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Using this technology for preservation sake is just absurd.

That's the Copy-Paste media of today for you. Ironically its probably analyzed, write supported or maybe even completely written by Ai itself.

While I agree with you and while I am not the biggest generative Ai fan, we have to admit this is still in early phase and is just a proof of concept what the technology is capable of. The version of this game might not be as good as the original (and that's only mildly said), that this is possible like this with artificial intelligence tools is impressive.

Its like teaching an ape to program Quake 2. Even if its a shitty version of it, it would be ground breaking.

But make backups...

I don't have that option. Maybe I misunderstand here something. I am on Linux, maybe it does not work here?

I just got the update 137. I think there is some misunderstanding here. Lets say I open a new empty tab. Then I type in the address bar "mario" and do a search with default engine. Now the search term will be replaced with the website or search engines site address. I can change the search engine, but only before doing a search.

On the other hand, if have a separate search bar and type the word "mario", it will stay there, even after committing and opening the new pages.

Hmm not reall or does it? I mean in the address bar, if I type a word and search something, then the search terms will be replaced by the address of the site.

I might go back to separate search box too. Had it before. The best thing to me is, that search term is still there and I can simply click to do a search with different engine without retyping it.

That's true. But there are legit ways to purchase Roms and extract them for use in your favorite emulator. In example the SNES Classic console from Nintendo, or the Genesis and Sega Games collection on Steam. If I were to buy Castlevania Advance, I would probably extract the Roms for use in RetroArch.

Maybe Emulation is something you would look into? I actually prefer emulating the games myself, over playing the official Steam version (not at least because of the Shaders). Also there are lot of Mods (also known as Romhacks) for these games.

I imagine they must have given these are playable on PC, and doing them with a mouse would be just short of impossible.

The Steam Input system allows you to customize controls with lot of features available. So if they butcher this up, you have at least tools built into the Steam Deck to customize it. But it requires some time and effort, and that's not always someone wants to put into to play a classic game.

You have to think in terms of bottleneck. If you have a really heavy desktop environment or operating system, then it can (and will) slow down older and weak computers. For those, it makes sense to install some special prepared environments, so it does not slow them down. If you have a modern and fast computer with plenty of resources, then it won't make a difference which you install.

In example, you have 16gb RAM, but your system uses only 4gb. Switching to a system that uses only 2gb won't get you any benefit, you have plenty of room that is unused. And for all other daily operations in the Window environment, lets say opening and closing windows with some effects and transparency, would lets say for fun require 1ghz of CPU to calculate without slowing the operation down. If you have a modern multicore CPU with 5ghz, then you don't win anything by installing a desktop environment or operating system that makes use of only 0.5ghz.

What do you mean by retroactively? Like deleting remotely from your system, without your permission or decision? Something what Google did with Android before too.

No doubt about ntsync being superior and better than the hacky solutions of current implementation. My point is only about the performance gains, which can be misleading to some people if they do not pay attention. I'm not saying anyone was "false advertising" here, just making clear its compared against the base WINE version and not Proton.

I'm still curious and want to see how much of a performance difference in a real Steam environment will be.

The big boost for gaming is only relevant if you do not use Proton. While there might be some boost for selected games, in general the new Kernel 6.14 shouldn't make much of a difference for Steam gamers using Proton. Because Proton already got some alternative to NTSync mechanism, which improved some titles already.

The benchmarks presented with huge %-boosts and improvements are compared to previous WINE version, which do not have some of the alternative optimizations from Proton. Therefore I would be a bit cautious, if you already play on Steam using Proton.

I disagree. Copyright is not bad.

What a dumb statement. Copyright has nothing to do with money. Copyright is for everyone.

The biggest problem with Ai is copyright.

Glue is pretty strong and can work well. If you do it right.