Here the doc for the record: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Set_module_parameters_in_kernel_command_line

Note, they forgot to add to also blacklist the radeon module.

A friend of mine has a old Radeon HD 7850 that was not working with Vulkan out of the box. Since he didn’t want to tinker with it, he gave it to me and I will have a look. I’ve read you can force the new Vulkan Driver on it with some kernel flags.

Maybe, maybe not.

Frankly I don’t even know if this clause can be enforced in Europa. I wanted to point out that we shouldn’t rely on the customer protection laws of each country to address that: this clause shouldn’t exist in the first place.

But to be frank, it most likely doesn’t come from Valve and rather from the games company themselves.

Yeah you’re of course right, they are not a charity and shouldn’t have to provide their service for free.

I expressed myself too quickly (the rage!). What I meant is the this cut of 30% is fucking predatory, mafia or middle-age money lender style. You get one third of the rewards of your efforts just for delivering my product? And don’t talk about promotion because this store is now stuffed with too many games for visibility.

You can argue “but this is it the standard rate of the industry”. Well it is predatory everywhere else and I hate Google and Apple as much for it.

A cut of 10% would be more humane. This is something EGS got right, even if I dislike them for many other things (Epic and Tim Sweeney).

Yes you can workaround it. But this is still a society right they forbid you. And who can say that in 2100 they won’t implement a cleanup job that lock all accounts that are over 100 years old ? 🤪

Well I am European 😂

But this is a problem right ?

Because the libertarian view of the world DOES have an impact on Steam: they have so much inertia to fight against hate speech and extreme right, they do nothing against gambling, and so on. All under the pretense “free speech” which is so convenient.

IMO this is the view of the modern libertarian: all the money, none of the accountability.

I have a mixed feeling about Gabe and Valve.

While I am insanely grateful for proton (even if it was strategically important for them, they didn’t do it out of kindness of heart), some other stuff disturb me:

• Valve being so lenient on CS2 skin gambling, hurting the young people
• A steam account being un-inheritable, making you defacto a tenant of your games
• The 30% percent cut, stealing money from devs
• Gabe spending his money on multiple mega yachts, like every asshole billionaire, instead of making the world a better place
• Gabe claiming to be a libertarian, like Elon and other pieces of shit

I don’t follow her at all so thanks for the explanation!

While the joke is funny, what is the context? Why did she post the original tweet in the first place?

+1

Shameless plug to the OSS Review Toolkit project (https://oss-review-toolkit.org/ort/) which analyze your package manager, build a dependency tree and generates a SBOM for you. It can also check for vulnerabilitiea with the help of VulnerableCode.

It is mainly aimed at OSS Compliance though.

(I am a contributor)