The interface is 100% of the reason I won’t use it. It’s by far the worst experience for navigating a library I’ve ever seen. It’s just access to your filesystem, except with effectively no files on the screen at all time.

There’s no tags, no ability to choose between by author, series, publisher, genre, etc, just a really bad presentation of your filesystem.

Take-2 has bullied mods that don’t connect to their servers claiming it’s an illegal derivative work or violates the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA. If Larian actually wanted to be assholes, they could make life annoying for people who want to make mods.

Again, I don’t think there’s any actual legal merit behind harassment for mods, but lack of merit isn’t always enough for community projects to be comfortable standing up and fighting against well funded harassment.

I do think the lack of merit makes it significantly harder for WOTC to compel Larian into any nonsense like that though.

I don’t know that PR would be a sufficient barrier. They seem perfectly willing to be raging jackasses.

I think the bigger question is whether their contract with Larian is sufficient that they actually have the juice to compel them to take legally questionable action to restrict mods. There are a couple companies that use DMCA shit to harass mods into shutting down, but there really isn’t a strong basis behind it. It’s just them having a big enough checkbook to not be worth the fight. And even the sketchy “bypassing copy protection” method they usually use isn’t relevant to a game that’s DRM free. The strongest actual precedent against mods is stuff like Bungie getting judgements against cheat distributors, but that isn’t the same, because it’s actively degrading the service for others.

My guess is that it won’t get shut down because WOTC can’t make Larian bully people into shutting it down.

There is a pretty substantial community around designing and playing custom stories in DnD. They (presumably because of contracts) didn’t make that possible out of the box with BG3/official tools, but the fact that people figured out how to bypass the restrictions means that there’s a lot of pre-existing material that really doesn’t need to be tailored much to fit into the experience.

It’s not no work, because the nature of a human Dungeon Master gives you a lot more flexibility, but there’s definitely potential for a big community unless Larian is pushed into doing whack-a-mole bullshit to harass modders.

I have a Boox go color 7 that I have in my pocket a lot. I made a little leather sleeve for it and am frequently tempted to add a couple pockets to the flap and make it my permanent “wallet”. It’s better for reading, anyways, but there’s a lot of software I use that’s only on iOS without an acceptable Android substitute, and it’s also not a phone. (I’d also be perfectly happy with the watch as my “phone” and to carry two small tablets).

But you just can’t fit much on a phone screen.

Yeah. And no phone app.

But that’s my preferred size for sure. I probably won’t bother with a max the next time I get a phone, just because it still isn’t actually big enough for me to justify the price difference.

Exactly. There are perfectly legitimate reasons to wish to bias learning to certain changes in output.

There are no legitimate reasons to do so without acknowledging that you are adding bias and being clear on the intent of doing so.

I’d use the mini if they’d just let me lol.

Statistics are people.

It cannot possibly, under any circumstances, be a correct, reasonable, or valid word choice to describe an “AI” that accurately models reality as “biased”. That word already has a meaning and using it in that manner is a lie.

Bias is an irrational departure from reality. You can want an AI to be biased towards diversity, but that is adding bias, not removing it.

Representative of actually real world statistics is not “bias”.

The pro max is too small.

He’s saying the script with dependencies relies on steam. GOG’s runs offline. But like you said, copying the end result is generally fine (and especially so on Linux where it’s all contained in the fake folder structure).

If there’s not some moderately heavy DRM on Steam, you’re more likely to get the same build on both stores (not always, though). It’s when GOG is actually the only DRM free version that you tend to end up with a lack of version parity.

They should be legally required to refund full purchase price plus interest in every case. If there are legal fees to get compliance, multiply that plus the refund by five.

You know the fact that you need 4 alarms is probably because the caffeine kills your sleep quality right?

They didn’t create anything of any type. They just declined games that didn’t follow their rules.

Except it doesn’t make class actions more expensive, because it removes the step of invalidating the arbitration clause.

Footing the bill for arbitration was pro-consumer. They abandoned the whole thing because of bad faith frivolous lawsuit spam trying to extort settlements, not for any other reason.

Their fundamentals are too strong. They have market dominance with extremely steady technological progress against really bad competition. LLMs aren’t going to disappear when the shitty overpromising bubble pops. Generative AI isn’t going anywhere. Any of the thousands of other uses for their raw power are still there. They’ll just be at the ground floor of whatever the next math heavy hype cycle is, just like they were with crypto and LLMs, because cuda is the best way to get shit done, whether what you’re doing is useful or trash.

Why do you need an installer? Most of the games we’re talking about you can just run the executable and be fine, because those are the games actually willing to publish on GOG. The ones that are substantial enough to need an installer are the same ones I talk about in B, that don’t get basic patches and bug fixes, because GOG’s customer base isn’t worth the effort and GOG wouldn’t have the games at all if they required update parity.

But again, it’s completely irrelevant, because GOG and Galaxy don’t offer any of the features to manage a library I need. If Steam didn’t exist, I would abandon PC gaming entirely. No other platform on PC is anywhere near acceptable.

Nvidia isn’t going to be holding any bag. They’re selling through what they make, and LLMs are just one of many uses for the massively parallel math they’re at the forefront of. At most they have to bring pricing down, but they don’t own the fab, so if demand did drop (which isn’t really all that likely), their costs will go down too. They have contracts in terms of volume and price, but they’re not near long term enough to do them more than a blip, and all their investment in developing architecture/tooling has value well outside of LLM nonsense.

In the legal sense that having DRM-free software does not mean that you’re legally entitled to use it, sure.

But checking for a license before running is literally the entire definition of what DRM is. They aren’t “bypassing” anything. They didn’t create technology. They simply refused to allow software that has any type of license check (DRM).