Steam Families gets a HUGE upgrade! Playtron is a new Linux-based OS for handheld gaming devices. Rusty NVIDIA drivers from RedHat, a Nintendo DMCA for Suyu, the Linux Foundation is promoting an NFT mobile game, and an Apex Legends tournament was compromised due to a security exploit in the anti-cheat software.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:54 Intel ARC on Linux
03:54 Snow metal
05:03 Jumping Pedro
STEAM NEWS
06:45 Steam Family Sharing update
10:21 Two games one account
11:31 No games for kids
12:42 No online games
13:57 Steam Pass incoming
15:25 Playtron Linux OS for handhelds
17:22 Immutable anti-cheat
19:56 Doomed to fail
21:17 Mobile is the future of gaming
NEW NATIVE GAMES
24:01 4D Golf
NEWS
26:07 RedHat Rusty NVIDIA driver
29:38 Anime repo ratio
31:19 What will new Linux users argue about now?
32:59 Suyu Switch emulator DMCA
35:14 The real Nintendo strategy
38:05 O3DE gets a game
41:35 Defending crypto in games
44:10 Apex Legends hacked live
47:49 Cheaters suck
51:53 A real solution?
HATE MAIL
55:09 Sandmail
56:40 Rating your day-1 game purchases
01:01:17 Widows on Deck
01:07:41 Credits
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
Sort of an improvement over the old system.
Now if one of my family members are playing one of my games, I can still play one of my other ones
So you still have to buy N copies of a game if you want N people playing it concurrently
Spam your parents with purchase requests!
If billy gets banned then so does mommy and daddy.
Are we gonna get the steam belt?
You can now play more than one game at a time from the same account?
That’s the big question.
If I own Elden Ring and Nory doesn’t and she’s playing Elden Ring from the family, can I play Skyrim DX11 Edition from her account without both of us getting told to fuck off?
I enabled this between the Trackmania PC and Threadbooper.
That PIN nonsense gets annoying with a quickness.
So this is based off of chimera OS?
Integrates Heroic as well for other store support
Seems to want to be Steam OS but for everything, not just Steam.
I’m down for that, except for the Samsung part.
I don’t want Samsung shitty ass bloatware anywhere near my Linux gaming.
A Linux-based OS for handheld gaming.
From the former CEO of Cyanogen.
The original cause of the lineage OS split
Playtron will cost a fraction of the price of Windows.
$10 per head instead vs the $80 that OEMs spend.
And the company dissolves 11 minutes after Valve releases SteamOS.
Ayaneo plans to ship a native Playtron handheld by the end of 2024.
Steam: New Games
What’s so 4D about it?
I’m squinting at it like I did 4D Sports Boxing back in 1991 trying to figure that bit out.
Golf in a mathematical model of a tesseract
Relative dimensions in space are certainly in play, but no time travel anywhere in sight.
News:
A GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs, intended as a successor to Nouveau.
The primary maintainer for Nouveau resigned so they had to do something.
Yes, it’s in Rust.
Since the GL bits are going to be handed off to Zink, or whatever they choose to use, and translated to Vulkan, then it’s probably a very good idea to refactor/remake the OpenGL driver.
There’s still some kernel wrangling that needs to be done before this gets merged in
Moving gpu drivers to a memory safe language like rust is probably a good idea long term
Can possibly reduce stuff like the apex incident
Ah yes, the find out part of the equation.
A few days after the first beta release someone came knocking with a DMCA.
Gitlab complied.
Gitlab has just told the world that they disable the accounts of people who contribute to a repository which receives a DMCA.
Senpai did notice them after all!
Gitlab Saas is a business.
You’d be insane to think they wouldn’t comply with a DMCA from Nintendo
They do have a self hosted gitlab, and any computer er with sshd can be a git host
We’ll see how that goes
The goal now is to prevent collaboration.
NFT gaming is back, baby!
From the take it where we can get it department.
Carbonated, Inc will be using O3DF for their mobile title, MadWorld.
It’s another third person shooter for iOS and Android devices.
“We think mobile is where the breakout will happen for Web3”
The Linux Foundation advertising a web 3.0 game… This is why we can’t have nice things.
All around me are non fungible tokens, blockchain’s broken, bitcoins stolen its a maaad world
During a tournament match, dude got an aimbot and wallhax gifted to him.
“There is currently an RCE exploit being abused in [Apex Legends]” and that it could be delivered via from the game itself, or its anti-cheat protection”
Why yes, your PC may have been exposed to a rootkit or other malicious software other than the invasive anti-cheat.
Ring 0 is ring0
I’ve been shouting that client side anti-cheats are shit and shouldn’t exist, this is just proving my point.
This was bad enough to shut down the tournament.
“Destroyer2009 took credit for the hacks, saying that he did it “just for fun,” and with the goal of forcing the Apex Legends’ developers to fix the vulnerability he exploited.”
Hacker didn’t report the bug since EA does not offer a bounty programme.
Easy Anti-Cheat said it was not a problem on their end.
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