Some developers make gog users second rate citizens, some don’t publish on gog at all. I wouldn’t call it a sinking ship though, later years they’ve had more big name games such as Baldur’s Gate 3 than before.

Also, if gog shuts down tomorrow I can still install all my games from the installers on my network share, something I can’t say about steam.

I am very happy about Proton/SteamOS and how they assist in making games playable on Linux. I hope the SteamOS devices become popular enough that developers stop trying to shut Linux out.

I’m not looking forward to what will happen with Steam when Gabe is no longer around though.
Having one big marketplace/launcher might be comfy right now but that can turn into a nightmare quickly when there’s a new owner in town.

Personally I’m trying to buy any game I can on gog.com instead of Steam. Both to get my own offline installers and to ensure not all my eggs (games) are in one basket. I launch more games from Lutris then Steam today.

ME är en akronym för myalgisk encefalo­myelit, på engelska Myalgic Encephalo­myelitis.
Myalgi betyder muskel­smärta, encefalit inflamma­tion i hjärnan och myelit inflamma­tion i rygg­märgen.
CFS är en akronym för Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, på svenska översatt till kroniskt trött­hets­syndrom.
Den vanligaste beteck­ningen för sjukdomen i den inter­natio­nella, veten­skap­liga littera­turen är kombinations­termen ME/CFS eller motsvarande kombina­tion med de full­ständiga namnen utskrivna, Myalgic Encephalo­myelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

I Sverige används beteck­ningen ME/CFS bland annat av Statens beredning för medicinsk och social utvärdering (SBU),[8] Socialstyrelsen[15] och 1177,[16] men även myalgisk encefalo­myelit och kroniskt trött­hets­syndrom är vanligt före­kommande.

• https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/ME/CFS

Personally gaming on Fedora without trouble. I’ve heard good things about Nobara - https://nobaraproject.org/author/gloriouseggroll/

Just a reminder, if you’re in the EU then waiting 'til June might be worthwhile:

Gonna be interesting to see which models disappear from EU altogether and which models get the better repairability and software updates next summer:
Ecodesign requirements will apply to mobile phones and tablets put on the EU market from 20 June 2025 onwards, including:

1. resistance to accidental drops or scratches and protection from dust and water
2. sufficiently durable batteries which can withstand at least 800 charge and discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their initial capacity
3. rules on disassembly and repair, including obligations for producers to make critical spare parts available within 5-10 working days, and for 7 years after the end of sales of the product model on the EU market
4. availability of operating system upgrades for longer periods (at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market of the last unit of a product model)
5. non-discriminatory access for professional repairers to any software or firmware needed for the replacement

• https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en

I just keep the installers on my NAS, together with whatever dlc installers, patches and mods I deem necessary. With the current prices of 12-18tb hdd drives it doesn’t cost much to keep em there.

Only in bad teen movies

polygon briefly mentions what the patents are about
https://www.polygon.com/news/476177/palworld-developer-nintendo-pokemon-lawsuit

The update seems to be about https://www.pocketpair.jp/news/20241108

I have a similar setup to @[email protected] in regards to my home network and I wouldn’t dream of removing my wifi network. I still consider wired to be superior though it rarely matters at those latencies.

My Windows laptop on wifi:

My Fedora on wired network:

That they do, but your contacts doesn’t have to get it anymore.
A self-hosted matrix stack built from source with matrix clients built from source with e2ee implemented that you yourself have the competence to verify the encryption and safety of would be the only secure communication I know of if you don’t want to trust a third party.

wired level speed and reliability.

While WiFi is a lot better nowadays I’ve never seen it reach the reliability of wired networks.

Yeah, the glaring problem of having to share your phone number is gone too:
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/6712070553754-Phone-Number-Privacy-and-Usernames

Thanks for the insight. Kinda sad how selfhosted LLM or ML means Nvidia is a must have for the best experience.

How cheap must rivalling high vram offerings be to upset the balance and move devs towards Intel/AMD?
Do you think their current platform offerings are mature enough to grab market share with “more for less” hardware or is the software support advantage just too large?

Had a discussion with @[email protected] touching on this over at [email protected] yesterday. (https://lemmy.world/post/23245782 )
Well, inexperienced me asked bruce questions to be exact.
The most interesting part for me would be how the rumored clamshell ARC gpus could upset the balance if the price is right.
If a 24gb b580 or 32gb b770 for a much lower price then nvidia/amd offerings is available how would that affect market share and software development in the field?

OpenAI does not make hardware.

Yeah, I didn’t mean to imply that either. I meant to write OneAPI. :D
It’s just that I’m afraid Nvidia get the same point as raspberry pies where even if there’s better hardware out there people still buy raspberry pies due to available software and hardware accessories. Which loops back to new software and hardware being aimed at raspberry pies due to the larger market share. And then it loops.

Now if someone gets a CUDA competitor going that runs equally well on Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs and becomes efficient and fast enough to break that kind of self-strengthening loop before it’s too late then I don’t care if it’s AMDs ROCm or Intels OneAPI. I just hope it happens before it’s too late.

That do sound difficult to navigate.
With OpenAPI OneAPI being backed by so many big names, do you think they will be able to upset CUDA in the future or has Nvidia just become too entrenched?
Would a B580 24GB and B770 32GB be able to change that last sentence regarding GPU hardware worth buying?

I don’t have any personal experience with selfhosted LMMs, but I thought that ipex-llm was supposed to be a backend for llama.cpp?
https://yuwentestdocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/doc/LLM/Quickstart/llama_cpp_quickstart.html
Do you have time to elaborate on your experience?

I see your point, they seem to be investing in every and all areas related to AI at the moment. Personally I hope we get a third player in the dgpu segment in the form of Intel ARC and that they successfully breaks the Nvidia CUDA hegemony with their OneAPI:
https://uxlfoundation.org/
https://oneapi-spec.uxlfoundation.org/specifications/oneapi/latest/introduction

All GDDR6 modules, be they from Samsung, Micron, or SK Hynix, have a data bus that’s 32 bits wide. However, the bus can be used in a 16-bit mode—the entire contents of the RAM are still accessible, just with less peak bandwidth for data transfers. Since the memory controllers in the Arc B580 are 32 bits wide, two GDDR6 modules can be wired to each controller, aka clamshell mode.

With six controllers in total, Intel’s largest Battlemage GPU (to date, at least) has an aggregated memory bus of 192 bits and normally comes with 12 GB of GDDR6. Wired in clamshell mode, the total VRAM now becomes 24 GB.

We may never see a 24 GB Arc B580 in the wild, as Intel may just keep them for AI/data centre partners like HP and Lenovo, but you never know.

Well, it would be a cool card if it’s actually released. Could also be a way for Intel to “break into the GPU segment” combined with their AI tools:

They’re starting to release tools to use Intel ARC for AI tasks, such as AI Playground and IPEX LLM:
https://game.intel.com/us/stories/introducing-ai-playground/
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/discrete-gpus/arc/software/ai-playground.html

https://game.intel.com/us/stories/wield-the-power-of-llms-on-intel-arc-gpus/
https://github.com/intel-analytics/ipex-llm

• https://lemmy.world/comment/13094175