnite).
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
CVEs don’t get issued “resolved” statuses… They are either reserved, published, or rejected (technically NVD have a few extra for published). That’s just junk data in that tool you’re using. Use authoritative sources like cve.org or nvd.nist.gov.
You can see the CPEs on NVD and they’re old versions of Plex.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
You’re aware those CVEs are only relevant for ancient versions of Plex and were fixed long ago?
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
You’re going to need to back up your claim otherwise you might as well be lying as there’s no CVE like this I can find nor any public disclosure.
Plex have a bug bounty program and a responsive security team too.
Post your security report.
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 1 week ago:
Nah practically every office uses TempleOS and Lotus720.
Come on, dude. You’re in lemmyshitpost.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 weeks ago:
I’d say the second one was even harder too.
- Comment on Can someone please identify this plant ?? 2 weeks ago:
Looks like it could be a Bushwillow. Combretum malabaricum / Malabar Madhu Malati ?
- Comment on Possibly the most complex space strategy game yet made has just received its last major update before 1.0 release 2 weeks ago:
I’m a huge retro board game fan (we just called them board games back in my day) but computer games have been implementing far more complex systems, and far more systems, than board games for decades.
The Campaign for North Africa, for the board game example, isn’t exactly complicated as most of the rules are referenced as you get to the mechanic or scenario. People talk of the 200 page manual like it’s scary but D&D has more pages of rules across the PHB, DMG, and MM alone.
The “complexity” you’re talking of is basically the admin that a computer game does for you in the blink of an eye, without you needing to think about it.
Europa Universalis was a very complex board game that required 6 players and was turn based yet when it became a computer game, the complexity increased, it was made real-time, the number of events taking place across the map increased, and you could finally play it solo (sure, you can play the board game solo but you spend more time doing admin that playing). And the game has been built upon for years, the 5th one just came out.
If it spun out into a board game again, mechanics would need to be paired back again as, without the computer to ease the implementation of mechanics to the player doesn’t have to do it themselves, it’d be the most baffling rule book ever.
Again, I’m a huge fan of board games. But computer games have offered way more complexity since the 90s and Civilization.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 3 weeks ago:
Really well articulated.
Valve have enabled a critical mass of “target platforms” that enables both the community and developers to get things working on Linux, which all other distros are about to benefit from.
I’m likely going to buy all the new Valve hardware out of principle. The Deck is incredible, but I still have my beefy gaming rig. But my living room wouldn’t mind a Steam Machine (and my girlfriend is definitely after both a Steam Frame and Controller 2.
I’m taking time off work in a couple of weeks and I’m moving over to Linux completely - I too have felt the inertia of dual booting and find myself in Windows far too often.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 3 weeks ago:
If he wanted me to celebrate, he’d have made the day a public holiday.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 3 weeks ago:
The failure of the Steam Machine is why Valve hosted Khronos group at their office to kick off Vulkan and funded LunarG etc in the early days to get things moving quickly.
Valve took their time but this new hardware range is based on years of learning and solving the problems from their original foray into hardware and Linux for gaming.
And I’m so thankful for it!
- Comment on Why is superhero comedy Dispatch a million-selling success story? It could be that weekly release schedule 3 weeks ago:
What game and what show? I’m confused - I thought this was a new IP?
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 3 weeks ago:
And while the Link hardware was cancelled, they still put out updates for it. I think the last update was only a month or two ago.
Steam Controller 1 also got cancelled but they’re still shipping updates and showing that device too.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
GCompris or TuxPaint are great for younger kids. They’re free/open source and have versions available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Comment on Necesse Version 1.0 | Launch Trailer 1 month ago:
Is it any good?
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 2 months ago:
The very definition of enshittification:
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two-sided market”, where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
- Comment on Sony trying to warn the player they're settling for a lesser horse 2 months ago:
What game?
- Comment on OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind has a first Release Candidate with gamepad support and a gamepad UI 2 months ago:
Hopefully a full release will mean the TES3MP project picks up steam again. I don’t think there’s been an update for a year now.
- Comment on Steam's latest beta lets you easily check if you have Secure Boot enabled before firing up Battlefield 6 or Call of Duty 2 months ago:
I was doing that until Microsoft pushed an update that fucked it up. I can’t be bothered paying attention to Windows updates to know when they’re patching a Secure Boot club vulnerability that’ll bork my machine so I’ve had it off since.
I’m being lazy but I’m looking forward to Windows 10 support ending so I can get off my ass and switch over to Linux fully. An old Windows 10 image can sit in a dusty VM with GPU pass through for the odd game that doesn’t work though Proton or natively.
- Comment on Steam's latest beta lets you easily check if you have Secure Boot enabled before firing up Battlefield 6 or Call of Duty 2 months ago:
Please drink verification can.
Imma sit out this game. Zero interest in secure boot since I can’t dual boot with it enabled.
Honestly, if Overwatch doesn’t need this shit, I don’t see why Call of Battlefield needs it either.
- Comment on Brickshelf 2 months ago:
None of the classics like Lime or Slate. Pathetic.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 gets a new PC patch to fix crashes, progression blockers and GPU-related problems 2 months ago:
That’s the one (darn autocorrect). It’s an indie game made by a small team so there’s a little bit of jank / rough edges but the overall experience is really special. Hope you enjoy!
- Comment on Borderlands 4 gets a new PC patch to fix crashes, progression blockers and GPU-related problems 2 months ago:
Currently jumping between Planet Crater (planet terraforming survival crater) and Rimworld (colony sim / Dwarf Fortress on an alien planet).
- Comment on Borderlands 4 gets a new PC patch to fix crashes, progression blockers and GPU-related problems 2 months ago:
I’ve already voted with my wallet. I won’t be picking up this game because I’m not a “true gamer” or whatever.
- Comment on Fata Deum, a god game where you have convert citizen living across an island to your faith, released in early access on Steam. 2 months ago:
Where’s the giant creature? If I can’t have a 100ft tiger throw its faeces at villagers, I’m not interested.