So excited about this! It looks and feels great.

While I think shareholders can be a driving factor, I see it way more often with VC-funded companies. The “2.5x year over year” growth mantra that places like YCombinator stipulate have disastrous effects on small tech companies. Often, these startups have an incentive to keep taking additional funding rounds, which appears to tighten the grip the VC has over them.

Try growing the next Microsoft or Google or Amazon out of that model. I’m not convinced that it’s possible. At least if you bootstrap your own company, you don’t have the same binding obligations…even if it takes way longer to get to a place that’s self-sustaining.

Honestly, this really resonated with me. Running an open source project on its own can be hard, running a popular one that gets used by tons of people and companies, while giving free labor, is extremely hard. Acting as free tech support to a large company, for nothing in return, is ass. Full stop.

I’ve seen some people make the statement that “maintainers owe you nothing”, and I’ve seen people state that “your supporters owe you nothing.”

While I believe there’s nothing wrong in a person willingly running a project on their own terms, just as there’s nothing wrong with refusing donations and doing the work out of some kind of passion… there’s only so many hours in the day, and developers need to feed themselves and pay rent.

I think a lot of people would love to be able to work on open source full-time. I’d devote all of my energy and focus to it, if I could. But, that’s a reality only for a privileged few, and many of them still have to make compromises. The CEO and founder of Mastodon, for example, makes a pittance compared to what a corporate junior developer makes.

Sentry also did this by embracing the Business Source License. Technically, you can still get an MIT-licensed version, but it has to be more than two years old.

As a former employee that worked there during the days that Sentry really promoted itself being Open Source, it was disappointing to see. VC Funding and a growth obsession basically poisoned the well.

Okay. I’m glad that the situation is looking better, and it’s probably more on the Ubuntu people than the Gnome people, but it’s still an incredibly shitty experience.

The one that really irks me now is that Nautilus in Ubuntu doesn’t show thumbnails for PNG images in the file selection dialog. It’s such an ass-backwards change that I’m legitimately shocked.

I mean, it certainly looks nicer. At least they’re thinking about ways to make the experience better, for those that use it.

I’m still really happy with SteamOS, the only real downside is that newer AAA games are simply too demanding. Not so much of a problem on the desktop, but certain games just look rough and run at sub-30 fps.

Hey, final update here - I managed to get the game working again! I think a patch came through somewhere that broke something - maybe it was ProtonGE, maybe it was Valve patching Proton Experimental, maybe it was Bethesda putting out something weird in a patch. Regardless, I got a tip that you can upgrade your Linux kernel to 6.5.x, and upgrade to the latest Mesa git drivers. The game is now running smoothly again without any issues on Wayland!

Alright, bit of an update: after investigating my hardware, doing a fresh OS install, and trying just about everything that everybody’s suggested to me so far, I have logs. Definitely amdgpu related, but not 100% sure what is going on yet. This was on Wayland, searches for similar error messages suggest a possible driver bug, maybe issues with particular kernel versions? Still investigating.

amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:2 pasid:32785, for process Starfield.exe pid 71830 thread vkd3d_queue pid 71960)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:   in page starting at address 0x0000800131efe000 from client 0x1b (UTCL2)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: GCVM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS:0x00201031
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          Faulty UTCL2 client ID: TCP (0x8)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          MORE_FAULTS: 0x1
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          WALKER_ERROR: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          PERMISSION_FAULTS: 0x3
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          MAPPING_ERROR: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          RW: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:2 pasid:32785, for process Starfield.exe pid 71830 thread vkd3d_queue pid 71960)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:   in page starting at address 0x0000800131efe000 from client 0x1b (UTCL2)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: GCVM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS:0x00201031
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          Faulty UTCL2 client ID: TCP (0x8)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          MORE_FAULTS: 0x1
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          WALKER_ERROR: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          PERMISSION_FAULTS: 0x3
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          MAPPING_ERROR: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          RW: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:2 pasid:32785, for process Starfield.exe pid 71830 thread vkd3d_queue pid 71960)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:   in page starting at address 0x0000800131efe000 from client 0x1b (UTCL2)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: GCVM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS:0x00201031
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          Faulty UTCL2 client ID: TCP (0x8)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          MORE_FAULTS: 0x1
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          WALKER_ERROR: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          PERMISSION_FAULTS: 0x3
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          MAPPING_ERROR: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          RW: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:2 pasid:32785, for process Starfield.exe pid 71830 thread vkd3d_queue pid 71960)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:   in page starting at address 0x0000800131eff000 from client 0x1b (UTCL2)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: GCVM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS:0x00000000
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          Faulty UTCL2 client ID: CB/DB (0x0)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          MORE_FAULTS: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          WALKER_ERROR: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          PERMISSION_FAULTS: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          MAPPING_ERROR: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          RW: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:2 pasid:32785, for process Starfield.exe pid 71830 thread vkd3d_queue pid 71960)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:   in page starting at address 0x0000800131eff000 from client 0x1b (UTCL2)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: GCVM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS:0x00000000
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          Faulty UTCL2 client ID: CB/DB (0x0)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          MORE_FAULTS: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          WALKER_ERROR: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          PERMISSION_FAULTS: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          MAPPING_ERROR: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          RW: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:2 pasid:32785, for process Starfield.exe pid 71830 thread vkd3d_queue pid 71960)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:   in page starting at address 0x0000800131efe000 from client 0x1b (UTCL2)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: GCVM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS:0x00000000
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          Faulty UTCL2 client ID: CB/DB (0x0)
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          MORE_FAULTS: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          WALKER_ERROR: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          PERMISSION_FAULTS: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          MAPPING_ERROR: 0x0
Sep 24 02:29:50 Asmodeus kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu:          RW: 0x0
Sep 24 02:30:00 Asmodeus kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, but soft recovered

Yeah, I’ve tried several, of both the GE and Experimental varieties. The problem persists, sadly.

It feels as though the game is suddenly only capable of loading interior spaces, despite the game running great as recently as two days ago.

Unfortunately, I’m not sure as to how to find them, or enable them if they’re not already working. I agree that logs would definitely help here.

Yeah, it’s possible. I’m curious, though, as to why it affected my other saves retroactively? Like, I can run around within TMD / the old Red Devils facility just fine, but the game craps out when I set foot on Mars.

This is seriously awesome! I absolutely love the idea of making something with other creatives in this space.

Seconded. Aseprite is incredible, and has generally become the main tool I make game assets in.

I’m really interested to see how much better the PC port has gotten. I was having fun with it for a while, but the game would freeze up and crash at the absolute worst times. Something as simple as throwing a brick would cause the game to just fall over.

I tried out Watch Dogs 2 the other day. It was kind of a hassle to set up, thanks to the headache that is Ubisoft Connect.

Performance-wise, I was a bit disappointed. Most options allowed me to squeeze out an acceptable 40FPS at 40Hz, but like…this is not exactly a new game. It just feels like the devs didn’t do a great job at optimizing it.

Why can’t a messaging app just send messages? Why does it have to include a social network?!