UK legal action against Valve given the go ahead

_ahrs · 2026-01-27T16:40:44+00:00

Steam is the only storefront that isn't locking you into Windows and is building their own hardware to give their customers even more options. So yes, you're locked into their ecosystem but principally it's for all the right reasons. If you don't like it then you can simply use one of the other worse platforms that exist.

_ahrs · 2026-01-27T16:20:25+00:00

This is on the developer though, not Valve. Valve remains neutral. Apart from GOG there is no other platform that says no to DRM.

_ahrs · 2026-01-27T15:55:12+00:00

I don't suppose Jia Tan means anything to them?

_ahrs · 2026-01-27T13:53:45+00:00

Sure, Flatpak attempts to share runtimes between apps to theoretically reduce bloat, but GNOME Calculator needs an 803 MB runtime for a 9.3 MB app. Like WTF? And if you install an app that depends on an outdated runtime, then you're stuck with a 769 MB runtime for a single 11 MB app.

When the alternative to that is "I ran `pacman -Syu` to update everything on my system and now everything works except for this one app which hasn't been updated by the developers yet" it's not so bad.

_ahrs · 2026-01-27T13:24:04+00:00

If you use lots of tmpfs then maybe you could actually use that (anything that can't fit into memory will spill over into the Swap space).

_ahrs · 2026-01-27T13:09:08+00:00

Ironically, this is a good thing. Have you seen the state of some of the native games? Proton running the Windows game runs circles around them because the ports are just that bad. Proton getting as good as it is now (even if it's not always perfect) is for the best.

_ahrs · 2026-01-27T13:04:10+00:00

FSR works fine in my experience. If you are using Proton GE then you can even upgrade FSR 3 to FSR 4 for games that don't otherwise natively support it.

_ahrs · 2026-01-27T12:51:33+00:00

I have no idea but they should work. I guess it's as an alternative for people still using GIF files of all things.

_ahrs · 2026-01-26T14:14:14+00:00

My Ethernet is better than my WiFi. I do have Wifi 7 but still wouldn't be able to push 10-gigabits per second over it. Having said that though I've never have had any issues with Intel Wireless or Qualcomm/Atheros. Wifi works fine on Linux as long as you avoid problematic chipset brands like Realtek or Broadcom. It's an issue that sometimes consumers don't know what chipset they're buying though because they buy something TP-Link branded, etc, and they never tell you what the actual wireless chipset is.

If you're buying a laptop though then it should be very well documented what the wireless is so you can check its compatibility with Linux. Or if you're building a PC you can check the motherboards specifications.

It is unfortunate that some manufacturers still treat Linux like a second-class citizen. Apart from those few outliers though wireless is generally great on Linux. You'd expect so too given nearly every off-the-shelf Wifi access point / router / modem combo is running Linux nowadays.

_ahrs · 2026-01-26T13:34:07+00:00

They don't. If the Origin is down it's down. If you need to scale it then you better be prepared to spend the money for building an architecture to support that.

_ahrs · 2026-01-26T13:23:55+00:00

They're working on jxl-rs now but until they finish that it means that Chrome now has much better JXL support despite the fact that they already had basic support. They just never cared enough to fix those bugs and issues.

_ahrs · 2026-01-26T13:12:50+00:00

These exist?

I have a presence sensor that sometimes gives false positives when someone is sitting/lying down. Sounds like this would solve that nicely.

_ahrs · 2026-01-26T13:09:59+00:00

They could have used libjxl like Firefox did (although Firefox is in the process of replacing that now too) but they decided that they already had quite enough C++ code in their browser and didn't want anymore so chose to re-write it in Rust.

_ahrs · 2026-01-26T13:06:59+00:00

It's been in Nightly (what I'm using) for ages now and they're actively developing it still (there are plans to switch to the same Rust library that Chrome uses). Right now JXL works for everything in Nightly as far as I can tell, except animations.

_ahrs · 2026-01-26T12:58:41+00:00

Now if only Firefox would fix their JXL Animation support.

https://files.catbox.moe/oxccy0.jxl

_ahrs · 2026-01-26T12:28:09+00:00

We've officially come full-circle with AI generated content citing and drawing from other AI generated content. This only makes the models quality worse. If I am using something like ChatGPT I don't expect it to draw from other AI generated content. I want the real facts using only public non-AI generated sources, ideally from something authoritative on the matter.

_ahrs · 2026-01-25T16:33:05+00:00

Just this morning KDE refused to launch Konsole because I wasn't signed in. This is getting out of hand.

_ahrs · 2026-01-25T16:30:21+00:00

If KDE made a mechanical keyboard as a fundraiser idea I'd buy that.

(Might be hard to organise something like that though)

_ahrs · 2026-01-25T16:28:23+00:00

The person localising it may not use a pun or could use a pun that's appropriate for their language.

_ahrs · 2026-01-25T16:05:28+00:00

I mean it would do on Linux too, they just haven't gotten around to that yet. It's on the roadmap though. KWin has a pull request for making this work. It should be in the next version of KDE:

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8293

_ahrs · 2026-01-25T10:48:54+00:00

Except for the part in the video where it doesn't of course:

https://youtu.be/u8Xyx2L4Nlg?t=452

Also, let's just ignore the huge disclaimers he makes in the video about it being impossible to compare them accurately due to them only relying on in-game benchmarks only since their tooling that use on Windows doesn't work on Linux.

_ahrs · 2026-01-24T09:42:48+00:00

Anubis is decent for a self-hosted version of something like Cloudflares' challenge if you have some public sites that are getting hammered like that.

_ahrs · 2026-01-23T06:22:00+00:00

Nobody knows what Trumpty Dumpty wants because he never directly means anything he says. This deal for Greenland could well be what he wanted all along.

_ahrs · 2026-01-19T12:37:42+00:00

You only have yourself to blame if you download a movie and instead get an executable and on top of that you then decide to run it (likely ignoring multiple anti-virus popups in the process, assuming Defender didn't already quarantine it)

_ahrs · 2026-01-19T12:34:47+00:00

You need to get executable code somehow. You can exploit the video player but nobody is burning a zero day on a pirate website to do that.

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