To be clear: you can still totally argue about qualia, sentience, things of that nature. What is not up for debate is that they work through unimaginably-complex chains of logical reasoning on superpositions of conceptual states and engage in forward-planning and metacognition. These are just demonstrable facts.

There is no 'sentiment' in an LLM or internal state equivalent to 'thinking' anything.

Yes, there is.

Yeah. Not just that, it's Devuan. Anyhoo I haven't actually run an Epic game in who knows how long now so I'm not sure if they still work or not. Actually, now I'm wondering if it's possible to just install the Epic games store as a Steam game... hmm, reportedly possible but uneven. Sounds true.

I'm not as mad at Epic as you are, but sure, they can eat several bags of dicks, whatever. However, factually, whether they are or aren't all in on Linux remains to be seen. I won't make a prediction but I will say that I think it makes sense for them to embrace it now for all the same reasons it makes sense for Valve to continue to do so. Valve paved the way and did the hard work, and Epic would like to come from behind and be a solid #2.

To that I say, bring it on. Even if they are only interested in selling me shit, the more big money-slinging companies back Linux, the better. All the games I ever got from Epic were part of a Humble Bundle or free as in beer, and so far all of them will run fine on Linux. But then, IDGAF about Fortnite. The game I want to have working DRM on Linux is Rust, but I wouldn't accept kernel DRM to get that.

The real question, not for me or you but among populations which matter, is going to be how odious the DRM requirement for Fortnite is.

As for Epic being dependent on Proton, Proton is dependent on Wine, it's all a big dependency party and it's how things are supposed to work. Who knows, maybe they will become significant contributors.

Accurate if he's serious.

You can run the current epic games launcher and most epic games on Linux without trouble. I use lutris.

And I'm going to keep going it, too, because it makes you mad.

That's also why American evangelicals would do it, though.

You're confusing issues. Most of their games work fine on Linux in proton. But the one you want won't.

Almost. It is there to produce actual deniability, but not how you imagine. The idea is that you couldn't have copied the method of doing it because you didn't SEE the method. You were handed a spec and you figured out how to do the thing. That way, even if your code is IDENTICAL to the original, because there's only one sensible way to do the thing, it still isn't a copy. And a clean room implementation is the only way you can prove that, so that's why it's actually useful, and therefore why it's actually used.

Most Nvidia cards being used for compute already don't have the graphics parts. They don't include connectors or a RAMDAC on them.

Learn to read, coward.

He can't do everything Vlad wants any more, which could be a problem for him

All events except for telling the truth about the president in public you mean

I read it, I still had the question, neither comment explains why you felt it was necessary