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Personally I like Sable, it feels closer to Discord, has call support, and “just works”

There was another universe where it wasn’t cancelled too

Agree, gaming companies who have been playing it safe are the ones who have no idea what to do anymore. Ubisoft is more or less dead. Bioware is dead after DA4. By trying to play it safe and reach everyone they have reached no one.

Two studios that do take massive risks? CDPR and Rockstar. If you put generic gaming exec in there they would cancel all projects and fire half the staff right now, and wall street would laud them for it. Problem is that gaming is a creative field, and you can’t be purely logical and money driven when working in a creative field. Art is subjective, you will have people who dislike it. These two studios get that, for the time being at least.

Bad game? Layoffs. Good game? Surprisingly, still layoffs.

Very neat!

Single player is, but multiplayer is not at all, so the unplayable stays.

After 4 I’m pretty sure it is.

There’s dozens of free open source apps that do this already. Why would I want to lock into a what appears to be proprietary (and probably vibe coded soon to be abandoned) project?

Its like they are trying everything they can to prevent me from giving them money.

I’m really tired of this “argument”. Yeah I don’t get it, I won’t buy any of the shark cards or anything, but people are happily buying them. For whatever reason they happily pay, and that money funds the massive single player worlds I enjoy and love. There is no way that RDR2 would have happened without the income from GTA5.

I say thank you to the people buying them. I won’t, I don’t like them, but because of them I get awesome games.

Trying to decide if this is hipster or gatekeeping. Or both.

I’ve been doing that, I use kubernetes, so kagent. Sammy at first but it calmed down. It’s neat to have it auto triage something that went down or failed, parse the logs, look at the hardware and health and then tell me when it’s time.

GPUs are sparse but I run on a 3090, VRAM is king. If you have one for a server it’s not horrible to spin up an llm

Yes and no. I use llama server to run my own local models, and then open ice to monitor it. From there a lot of open source services host MCP servers which then can help integrate. I then use it to auto write the documentation on the layout so next time when I say “go to the ZigBee controller and tell me…” It knows first go to the docs, it remembers where it is and any useful commands, then continues on.

There’s something very wrong about a community run project that is bought by a company for profit. SteamDB would be nothing with contributions from us.

I keep seeing pointless engine upgrades and version bumps to dependencies. Every engineer knows at some point you have to draw a line in the sand

Who’s finally controllers patched in DAI! I’ve has to fix that manually for years!

Yeah anytime I see code that I use that interacts with a third party I mirror it to be safe. Repos are small. Especially if the third party isn’t a tech company, like most home assistant things. They are incredibly hostile and letigous against open source projects that have the audacity to make their products better.

always remember to clone/mirror repositories in other places folks. Lawyers got onto Github and Github happily takes things down unless all of the internet comes to push back. Mirror your favorite projects to codeberg, forgejo, gitea, wherever. You never know when someone will be forced to take that project you love down.

It’s a mod

It seems obvious to me. Why would you want to tie your economy to such a volatile dependency?

Well you seem fun to talk to. I like how you assumed a lot about me from one comment.

A nation gets left behind. The rest of the world is moving forward, we’re clinging to our 1940s fuel for some reason.

Good bot. Picked up all of Deus Ex for $12 bucks. Been working on getting my Drop instance working so this is perfect

Hell I would buy physical copies from retail stores if they still let me, but they’ve decided that they don’t want to anymore. The GoG. Then Steam after that.

Exactly this. People here mass downvote but I personally find AI to be extremely useful… To do things I already know how to do but don’t have the time for. I don’t trust it to do things I can’t spot the errors in

I also bought Plex lifetime pass also for $100 and I am getting ads like this.

Feel free to go read the multiple writeups from the maintainers that go over each one, we don’t need to copy them all here into the comments for you.

Except they’re spamming to users that they need this subscription even when they host locally or already have a membership.

I paid too, but consider that you basically paid $5 per year for 10 years and I’d say that good. You don’t need to feel guilty if you decide to leave, you got your money’s worth.

(And I mean, I have a sneaky suspicion they’re coming for the lifetime users sooner or later)