would increase costs

For us? Microsoft licences aren’t exactly cheap, keep getting more expensive, and every single basic functionality is an extra.

cybersecurity risks,

Trust the megacorp with a huge target on its back that will deny any responsibility when it fucks up instead.

limit AI and cloud services

Sounds exclusively like a “you” problem.

expand government control in ways that can undermine civil liberties and enable censorship,

Sure, give that control to the US government instead.

Fuck that bullshit. Hopefully no clueless politician falls for it.

Not a company since I’m in public administration, but my structure has a few thousands workers, most of them having access in some form to the network.

They do filter our internet. I don’t give a fuck whether people consume porn with their own devices and connections. But if you can download porn, you can download anything, including malware. And a bad actor having access to data on our network would be disastrous.

Unfortunately, meta has that kind of data too. In fact hoarding private data is what their business is about. Not securing their network is criminal.

I get it, I mean, what else would you do with a carrot cake?

Yuck.

Absolutely. Or, as they say, “sporadic” amounts.

I don’t think I really care who wins that one, but :

Meta responded in October by filing a motion to dismiss, arguing the sporadic downloads were consistent with ordinary ‘personal use’ by employees and visitors on the corporate network.

Oh, yeah, just your ordinary downloading porn on the corporate network of a tech giant megacorp, as you do.

Either a lie or an admission of baffling incompetence.

The collective works of billions of people are up for grab to train a LLM without their consent, but a couple gigabytes of responses collected from another parrot machine is theft.

Sure, Anthropic.

That’s okay because even though I’m cursed with a rather vivid imagination, in this case the resulting image looks like abstract nonsense.

I don’t have access to my machine right now, so I can’t check exactly what worked for me. I didn’t have the previous configuration either (the lutris scripts I used to install the games must have done this), so I just tried other options I had for runners. When I checked them they were all set on the last entry on the list.

I think for the 32-bit prefix error I had to choose a wine one instead (probably latest wine-GE).

For others that didn’t show anything but had the gamemode error in logs, I switched to another proton version. I remembered being confused seeing two slightly differently worded entries that looked like latest proton GE, and using the other one worked.

It’s certainly that. In fact as a French I didn’t even realize people might not recognize the tale. Makes sense that not everyone was exposed to it the way we were though.

La Fontaine’s version of this is commonly taught to little kids, along others like the Fox and the Crow or the Wolf and the Lamb.

Missed the point entirely, but okay. Note that I did troubleshoot it. I needed to know that it was a lutris problem to begin with.

Having trouble making something work is not at the same level as an auto-update messing up all of your library at once. All I’m saying is, if we want more adoption of free OSes for uses like gaming, the tools we have for it needs to be version-controlled so less technical people are not completely lost.

Kind of a bad take honestly. Some of us want stuff that just work, especially for their gaming environment. I certainly didn’t expect to spend half a day troubleshooting why my library suddenly didn’t work anymore.

I am using Nobara and lutris was auto-updated through their updating tool. Also if it messed up the defaults in configurations, reverting might not even fix the problem.

Yeah, I had to change the runner (is that the term? my UI is in French) for half my games after the update. I suspect it just changed it on my existing game configurations for no reason.

I had stuff like proton complaining it can’t run 32-bit prefixes, an obscure error saying it couldn’t find gamemode… All fixed when I manually changed the runners.

Quite annoying when somzthing that just used ro work suddenly breaks everything.

I honestly hadn’t noticed it. I think the switch 2 upgrade probably didn’t deserve to be 5 bucks, but, the improved framerate is appreciable in any case. That was the part I wanted the most, and it works.

Except you definitely have to activate the “slow” camera option with it. It’s still pretty fast, but the default “average”, which means instant max speed is crazy with the update. I suppose previously camera speed was limited by framerate.

Vermis is weirder than that. It’s a guide/art book full of lore for a game that doesn’t exist. Very cool stuff.

There’s a video from supereyepatchwolf getting into the fake game rabbithole that talks about Vermis for a while :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hkkCbxoaz0

How the hell can a lawyer seriously argue that you were wrong to report to the relevant authorities? That’s not their call.

And since a live service game comes with the expectation that it’s not complete and will get more content later, making so many expecting most of them to fail is a big fuck you to anyone who actually bought the ones that get abandoned.

The plan was one company making TWELVE live services in one year.

Hey, Sony execs, quick game : make me a list of 12 currently running, succesful live service games, from any company. Oh, and don’t count mobile shit, you’re a console seller, that’s not the experience you’re providing even if you wanted to.

Bonus round : estimate the rough cumulated gaming time of all of your user base and divide it by 12. Now estimate the level of engagement these freaking games require. And take into account that there may also be other games around, and some people may want to play them too, amazingly.

Oops.

I believe physics is still mostly Havok, so it’s not them. They are just that… amazing at using it.

The annoying part about the “creation engine” is that it’s still just the corpse of the gamebryo engine that they keep reanimating with their own crap on top of it. With its shitty proprietary netimmerse format that basically only exist for them at that point.

With time, people have developed tools to create content for it, but it’s yet another area where they went, fuck it, people are going to make our games better, and we don’t even need to do anything to make their life easier while they do.

If only. Yes, you can usually get it to admit it’s full of shit if you insist, but for most people just wanting a quick and easy answer it’s going to sound like it knows absolutely everything.

Because they are not trained to be humble. They are trained to convince you they’re useful.

You may not have unlocked that yet, but there’s something else you can do with squids other than selling them. Sammy is probably not going to like it though.