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I’m conflicted because more people joining the open source community and contributing is great. That said, open source is an ecosystem that covers everything from the application, to the build system and the code editor used to write the code. A lot of the people contributing to FOSS care a lot about the quality of their code, and being part of it means respecting the community.

But most of the AI models being used to write vibe coded or ai assisted code is not at all sustainable, it’s a huge part of the toolset that is locked behind corporate infrastructure. A lot of code spit out by LLMs is rarely workable or designed to be extended or transformed, and very few are critical of the quality of the code. I know even at work I’ve been frustrated at having to fix, work with or re factor code that has been written with the help of ai.

Firefox is becoming a shitty ai browser now. Consider waterfox or librewolf

Well, we’ll see if the steam frame can handle it. I imagine it won’t.

The steam frame, while seemingly really cool, just won’t be able to handle the worst of pc vr chat because it’s 100% guaranteed to be worse than a dedicated pc. Dedicated pcs already struggle with vr chat. It’s because there’s a million people with custom unoptimised player models everywhere.

Sync thing has been great and convenient for me. Use tailscale, zero tier or just raw wire guard to see each other

This is impressive!

10ms is way too slow for multithreading latency in games. Even 1ms for part of a frame is too slow. At 90hz you only have 11ms per frame.

Though using your pc as a host for a game server that the frame connects to would be possible. Like a multiplayer game. It could help with offloading some CPU heavy elements. I suspect though that most of the difficulty will be rendering, like in the quest.

Linux mint installs easily (to be fair they all do), is familiar to Windows interface and has a big button to install nvidia drivers.

I don’t think there would be a pc port for any of the mario games. They’ve only ever been released on Nintendo consoles, so you would have to emulate it.

Yeah and the new guy takes 3 days to finish the job that the old carpenter can do in 2hrs. And when he wants it done faster he quickly asks the old guy to do it for him. That’s why nobody else in the site likes him.

Fair enough. Have a look at matrix.org, it links to element x as a recommend client.

Yes that’s the correct one. What’s scummy about it?

You can play it single player, but it has opt in ambient multiplayer. You can join other players if you find their summoning symbol thing, and you can see soapstone messages left by other players if you’re connected. You can also be invaded by invading spirits that are other players. It would be nice if you could connect and disconnect without having to return to the main menu.

Dark souls remastered. Seems to run perfectly at Max, disabled TAA because it looks disgusting. Only issue is with dark souls itself, sleep mode kicks you (safely) to the main menu because you lose your internet connection.

Its a complicated answer. It can play probably most modern AAA games. But it likely won’t be a great experience and I can only describe it as playable. If you want a very good experience with the steam deck, then use it for mid spec games or less and it’ll be perfect and have good battery life. If you want more then maybe try another hand held, or a console.

In the end the device you play your games on needs to do one thing well, and that’s to play the games you WANT to play.

If you are looking for an affordable device to play AAA games well on with no issues, get a ps5.

If you are looking for a hand held to play indie titles and the plethora of older games available I’d go for the steam deck.

I think it’ll be a while until we get a hand held experience like the steam deck but with AAA capable hardware.

Thanks for clarifying. Even more baffling why they’re doing this

Please correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this cheaper than their existing patreon subscription which is $5 a month? That would be $60 annually.

I’m still not going to pay for it when because I don’t think it’s a good practice in the open source scene but just want to put it in perspective.

Epic games is pretty anti consumer as far as things go anyway

Recent updates have fixed it for me. Make sure you’re on the latest!