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It is a unique piece of art. I’m glad, although not surprised, that the creator wants to keep it that way.

We can already run x86 code on ARM, that wont be a viable backwards compatibility excuse for next gen consoles. Xbox and Playstation may try to claim it is a reason, but it will be clear cut bull shit from the start.

I just read through it, it was seriously bland by their normal standards, but it didn’t feel AI generated to me. It was missing many of the signatures I’ve come to expect. I’ll give them kudos for being frank, and I do wonder if, perhaps, some lawyering was involved. That may be what you are picking up on.

I didn’t read it, but all of dBrand’s copy has a certain attitude to it. I doubt it’s AI, just a very unusual brand voice, and it’s kinda cute and funny at first, but after the 5th email in a week with the same “We’re so cool, we’re not like other companies” tone, I unsubscribed.

I struggle with Avatar right now. It’s great story telling, world building, compassion, and just a cool world. Unfortunately, it’s owned by Paramount, which I’m unwilling to give a dime to. I have the same problem with Star Trek. There are, of course, ways around giving them money. I just wish these crappy companies would stop being so crappy. I don’t expect giant media companies to be good, but like not comically evil would be a good start.

OpenAI, back then, was also a very different organization. They were mostly a non-profit, claiming to be a research organization who’s goals were to ensure AI benefited all of humanity. Hell, I’d say Whisper, which that OpenAI did release, was very positive for humanity. It was when Sam Altman saw big dollar signs in GPT2+ that things started changing fast.

I’m doing it all in-house. Once the internet gets involved, all bets are off. Even going from 2 connections in the same town on the same ISP with gigabit fiber I’ve gotten unreliable results.

I setup the docker container “Wolf” on my gaming PC. It lets me stream from my desktop to my laptop. I’m lucky enough to have WiFi 6 with solid coverage. All that combined means I can run at near native quality and hardly any extra latency streaming from my desktop to my laptop/steamdeck. All without the normal streaming issues of making sure the PC is logged in and ready to start a stream.

I wouldn’t do it for competitive shooters, but for the games I play, it’s great. Keeps my laptop quiet, and my gaming PC being a space heater in another room.

Technically, Wolf uses Moonlight, but I just use that to start the Steam container, after that, I use Steam’s Remote Play directly, because I’ve had the best results with it.

That is a displayport connector, you are correct.

Norton may have pioneered the technique, but Intuit perfected it.

There are industries where that works. In business software, that’s incredibly common, in part because people buy the same software every year, or on a subscription. So the company makes a half decent product, hires an insane amount of people to market it while firing the vast majority of the developers, sells a ton of subscriptions, then coasts for a decade or two. Any time a competitor starts forming, buy them, lay off the staff, and coast on that too.

It’s the business model of the vast majority of business to business software/service products out there.

I’ve got one of the original XBox One controllers, pre-bluetooth. It uses a dongle that is actually a 2.4Ghz wifi dongle. Linux defaults to seeing it as a wifi dongle unless the right packages are loaded. Quite a headache.

ARC lets you connect your speakers to your TV via HDMI, while also letting your TV control the speakers via CEC. The downside is that it takes up an HDMI port, and they only put like 2 of them on modern TVs.

We don’t flock to it, they are forced upon us. Finding TVs that support DP is almost impossible.

One of the biggest problems is that shitty standards use the money they get from licensing the standard to push the standard. Good open standards often don’t have a marketing budget to play with. On top of that, shitty standards can make unrealistic promises to gain an advantage. Like HDMI does with DRM. “If every device uses this standard, piracy will be a thing of the past!”

On the plus side, all these tools for running x86/64 code on ARM likely helps a lot with running that same code on RISC.

I’d love it if we got to the point where Linux just brought the translation layers with it and automatically ran code compiled for any processor on any other processor. It’s not efficient, but it would be very useful.

Don’t forget the Unity Asset Store free example gamemodes packed with free assets and shoved onto Steam.

Oh, worth mentioning, if anyone is interested in playing, someone spooled up a server for Beehaw. https://beehaw.org/post/21062542

Yup. A slight correction on the OP’s suggestion. Since the person replying to me didn’t notice, that explains their confusion to my post, which certainly would have seemed abstract.

Luanti is an open source game/platform for voxel games like Minecraft. VoxeLibre is an extension that makes Luanti play almost exactly like Minecraft.

VoxeLibre is a mod/gamemode for Luanti.