FSR4 is really, really good. In one important way, it’s actually better than DLSS: it doesn’t have those really distracting disocclusion trails that DLSS has.

The catch is thst your game needs to have FSR4, which is still very new, because like you pointed out, earlier versions were not good.

Japanese IP laws are no more strict than other major blocs due to trade agreements. Nintendo has never “lost out on licensing” due to IP laws. Beginning in the 1980s, they have been extremely and aggressively litigious as a matter of company policy. They literally see everything they produce as theirs… you don’t own the things you “buy” from them. You pay them for the enjoyment of using their things. They’re about as hardcore neoliberal as it gets. In other words, they seem evil because they are evil.

You can believe that people stuck in wheelchairs deserve equal access to public spaces via accommodations like ramps or elevators, and still hate Ted, who happens to be paraplegic, because he is a hateful, racist, fascist MAGA jerk. In this case, your shunning of Ted is not ableist because the reason you treat Ted differently is unrelated to his disability and you are well aware of the fact. He doesn’t get a pass for things unrelated to his disability.

However, if you are aware of someones disability and treat them prejudiciously because of it (or it’s symptoms) then you are the ableist jerk. If you are the one with a disability and people treat you in a prejudicious manner because your disabilities or their symptoms, then they are jerks and not friends.

Um, the point of Helldivers is that we are the baddies.

I feel like we have more than enough death-cult machismo fascism in real life.

Oh, you thought you owned that thing you bought? No. This is 2025. You own nothing. It doesn’t matter how much money you gave them. Yeah, gave them. Because you didn’t buy that stuff. You’re just borrowing it.

One of the differences these days is that marginalized groups are having their existences threatened… and not hollow threats, but meaningful ones that have had, and continue to have, very real consequences in the form of policies, hate crimes, etc.

That is legitimate, very real violence, and it results in very understandable hostility. And then those perpetuating, supporting, and celebrating the violence pretend they are victims when people treat them like the orcs they are.

“Why are you being so divisive?” “You’re not very TOLERANT of different opinions, are you?” “Why are you so angry all the time, snowflakes?”

Violent bullies need to be put in their place, and with more than just “hostility on the internet”.

I know there are as many distros as there are stars in the sky, but definitely give it a test drive! It’s one of the better distros out there IMO, especially for gaming.

I definitely blame the patent office.

But also, patents should not exist. They need to be completely abolished. Copyrights are one thing, copyrights make sense, patents are another entirely, existing solely to facilitate intellectual theft from both individual entities and the broader public.

You see, the patent system is based on a “first to file the paperwork” basis, thereby enabling literal legalized theft. Neoliberalism at work, precisely as designed.

Yes. It’s very healthy and actively maintained by System76.

Oh they know how to do it. They are just desperate to swindle existing owners since their vehicle sales have fallen off a cliff.

Digital patents should not exist. Period.

It’s almost as if college isn’t about bettering yourself but paying a racket so you can check off a mandatory box on your resume for the pleasure of your corporate liege-lords…

Gotta protect that illegal, anticompetitive trust at all costs.

Pop_OS or Bazzite, IMO.

Unfortunately, Ubuntu is corporate bloatware these days.

Not really. It’s just called “Teams” now.

Same. It’s a red flag for me and I’m less likely to do any business with them if ai can help it. The time to leave was a long, long time ago. There is no excuse for it now.

Aww, and I here I was hoping multiple vendors were FINALLY going to contribute to mobile linux.

So it’s Google Glass.

That’s literally just Google Glass.

Who would even want that?

You should be able to do so many amazing things with AR… in theory. But we clearly don’t have the tech to make it a reality. Even Apple’s headset, with all its theoretical power, can’t do basic AR things like real-time object recognition and tracking. It’s little more than an iPad you wear on your face. That’s not AR. In theory, Apple Vision has the power to do that stuff. So why doesn’t it? Why can’t it? What did they do wrong?