The Hobbyist

@demigodrick@lemmy.zip

Perhaps of interest? I don’t know how many bots you’re facing.

I feel you are a bit out of touch when the topic is specifically enshittification and that it is based on the history of companies turning against their users, showing little good faith. It is also not something which is sparing open source projects (remember bitwarden’s attempt?). So sure, I’m not going to deny that I’m making assumptions and that I am concerned it may one day happen. But it is grounded in reality, not some tinfoil hat stuff.

Edit: and the fact that bitwarden did not eventually go through with it does not counter the fact that they intended to and tried. Sometimes companies back off and play the long game and try to be more subtle about it.

1. Tailscale has an employee who is contributing to headscale. I think this is helpful and they could decide to stop this collaboration the moment they feel it is counter productive.
2. they may decide to start adding undocumented/proprietary/“secure” elements which prevent headscale from working.

There is no guarantee headscale can keep working the way it does or that it is allowed to keep existing.

Edit: FYI headscale is not at all at feature parity with what tailscale offers.

What are their respective market shares compared to steam? Is it comparable? If it’s not, maybe they’re missing the leverage to try what Valve is attempting. But also, and likely, this is a costly long term development process.

It’s not only goodwill, it’s a survival tactic for valve. The worst case scenario for them, is see microsoft expand their monopoly to have all apps and software available only through their Microsoft app store, competing directly with valve, with the unfair advantage of microsoft controlling both windows and the app store. They could (and probably have) tried to get to where apple is with its app store on macos/ios. Though of course this would be an anticompetitive move, but the intentions could still exist making valves life difficult.

The moment they can untie gaming from windows, they have a path forward to keeping themselves not only alive but relevant and probably safe.

Congrats! Amazing project, exciting interface and you went the extra mile on the integration side with third parties. Kudos!

Edit: I’ll definitely have to try it out!

I meant to say, any more videos supporting the movement which may have caused an influx in support. Sure, there are indeed videos by some semi prolific developers with a following attempting at crashing the initiative, but as you mentioned, we are trying to get the initiative to pass, not tank it :)

Edit: mandatory link to the initiative (this is the kind of initiative that matters and will lead to action if the threshold is reached!) https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

From when I last checked a few days ago, it went from approx 450k to over 550k! Impressive!

Let’s keep the momentum going, so far this week, we’ve seen videos from:

• penguinz0 with 17M followers
• jeffgeerling’s second channel with 116k subscribers

penguinz0 has certainly caused a large influx, and I’m hoping Jeff will also have an impact.

Any more?

Perhaps give Ramalama a try?

https://github.com/containers/ramalama

Indeed, Ollama is going a shady route. https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/11016#issuecomment-2599740463

I started playing with Ramalama (the name is a mouthful) and it works great. There is one or two more steps in the setup but I’ve achieved great performance and the project is making good use of standards (OCI, jinja, unmodified llama.cpp, from what I understand).

Go and check it out, they are compatible with models from HF and Ollama too.

https://github.com/containers/ramalama

Great to see transparent information about framerates distinguishing AI frames from original frames.

One question is, how should one understand the GPU vram usage, when it is reported as 16.0/15.7 GB?

Denuvo specifically costs money as it’s some kind of subscription so from what I understand most games will drop denuvo one day or another the moment it costs more than the cost of piracy, which is probably once the wave of initial sales has passed.

The imagine if their cloud runs the game using proton. The provider with the lowest overhead would have lower costs and thus a cheaper service. If Microsoft doesn’t do it, someone else could.

Oh yes the 2.0 was also great! They added the rewind feature which is pretty cool.

Both of them can work on the steam deck, though they don’t out of the box.

For dirt you have to add a launch option WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY=4

https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/issues/328

And for dirt 2 you need to add a fix for Xbox live.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/10ehkot/has_any_one_gotten_colin_mcrae_dirt_2_working/

https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/download/Win32-latest/xlive-Win32.zip

You’re a gem of a contributor, love the style and content and thank you for making this specifically for Lemmy, much appreciated! :)

Edit: and regarding what I’m playing lately, I’m playing Colin McRae Dirt from 2007 which I recently managed to get working on the steam deck. A fun racing game!

What issues do you encounter when you say they “don’t work right”?

How reliable is sleep? Does it actually go to sleep? Is the battery drain in sleep acceptable? Does it come out of sleep without issue? Is it fast to go to sleep and resume from sleep?

My experience with the steam deck has been absolutely stellar regarding sleep, to the point is has been a game changer. So fast to pick up for a quick game and put back to sleep even if playing just for a minute. It’s reliable and the battery drain is acceptable maybe (roughly 10% per 24h but didn’t measure it explicitly).

Oh I didn’t mean to ask for the link, I just meant to get more information about what you were doing with it, totally understandable! Anyway, cool project!

Oh very interesting! How cool :) Do you then host some kind of website for people to view your animated progress in real time as you run?

Yes!! I wish there were more open source options to interface with fitness trackers and smart watches… I’m upset about all this proprietary crap forcing you to share your data with the manufacturer and depend on their availability and goodwill to access our data… Very frustrating :(