alessandro

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The article discusses the new highest-level Steam user, who has reportedly spent over half a million dollars to achieve this status. This user possesses a unique collection of items, including a Discord kitten and a $9,000 Counter-Strike gun that features a racial slur. The article also touches on the user's potential rivalry with the individual currently in third place for the highest Steam level. It highlights the extravagant spending habits within the gaming community and raises questions about the implications of such investments in virtual goods.

 
 
 

Just because there's the keyword "GaaS" on a game, don't make it bad... well, maybe hostages of poorly made business choices, but not necessary bad.

So, what's the live game you enjoyed and sadly saw to go?

 
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

All your unattended date will be taken (and some of the attended one). This doesn't mean you should stop to attend your data. Even of you're somehow forced to use Windows instead open alternative, it doesn't mean you can't dual boot or use other privacy conscious devices when dealing with your sensitive data.

Closed/proprietary OS and hardware driver can't be considered safe by design)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

(Snapdragon) from mildly interesting to zero.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

I don't think the poll question was well made... "would you like part away from your money for..." vaguely shakes hand in air "...ai?"

People is already paying for "ai" even before chatGPT came out to popularize things: DLSS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You have to address this question to Aleph One team themselves who set up everything up on Steam; my guess, is that they are looking for reachability of their works and, thus, keep the IP alive in the public conscious (the original IP concept, at least)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's EA for you, with Richard Garriot understanding what EA is really all about even before EA themselves knew it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

added to the title.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The issue with Nintendo is that to their true core, they are still a of card games company that inspire to become the next Disney. The problem with GameCube was polluted with the "for family first", without realize that their original NES '80 kids where 15~20 year older... not little child anymore. People didn't want the "Super Mario Sunshine" console, they wanted Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill 2~3 kind of console. The people that buy today the switch are probably clueless parent that buy the "for child" console... or a Nintendo Adult as parallel for Disney Adult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I've removed the line from the line to better adhere to TomHW writing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Thanks for bring this up, now I've fixed from "15% increase to " increase to 15% from 5%". Should be more clear

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Despite what people say, Nvidia is certanly the one with most complete support for Linux... if support for a OS is defined by how Windows is supported.

The way GPU are supported on Windows is this: Microsoft pick your whole experience, then you install the setup.exe with a bunch of bloat and some advertisement from the OEM (Nvidia or the Nvidia's GPU resellers like EVGA, ASUS...)

If you stick with the most popular distro which have the exact Linux kernel Nvidia support... yeah, nothing can beat Nvidia. You have amazing support for nearly every feature your GPU offer (cuda, ray tracing etc), but if you want to try some kind more exotic flavour of Linux, expect problem.

AMD, being much more OpenSource friendly, it mean you can have the top notch 3D acceleration on basically anything, even Puppy Linux ( a ~200MiB Linux live distro), but if you're looking for more advanced features (like OpenCL of LLM support)... well, good luck with that: eventually, someday, they also will work (if meanwhile AMD don't drop support your card if too old).

There's no perfect answer. Despite the flaws, people in the Linux community love AMD because they give drive support in the "Linux's way". Nvidia support is better, but it's the "Window's way", and you need to stick to the rules on what Nvidia consider "Linux" (which, for short, is "Canonical's Ubuntu")

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depend on the flow, when the gaming industry row against it (ie: Epic store exclusivity to exclude Linux's support by indie develeopers, Anti-cheat that bar Linux support away) Linux adoption stay around 1% while sustaining the growth of PC gaming (it mean Linux keep growth together anyway).

Now, with SteamDeck we have a situation where the "row against" is still there, albeit much lower because publisher AAA aren't too sure they want to be kept out SteamDeck's business.

We still see how much fast Linux adoption will growth when the industry goes "neutral" (aka: do not go against with Anticheat)... and even when, someday maybe, they will just "support".

So far now, Linux is going great if you consider AAA publisher did fail to sink it down (the only single big entity that openly support (not even exclusively) is Valve).

When you go against the flow you look slow: but the energy behind you is double than anybody else.

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