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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).

They haven't created anything.

They just don't allow games that use DRM (any kind of license check as a prerequisite to run software) on their store. Packaging a game with DRM is an extra step.

A disclaimer absolutely doesn't make it not trademark infringement. It doesn't even make a dent.

What upsides?

A. Many games that are DRM free on GOG are also DRM free on Steam.

B. Most of the games that are only DRM free on GOG are old, out of date builds that don't get bug fixes and updates.

C. Even if both of those weren't true, DRM free isn't worth a terrible UX and no features. If GOG had feature parity for everything Steam does except big picture mode, big picture mode alone would outweigh the outrageously small chance that Steam somehow removes access to my games.

But they're not just not at feature parity. They're like 2 out of 10 software. Better than Epic's 0 of 10, but still really bad.

No, it's not. They're literally advertising the performance of their altered code.

You keep parroting nominative use and ignoring that your definition of nominative use is "as the trademark owner uses it", and that there's no legitimate reading of any of that material that doesn't very blatantly imply endorsement, which is always trademark infringement.

No, there isn't. You're just repeating incorrect information.

The second you change how a project works in any way in any context, it is no longer the same product and you are not entitled to use their trademark to reference it.

Functionally, any scenario where there's any room at all for brand confusion or implied endorsement is trademark infringement. But even if you buy the outrageous lie that what they were doing was somehow ambiguous, as soon as they were contacted and told that their use was unacceptable, that ambiguity goes away.