We change constantly. Not sure what happens tomorrow and the past is something we learn from.
Imho: It’s a question of support … all the named distribution are a community effort in support.
Valve can’t and probably won’t try to put themself in a situation where they “must” deliver support outside of well know hardware combinations.
My take is a little different. If people really want AI they should pay additional cost and AI should be a addon feature on your PC.
Additional Costs -> more powerful AI centered Chips ( as least as possible power consumption ) which can use much much more local fast memory ( imho 256 GB should be in the long term the minimum ).
That enables local AI’s to be the solution for privacy and control of long term costs and i guess in 99% local AI’s will do the job fine enough.
Sadly noone will be on our side cause they want to put AI Usage / PC Usage overall behind a monthly subscription in the long term.
Right now we are just as always in the phase of making people depending on a technology.
@cRazi_man i am not into those more control bullethell games , i like my cozy vampire survivors or halls of torment. Btw halls of torment’s input customisation might give you some hours too and there is a demo for this on.
@cRazi_man @GulAtiCa maybe “Nuclear Throne” -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear/_Throne
@columbus the dot.com bubble bursted but some tech stayed. Imho it will be the same with AI ( even more precise different Machine Learning Stuff ). ML has been around before the hype and there will be ML after the hype.
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/ibm-ceo-questions-trillions-in-data-centre-spending
^^^ but this should make clear that the current way will most likely end in a big crash for capital IMHO.
I personally think, that if your are gaming on linux you should value valve alot for how much money they have put into the linux ecosystem and it’s not bad to buy at their store. On the other hand there is alot of gaming happing outside of steam (including things which won’t make it to steam).
@FishFace @x00z my small thought -> i think today no solution can prevent “cheaters” because you can’t differ “cheaters” from users anymore if they want to.
Here is why ->
One PC is running the game -> a second PC emulates Keyboard and mouse inputs using a CAM (Capture Card) / Sound (microphon / digital capture) and an on the Game trained AI.
So what does any “cheat protection” offer if they don’t protect against serious cheating ?
PS: “The only still working protection is lan play with control over hardware / software and players like done on real events”
As always on Linux you have different possibilities. Most big Desktop Environment’s like KDE / GNOME / Cinnamon … can mount devices automatically or on a click on the device. No need for additional entries in fstab.
If you however want a more general approach you can use systemd’s automount or a fixed mountpount using fstab.
Most normal Desktop User’s will be totally fine with the DE Solutions.
@Auth @floofloof
IMHO: Advertisment is another word for recommendation. While advertisment is seen as bad a recomendation isn’t.
So what advertisment never made happen is making themself usefull to the consumer. Most consumer want maybe a !!! usefull recommendation !!! but not someone trying to force you to buy a certain product.
So what was the time before ads … it never existet … even before tv radio had advertisment. Even back in this day people hated the advertisment and did music recordings cutting the advertisment and talking out.
Some old people might remember press record … press stop … rewind a little bit … and all of this.
The alternative was to pay alot of money for music …
@themurphy @rigatti There is one difference … LLM’s can’t be more efficient there is an inherent limitation to the technology.
https://blog.dshr.org/2021/03/internet-archive-storage.html
In 2021 they used 200PB and they for sure didn’t make a copy of the complete internet. Now ask yourself if all this information without loosing informations can fit into a 1TB Model ?? ( Sidenote deepseek r1 is 404GB so not even 1TB ) … local llm’s usually < 16GB …
This technology has been and will be never able to 100% replicate the original informations.
It has a certain use ( Machine Learning has been used much longer already ) but not what people want it to be (imho).
My whole comment -> check out https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/11/check-out-linux-porter-ethan-lee-show-off-how-linux-games-are-built-and-packaged/ and the video in it.
PS: This guy really knows what he is talking. All of his linux ports are top notch and if needed he provides extremly fast updates. GLIBC updates breaking stuff ( which has happen once in alot of years) -> he got you
@TheBat @grue how do you define not working correctly ? …
the GFX Card booted
the GFX Card rendered the desktop
the GFX Card rendered Games
… the only issue it wasn’t as fast as possible …
-> solution on windows -> you report and get a new driver or you get a new driver cause you don’t know that you don’t have the max performance
-> solution on linux -> you report and get a new driver or you get a new driver cause you don’t know that you don’t have the max performance
^^^ where is the difference ?
That statement is to easy. It all depends on how much permissions you give the game and in what kind of environment you execute your game. From sandboxing to inmutable root file systems there is a lot possible to exactly prevent this to happen.
IMHO -> you wouldn’t need to write up such an article if people would think that AI adds an value to their life which is in replacable.
Example:
As of now AI is a big toy which you try to justify the use. A google search / fulltext search is much more efficient than using a AI Summary which you should by definition check after anyway.
You try to justify that we spending more electricity on a technology where we already have working solutions and will need those working solutions in the future too.
PS: I personally think the fundamental flaw in your article is that you define something can get replaced which is often not the case or you don’t compare it to the current most used solution. Example -> Most books aren’t printed anymore but only digitally published. The books which are printed needs to be printed as reference and to archive it long term or are printed for book lovers. So you can’t say there will be 3000W less because it’s not printed anymore.
@michaelmrose @swordgeek I 100% agree that Mozilla is important but it’s also clear that currently their is not enough business to keep Mozilla going. I don’t blame them for trying to make a Business , i blame them for not following their former values. You can make a business and still mostly follow values ( look for example to GOG ).
And what i don’t like the most is the change from opt in to opt out. Every new feature most users don’t want. You can argue that they know this and make it harder and harder to turn off those new “features” . The last time it was hidden in a sub menu in the settings ( switching off sending data to their ad service ) now it’s hidden in about:config.
I guess next time you need 3rd party patches and compile the browser yourself to switch a “feature” off.
I take a bold stand on the whole topic:
I think AI is a big Scam ( pattern matching has nothing to do with !!! intelligence !!! ).
And this Scam might end as the Dot-Com bubble in the late 90s ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com/_bubble ) including the huge economic impact cause to many people have invested in an “idea” not in an proofen technology.
And as the Dot-Com bubble once the AI bubble has been cleaned up Machine Learning and Vector Databases will stay forever ( maybe some other part of the tech ).
Both don’t need copyright changes cause they will never try to be one solution for everything. Like a small model to transform text to speech … like a small model to translate … like a full text search using a vector db to index all local documents …
Like a small tool to sumarize text.
@Fizz @swelter_spark I was raised with IT from basically my 9th birthday. The difference was when i was allowed to use IT it was always in a supervisioned environment till i was 14.
Imho we should make all responsible persons ( parents / teacher / trainer … ) aware of their responsibility again and help them to fullfill their role.
In the 80’s and 90’s parents could buy a TV for their kids. If they did so, they totally did understand that it’s their task to make sure how much , in what way and when their kids use the TV.
The society could support by giving labels or times for certain content but they would never stop the availability of certain content.
Remember the special corners in stores who lend vhs’s and dvd’s ?
We need to stop over controlling and for sure we need to stop getting lobbied by groups who want to sell their products (business) or want to change the society for their believes (religions).
There was a reason why democracies usually doesn’t have both influenced their law making.
@theunknownmuncher i used a kvm not wine. My guess it requieres a certain level of HW Acceleration on the GPU Side to be runable ( the new AI Stuff in RB 7.x ).
Fun fact their support wanted me to install a amd gpu driver in my kvm ( i was laughing ) … after telling them this doesn’t make sense i got to some other support unit and they told me this isn’t a supported environment and i should keep using RB 6 which basically is getting slower and slower with every release …
PS: if you got a good link to get RB 7.x to run in WINE ( Proton ) and being able to hand in removable media and such i would not mind to take my time to set this up.
@Ulrich
I totally agree but not all users will see it the same way ;) You see how often people feel entitled to get some help :)
I would go even further -> if valve supports more hardware and opens up steamos for none business partners ( aka end users ) … the press might pressure them into things they don’t want.