People with high end systems (5090s etc) are apparent having a lot of performance issues, and are unable to run the game at 60fps/4k without AI upscaling or frame generation.

It’s even better when you realize that the performance degrades the longer you’ve been playing that session. It’s unoptimized and leaky.

Wow, you weren’t kidding.

• Ad: AI company.
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• #1: A code editor designed for AI
• Ad: Another list website.
• #2: Messaging app (no AI)
• #3: Note taking and planning software… with AI.
• #4: Screen recording software (no AI)
• #5: Visual Studio Code extension for using AI to write internal tooling.
• #6: Project management software (no AI?)
• #7: A web interface for using AI models.
• #8: A note-taking app (no AI)
• #9: AI-based workflow automation software.
• #10: Yet another AI code editor.
• #11: A bookmark manager… with AI.
• #12: A collaboration software suite (no AI)
• #13: A different note-taking app (no AI)
• #14: AI-powered social media management.
• #15: AI personal assistant.
• #16: Markdown-based wiki software (no AI)
• #17: Rich text wiki software (no AI)
• #18: A third note-taking app (no AI)
• #19: A LLM interface.
• #20: AI-powered personal finance tool.

Over half of the first 20 items focus on AI, and that’s not even considering the ads.

They just have no legal recourse if the reward is not paid.

Even if they did, anyone desperate enough for the vague promise of money isn’t going to have enough of it to hire a lawyer.

Frankly insurance companies need to be holding the car manufacturer’s feet to the fire by not insuring cars that can be trivially stolen like this.

The governments should be, too.

Instead, some countries are taking the approach of banning Flipper Zeros or restricting their sale instead. That’s like outlawing flathead screwdrivers because you can use them to pop improperly-installed doors off of their hinges.

It’s on the car manufacturers to fix their poor security, not on tool suppliers to not make tools.

Worst bossrun so far was probably the judge which was only like 2 screens when you think about it.

I found that run back to be infuriating at first, but it quickly stopped mattering once I realized that you don’t need to kill everything on the path over and are for the most part better off just running past the enemies.

Skills and traps don’t do enough damage to feel especially useful either.

There’s one trap that actually is pretty strong if you know how to abuse it.

I’m not going to spoil where or how to get it, but flying beetles that home in on the enemy and repeatedly bump into it to deal damage can be pretty busted… especially when they still attack during phase change animations that stop the player from moving.

That’s new. Always good to see them add more ways to customize it.

Does Steam Deck not have rpm-ostree (or an arch equivalent since RPM is fedora-specific)?

Steam Deck has a custom solution involving an A/B partition scheme of immutable btrfs filesystems and overlayfs for layering changes on top of that.

Also, what about distrobox?

If there’s a way to install containerization software with Flatpak, maybe. Docker isn’t available out of the box, though.

I haven’t really tried to do anything package manager-related on my Deck, so I’m going on what I know from Bazzite, but there are several ways to install non-flatpak software on it. In fact, I even installed yay on an Arch distrobox, and I can install things from the AUR (as well as the official repositories).

You can use pacman, but it’s volatile and requires making intentional changes to restore its functionality.

The first option is to disable the read-only flag on the root filesystem, then set pacman back up so it can pull packages. Whenever the root filesystem image is updated, you’ll lose the changes, though.

The second option is to add an overlayfs to persist the changes in a different partition or inside a disk image on the writable storage. There was a tool called “rwfus” that did this, and it worked well enough if you were careful. If you ended up upgrading a package that came installed on the base image, though, it would end up breaking the install when the next update came around.

With all the caveats, when Valve made /nix available as a persistent overlay a couple of years ago, I just bit the bullet and learned how to use Nix to install packages with nix-env -i.

Don’t forget the Mach heritage! Darwin is the mutt of kernels.

Fun fact: if you have a Steam Deck, Nix (the package manager) is pretty much the only vendor-approved way to safely install extra packages that aren’t otherwise available as a flatpak.

Trying to screw with overlayfs to make pacman usable is/was a thing, and it was a very good way to break the OS install despite it having atomic updates.

Somehow I feel like mentioning Nix and NixOS is the new ‘I use arch btw’.

“I use Nix btw”

Rolls off the tongue in the same way. And, honestly, “I use Arch btw” just isn’t the same hipster know-it-all contrarian meme that it used to be. It has a graphical installer now, and a popular retail device (the Steam Deck) comes with a user-friendly derivative of it installed out of the box.

Meanwhile, NixOS has a huge learning curve that’s off-putting to most non-technical users and even Linux hobbiests. I mean, really—having to configure everything through a functional programming language masquerading as a configuration file format? That’s just the kind of thing that would attract masochists and pedants!

I use Nix btw.

there’s a read error and now you will be in prison for five more years.

Prisoners don’t have to be paid minimum wage, and there’s an entire industry around using prisoners as dirty cheap labor. Anything that makes it harder for them to get out of the system is additional revenue for private prisons, not something the people who have the power to change it want to see solved.

when you do have big problems its still kind of annoying

Or small problems. Very annoying small problems. Like GTK 4 windows freezing when you try to close them.

“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit

It was meant to be satirical at the time, but maybe Futurama wasn’t entirely off the mark. That Redditor isn’t quite at that level, but it’s still probably not healthy to form an emotional attachment to the Markov chain equivalent of a sycophantic yes-man.

Here’s a better idea: nationalize SpaceX and tell Musk to go fuck himself first. Not going to happen? Then no grant money.

“AI-powered cloud software virtualization”

It’s just Kubernetes.

😳

Oh, I was just remarking that I don’t have anything but env installed in there. I wouldn’t be able to run sl by its full path unless I go searching for wherever that is

The even more fucked-up part is that Invoke-WebRequest still uses Internet Explorer to parse the result, and will panic if -UseBasicParsing is not passed every time, or IE isn’t installed and initialized.

That is absolutely horrifying.

Powershell does the opposite, having an alias from ls to whatever the powershell equivalent of dir is.