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Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it
  • It's funny, people said the exact same thing about Windows 10. It had ads and spyware. It also had Cortana, the AI garbage of its time. Consumers will never learn. Can't wait for Windows 12 to also be seen as the one where Microsoft has ruined Windows for real this time.

  • Fixed a post I saw earlier
  • Eh, even with track creation, I prefer Modnation Racers and its spiritual successor LittleBigPlanet Karting. Shame both games are stuck on the PS3, but then SuperTuxKart still looks like it came out of the PS2. They run well in RPCS3 and online still works for track sharing through fan servers.

    Also, I wasn't that impressed by Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled. It does have tons of content, certainly worth the price. Never played the originals and the remake sure does look pretty, but the track design feels pretty simple, probably because they're from a PS1 game. Simple track layouts, few gimmicks. Some people might prefer that, but not me. I'm sure CTR beat the socks off Mario Kart 64 back in the day, but the tracks in modern Mario Kart are to me far more interesting. I expected more out of it given all the hype. Plus, for some unfathomable reason despite being multiplatform the game was only released on consoles, not PC, so that's another game you have to emulate to play on PC. And if you do have a console to play it on, it's locked at 30fps regardless of platform, which is disappointing for a racing game. There's a 60fps mod if you emulate tho, thankfully.

    All-Stars Racing Transformed does have my glowing recommendation, though.

  • Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming
  • I dunno, I expect the Deck to last far longer than the average console if anything. It's a PC, so the games are pretty much guaranteed to keep coming for decades to come, as they have for decades past.

    The hardware will fall behind, so I think the point where the newest Triple A games won't be playable will come within a few years, but I bet whatever visual novels or pixelated indie games release in 2035 will still run just fine on it.

    Plus, it's designed to be repairable, unlike most consoles. And even if Valve stops maintaining SteamOS for the Steam Deck, you'll still be able to install other distros, so software support isn't something I'm very concerned about either.

  • Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency
  • Nah, Lemmy is not really representative of the wider Windows userbase. The willingness to switch away from Windows is definitely going to be far higher in those who were willing to switch away from Reddit.

  • ZLUDA's third life
  • What exactly does Valve stand to gain at all from funding a CUDA compatibility layer targetting mainly machine learning software? They're a video game company. Arguably the most gaming-centric thing CUDA is used for was explicitly discarded in the blog post ("Raytracing is gone").

    Machine learning is massive now and there are many companies who could be interested in funding this kind of project. I'm pretty skeptical it's possible to make any good guesses with what little info we have.

  • ZLUDA's third life
  • History:

    1. ZLUDA starts as a project to make CUDA work on Intel GPUs, with funding from Intel.
    2. Intel pulls funding, author manages to get funding from AMD instead.
    3. Development of a new version targetting AMD GPUs happens under closed doors with the informal agreement that the source code will be publicly released if AMD pulls funding.
    4. After a couple of years, AMD pulls funding and the source code for the new version is released.
    5. Development continues in the open for a few months, albeit at a slowed pace.
    6. AMD goes back on their word, claims previous agreement wasn't legally binding and asks that ZLUDA source code be taken down.
    7. Author reverts codebase to its pre-AMD state, looks for new source of funding.
    8. ZLUDA's Third Life
    9. Anything regarding NVIDIA involvement is pure speculation and should be treated as such.
  • What the hell Proton!
  • I did look it up afterwards and found out it could also be Arizona, but still wasn't sure. I figured porn sites would also be capable of mysteriously mistaking an Azerbaijani IP for a Texan IP. I also figured internationally obscure ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes were much less likely to come up than ISO 3166-1 country codes given that people are much less likely to know what they are, plus they are much more likely to overlap with each other and cause ambiguity. But it is very American to assume everyone else knows the US's subdivision codes and Lemmy probably has far more Arizonans than Azerbaijanis, so I wasn't completely sure either way.

  • blog.vladzahorodnii.com SVG cursors: everything that you need to know about them

    SVG cursor themes is a new feature in Plasma 6.2, which we are really excited about. In this blog post, I would like to provide more background behind what motivated us to add support for them, wha…

    SVG cursors: everything that you need to know about them
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    MAGAts be all ...
  • I downvoted it because conservatives constantly make this exact same "joke" about how poor people actually deserve to be poor because they pay for Netflix or clothes or anything that isn't food or rent. It's not funny when they do it and because I'm not a hypocrite I don't find it funny when leftists do it either.

    Normally I would have just downvoted and moved on with my day, but apparently that makes me a "coward that refuses to stand and be counted". Because attacking people for downvoting a joke they didn't like is apparently 100% okay with Lemmings and totally not toxic behavior. Does not liking literally all of the comedy that comes out of the left make me a 'bad-faith both-sides “leftist”'? If so, guilty as charged. I do not see the left as a monolith and feel no shame in criticising or disagreeing with what other leftists say.

  • Nintendo shuts down Switch emulator Ryujinx
  • Huh, just realized Yuzu was GPLv3. That's weird. Citra was GPLv2 and Yuzu is a Citra fork. Some of the Citra devs were Yuzu developers, but not all of them, so I wonder how they handled the relicensing. Yuzu had a CLA attributing copyright to the creators, so that wouldn't have been a problem, but Citra had not such thing.

  • frinring.wordpress.com Okteta got “Best Application” 2024 Akademy Award

    The jury of this year’s KDE Akademy Awards, being by tradition representatives of last year’s winners, has selected the hex editor Okteta in the category “Best Application”.…

    Okteta got “Best Application” 2024 Akademy Award
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    knro.blogspot.com KStars 3.7.2 Released

    KStars v3.7.2 is released on 2024.08.03 for Windows, MacOS & Linux . It's a bi-monthly bug-fix release with a couple of exciting features. A...

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    blogs.kde.org Amarok 3.1 "Tricks of the Light" released!

    The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.1 "Tricks of the Light"! Coming three months after 3.0.0 and two months after the first bugfix release 3.

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    akselmo.dev Kate and OrgMode

    Gamedev, FOSS, programming, stuff.

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    gruenich.blogspot.com Release of KDE Stopmotion 0.8.7

    Open Source Software Development FOSS FLOSS

    Release of KDE Stopmotion 0.8.7
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    Interacting with mpv - Haruna

    haruna.kde.org Interacting with mpv

    How to use mpv scripts and config files

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    anditosan.wordpress.com Breeze Icon Updates for April 2024 – with a Little Heart for You!

    Hey everyone! Here is a new video explanation of the changes we have done. This time we tackled Labplot, maps, and media icons! Can you believe it? We are now officially past the mid-way for the ic…

    Breeze Icon Updates for April 2024 – with a Little Heart for You!
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    discuss.kde.org Amarok 3.0 beta (2.9.82) out now!

    Hi everyone, long time user, first time releaser here. I am happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 beta (2.9.82)! This is the next step towards a proper KF5 based release. Although there have been some functionalities lost during porting or due to changes in external network s...

    Amarok 3.0 beta (2.9.82) out now!
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    Amarok might be coming back in 2024

    Amarok was KDE's flagship music player during the KDE3 and Plasma 4 days. For Plasma 5, a new music player called Elisa was created with Kirigami which is the current KDE flagship music player. The last full release of Amarok was 2.9.0 in 2018, still targeting Qt4. A Plasma 5 port was started with the intention of being released as Amarok 3.0, but despite a usable alpha 2.9.71 release in 2021, the full 3.0 release was never completed. Outside of the occasional odd pull request, the project was essentially dead and was listed as unmaintained by apps.kde.org.

    Two weeks ago, occasional contributor Tuomas Nurmi, author of over a third of these pull requests, made a push to become an Amarok maintainer, starting this thread in the mailing list: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok-devel/2024-March/014748.html

    In the thread, Tuomas expresses his desire to revive Amarok. He believes a second alpha for 3.0 can be released in mid-April and a full Plasma 6 port could be completed within 2024 after the release of 3.0. Tuomas has since created a fair amount of merges and fixes in preparation for 3.0 and has shown no sign of stopping.

    This is very exciting news. For many, Elisa isn't a satisfying replacement for Amarok. It simply doesn't come close to matching Amarok's power and features. It also has the drawback of being a convergent application, meaning compromises have to be made to make the interface work well on smartphones.

    It's also victim to the many drawbacks of Kirigami. Theming is worse since Plasma has to convert QtWidget themes to QtQuick themes, which works great for Breeze, but meh for everything else. There is no good equivalent for KStandardAction/QAction, KHamburgerMenu or KStandardShortcut. Any Kirigami app that wants customizable toolbars and shortcuts need to go out of their way to implement them, while QtWidgets apps just get them for free. You also don't have a good QDockWidget equivalent that I know of. Apps that do bother to reimplement some of these features (Haruna is the only one I know of) still don't have toolbar customization to nearly the same extent QtWidgets apps do. Most Kirigami apps don't bother with this at all and lose a lot of customizability in the process. Elisa is not Haruna, tho. There is no shortcut customization, there is no toolbar to customize and that hamburger menu can't be turned into a menubar.

    For years, the solution was Strawberry, a fork of Amarok still under active development. Thing is, Strawberry is a fork of Clementine, itself a fork of Amarok 1.4. That's old. That's 2008 Amarok, not 2018 Amarok. Clementine had its first release in 2010, when Amarok was still going strong. It was for good reason, Amarok 2.0 introduced a very divisive redesign of the interface, which prompted a fork. But this means 2.0+ Amarok and Strawberry are actually very different beasts. For those who were using Amarok 2.9, switching to Strawberry meant switching to a new music player, making it far from an ideal successor. So I'm very much excited for the return of Amarok, the best music player KDE has had.

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    gruenich.blogspot.com Kile 2.9.95 / 3.0 beta 4 released

    Open Source Software Development FOSS FLOSS

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    anditosan.wordpress.com Breeze Icon Update March 16, 2024

    Hi all, I am back with another update for adapting icons to the 24px grid and doing some larger edits. This week, I worked on 3 rows, which is great, and was able to hit just past the 50% mark, it …

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    kde.org KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Bugfix Release for March

    Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6.

    KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Bugfix Release for March
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    anditosan.wordpress.com Icon Updates for March, 2024

    Hey all, I have been away for a minute but wanted to give you an update on the work so far in updating and adapting Breeze icons to the 24px grid. Check out the video below.

    Icon Updates for March, 2024
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    The Neon Powered Gears are Working on Plasma 6

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    www.volkerkrause.eu MOTIS support in KPublicTransport

    Two weeks ago I showed a screenshot of initial support for the MOTIS routing engine in KTrip in my FOSDEM 2024 report. Driven by the Transitous work this is ...

    MOTIS support in KPublicTransport
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    Kubuntu Graphic Design Contest

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    eco.kde.org Making way for Wayland in KdeEcoTest

    Improving KdeEcoTest and making it compatible on Wayland systems

    Making way for Wayland in KdeEcoTest
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