Great post, thank you.

Sounds like you’d updated your system GPU drivers but not your flatpak ones. It’s an oddity and I’m not sure what the fix is apart from knowing you always need to update flatpak when you pull in a driver update.

That’s it. That’s the only reason.

Manufacturing labour costs are far cheaper outside of China but the skills aren’t available. While labour costs are always a factor, the US just doesn’t have enough skilled manufacturing engineers or the supply chain you get somewhere like Shenzen.

And in fairness, the fifth attempt was on an intel platform.

I’m running HDR on Fedora 42 with Gnome. Unless you watch HDR video content or play HDR games I would say it’s not worth worrying about.

It sounds like this was his personal email account.

Maybe this Lemmy interface is confusing me, is there meant to be an article linked?

I am technical person and I don’t care either.

I really don’t think this qualifies as enshittification. There’s no evidence they’ve taken funding or have any shareholders they need to appease. They also only increased prices and have not moved the paid/free boundaries in any way.

I think it’s much more likely this is a side project that simply doesn’t pay for itself well enough, and the alternative would be shutting it down. If people aren’t happy with that, it’s totally reasonable to just cancel.

If the customers came across in the transaction, so did the contractual obligations. You can’t have it both ways.

Does this have different output to the journald logs? journalctl -fex -u steam usually has what I need.

Check the Github issue tracker too, especially for games that have just released. The pyroveil fix for AC: Shadows was on the issue for that game a day or two before ProtonDB.

while enabling consumer incentives only possible via programmable dollars.

The fuck do I need incentives for, just make a good game. Oh that’s right, these incentives aren’t for the consumers, they’re to take advantage of them.

Jellyfin has a BDFL and is an organisation with assets, so it’s not impossible. However, considering it was forked from Emby by GPL nerds in response to licensing issues, I think it’s very unlikely.

They took VC funding (which is also bad), selling to private equity is very different (they strip mine businesses).

I’m in the same situation. I wouldn’t call Jellyfin better, but I far prefer using something that’s not becoming progressively hostile to my use-case of self-hosted media.

I don’t know why you’d equate might-enshittify to already-enshittifying. Especially when Jellyfin isn’t VC-funded, the leading indicator for enshittification.

ChatGPT energy costs are highly variable depending on context length and model used. How have you factored that in?

For me there’s a big difference between funding someone anonymous (to me) who might be an asshole vs someone known to me who definitely is. I can tolerate the former, but not the latter.