jack it into a PC for media

Even a proprietary streaming stick like FireTV would be an improvement because it only collects telemetry from the stick itself and not devices connected to other HDMI ports.

Projectors have become amazing.

Yeah and consumer oriented ones have their own apps and Google TV integration and the like, so no idea how a different image displaying tech would be a solution to privacy invasive TVs.

They can connect to open (and hidden) networks without your consent.

That’s a wild claim and either I accidentally skipped a paragraph in the article or you should cite a source. Quick googling doesn’t show up anything of that sort for me.

Why would you connect a dishwasher to the internet? Setting a timer can tell you just as well if the dishes are clean.

It’s honestly better to just have a bare wall and a projector.

Consumer projectors come with the same “smart” shit as TVs these days. Just don’t connect either to WiFi. Problem solved.

This would’ve worked just a few years back but due to shitty “age verification” laws, even TV manufacturers willl force users to create an account the very least for the TV to even start up.

Surely only for “smart” features but without enabling any of that shit, you shouldn’t get any age verification prompt.

Oh yeah. This actually seems to be a spam account,

Don’t connect TVs to your network.

Maybe it’s meant to show how bad it is outside of Linux gaming?

Googling. That’s how you invalidate a trademark.

Flatpak yes, version on Flathub is some different fork from a few years ago. I hope this maintained version will replace the other one soon.

Maybe work on your own reading comprehension before saying something stupid.

Unlike you I actually checked the history of merged PRs on Github.

That’s an alarming number of changes at once.

At once? WTF? The latest update is only “Fixed level transitions”. That’s over various forks over literally 26 years. There are exact dates at each of the sections.

I’m going to need to know their stance on “AI” use before this comes anywhere near my computer.

Maybe learn how to read dates before accusing 26 years of updates to be the result of AI.

Audacity was bought by Muse Group and almost immediately implemented a “don’t you rather want to save on our cloud service instead?” pop-up and IIRC telemetry. Tenacity emerged as the most active fork without that shit and they since diverged a lot from Audacity.

OTOH the resources of Muse Group made this huge rewrite possible. The level of pain between using wxWidgets or dismissing pop-ups is higher for wxWidgets for me.

Maybe Tenacity is willing to throw away their homegrown developments to start fresh with the new code base. No idea.

They write down that the current feature set will not be paywalled but mandatory account registration and paywalling future features are absolutely on the table.

Only partially. Apparently Direct2D (which to be clear is different from Direct3D) is very weird and progress is slow.

slopifying his codebase.

He didn’t. That’s the point. The slop code is a self contained dependency only used for the Linux build and not part of the actual paint.net codebase. His core user group (on Windows) will never get in touch with it.

I think everybody, including him, would prefer if there was a working implementation of Direct2D for Wine.

I think the point is that the developers doesn’t want to actually review the code which they can do with a self contained dependency which they then ship on a “take it or leave it” basis.

I kind of get it and I think it’s a more responsible approach than to vibe code the core engine of their application.

Direct link to announcement instead of low effort spam blog: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/for-honor/news-updates/4WKJhG6v6C9sbCOZkFZ6wG/ranked-faq

Relevant part:

Competitive Update

Warriors, we are happy to announce that For Honor’s competitive experience is leveling up with the launch of Ranked Dominion and the rework of Ranked Duel.

The chance to prove yourself on a global level is here!

To reinforce a fair competitive environment, the team is introducing additional player safety measures. We are removing For Honor from the Linux platform to ensure a safer environment for our players as we cannot meaningfully deploy protection on this platform. This means that For Honor will no longer be playable on Steam Deck starting September 10th. We will continue to investigate different ways to improve our anti-cheat with the possibility of reopening the platform in the future.

That hardware requirement is something they could work on for upcoming phones.