LupertEverett

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"AI is the Future" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"AI is a tool when it comes to AI art"

I find that rather dumb. Because tools are made to help people. You use a hammer to nail things, for example. You don't leave the hammer to do all the nailing by itself. If your only involvement there is just with your prompt, then you didn't do anything, the computer did. This would be like saying "I commissioned a drawing from this artist and told them what to do, therefore I made this drawing and this artist is a tool".

Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

More like Hector Martin Do Not Cause Drama Challenge: Literally Impossible

Get it right! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Freawayland

DELTARUNE TOMORROW IS REAL in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Deltarune in 64 tomorrows!

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I too have installed Win11 Pro several times on computers, captain obvious. I know you can do that now.

I am asking that how did you reach to the conclusion that they won't remove it in later builds from the article itself.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It doesn't state anything of the sort in the article. Where did you read that?

Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

There is none of them, because there is absolutely nothing connecting the former to latter. Since Neowin stated it themselves, the burden of proof lies entirely on them and they literally cannot provide any.

To quote the "article":

While it’s doubtful you’ll see ads in KDE’s core applications, it would be possible for distributions that wish to further monetize their work to fork these applications, placing ads in them.

Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Neowin is the web site where their writers can stupidly claim that Qt getting an advertisement module means that KDE will have ads in their apps soon.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220119103026/https://www.neowin.net/news/ads-may-be-coming-to-kde-the-popular-linux-desktop/

Stop linking to them.

CEO of Brave rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (9 children)

It comes from Terry A. Davis's description of CIA, FBI and the like: "They glow in the dark"

Phoronix forums are insane in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I feel like as long as there is money to be gained from it (be it via clicks or whatever), these people will stay.

So you gotta, in video game terms, "hit the boss on its weakpoint".

What also grinds my gears is that one guy in there who ban evaded twice, everyone else knows who they are, yet they still remain on the forums to this day. If that doesn't tell anybody that that site has a serious moderation problem, I don't know what will.

Phoronix forums are insane in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

This is all entirely Michael's fault because he refuses to have anything resembling of a moderation.

Use adblockers. Never give him any of your precious money. He doesn't deserve a single penny of it.

Edit: Fun fact: Karol also stopped visiting Phoronix forums a fair bit of time ago. GEE, I wonder what caused it to happen?

Edit 2: That particular forum post is now loginwalled LMFAO

sudo ...for windows in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Unix Haters Handbook was so real for that rm rant.

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OldUnreal team publishes installers for downloading Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament from archive.org, with Epic Games's approval! (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21988112

So, great news!

Not too long ago, the folks at OldUnreal announced in their Discord server that they got permission from Epic Games to distribute two particular links from archive.org to download Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament.

Now they've published installers for automating the installation process, as well as installing their patches on top of Unreal/UT.

The installers are available to download on the links down below:

Unreal Gold Installer: https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unreal/full-game-installers/

Unreal Tournament Installer: https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unrealtournament/full-game-installers/

These are Windows only, but Linux and macOS installers are also gonna be released sometime soon, it seems!

Enjoy!

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OldUnreal team publishes installers for downloading Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament from archive.org, with Epic's approval! (lemmy.world)
 

So, great news!

Not too long ago, the folks at OldUnreal announced in their Discord server that they got permission from Epic to distribute two particular links from archive.org to download Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament.

Now they've published installers for automating the installation process, as well as installing their patches on top of Unreal/UT.

The installers are available to download on the links down below:

Unreal Gold Installer: https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unreal/full-game-installers/

Unreal Tournament Installer: https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unrealtournament/full-game-installers/

These are Windows only, but Linux and macOS installers are also gonna be released sometime soon, it seems!

Enjoy!

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Surreal Engine (formerly UTEngine): Open source reimplementation of Unreal Engine 1, can run UT99 and Unreal Gold (v226) maps, and boot up Deus Ex (github.com)
 

Surreal Engine is an ongoing project to reimplement UE1, mainly focused on Unreal Tournament v436 and Unreal Gold v226 at the moment.

This one has been discussed in the other linux_gaming community before, more than two years ago. Since then there were numerous improvements:

  • It can now run UT99 maps and Unreal Gold botmatch maps (whereas it was limited to only UT before), and boot up onto the intro flyby of Deus Ex.
  • Colission handling is much better (but not perfect yet).
  • Can utilize SDL2 on Linux for windowing and native Wayland support (previously it'd use pure X11, and actually still does if you don't have SDL2 installed).
  • The menus mostly work now.
  • Initial works for the AI (they will move around sometimes, and retaliate if attacked).
  • Game detection system based on the SHA1 sum of the game executable. This allows us to detect many versions of UT and U1/UGold, as well as Deus Ex, Klingon Honor Guard, NERF Arena Blast, and more!
  • A launcher has been added to select the game you want to play on startup. And lots of other improvements!

There is still a lot of work to do to implement everything though, and contributions are always welcome!

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NVK Gaming (but with an RTX 3050Ti): Unreal Tournament v469d RC4 (with and without GSP firmware) (youtu.be)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink
 

Thought of giving it a try myself, after seeing the other NVK Gaming videos by the user Reverse Module in this community. Building Linux 6.7 was kind of a pain though... :V

I happen to have an RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, so I can try things out with and without the GSP firmware. I had tested a game from the 90s (I don't wanna try out heavier games until the driver is more mature) but still, the performance difference is quite visible.

Edit: I edited the video description to include links to the tests made by the user Reverse Module using an RTX 4090M, I feel dumb about not doing this earlier.

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TR1X (formerly Tomb1Main), open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider (1996), releases version 3.0 with Linux support (Linked version: 3.0.2) (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink
 

Note that I've linked the latest version at the time of writing this (3.0.2), the original 3.0 version with its changelog is available here: https://github.com/LostArtefacts/TR1X/releases/tag/3.0

For a quick rundown of things: Tomb Raider (1996) is the very first game of the critically acclaimed Tomb Raider series made by the late Core Design. Its available to buy on Steam and GOG (as a bundle of the first 3 games), with remastered versions of the first 3 games set to release in Feb. 14, 2024

Unlike the rest of the "classics", Tomb Raider 1 was a DOS-only application, which is rather inconvenient to get it working; or it would be if the fans didn't figure out a way to get the TombATI version of the game (a port made for very old ATI cards) working on the modern Windows OSs.

TR1X is made by reverse engineering the aforementioned TombATI version (by employing the methods from a similar project for Tomb Raider 2 named TR2Main, which is also where the previous name Tomb1Main is inspired from), and vastly improves upon it. The changes are far too many to list here, but the highlights include much further drawing distance, TR2+ style controlling for Lara, a New Game+ option, fully customizable gameflow (both for modding and making self imposed challenges), Gold expansion (Unfinished Business) support.

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