Notices by Boiling Steam (boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud), page 3

LBRY Is Dead: https://twitter.com/LBRYcom/status/1678866789407551489
#lbry #video #platform #termination

Lots of Steam Decks at the booths of indie devs #bitsummit

Is it Friday yet?

*checks date*

Oh... This is another one of these long weeks...

@hj thanks for your random guess :awesome:

@thelinuxEXP @jorge this is no preconceived notion at all. This is me using flatpak and finding many issues when it comes to having basic expectations. Like keepassxc, good luck trying to make it work with a flatpaked firefox.

@popey @thelinuxEXP @jorge its not a bug. Keepassxc devs say by themselves it cant work currently with flatpak. So flatpak breaks a very legitimate use.

@popey @thelinuxEXP @jorge People keep saying that "these things take time to be fixed with Flatpak" but it's not like Flatpak is some kind of fresh flower anymore. It's been around since 2015. 7 years later, it still can't do what regular packages can.

@thelinuxEXP @popey @jorge

Proton makes games work on Linux where they could not work before. We are going from 0 to thousands of games that work.

Flatpak is taking packages that were working perfectly well in their original distros in the first place, and breaking their features to fix their container model. We got from apps having ZERO issues to many apps not working anymore as intended.

I hope you do notice that bringing Proton on the table is an awful analogy.

@thelinuxEXP @popey @jorge Where did I imply a problem with the percentage of use cases? I specifically mentioned that some use cases are completely broken by Flakpak and there is no sign of them being fixed.

I don't understand the analogy with Proton. When a game works with Proton, it works, you don't have half of its features missing or something.

@thelinuxEXP @popey @jorge

It's not one small problem. I can come up with a longer list if you want to. Try flatpak on ARM with Linux. You will see that most apps won't work because they only have x86_64 arch supported in the first place, which is nonsensical since Linux runs on pretty much any kind of hardware these days.

I have been playing on Linux since 2007, so yes, I also know the world of gaming before Proton. And it was much worse, so Proton is clearly a NET positive.

@thelinuxEXP @popey @jorge

Flatpak has its uses. I grant you that.

But the model of "ship a distro with a few packages and let flatpak handle everything else" is very, very wrong and will bite everyone in the ass before they realize it.

Linux was never held back by properly working distro-maintained repositories - it was, and still is a massive advantage vs what you have on Windows and MacOS to this day. And I don't see Windows users go "Oh shit, now that you have flatpak I will jump ship"

@thelinuxEXP @popey @jorge

> If you truly don’t see how this is completely backwards

Maybe you should go back to using Windows if you consider the work of package maintainers on dozens of distros to be useless and backward...

@thelinuxEXP @popey @jorge

Devs don't have to maintain packages on different distros. That's the job of package maintainers. You probably know that since you have been using Linux for so long.

@thelinuxEXP @popey @jorge

No, I am just making you aware that what you are recommending is the Windows model, where you have one binary/package that works everywhere.

That defeats all kind of innovation than can be created by multiple distros in terms of package managers and ways of packaging applications.

@thelinuxEXP @jorge flatpak integration in distros still sucks though. This is not a solved problem and you need shit like flatseal to make things work which is not user friendly at all. Pushing flatpak as if its a miracle is simply ignoring its multiple shortcomings

Seen on Twitter, thought I'd share here as well
#gamedev

@PalePimp yes and no. EA was a thing as early as the 80s and they had massive development power and marketing campaigns at the time. Look also no further than Origin Systems, the guys behind the Ultima and Wing Commander series - those were clearly AAA games in their time - with way higher budget than you average garage dev.

@PalePimp
Yeah - the market took a big change when the Playstation released with a single platform where you could easily sell millions of copies at once - this gave rise to the AAA industry that we know today.

Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI - It's not too good to be too OPEN: https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free
#linux #foss #gpt4free #takedown #openai #llm

@gianni yeah, it's day and night on a normal camera (at least if they have a good sensor)