The Portal was definitely not well received. It was a marketing disaster and an embarrassment.

Microsoft has the Edge here (see what I did?) when it comes to handheld, because they already have a weaker hardware that games on Xbox must be able to run, the Series S. This baseline could be used as a handheld compatibility (at least from performance perspective). Sony on the other hand has a monster console and no weaker version of it. So there is much more and longer to developer. For the coming years, I’m not convinced Sony would be capable of doing that. Also imagine the price it would have.

I don’t think Sony wants a PS4 handheld while Microsoft has the newer generation Series S based handheld. Sony wants to sell new games, not the old one.

Read my comment if you like speculation and future prediction.

It’s a bit too early to talk about this. First the Switch 2 will come out, then probably Steam Deck 2, then Xbox Portable and only then Sony is ready to release. At that point its already in the middle of the Switch 2’s life cycle and the market is full of handhelds. If Sony comes up with expensive prices again, it will be a tough sale (in the long run) and it ends up being a similar failure (for units sold) like the Vita.

The Playstation Portal just streams and is already 200 Dollar. It’s basically a tablet with controllers attached to it, but less capable. If Sony goes the route of Apple and markets the Playstation Handheld as a premium device for hardcore fans, then do not expect it being cheaper than 500, around same price as the original PS5. I hope Sony will surprise me.

I’m not a fan of forced apology. It’s just there like forcing a billionaire to apology, so some people feel better and to get a false sense. An apology should come from them without asking for one. Otherwise it loses its meaning and is only a formal apology, not a meaningful one. It can even make it worse, because people tend to forget look over the issue as resolved. As said, I do not like the idea at all.

I like this response best so far (from the actual mailing list): https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/10576437.nUPlyArG6x@lichtvoll.de/ (from Martin Steigerwald)

Do you really think that power-playing Kent into submission by doing a public apology is doing anything good to resolve the issue at hand?

While it may not really compare to some of the wording Linus has used before having been convinced to change his behavior… I do not agree with the wording Kent has used. I certainly do not condone it.

But this forced public apology approach in my point of view is very likely just to cement the division instead of heal it. While I publicly disagreed with Kent before, I also publicly disagree with this kind of Code of Conduct enforcement. I have seen similar patterns within the Debian community and in my point of view this lead to the loss of several Debian developers who contributed a lot to the project while leaving behind frustration and unresolved conflict.

No amount of power play is going to resolve this. Just exercising authority is not doing any good in here. This needs mediation, not forced public humiliation.

To me, honestly written, this whole interaction feels a bit like I’d imagine children may be fighting over a toy. With a majority of the children grouping together to single out someone who does not appear to fit in at first glance. I mean no offense with that. This is just the impression I got so far. The whole interaction just does not remind me of respectful communication between adult human beings. I have seen it with myself… in situations where it was challenging for me to access what I learned, for whatever reason, I had been acting similarly to a child. So really no offense meant. This is just an impression I got and wanted to mirror back to you for your consideration.

This quote is not the entire response, but most of it. Edit: I totally forgot to include a link. Added now.

LTS Kernels are not affected, aren’t they? I also wonder if some distributions will patch in bcachefs support for non LTS.

I know of brothers creating Aldi North and Aldi South, at least here in Germany (Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd). I wasn’t aware of the history of Lidl being a direct competitor to Aldi. Just looked up on Wikipedia for quick reference.

What makes Lidl a copy of Aldi? Isn’t every supermarket the same?

Fascinating that users find it interesting that people find it surprising when its actually is: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65959097

Andrew Tate charged with rape and human trafficking (21 June 2023)

Controversial influencer Andrew Tate has been charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women.

Hähä

Anyone know how the Wayland driver in WINE will impact? I mean Wine works on XWayland so far, so what can we expect to get better with native Wayland support? I’ve searched a bit in web, but its hard to find some definitive answers (lots of general WINE and Wayland topics, often outdated).

Next week in news: After Russia, Chinese next to get banned from Linux.

Hopefully they replace this link on the Steam homepage with a link to Bluesky. Does Valve actually have a Mastodon account?

God bless your innocent soul.

And the irony that Microsoft employees are working on Linux too. :D

Short: I forgot the /etc/fstab mount entry

I’m not sure if the following counts as stupid, but here is one where I almost wiped my system and reinstalled everything. I have some entries in the /etc/fstab to bind certain directories to specific locations in my home, to keep it modular (doing this since over 10 years). One day I replaced one of the internal harddrives and then the system would no longer boot up, because the it tries to mount a non existent drive.

Due to my long years of experience and wisdom with Linux, I thought that either the new drive was broken or I something from my body sparked over the board. It took me several minutes until I realized what actually happened and then everything was fine.

BTW in EndeavourOS when this happens again (and it did) then while boot the system asks me to ignore that entry and continue. Which is soooo useful and don’t know why this was never asked before (before I was on EndeavourOS).

Skill issues.

Just joking. These are Vulkan features to support. Normal users usually don’t read those and are not meant for anyway. The first part tells you the feature itself such as VK_EXT_descriptor and the second part with “on” tells you on what hardware driver it connects to, such as nvk for Nvidia Vulkan or radv for Radeon AMD Vulkan driver.

You can actually lookup the Vulkan features supported on your hardware. Depends on what driver and hardware you are using. The Nvidia panel list them somewhere (I’m no longer Nvidia user) and on AMD you can in example lookup in KDE Info Center. I’m also a noob and that’s all I know. :D

To me it makes sense. If you shake, the cursor gets bigger. If you are not able to see and find it, then it makes sense to shake more until you find it. There is no harm, so its fine (but also agree on being hilarious).

If DLCs can be Game of the Year, then Mods should be too.

There aren’t ripoffs of Breath of the Wild. Maybe Immortals Fenyx Rising is inspired by BotW, but I can hardly call it a ripoff. It’s a unique game that stands on its own. Otherwise there is no increase in Breath of the Wild ripoffs in 2020.