I’ve had some issues with NV cards, but those were prior to the newer open-source driver architecture which should be available for Turing cards and beyond:

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

I’ve actually got a laptop with a 2070 so I’ll try that out myself and see if it resolves some of the issues I know I had with the proprietary drivers

I yes, I should have mentioned the distro+hardware on this system is Mint with an AMD CPU and 6900XT GPU. AMD drivers are pretty well supported in Linux. I also run some Debian systems which do well, though I’ve not tried VR on them

There can be some issues with Nvidia cards due to proprietary drivers but I’ve heard they’re now supporting a FOSS driver in newer cards so as long as you’ve got one of those you should be good.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

Honest question: what’s stopping you currently? For me, I kept Windows around purely for playing certain VR games that didn’t run well on Linux. The last Windows update fucked up my video config, so I reluctantly decided to try SteamVR on Linux again.

I’ll admit my hopes weren’t particular high given me last shot at it but holy shit pretty much every VR game I tried worked as well as they had in Windows (Angry Birds develop a weird controller jitter after about 30 minutes but I’ve had that in Windows too).

The only extra steps I had to do to get stuff working was install “SteamVR experimental” and one of the Linux utilities to set my GPU to always run in performance mode when gaming (not necessary for everything but jealous with some).

For non-VR, most AAA titles also work great. The main issue I’ve seen is certain DRM for non-Steam multiplayer games can be a bit finicky, but that’s getting better too and it’s been awhile since I’ve run afoul of those.

Voodoo Doll from the game Blood.

Just look, and poke!

Is there even a board with a modern PCI port with a non-UEFI BIOS?

Some are useful. It’s not uncommon for scammers to throw up copies of legitimate sites, but hosting malware etc. Having tried to deal with Google, GoDaddy-et-al I can attest that their fucks given about such things is minimal but one of these companies can get offending sites taken down pretty quick.

The problem is when they don’t do due-diligence (and don’t face reasonable consequences for failing in said diligence) and then shit like this happens

What’s the name of the mod?

I believe so

iGPU’s can use system RAM to supplement VRAM. Might still be doable

Meh. Even small corps often do something well once and then fall to the wayside.Nintendo has been pretty good at recreating their core IP, whether it’s the 3D version of Metroid on GC or open-world Zelda on Switch.

If they’d actually bought out the Palworld IP (assuming that was an available option) that would have meant cash for the devs and a way to work with it in a way that was unique but inclusive to the Pokemon franchise. A lot of people are getting tired of the latter because it has become rather stagnant, but the new mechanics with the official Pokemon characters/stats/etc could have benefitted both

Nintendo doesn’t do that though. They don’t go “wow, this looks cool and there’s real interest. Maybe we could work with the dev and make it an official product. They’ve done most of the work already!” It’s lawsuits all the way

I remember reading that having a version keyword in your user alias would cause issues with steam, and it was actually because it was a blocked word on CloudFlare where they store/pull a bunch of steam data from

Yeah. I’ve got an Artist Pro Wireless, and Sonar stuff has screwed it up in weird ways

Yeah there are a few games that you can try the demo on Steam but you’d think that’d be a more common thing. With full digital, it’s even easier then the old shareware methods

Cards had such neat names back then too.

Voodoo Banshee Rage 3D Pro Ensoniq Soundscape (soundcard)

I’m kinda glad it didn’t get to the point of “throbbing purple speedster” or whatever, shit’s kinda boring now

Yeah but by “connected” I’d assume that at least means with a public IP. Running a stock Debian 5 or 6 system with SSH vulnerabilities could result in the same thing.

That isn’t too say that you SHOULD run an old winXP system, but absent allowing a way in or out going somewhere bad the still needs to be a way for the malware to initially interact with the machine

The only way I could see this not being a complete shit-show is if they integrate them into the game in a way that makes sense, which has been done in places before. Banners along the roadside in a racing game (which exists in real life), a sci-fi hologram advertising “new-new-new coke, now with added element-320” as you walk by, etc

But since it’s EA we’re more likely to get an ad for hemmoroid cream during a loading screen, and the loading screen will be extended to ensure it plays the whole ad

In remembering the original, I feel like the tone was similar in Intergrade. Yeah, we all probably have mostly memories of a certain “serious” scene with Aerith and a certain brooding edgy vampire type, but there was plenty of cheese to be had in the original.

I actually played through GoW just slightly before FF7. Yeah it’s a more serious - and Christopher Judge is the boss (even if he didn’t say “indeed”) - but it had some weird bits of cheese too and overall, it had the advantage of being a new plotline rather than a remake/modification of something that originally had an audience with 80’s-born teens.

I’m actually a bit of an initial naysayer on the remake. I didn’t trust the change from ATB to ARPG style combat, chopping it up into episodes, or just the fact that Square has frankly been fairly disappointing in several of the last few released I’ve played (the plot of FFXV was a disconnected trainwreck and FFXIII was a grind).

That said, it came out on PC and then hit a sale and I quite enjoyed it. Yeah there are cheesy bits, but many of them feel pretty intentionally cheesy and overall I felt it paid decent homage to the original, especially the Don Corneo part etc

Imagine if it didn’t work on your device. Lawnchair apparently isn’t available on Android 12 without sideloading.

In the list of available apps I see “Neo Launcher Hyperion SciFi” (no plain “Neo Launcher”) and the first thing that I notice with that is the “contains ads” flag.

Nova, meanwhile, comes up consistently among searches for launchers, and up until when I stopped using it provided a good mix of functionality and customization (ad-free, and without sideloading). It’s disappointing to learn it’s run by a company that may be likely to harvest data

It also made it a lot easier to migrate between devices, and I’m the earlier data had features that are common now but not so much then.

I dropped it due to crashing issues with a new phone. Seems a good thing that I did

If you want pretty good color screen, try the Boox Tab Mini C

Plenty of people have OLED TVs that last longer than that, depends on the use case.

My laptop has an OLED screen and I’m pretty sure it’s older than 5yo now. No burn in. No dead pixels

Not good for real-time rendering, but it still has potential for rendering 3D still scenes or frames of a video, or a small studio might have those 80 CPU’s in a render-farm and not need to worry about supply-issues for GPU’S

Yeah they’re not always maxed, but I’ve got a lot of stuff running on those cores, I’ve just found that they lag a bit for some heavier workloads as the CPU’s have a lot of cores but not a huge top speed.

The main concern would be increasing power output without increasing my power bill

I’m hoping we’ll see some good energy efficient server kit as well. My current VM rig runs dual 16 core CPUs but they’re older and a bit pokey. It’d be nice to have something to move up to that isn’t going to screw up my energy bills

Yeah it’s funny to mention NMS, as what I’ve heard from most people is that you’d have money AND get more value by buying that particular today over Starfield

Well somebody is feeling brave :-)

Have you tried logging out and in again?

Nice. First BAR and now this…2024 might be a good year for RTS

Yeah I had similar issues. My old laptop (back venue I swore off HP, and one of the contributing reasons) had an issue where if you loaded an app and it needed memory that spanned both RAM chips… it would power cycle. Most users at the time reported the issue using Photoshop at the time so HP released a patch… that fixed it for Photoshop.

The actual issue lay in the Northbridge of he laptop and was a defect. HP refused to refund the laptop even though it was fairly early within the warranty period. Best I could do was run with one - slightly larger - stick of RAM than what the thing shipped with.

Holy Shit. Just realizing that the Xbone had already been out that long

Given a rant like this I wouldn’t be trusting his code. Admin access to a backend and ability to write to the underlying filesystem+configs are two different layers. Yeah in many cases they may be the same admin, but not necessarily. It also means a compromised admin UI user can modify the underlying system to hide their tracks.

It’s like saying it’s ok to have a hypervisor breakout because it requires you to have root in the underlying VM to exploit and only trusted admins have root…

Still, they’d likely have to separate out impurities from mined sodium deposits as well, so it sounds like a good use of the by-product from the desalination process where possible

Yeah, and also Edge or an older version of Chrome etc just to be sure.

Easy enough to test though. Load the page with a UA changer and see if it still shows up when Firefox pretends to be Chrome

Yeah. I up a DVD set on Amazon and they were fairly believable except for the party where they wouldn’t actually play on i.e. a PlayStation, and the disc title when inserted into a PC ended in .ISO

Money doesn’t come from the users, it comes from the advertisers. The platform is already in the hole but it’s getting worse over time

A few who have falsely claimed that actually ended up getting charged with false reports IIRC

Another fun thing is that for playing older games that use Proton:

• It might not run on Linux natively

• It might not run on the current version of Windows

• It might run on your specific hardware natively in Windows

• But somehow, it still manages to run well in Wine/Proton (sometimes better than on Windows)

Plenty of orgs get caught when they don’t even pay for the the software on their computers. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find that the same entities not willing to pay a person to make artwork try to skip out on paying a business to generate it

Whose AI system are they using, and what did they pay for it? A lot of them do have clauses prohibiting commercial use of generated images

I hope that in the future, AI tools like this can assist indie game devs, so somebody with the idea for a decent plot and gameplay can generate environments, some models, and voiced characters with a generative engine. These tools could also be a cool evolution for games that use generated worlds already: think Minecraft but less blocky.

I fear that it will be used by big studios to supplant or replace human talent, leading to endless titles of same-same dreck without the spark of inspiration or uniqueness that a human developer, artist, or story-boarder can come up with.

Or to paraphrase how somebody else put it: “We thought that computers would do the boring or unpleasant work so that humans could spend more time making art and expanding culture, instead the computers are making the art and we’re still doing the shit work”