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Year of the Linux desktop handhelds!
What doesn’t work out of the box for bazzite? Or do you mean literally unpacking a device out of the box and hooking it up to the screen?
When you’re run out of ideas, it’s time to remake something 👌
Does that mean we’ll start seeing desktop apps like IDEs running in Android? How are you going to develop python on android? A linux container / VM? That’s going to be so wasteful. But I am curious.
It won’t be good for flashing though. Probably once support ends, it’ll be a slow brick upon which one can’t install linux.
More like a portable PC. Probably gaming won’t be possible for longer than 20 minutes.
Opensource after EOL. Vote for parties that care, write to your representatives, sign petitions, and vote with your wallet.
Just use newpipe or some other app like grayjay. It’s way ahead of the standard YouTube app.
There’s absolutely no need to call QAs, product owners, HR, finance personnel, or janitors “devs” because they work in or for a gaming company. They have roles and it’s completely fine for them not to be devs.
Make random comparisons from other industries all you want
I thought it would help with understanding and provide perspective, but it seems like the shutters are down and bolted. Understanding cannot penetrate the fortress of “everybody in a gaming company is a developer”.
This ancient attitude is the same upper management position where cutting swathes of knowledgable established QA will bring short term profits only to later hire even more fresh QAs, often contractors or outsourced.
What does this have anything to do with definition of developers? Diddly squat. Upper management will fire anybody with little to no understanding of their function because they consider everybody below them to be a number on a sheet; a replaceable cog in the machine.
You think QA has never seen a line of code?
What are you on about? Seeing a line of code doesn’t make you a developer. Reading memes about coding doesn’t make you a developer, shocker.
What’s the imaginary line to being part of game dev to you?
Being part of the game development process does not make you a developer. How many times do I have to repeat this? If you write the game, you’re a developer, otherwise you have another role on the team that is not game development. It’s that easy.
You design a character? Not a developer. You test the game? Not a developer? You develop the story and draw the art? Not a developer. None of that is writing the game’s code.
You can be both a developer and an artist, for sure, if you write the game’s code.
Bro, what? Being part of the development process doesn’t make you a developer. The hell? So you think somebody who has never even seen a line of code and manages a team of developers is a developer? You seriously want to tell me that the finance director of a construction company can call himself a builder because he manages the money needed to pay the builders? Jeff Bezos is a top paid developer at Amazon because he developed a strategy to R&D the fuck out everything and signed off on a product?
Also, I thought it was obvious that my sentence about a “programme developer” not being a software developer would make it pretty obvious, that the presence or lack of “developer” in the title isn’t the defining attribute of the job.
If you think QAs are software developers, I’d like to know what you think QA stands for. Hint, it doesn’t stand for developer.
Inb4 “they develop tests”: so an event planner is also a developer then because they “develop a programme” and the words “develop” and “programme” are in the job description.
Title days “devs” article says HR and QA most laid off. Those aren’t devs…
Still, it does sound like employees in gaming companies should unionise!
You do have to consider that Intel has a head start of multiple decades, should’ve had a war-chest the size of a nation (like Nintendo), and has a nigh monopoly position in the CPU market. Intel also has preferential treatment in the US (similar to Microsoft), so it’s not it isn’t already being funded by the US government.
You don’t catch up on decades of research just by pumping in money. That’s like trying to have a baby faster by having more women.
Trying to pretend Intel is the underdog in this scenario is not credible. Despite - or maybe exactly due to, their head start, pseudo-leaders who thought they could survive any boneheaded decision are giving that lead away. And yet again, tax payer money may have to be used to correct the decisions of a private company (yes publicly traded but the government doesn’t own Intel). Privatise profits, nationalise debt. Works every time!
Fan-made, for free, no opensource 🤨 I feel like there’s going to be a “surprise” in the near future.
Oh, so if China helps out their companies, it’s meddling but if the US government fucking bails out a company that should go bankrupt because of dreadful and shit management, it’s a necessary step to secure national interests. So much for “the free market will regulate itself”.
Hypocrites.
That’s worthy of a bug report…
Growing up with too much available goods makes people like this. People throw away food like it’s nothing, it was only a matter of time until people did this with phones.
Bad title. It should be that Asahi Linux Vulkan driver lands many fixes and features. Malus has no credit whatsoever in this regard. They didn’t contribute zilch.
Maybe the driver should have compilation flags per supported GPU. No need to load a bunch of that isn’t even relevant. Also, now large in bytes is that damn think if it take 10 seconds to load? 🫠
All they care about it pools of money. Only when somebody finds out about the malware do they actually do something - not to protect users but because of bad press. Then the news cycle is over and things die down for the money-printing machine to continue.
I agree, it’s unfortunate that they are only focusing on improving their way of having fun and being distracted from real world issues (necessary but shouldn’t stop them from fulfilling their democratic duties). However, if stop killing games is successful, it might make this way of influencing policy visible to others probably less interested in politics.
I signed all of those BTW. Had done so a while ago.
Did you watch pirategames shilling for the big studios? He doesn’t even propose solutions or start his own petition. He just complains about how it would impact poor old him in some theoretical scenario.
Don’t fall for it. It’s like a poor person complaining about taxes for the rich because they might get rich someday (probably never). Rich people have to pay their fair share and gamedevs should stop making games that die when you unplug a server. They did before, they can do it again. They don’t want to because subscriptions make more steady money.
Don’t be a shill.
Might this become the fastest petition to reach the requirements?
IINM, just because a country reaches the threshold, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t stop going. It would also be sufficient to have 1M signatures in 7 countries.
Install a “logcat” application. You might have to enable developer mode. Then you can configure the types of logs you want and look at them immediately after you get the alert or notification to see which app sent it.
Google is just trying to be Malus but on multiple vendors’ hardware and across all variations of iOS (if iOS allowed forks). Obviously that’s a problem and it wouldn’t surprise me if Epic joined the lawsuit. Their third-party app store would have a problem installing authentic apps from the Google Play Store if no google services ran on the phone.
The EU is doing stuff against monopolies and talking about digital sovereignty, but EU countries are still releasing the opensource software only on the google playstore and ios app store - that’s not sovereign.
Very curious to see where this goes.
Is this one of those “constantly online” solo games that can be killed by shutting off servers? Hopefully the EU petition to stop killing games can help, but it would be too late for this game.
Buy AMD 🤷 No need to keep buying from such a monopolist.
We should be spamming this in twitch chat and discourse. Just join the channels of the top streamers and spam “Stop Killing Games: Tell the EU to do something!”, “Only EU citizens can Stop Killing Games by signing the petition”, “EU citizens can’t even Stop Killing Games KEKW”, or whatever else people come up with. I don’t use either, but maybe somebody else does.
Oh, the EU is going to have fun with that (if the newly elected right-wingers don’t get paid off by Apple).
Living up the Malus name.
Is this an effect of Epic winning that lawsuit against Google and wanting them to provide access from third-party app stores? Or is just typical Google fuckery?
It still has 200k people playing it. I do wonder how many of those people actually bought the battle pass and how many didn’t.
Well, they did have an “Electronic World Cup” where CoD2, PubG, CoD:MF, and Apex Legends were present. If Saudi Arabia has a hand in it, it wouldn’t surprise me to see those game there too.
I would be surprised however if they got a lot of physical viewership. Many communities have competitions where they dress up too during tournaments, alcohol is definitely involved, and the viewership is quite varied from all over the world with both sexes being represented. They could invite a bunch of people from Asia to cheer for the teams, just like Qatar did, but my feeling would be that the majority of people would not risk a trip there. Getting your passport taken away because you dress or act like outside of Saudi Arabia is probably not what most people would enjoy.
I have a few early access games in my library, but they have been “early access” for 5 years now. IMO that doesn’t count as “early” anymore. I’ve never bought a game within the first year of release, much less 5 days before release. But if people are willing to do that, hey, it’s their choice to get disappointed 🤷
I never needed a TV, but now I for sure am not getting one.
OK, that’s really fucked. What the hell? Wait a moment… that means they could turn the use of the TV into a subscription at any time! That’s crazy…
I don’t have a TV, but doesn’t a smart TV require internet access? Why not just… not give it internet access? Or do they come with their own mobile data plans now meaning you can’t even turn off the internet access?
Rather than making a useless comment, maybe don’t?
Bruh, absolutely fuck Qualcomm. Aren’t they also suing a phone vendor for not using their chips? Absolutely nuts.
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Understandable and agreed. Having a steam console to hook up to the TV is probably what most people would buy and find easiest to use. They did try it a decade ago, but it was too early.
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