He'll, even an Intel based thin client would probably be enough. You can get them on eBay for like 30 bucks, which is about as much as a pi costs. You'll probably have to replace the ssd though. That'll set you back an additional 30 bucks.
There is BigBlueButton. It's more focused in educational usecases (online classes and the like) but it works just fine for everything else. You need to host it yourself, but there are hosted instances out there. I for example use senfcall.
But I think we are talking about different things here. What Chanuk was talking about (I think) is a ms-teams or slack alternative, not a zoom or oracle WebEx alternative. Basically Discord but for business. Sidenote: there is a open source Discord clone called revolt
I would probably go with bluefin. KDE is great, I myself use aurora on one of my devices, but it can also be kinda fiddley with all of it's options.
The user has never even used a PC and therefore won't profit from the familiarity that KDE's default desktop layout provides. Gnome on the other hand offers a more simplified experience with few options and big icons. All of that might be an asset here. You can use menulibre to hide menu entries from the menu and use the official documentation to remove command line access: https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/lockdown-single-app-mode.html.en
Plus it's still atomic which I actually think is helpful here. For once all the important system stuff is read only. Secondly if one manages to screw something up you can just rebase.
BEUC and 22 of its member organisations from 17 countries have filed a complaint on 12 September 2024 to the European Commission and the network of consumer protection Authorities (CPC-Network) to denounce several deceptive practices by leading video game companies (Activision Blizzard, Electronic A...
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> > > > > > BEUC [the European Consumer Organisation] and 22 of its member organisations from 17 countries have filed a complaint on 12 September 2024 to the European Commission and the network of consumer protection Authorities (CPC-Network) to denounce several deceptive practices by leading video game companies (Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Mojang Studios, Roblox Corporation, Supercell and Ubisoft) marketing popular games (such as Fortnite, EA Sports FC 24, Minecraft, Clash of Clans and others) and affecting millions of European consumers. > > > > > > The Norwegian Consumer Council's @finnmyrstad posted a thread about it on Mastodon: > > > > > > > 2/ 🕹 According to our analysis, these companies are using misleading tactics that do not comply with the EU rules on unfair commercial practices. In particular we identified that: > > > > > > > > 🎰 Gamers cannot see the real cost of digital items, leading to overspending. > > > > > > > > 💵 Companies’ claims that gamers prefer in-game premium currencies are wrong. > > > > > > > > ⚖ Consumers are often denied their rights when using premium in-game currencies. > > > > > > > > 🚸 Children are vulnerable to these manipulative tactics. > > > >
Somebody built a chatGPT powerded calculator as a joke
https://github.com/Calvin-LL/CalcGPT.io
>TODO: Add blockchain into this somehow to make it more stupid.
It's running slow because it's running at such a low framerate. The speed and the framerate are tied. Old console games used to work that way, which was a problem because games would run at different speeds in different countries (PAL vs NTSC). This is a solved problem in modern games. Just separate the game logic from the display logic. But this AI can't do that because there is nothing but the video.
Add to that that the AI was probably trained on high framerate footage but is only capable of generating low framerate footage and you get (gestures wildly) this
I can't find it
(Exploration: I'm using thunder, which is gesture based, you swipe to upvote rather than pressing a button)
That they leased
geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/2628925
> Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it. > > Only two days ago Denmark passed its respective threshold (I reported) and just last night the Netherlands joined the club. Both countries did so after two weeks of virtually no movement in their numbers. > > To get the initiative onto the EUs agenda so it has the chance to become EU law, it has to both reach 1 million signatures total and minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries. The Netherlands is the 6th country to pass the threshold. So who will be the 7th? Currently it looks like Ireland (69%) followed by Belgium (66%), France (64%) and Austria (62%). But as Poland has shown, things can change quickly. > > All that has happened already, happened in only just over one month since the initiative started accepting signatures showing a remarkable momentum. So let's keep the momentum going. If you haven't already signed and are a citizen of the EU (even one abroad) consider signing the initiative. > > Even if you are from a country that already reached the threshold you can still sign. Your signature counts to the 1 million goal. > > Relevant links: > - Sign the initiative here > - Initiative homepage > - Video FAQ by the initiator on YouTube > - The same video on invidious > > PS: Hi LTT crew. I'm honoured to be your source when reporting on the initiative. But maybe consider also citing the primary sources. The link "Sign the initiative here" leads directly to the page of the European Commission, which has even more up to date numbers than my screenshot.
A UK petition is in the works. It might take some time until that goes up because your election a couple of months ago reset a lot of work, but it's comming
Would they be mandated to give out the server code that people could run their own servers?
Sort of. The Idea is that people should be able to run their own servers, but developers wouldn't need to give out their code. All you need is the server binary. After all server software is just that software, just like the client and they don't need to give out the source code for that for you to run the game. Alternatively they could patch the game so it's peer-to-peer. (and yes in this case that would be unreasonable as the game is not successful enough to even break even)
The initiative is so ambiguous (to the extend that it is - I'd argue that it's a lot clearer than many people claim) because it's not actually legal text. It's not supposed to be. All it should do is describe the problem and explain why the problem falls under EU jurisdiction. Everything else is supposed to be handled by EU lawmakers after the initiative has met it's signature goal.
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> Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it. > > Only two days ago Denmark passed its respective threshold (I reported) and just last night the Netherlands joined the club. Both countries did so after two weeks of virtually no movement in their numbers. > > To get the initiative onto the EUs agenda so it has the chance to become EU law, it has to both reach 1 million signatures total and minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries. The Netherlands is the 6th country to pass the threshold. So who will be the 7th? Currently it looks like Ireland (69%) followed by Belgium (66%), France (64%) and Austria (62%). But as Poland has shown, things can change quickly. > > All that has happened already, happened in only just over one month since the initiative started accepting signatures showing a remarkable momentum. So let's keep the momentum going. If you haven't already signed and are a citizen of the EU (even one abroad) consider signing the initiative. > > Even if you are from a country that already reached the threshold you can still sign. Your signature counts to the 1 million goal. > > Relevant links: > - Sign the initiative here > - Initiative homepage > - Video FAQ by the initiator on YouTube > - The same video on invidious > > PS: Hi LTT crew. I'm honoured to be your source when reporting on the initiative. But maybe consider also citing the primary sources. The link "Sign the initiative here" leads directly to the page of the European Commission, which has even more up to date numbers than my screenshot.
Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it.
Only two days ago Denmark passed its respective threshold (I reported) and just last night the Netherlands joined the club. Both countries did so after two weeks of virtually no movement in their numbers.
To get the initiative onto the EUs agenda so it has the chance to become EU law, it has to both reach 1 million signatures total and minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries. The Netherlands is the 6th country to pass the threshold. So who will be the 7th? Currently it looks like Ireland (69%) followed by Belgium (66%), France (64%) and Austria (62%). But as Poland has shown, things can change quickly.
All that has happened already, happened in only just over one month since the initiative started accepting signatures showing a remarkable momentum. So let's keep the momentum going. If you haven't already signed and are a citizen of the EU (even one abroad) consider signing the initiative.
Even if you are from a country that already reached the threshold you can still sign. Your signature counts to the 1 million goal.
Relevant links:
PS: Hi LTT crew. I'm honoured to be your source when reporting on the initiative. But maybe consider also citing the primary sources. The link "Sign the initiative here" leads directly to the page of the European Commission, which has even more up to date numbers than my screenshot.
I'm remembered of this video essay: Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence
Then you should sign it anyway. Worst case your new signature will get invalidated after the fact, but your old one should (AFAIK) still get counted
Yes there was one but the Tories didn't have anything to do with it closing, at least not directly. If an election happens all open petitions are closed as a matter of process, because "it's a new parliament". And then you need to resubmit.
A UK petition is in the works. But it might take a month or two until that goes online.
geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/2583105
> Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it. > > To get the initiative onto the EUs agenda so it has the chance to become EU law, it has to both reach 1 million signatures total and minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries. Denmark has just hit their threshold becoming the fifth country to do so. Earlier this week the initiative also reached 1/3 of the required 1 million votes. > > All of this happened in only just over one month since the initiative started accepting signatures showing a remarkable momentum. So let's keep the momentum going. If you haven't already signed and are a citizen of the EU (even one abroad) consider signing the initiative. > > Even if you are from a country that already reached the threshold you can still sign. Your signature counts to the 1 million goal. > > Relevant links: > - Sign the initiative here > - Initiative homepage > - Video FAQ by the initiator on YouTube > - The same video on invidious > > PS: Hi LTT crew. I'm honoured to be your source when reporting on the initiative. But maybe consider also citing the primary sources. The link "Sign the initiative here" leads directly to the page of the European Commission, which has even more up to date numbers than my screenshot.
Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it.
To get the initiative onto the EUs agenda so it has the chance to become EU law, it has to both reach 1 million signatures total and minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries. Denmark has just hit their threshold becoming the fifth country to do so. Earlier this week the initiative also reached 1/3 of the required 1 million votes.
All of this happened in only just over one month since the initiative started accepting signatures showing a remarkable momentum. So let's keep the momentum going. If you haven't already signed and are a citizen of the EU (even one abroad) consider signing the initiative.
Even if you are from a country that already reached the threshold you can still sign. Your signature counts to the 1 million goal.
Relevant links:
PS: Hi LTT crew. I'm honoured to be your source when reporting on the initiative. But maybe consider also citing the primary sources. The link "Sign the initiative here" leads directly to the page of the European Commission, which has even more up to date numbers than my screenshot.
There is another downside. The local and global feeds are potent discovery tools. But they only work if you group people with similar interests onto the same instance. Your proposal assumes a certain amount of homogeneity. If everyone is interested in the same content anyway then yes you can distribute it randomly. But all the people interested in Linux memes are already here. If we are to expand our reach we need to have instances catering to other interests.
And it also doesn't work with international communities. German speakers for example go to feddit.org, precisely because that's where German content is going to be amplified via the local feed and therefore easier to discover (for people an that particular instance)
I considered that. Unfortunately silverblue doesn't do live systems and aurora therefore doesn't either. So a VM is the only way of trying it out. OP stated that they have someone to help with the actual installation so I left the whole create install medium for bare metal install out intentionally since I assume this person will be capable of helping with that.
Also small Markdown help: If you use dashes lemmy will automatically format bulletpoints correctly. You can't use •s for it. Doesn't take anything away from your comment, etcher is still the best tool to create a bootable usb drive, but for the future consider using dashes.
You can try Linux out without installing it to get a feel for it before you make the jump. Set a weekend aside (or at least a couple of hours) to test drive a Linux distro and check if it is your cup of tea.
This is one way of doing this:
- Install Virtual Box on your (Widows) PC
- head over to https://getaurora.dev/ and download the latest iso
- In virtualbox create a new VM
- set the OS Type to fedora (64 bit)
- after that you can keep all the standard settings, just be aware that performance is not going to be representative of an actual install
- Then select the newly created VM and open the settings panel
- here you go to "Storage" and click on the slot under "Controler: IDE" labeled "empty"
- click on the CD symbol on the right side of the window, in line with "optical drive" and select "choose a disk file"
- pick the iso file you downloaded in step 2
- close the settings window and start the VM
- go through the installation wizard to install Aurora OS in your Virtual Machine
- Profit
I know that these instructions can seem daunting but it is easier than it reads, I promise.
Why Aurora OS
Aurora OS is based on Fedora Silverblue meaning that it is what is known as a immutable distro. That in turn means that it's harder to mess stuff up and break your install. It also means that some things are harder to achieve. But I also think that you are probably not interested in the hard stuff anyway.
Aurora uses the KDE Plasma Desktop, the same desktop used by Valve on the Steamdeck. It has a familiar Windows like layout by default but also allows you to customise it like crazy to fit your particular need (whatever that may be).
Aurora flatpak as it's app format. To see what kind of software is available for this distro you can check flathub.org . It's not going to be as much software as Linux Mint for example (Mint uses flatpak and deb), but everything the average user needs should be there.
Here is the quote I paraphrased in my comment (I'm sure I got something wrong):
The immutable file system from Fedora Silverblue will be very helpful in implementing our anti cheat system but it is not our anti cheat system. We are planning to generate signatures for each version of our OS (easy with Silverblue) as well as all the DLLs we install dynamically. Basically using our SDK, a game developer will be able to obtain a signature of the current config on the device then call our backend to verify that this is a genuine Playtron version.
Then please, enlighten us!
What is a game that brands itself as a web3 game (not a game that just uses blockchain tech but specifically calls itself web3) that isn't also play to earn.
Wow. You really don't see the irony in that sentence, do you?
It's bazzite with a custom UI instead of Steam Big Picture and no desktop mode. Their big claim seems to be that they say that they have solved anti cheat on Linux: the system generates a checksum of the kernel space, the anti cheat then compares this checksum with the one on file. No custom kernel module needed on the part of the anti cheat dev. At least in theory.
Playtron are quietly building up their Linux-based PlaytronOS behind the scenes, and not only have they released their first Alpha but they've pulled in another investor too.
Meme originally by Adam Something: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxGBHk9fqC5uOsbAlmFDxACBNkC_9SglYv
His YouTube-Post also contains a template for easy future memeability.
Deutschland hat gestern Abend seine Mindestanzahl an Unterschriften bei der Europäischen Volksinitiative erreicht.
Vielen Dank an alle, die bereits unterschrieben haben. Und an alle anderen: Eure Unterschrift zählt immer noch. Wir müssen schließlich über die nächsten 11,5 Monate 1 Mio. Stimmen kontinentweit erreichen. Also unterschreibt fleißig weiter.
Stop Killing Games ist eine Bürgerinitiative, die sich dafür einsetzt, dass Videospiele spielbar bleiben, auch nachdem deren Entwickler und Publisher sich dazu entschieden haben den Stecker zu ziehen.
SKG wird keine offizielle Präsenz auf der Gamescom haben, aber wenn ihr vorhabt die Kölnmesse diese Wochenende zu besuchen und ein paar Flyer haben wollt, um die dort zu verteilen, könnt ihr mich gerne anschreiben. Ich lasse euch gerne welche zukommen.
> Relevante Links: > - Unterschreibe die Initiative hier > - Initiative Homepage > - Video FAQ vom Organisator auf YouTube > - Das selbe Video auf invidious
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> This is your somewhat regularly scheduled Stop Killing Games update. > > Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it. > > Germany has hit the threshold sometime yesterday evening. France has also started to catch up. They are still below 50% but there growth over the last couple of days has been the biggest. Netherlands and Denmark are still in the low 90s. > > The milestone comes on the eve of this years Gamescom in Cologne, Germany which is set to kick off today. SKG is not going to have an official presence there. (I've checked with the organisers) But if you are attending and want to help spread the word I'm happy to share official marketing material, either in the form of flyers or the files for flyers, so you can print your own. They come in both German and English. If you want some, send me a DM. > > Relevant links: > - Sign the initiative here > - Initiative homepage > - Video FAQ by the initiator on YouTube > - The same video on invidious
This is your somewhat regularly scheduled Stop Killing Games update.
Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it.
Germany has hit the threshold sometime yesterday evening. France has also started to catch up. They are still below 50% but there growth over the last couple of days has been the biggest. Netherlands and Denmark are still in the low 90s.
The milestone comes on the eve of this years Gamescom in Cologne, Germany which is set to kick off today. SKG is not going to have an official presence there. (I've checked with the organisers) But if you are attending and want to help spread the word I'm happy to share official marketing material, either in the form of flyers or the files for flyers, so you can print your own. They come in both German and English. If you want some, send me a DM.
Relevant links:
geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/1854600
> I'm not going to post an update every time a (small) milestone is reached, but i felt this time it was warranted. > > Sweden and Poland both passed their respective thresholds. That brings us to 3 out of 7 countries where we need to pass the threshold. We are also past 25% of the one million signatures needed continent-wide. > > Thank you to everyone who already signed. > > Relevant links: > - Sign the initiative here > - Initiative homepage > - Video FAQ by the initiator on YouTube > - The same video on invidious
I'm not going to post an update every time a (small) milestone is reached, but i felt this time it was warranted.
Sweden and Poland both passed their respective thresholds. That brings us to 3 out of 7 countries where we need to pass the threshold. We are also past 25% of the one million signatures needed continent-wide.
Thank you to everyone who already signed.
Relevant links:
geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/1696486
> The initiative is at more than 20% of the 1 million signatures necessary. > > As of 4 pm CEST the numbers are: > > | Country | Number of Signatures | Percentage of the theshold| > | --- | --- | --- | > | Austria | 4,187 | 31.26% | > | Belgium | 7,116 | 48.06% | > | Bulgaria | 2,764 | 23.06% | > | Croatia | 2,527 | 29.87% | > | Cyprus | 288 | 6.81% | > | Czechia | 4,690 | 31.68% | > | Denmark | 7,684 | 77.85% | > | Estonia | 1,827 | 37.02% | > | Finland | 10,266 | 104.01% | > | France | 16,732 | 30.04% | > | Germany | 45,688 | 67.51% | > | Greece | 2,469 | 16.68% | > | Hungary | 4,509 | 30.46% | > | Ireland | 4,680 | 51.06% | > | Italy | 7,949 | 14.84% | > | Latvia | 1,569 | 27.82% | > | Lithuania | 3,109 | 40.09% | > | Luxembourg | 430 | 10.17% | > | Malta | 279 | 6.6% | > | Netherlands | 15,999 | 78.25% | > | Poland | 20,517 | 55.97% | > | Portugal | 5,019 | 33.9% | > | Romania | 7,917 | 34.03% | > | Slovakia | 2,773 | 28.1% | > | Slovenia | 1,478 | 26.21% | > | Spain | 16,261 | 39.09% | > | Sweden | 13,698 | 92.52% | > | Total | 212.425 | 21,24% | > > To be successful the initiative needs to reach 1 million signatures and pass the threshold in at least seven countries. > > https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home/allcountries
The initiative is at more than 20% of the 1 million signatures necessary.
As of 4 pm CEST the numbers are:
| Country | Number of Signatures | Percentage of the theshold| | --- | --- | --- | | Austria | 4,187 | 31.26% | | Belgium | 7,116 | 48.06% | | Bulgaria | 2,764 | 23.06% | | Croatia | 2,527 | 29.87% | | Cyprus | 288 | 6.81% | | Czechia | 4,690 | 31.68% | | Denmark | 7,684 | 77.85% | | Estonia | 1,827 | 37.02% | | Finland | 10,266 | 104.01% | | France | 16,732 | 30.04% | | Germany | 45,688 | 67.51% | | Greece | 2,469 | 16.68% | | Hungary | 4,509 | 30.46% | | Ireland | 4,680 | 51.06% | | Italy | 7,949 | 14.84% | | Latvia | 1,569 | 27.82% | | Lithuania | 3,109 | 40.09% | | Luxembourg | 430 | 10.17% | | Malta | 279 | 6.6% | | Netherlands | 15,999 | 78.25% | | Poland | 20,517 | 55.97% | | Portugal | 5,019 | 33.9% | | Romania | 7,917 | 34.03% | | Slovakia | 2,773 | 28.1% | | Slovenia | 1,478 | 26.21% | | Spain | 16,261 | 39.09% | | Sweden | 13,698 | 92.52% | | Total | 212.425 | 21,24% |
To be successful the initiative needs to reach 1 million signatures and pass the threshold in at least seven countries.
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home/allcountries
geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/1678587
> https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=qtQ2jTmzIok
https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=qtQ2jTmzIok