Raspberry Pi IPO, Tuxedo Snapdragon Laptop, Valve Lawsuit, openSUSE Leap & more Linux news

[@AlexSeibz]

I believe it's stated somewhere in Steam's terms that you can't sell Steam keys specifically at a lower price anywhere other than steam, but I think developers can sell their games on other platforms for cheaper as long as they aren't steam keys...

[@michael_tunnell]

oh really? if that is the case then that should be totally fine since a steam key is literally selling the game on steam but not on steam. I would be totally fine with that rule

[@tacokoneko]

@@michael_tunnell yes, so, there are certain things on Steam that actually cost money on Steam, but the thing that's there is literally an open source software, that comes with many Linux OS for free. A great example is " *Aseprite* " I strongly support that business model, because, when you realize that's what's happening, you can see that *it's a tax on Windows users specifically to encourage people to switch to Linux faster* . The Windows version costs $20, and average Windows users don't know how to compile code so their only real options are to buy it or pirate it. but not only is the Linux version free and easy to install, the average Linux user already does know how to compile code too. I will continue to support platforms that allow this business model to siphon money from Windows users while releasing all the code so Linux distros can provide the free version to attract users from Windows.

[@nextlifeonearth]

It's even better, steam doesn't get a cut with a key. They're okay with that as long as you don't undercut them apparently.

[@TheMarkRich]

Bought steam keys for less from other sites like greenman games, a UK site. This looks to be a far right 'parents' group. In an election month this sounds like weird timing. It is a cash grab. She clearly hasn't looked further than steam site.

[@ktheveg]

Combined with what ​@@nextlifeonearth said, it makes sense why steam doesn't want you selling keys. At the end of the day, someone has to provide the bandwidth for hosting, and if you're selling the steam keys cheap, that means that Steam can't recoup the cost of the user downloading the game

[@TakeMyLunch]

Love the lawsuit is saying "Steam keeps others out!" when it's literally the least restrictive of any platform. "Sell here, Sell there. We don't care. Just don't fuck with our sales specifically." The only thing they ever go after is selling steam keys at a lower price than on steam. (Which is only really ever done by key reselling garbage sites and hurts both steam and developers)

[@tacokoneko]

the lawsuit is funded by microsoft and nvidia there is absolutely no doubt about that. valve is not a monopoly, they're competing directly with microsoft. you know, the company that owns the OS used for 75% of PC gaming and owns the app store that ships with that OS

[@orbatos]

​@@tacokonekoJust look at Epic's terrible store, complete lack of Linux story support, etc. Valve is the only stable platform in the market and they don't require Windows, of course Microsoft is going to attack them.

[@archip8021]

they have a huge monopoly which, of course, keeps others out epic tried, not for a lack of effort and funding, but failed because the market is owned by steam no one can enter the space right now which is really harmful, whether you like daddy valve or not

[@G0A7]

@@archip8021 Did steam do anything in any way to prevent Epic to create or improve his store or attract new customers?

[@archip8021]

@@G0A7 yes. Having a monopoly. No one wants to bother going to another platform. If you want to compete in the space, you need to throw even more money at it than Epic did (impossible)

[@michael_tunnell]

big thanks to everyone who commented about the lack of audio. I missed that in the QA and when I saw the comments I was able to quickly address it and do a new upload before too much time passed so thanks again to you all for reporting it :D

[@alejandroespalter2601]

I like the smash button

[@Engineer12798]

On the matter of Steam requiring publishers to list the game at the same price at other storefronts. From what I understand, this only applies if you are selling steam keys for your game. Essentially, Valve doesn't want you undercutting the price to access the game through their platform, but allows you to set whatever price you want for other platforms. Additionally, valve doesn't even take the 30% if you sell the keys yourself.

[@hindigente]

Another great episode. OpenSuse seems to be making a lot of progress in the direction of immutability/containerization lately.

[@onee1594]

Lol. Valve suit because games cost is too high... Have they seen how expensive games on playstation are?

[@MrKilljay]

So it's cool for Valve to do it because someone else is?

[@michael_tunnell]

@mrkilljay, what I think they are saying is that PlayStation is proof that Valve isn’t doing it at all

[@Bixmy]

​@@MrKilljay steam doesnt even cut that much around 30% is the standard on most. And developer can selling on multiple platform valve dont even usually do exclusive distribution. Valve is probably the most sane out of all of the industry.

[@marcbarbier5646]

it makes a lot of sens. if epic has a lower cut game makers should be proposing games at a lower price. they can still increase their profit margin while creating incentive for users to buy them. but if steam prevent them from manipulating the price then everyone will buy on steam where they have the least profit margins

[@TheBayru]

The expected margin, for a physical game store, on a dvd they put in inventory is 70% to offset shelf cost and risk.

[@ronsingh]

What an absolutely excellent episode - I really have to carve out more time to watch your content, Mister. Kudos on the great work, covering Linux news, so very much appreciated.

[@elalemanpaisa]

The 30% include: Marketing Download server Payment fees Customer complaint handling Credit card fraud And much more

[@Mario1vsSonic1]

If you look at the margin that is a huuuge margin for the costs. Server hosting and bandwidth is pretty cheap. The cost isn't really that high for the customer since the costs before were higher. However, it is a bit sad to see that improvements in efficacy and tech since around 2007 is barely felt for the consumer. No matter how much cheaper we make things customers will always have to pay, cheaper production and operation just means higher profit margins for corporations. The pricing tho', are they allowed to sell cheaper on platforms that only take 10%? Meaning that 20% less cost than steam, do they have to increase price so the customer has to pay the same? That's anti-competitive practice. They aren't allowed to make it cheaper on Epic Games store, that's anti competitive, no? Epic games takes a smaller cut but the dev isn't allowed to make it cheaper for the customer. Anti-competitive practice.

[@jQuse]

​@@Mario1vsSonic1 The fact that sales exist on multiple games stores at different times proves this is empirically false. Also the lawsuit is against selling steam keys cheaper than what's on steam.

[@elalemanpaisa]

@@Mario1vsSonic1 "huge" there is a difference between margin and EBIT. Granted they make good money however they worked for 3 decades for that and are investing a shit load in R&D

[@Mario1vsSonic1]

​@@elalemanpaisa Their costs are minimal. And it's not their work that has done the hardware improvement now, is it? It's not their work that made high bandwidth cheaper than ever before, is it? Yet they profit from it. Both of you act as if I am against profit, I am not. I clearly stated that it's not wrong for them to profit but doesn't it seem unfair that the consumer, which the anti-trust laws are to protect, doesn't benefit at all from the development which they are the main financial investor in? All of this tech is thanks to people paying for it. Absolutely, Valve is allowed to profit and benefit from that as well. But as it stands now no consumer gains anything on that front. Is it not anti-competitive to say "You aren't allowed to sell your product anywhere else for a cheaper buck. Even if the other store doesn't charge you as much"? Why can't CD-project red sell their own game cheaper on their own store (gog.com) than they do on steam? That seems anti-competitive, no?

[@nanopi]

Making DLC work cross-platform is going to be challenging, and for who, depending on if it's simply no longer prohibited or the platforms need to work to add direct support for it. Account linking is probably the best method if the platforms make APIs for each other to check if something was purchased. If you have DLC on another platform and want to use on Steam, Hypothetical other platform API allow Steam user to connect the steam account to the other platform account. Developer also has to get the DLC id from the other platform and put it into the DLC on Steam so that Steam knows what to look for. There are two different ways DLC can operate on Steam. The first way is that DLC has a bunch of extra files to download. The second way is that the DLC content is already in the base game files and the player is simply not able to bring that content into play unless the DLC was purchased. There may be a technical limitation in the game engine that prevents DLC content from being put into separate downloads or it's a multiplayer game and the DLC has cosmetics to be seen on other players. If the platform has an issue with having to provide a DLC download that was paid for on different platform, maybe the platform where is was purchased provides the download, which can be a new crazy challenge for everyone involved. Imagine any PC, console, or mobile client having to authenticate and download something from any PC, console, or mobile server and then the game has to understand the file regardless of which platform it came from. Another way to do cross-platform DLC is that the game developer runs their own servers that the game has a login screen for and the player just logs into the same account on both platforms. Developer could run their own website for selling access to things and pretty much anything is possible in ways I'm not going to try to imagine. If a singleplayer game sold on a platform had DLC sold on a platform but had no servers ran by the developers, they wouldn't be able to support cross platform DLC purchases themselves.

[@skywz]

I think your take on the Steam suit was pretty bad. - Price parity: All evidence I can find says that Valve's only restriction on off-platform pricing is that *Steam Keys* cannot be sold for cheaper than the game itself on Steam. If they restrict off-platform pricing beyond that, either formally or through undocumented enforcement, I could not find any evidence; but if so, it would be clearly anticompetitive because it unfairly restricts developers in a way that there is some precedent about. - Tying: I don't know enough about how mods and DLC work through Steam to make many comments on this. If there is a standard for DLC interoperability, or Valve restricts interoperability through contractual means rather than just its technical infeasibility, that could be anticompetitive. - Excessive pricing: Inflated prices as described here have pretty much nothing to do with inflation as a macroeconomic concept. It just means the prices are higher than if the commission did not exist. I think this is a stupid argument, since even if 30% is considered excessive, that wouldn't be considered anticompetitive; and even if it was, Valve is probably the least deserving of antitrust action out of all the companies charging a 30% cut, due to how many auxiliary services they provide. - Promotion restrictions (not mentioned in video): Something worth mentioning is that you can't promote non-Steam versions of a game on Steam or in a game sold on Steam. You could argue that that's a fair restriction, but I would say that if Valve can only sell games when their buyers don't know they can get them elsewhere, it would be suspicious. Since the only logical conclusion is that Valve is leveraging their dominant market position to restrict information on competition, that would be a reason for a suit. It's surprising to me that they didn't include this at all. It reminds me of the Elongated Muskrat's burying of any mentions of Mastodon last December.

[@damnhatesyou]

Its very biased reporting basically dick riding Valve because of the Steamdeck really.

[@centy64]

For DLC to be added to a game on steam but bought elsewhere it would fall into the same camp as item1 and require price parity as it's using steams systems to load. But why just go after steam on this and not EA, Ubisoft, and Epic who all have a similar system for obvious reasons. I think the developer or publisher set the prices Valve just give recommendations but don't limit what people can charge. Promotional restrictions might be a thing but I've seen many games on steam usually f2p games that allow you to buy directly through the client rather than the steam store. I'm all for going after real monopolies I just don't think steam is one, the consoles makers, Apple, and Google are without a doubt engaging in lots of this and they don't seem to be getting touched which I find odd especially apple with their total walled garden approach.

[@llomellamomario]

Promotion restrictions: But do they? It is not the first time I've seen that developers have advertised other platforms in steam alongside steam. For what I've understood, what valve restricts developers is to release advertisements on steam that are advertising the game just in other platforms, to prevent using steam as just an advertising platform. They have been cool if you launched a game later in other platform to advertise your new platfortm release, or to have multiple options advertised in the same video as long as steam was one of them. Which, it is a fair thing to ask: We are a business about selling games, don't just use us as an advertising board

[@skywz]

@@llomellamomario They prohibit developers from using their Steam page to say, for instance, "we're also on Itch" or mentioning lower prices elsewhere. This is in their documentation. I don't think it's fair to prohibit even mentioning alternatives in the only place that customers might hear about them.

[@llomellamomario]

@@skywz I stand corrected then. Still I do remember seeing games mentioning other platforms too, especially when releasing the game in another platform post launch in their store page. Wouldn;t that be forbidden then?

[@Jelly2003]

I don't think we should accept the practice of being required to charge the same or less than other platforms. I think if I sell a product, and I decide to offer a discount elsewhere, then other platforms shouldn't have any power to stop me. With the exception being if that platform is instrumental to the supply chain for me to provide that service. From what I understand, Valve just expects that the sale of Steam keys should be no lower than you can buy the game on Steam, which I think is fair enough.

[@jrowen76]

Are we sure this isn't epic games lawsuit in disguise?

[@billv4987]

I've been on Firefox since the 0.9.2 release!

[@MegaManNeo]

0.9.3 here and despite testing Brave again and again, I come back to Firefox.

[@LarixusSnydes]

@@MegaManNeo I was a bit late to the beta party< I started at version 0,97, but have been using Firefox since then as my primary web browser.

[@IamTheHolypumpkin]

My server is already upgraded to openSUSE Leap 15.6. Although I botched the upgrade so right now it isn’t bootable on the 6.4 kernel. But it can boot on the older 5.14 kernel

[@tutacat]

They would make it cheaper to incentivise people to not buy it on steam. But steam's percentage also pays for discoverability/marketing and many API features like achievements and more.

[@ccf_1004]

I watched this video on a Steam Deck

[@esra_erimez]

I'd love to see Framework make a Snapdragon X Elite motherboard

[@RicochetSaw]

it's really important that they intentially left out the part where steams price parity clause only applies to the sale of steam keys on seperate markets...

[@michael_tunnell]

Are you saying they as in the lawsuit or me? If you mean me, I didn’t know that until after posting. If you mean the lawsuit then totally agreed

[@diegomanjarres4094]

You are looking at it from the dev publisher perspective, its about the users saving more. any ways I don't mind valve prices because the value you get from steam is unmatch by the other currently.

[@lindhe]

I didn't catch the argument for not making the Linux scheduler more flexible. Can someone please explain?

[@IRDazza]

People forget that ARM uses a limited instructions set and therefore takes more instructions compared to X86. It maybe quicker in theory but under load it still falls short. ARM maybe okay for basic computers and mobile in particular, but cannot be compared in larger power systems, and in particular, the price for performance. It's good to see it get linux support and will be good for mobile devices but definitely not going to replace medium to high workstation type pcs in the near future.

[@michael_tunnell]

Apple went all ARM and many people praise the power of their ARM processors, if performance of ARM isn’t able to do that then how is Apple able to? Is it the hardware plus OS isolation and optimization?

[@ChrisWijtmans]

@@michael_tunnell apple hardware was always slow for the price.

[@michael_tunnell]

@ChrisWijtmans as a hardccore Linux fan who has been using Linux exclusively since 2008/2009 (dont remember), I added a Macbook Pro to my computer inventory last year for the purpose of testing and because hardware prices for GPUs were and still are pretty insane. I have tested it extensively and while I hate some things about macOS, the performance of the devices is no longer a problem. I find myself using the macbook about 40-50% of the time at this point.

[@northof-62]

Thank you. OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 stays on Plasma ver. 5 - which is fine by me. I've tried Plasma 6 and it has some issues, in my experience. And Vivaldi is my fav. browser. I like the mouse gestures and whole page or rect. area screenshots . Negatives are what looks like a partnership with Bing search (optional ) and other small niggles. . . . bynote: As a Vivobook (K3402) owner I still had to, post OS-install - find and install the sound device driver on Leap 15.6 / kernel 6.4 . (zyppper install sof-firmware))

[@ErickWhite-Gronok]

I don''t have a problem with Steam. Seems pretty straight forward to me. There's not been an issue with it from my end and allows me to do more gaming on Linux than use to be the case. And Linus can do what he wills. He created it.

[@Sreenu920]

19:57 it isn't about the businesses and gaming companies, it is about consumers and gamers being able to buy the game for cheep/ lesser price on their own website or other platform Because of steam 30% markup game devs generally states a higher msrp/mrp(generally 42%). If steam has no clause about that they can sell the game on epic store with only 18% markup. The customer has a choice to buy the game cheep from other platforms

[@michael_tunnell]

Turns out Steam doesn’t have a clause about what price people sell on other platforms. The 30% is the marketplace fee for promotion, hosting, managing syncs, customer service, and all the other stuff Valve does. It’s a high fee but I don’t consider it excessive, it’s market standard. Consumers/ gamers aren’t hurt by this at all. They can choose to buy it elsewhere if they want and it’s always cheaper in Steam than from the console versions of games

[@smorrow]

How does changing the scheduler make any kernel more micro?

[@tutacat]

That's not Arm's fault for being different, the manufacturers and platforms just haven't made a method for automatic device tree diacoverability, but I think these use EDK2 anyway so not so bad.

[@michael_tunnell]

I thought ARM did do this on purpose due to the architecture design?

[@arachnid83]

Isn't OpenSuse discontinuing Leap after 15.6? I think the stable option from then on would be a slow roll of Tumbleweed. If Leap is being discontinued I feel like this would not be a good time to start setting up a rig based off of it.

[@michael_tunnell]

Nah, but there is a big change coming. openSUSE Leap 16 will be based on ALP which is what SUSE is doing with their next SLE to be immutable. So Leap will continue but it will be very very different. They also have the Slowroll edition as well though. It is a very good point to bring up related to Leap might not be the best to start with now due to all the changes. Sometimes covering a bunch of topics on \this show backfires and I forget to mention things :shrugs:

[@AndersJackson]

NetXMS support IPv6?

[@zev333]

Yes. NetXMS supports both IPv4 and IPv6.

[@SimoAtlas]

1:37 proud moment 😂 nice one

[@MyReviews_karkan]

Do you shoot your video in 30fps? It kinda looks like it's almost slo mo. My phone has 120 fps screen so it's not my phone. Also, only your videos act that way. Just wondering.

[@michael_tunnell]

I record in 30fps yes because I don’t think a talking head video needs tons of frames and it keeps the video file size much smaller. Is it a problem? I don’t have any monitors over 60hz to do any tests on

[@MindFuckersMime]

@@michael_tunnell I wouldn't say it's a problem, you are right in the fact that it doesn't take much away from the actual reason to watch your videos, but it is noticeable. Kind of throws you for a loop since I don't think I have seen 30 fps video in awhile. smearing and looks choppy. I can't imagine anyone not watching your video because of it though. I honestly thought it was youtube cutting more stuff out to get me to play for youtube red. increased bit rate and frames on a monthly fee!

[@easymoney480]

@@michael_tunnell it's not a problem, this person is being silly

[@MyReviews_karkan]

@@michael_tunnell I see. Not a big problem. It just makes you look like almost slo mo.

[@michael_tunnell]

lol slow mo you say? I could see that. I’ll see what I can do

[@EmanueleC_BR]

Opensuse leap is a bizzare release. Including Copilot as a main feature that has an entire menu that doesn't work...

[@l4loLX3]

Google says ee · thr · net in american english and ee · thuh · net in british english. I don't have an opinion on it. Spanish is my native language. I'm just here trying to answer the humble podcaster's important questions.

[@cybernit3]

Firefox at least by dfefault has that browser flag "Prefered Ozone Platform=Wayland"; Google Chrome had it on default but you can change it to Wayland. Cause I play this Tanki Online MMO browser game and I was only getting 60fps then when I set this I got 165fps and works fine. I guess Chrome was set to default for X11 (Xwayland) so most people can use it without problems. I have a Gnome 46 (Wayland) desktop btw and works fairly well. Good news about Tuxedo making that laptop, I hope there is more and at a decent price. This Tuxedo ARM Laptop you say has an USB4 port, then could you hook up an eGPU? I wonder if they are making a Qualcom ARM X ELITE desktop too, and if it would have a PCI bus that you could put in decent graphic cards if you need it.

[@tomaszgasior772]

I think there is no Ozone in Firefox. Ozone is Chromium specific term.

[@cybernit3]

@@tomaszgasior772 Oh ok but I think there is something similar with Firefox, but by default the snap firefox I got with Ubuntu 24.04 was set to wayland and I didn get 165fps. I figured out why they call it Ozone; a gap between the browser app and the desktop api.

[@joshuaharlow4241]

NetXMS looks very interesting.

[@somberrhombus]

Really hope they can push Qualcomm to stop being so linux hostile when it comes to putting it on old chromebooks/windows hardware. So we can get that older hardware upgraded to a better OS as well.

[@LivingLinux]

I don't think Qualcomm is Linux hostile, even for older hardware. There is plenty of upstreaming for older Snapdragon chips. But the problem is that booting ARM images can be very difficult, because of DTB files and perhaps some other things.

[@thechroniclesofcriss942]

the bit of information you're missing is the fact that the owners of the intellectual property of the games sold on steam are the ones who set the price tags, not valve or steam. if Capcom is selling a game via steam, Capcom sets the price.

[@michael_tunnell]

Who are you saying is missing that information? I ask because I said this in the video

[@thechroniclesofcriss942]

@@michael_tunnell I didn't hear you say that, I only heard you say you're missing something.

[@michael_tunnell]

To be fair to myself, lol, I said “ maybe I’m missing something” and turns out that is true, I was not fully informed on this topic but this particular piece I did address in the episode. Though since posting I have learned there is a heck of a lot more to this topic so it’s clear I was missing quite a bit lol

[@momashi69]

Valve is anticompetitive because if publishers want to charge a lower price on Epic because Epic takes a smaller cut, they shouldn't be forced to price match with Valve. So yeah, more power to the law suit.

[@michael_tunnell]

Others are saying they don’t do that and only require price matching on Steam keys which makes sense to me

[@medicfedor]

Seems like your research didn't extend past the lawsuit in the Steam section. I think the tying issue can be significant, especially since you only assumed its platform specific.

[@michael_tunnell]

Your assumption is correct. TWIL is a round up show so while I do research on each topic there are too many topics to go super in depth. Sometimes I like to take a topic and expand on it much more and dive into deeper. For example the Riot Games vanguard rootkit, I researched that a ton and made a separate video on it. This one might be upgraded to more coverage because it is interesting

[@kamillatocha]

so is podman and docker the same thing ?

[@tomaszgasior772]

Podman and Docker both are implementations of OCI standard. These implementations are interchangeable. At least theoretically, in reality there are small differences. Also, the popular thing called "docker compose" is not part of OCI standard. But docker-compose (original Python version) works properly with Podman.

[@prezlamen]

Hi! I have issue with newer google account on youtube when I login with firefox font got smaller. Do you know something about that? Or who to contact? I ask chatgpt but didn't find answer

[@michael_tunnell]

First try CTRL+0 and then use CTRL+= to zoom in. It could also be a font size setting in your preferences

[@MandomFive]

Steam and Dev, it's time to move and focus more on Linux base OS, 100%. It is time.

[@coreyfro]

In the scant few benchmarks in common between the platforms, the current flagship AMD laptop processors have better performance per watt than the flagship Apple processors. The difference in battery life has more to do with poor OS tuning. Windows power management is woefully bad. I bet a properly configured AMD Linux laptop can out sip a macbook

[@marcbarbier5646]

It makes a lot of sens to not want prices to be fixed by the steam price. if epic has a lower cut game makers should be proposing games at a lower price while still increase their profit margin which would creating incentive for users to buy them. But if steam prevent them from manipulating the price, then everyone will buy on steam where they have the least profit margins the rest of the claims are dumb tho.

[@michael_tunnell]

I see people saying restrictions of price are only related to steam keys but in not sure. This requires a lot more research it seems

[@keremim]

About the Tuxedo laptop, am I in the wrong for wanting this laptop but with a 99wh battery or close? I just want something that would last for days, runs Linux and chugs along whatever I do. That would be the perfect laptop.

[@michael_tunnell]

I assume it’s lower for the prototype but hopefully they include a bigger one because why not optimize it. I agree

[@ChrisWijtmans]

I want a 1 watt laptop that can do temrinal stuff battery would last years, add in kinetic energy.

[@Contmotore]

1:32 lmao

[@legendboyAni]

I wouldn't buy a game if it's not on steam or GOG.

[@cheako91155]

I'm sorry... What about all the math https adds ontop of http? It's not free to upgrade streams and if the content is already under DRM there is no point in adding a round of TLS.

[@akahenke]

steam should offer other applications than just games, these could then be made run on linux and steamos would take over the desktop os market

[@CTimmerman]

12:09 How can Valve have prices that are too high, thus allegedly overcharging players, while also forcing other platforms to undercharge, thus allegedly shutting out competition? A different video said Valve unfairly competed in some places where others are forced to censor games.

[@fuseteam]

I've been thinking, with fedora pushing the envelop and ubuntu being a stable rock.........where does opensuse fit in the picture 🤔

[@michael_tunnell]

I would say that SUSE / openSUSE is both. Tumbleweed is pushing stuff all the time and they are basically the lead devs behind BTRFS and have been for years. Though at the same time with Leap & SLE they have the stable offering as well. Though Leap and SLE are going through massive changes next year so very curious what happens there because the underlying core will be very different than it is today.

[@fuseteam]

@@michael_tunnell that's the thing with suse yeah, they seem to be lil bit of everything so far

[@shisui3436]

I bet 10 bucks that the real reason why they are prosecuting valve is because its a private company not listed on the stock market and fully controlled by Gaben. Black Rock had in the past high interests of taking over Valve but Gaben never allowed valve to enter the stock market. Do with this information what you want.

[@stepheningermany]

What's the point on having 2560x1600 on a 14" laptop?

[@michael_tunnell]

Higher quality screen I suppose. It could always be lowered if the user wanted

[@dipi71]

32:16 a height of 32766 pixels, one less than 0x07FFF - max value of a 16-bit signed integer, hmmm… Michael, are you sure that screenshot captured the whole Nextcloud page, or did it just hit the max height of a PNG? Seems too much of a coincidence. Cheers!

[@michael_tunnell]

Oh wow, you are totally right. It didnt do the full page. In fact, it cut off half way through. Dang it!. Thanks for that comment though, now I know.

[@ChrisWijtmans]

@@michael_tunnell can you take screenshots as SVG?

[@michael_tunnell]

there are no tools for taking screenshots as SVG. Vector graphics are very different from screenshots and there is just no way to do that. It is possible to convert something to SVG but not as complex as a screenshot

[@DJgregBrown]

The steam law case make's all UK government look insane! If anything steam has added financial benefit to all the UK PC and hand held gamers, by bringing over wise locked to Microsoft windows game to All x86 platform OS's base on Linux and BSD base system. Even their own hard where is not looked to just their own store or OS. Which is more than any Console maker offers with looked proprietary platform. Ending the Microsoft monopoly and giving games way more choice in how they buy and run those game.A long with what they have running on their system. Steam are the market leader because they have a systems that bring game to more Gamers. There is nothing stopping other games store moving to other kernels and running their game out of their own software platforms. That supply the back bone that steam does to dev's and that is why they take a sale amount. This is no different or unfair to that of any service or retail providers that take a cut out of sale they help you make or from sale made on services they provide. This is the same queer bull s--t as Epic EGS suing CrApple when you can jail break and run anything on them even Linux meaning like steam EGS could lunch game on Linux as well and sell on it too like steam... Also how can it be Anti-trust and consumer abuse of Children gamer when under 18's are not legally responsible for their own money supply or what they want to spend it on, ultimately it the responsibility of the parents. This lady that is lead on the case is clearly a bad mum if she can't control her children, maybe UK court might point it out to her.

[@KTSpeedruns]

Now that raspberry pi in publication traded, i don't trust them to continue trying to make a better product.

[@riufq]

What distro, openSuse based on?

[@michael_tunnell]

openSUSE is an independent distro family, not based on another. SUSE is the company and openSUSE is the community effort around SUSE's stuff.

[@The_Lawnmower_Man]

@@michael_tunnell Way back at its beginning, S.u.S.E. Linux was based on Slackware Linux. Later, it switched over to Red Hat's package manager, but (unlike pretty much all other RPM-based distros) continued using Slackware's package naming-conventions, for a while at least.

[@michael_tunnell]

You’re right, that’s true. I was answering with the basis of the modern version of the distro which doesn’t have a base

[@def1nt]

Not only a cashgrab, but also an ad for Vicki and her company.

[@John7No]

I need Tab Groups that wont be in your face always in Firefox to be considering this as a main browser. FF is way too behind on many things at this point sadly

[@michael_tunnell]

Addon = Simple Tab Groups. Firefox is also working on this feature, they announced that a few weeks ago. The weirdest thing about that is Firefox was actually the originators of Tab Groups. Firefox introduced Tab Groups way back in Firefox 4 (I think) and then eventually they decided to remove them for some silly reason so they yea that part is weird

[@John7No]

@@michael_tunnell never understood why they removed it tbh as well. I have tested STG, Sideberry and others, and although they do have some good functionality, the problem is that the Tab Groups do not sync across my PCs. I hope Mozilla steps up and makes FF a competitive browser again, although I won't hold my breath for it.

[@tutacat]

That is how anti-trusts work, though some are better or worse, the lawyers make money and give some reward to customers. This figure is actually based on requesting 44 per affected user plus some fees, which they set as the total price. They split that number, evenly to those "14 million" they said.

[@michael_tunnell]

I know how it works but it’s not like they are doing this lawsuit for free out of the kindness of their hearts. Though in my opinion it’s still a baseless lawsuit since most gamers like valve and steam

[@RonnieRedd]

Wonder if Microsoft is behind the lawsuits 😮

[@mavfan1]

That information is public. You don’t need to wonder, do some research!!!

[@RonnieRedd]

@@mavfan1 it wouldn't generally be out in the open when it comes to Microsoft. They were behind the SCO bullshit and we didn't know for a long time.

[@NameUserOf]

What's up with companies making mostly 14 inch? I want 17, even 15.6 is inconvinient to work with amd 14 is just useless.

[@SixStringUk]

I don't get the lawsuit. You can buy the games for Steam in multiple stores where the prices are often lower than on Steam. Maybe they're not lower than the lowest sale price. But that's also something that the publisher decides. I've never thought that I'm overpaying for games because of Steam or any other platform. If I can buy games from one publisher for 25% of the price after a year, and lowest sales for another one are around 75% for years, then it's not Steam. And especially that, as was pointed out multiple times, console games are way more expensive.

[@QuestionTheTruth]

That VALVe lawsuit should have been on EPIC Games rather then them. Since as soon as for example when Kingdom Hearts was released on Steam you get all the games for the price of one of the games on EPIC, sure it's a limited price offer now, but EPIC haven't had them cheaper then 599 SEK / Game since they came to computers.

[@sativagirl1885]

To have the world's fastest laptop, first steal a Porsche to make a rapid get-away. --old German proverb.

[@kelvinnkat]

It is not normal at all to say that a producer of a product can't sell it anywhere else at a lower price. Similar behaviors are a huge part of why Amazon is getting in trouble. Amazon charges a fee larger than any of their competitors (like Newegg, yes they do exist) so not being able to sell cheaper somewhere else (while being about to rake in the same amount of revenue due to the fee means revenue that's simply unreachable due to Amazon's policy. It's the same problem with Steam. That's not to mention the other problem; if, despite other platforms like GoG and Epic Games having a lower fee, developers aren't allowed to price lower on there, what incentive is there for the consumer to use places like GoG or Epic Games? None! It hurts developers, and it hurts competitors' storefronts. Very anti-competitive.

[@michael_tunnell]

Turns out Valve doesn’t dictate price to anyone on any platform, they only talk about how much Steam Keys can be sold for and that’s totally reasonable. Unfortunately what I said in the video was inaccurate

[@kelvinnkat]

@@michael_tunnell Developers have had posted about experiences where they've had Valve representatives tell them they aren't allowed to price their games cheaper on other platforms. It's not entirely clear whether these representatives are being misinformed, or if this is a company policy that isn't always enforced, or what exactly (because only some representatives/liaisons say this), but it's not just a keys problem, unfortunately.

[@michael_tunnell]

Fair enough, thanks for letting me know

[@s.b.asokadissanayake4276]

Good one.

[@AshNonokPlays]

Lawsuit trolls at it again.

[@guilherme5094]

And Leap still great!

[@t1m3f0x]

The only thing that would ever get this case any support from UK gamers would be if it was guaranteed that if valve lost that instead of them paying out any money they would instead be required to #fixtf2​.

[@derekr54]

Lawsuits are typical of money grabbers that worship money over intelligence and common decency.

[@FrDismasSayreOP]

I'm the first one to jump on companies for exploitative or abusive practices. Steam seems an... interesting choice? It -does- seem a bit cash-grabby. Maybe they figure their lawyers aren't as big as other corporations, and they figure they can squeeze some $.

[@boss566y]

Preface: I do think the suit is probably a cashgrab The suit againsts Value propably has some merit under the following assumptions 1. Epic's cut is not loss making. (It possibly is / possibly is not. It is definitely a tactic to enter a market with a pre-existing dominent player) 2. If the pricing parity requirement did not exit, some games would be sold for less on platforms with lower fees (I think some would but I know that some publishers would sell the game at the same price) 3. The Publishers and Developers are adequately compensated under the Value 70/30 split. For any $60 game sold on both Value and Epic, Value's pricing parity condition potentionally costs the consmer $12. Supporting math The split for a $60 game is $42/$18 under Value Recaculating the pricing under Epic's 88/12 split and the $42 to the developer, results in a revised price of $48 (rounded) As a result, the consumer has to pay $12 more on Epic because of pricing parity imposed by Valve. Note that this kind of cost to the consumer plays out with streaming services all the time. Streaming serivces have shown that they would rather charge a set price with any platform fees be ontop the set fee even if it results in pricing disparities.

[@fabricio4794]

O Chip Snapdragpn Tem Spyware??

[@garrettrinquest1605]

Not allowing it to be cheaper on other platforms is anticompetitive. It's price fixing and illegal in most countries.

[@michael_tunnell]

Some are saying they don’t do that and only have restrictions on steam keys which would make sense. I don’t know what structure it is exactly though

[@donkey7921]

That's not what it is, steam keys still require steam servers, accounts and tracking. F that and all abusing other's services to get money.

[@michael_tunnell]

How are steam keys abusing other services? Of course a steam key requires Steam but they should since they are intended to be used in Steam. What is the abuse here?

[@fuseteam]

I think they are referring to reselling steam keys

[@michael_tunnell]

@fuseteam well reselling keys would actually be other services abusing Steam then

[@tutacat]

KZbin is inherently different, they host much more content, and they are also way bigger. KZbin is not a store.

[@Renull55]

Firefox all day

[@cammelspit]

Since when is Steam not the cheapest among any and all competition? Consoles are always more expensive and the dedicated other stores are usually more too. I simply do not agree with he suit here.

[@PatrickGoodspeed]

The Raspberry Pi company goes public. And so begins the slow decent into becoming a Shareholder beholden, money fixated, pile of rubbish of a company.

[@archip8021]

Steam actually has a monopoly. The monopoly is so big that no one has been able to make a dent, not even Epic with the millions upon millions they threw at it. No publishers or devs are interested in selling on other platforms because there are no users, so they all have to pay the fees set by valve. That's a monopoly and that's bad whether you like it or not. I'm not going to write down all problems with a monopoly (also not addressed in the video) everyone's just defending them because steam is a good platform. I'm glad they are fighting for the consumer, big corporations don't get enough pushback, even its vs daddy valve.

[@filipDcve]

Way too much uninformed opinions in you Vavle section man...

[@michael_tunnell]

I have since learned that to be the case 🤷‍♂️

[@llomellamomario]

13:45 really? I though that they only didn't allow that if your game came with a steam key bundled in, to prevent listing it on other platform cheaper than in steam, yet making valve eat the distribution cost. Which, in all honesty, it is a fair thing to ask, considering they don't see a cent of the copies sold on other platforms. 14:15 Funny how she points up that valve takes 30% from the publishers, when publishers are way, way more ruthless, taking most of the cash, or outright taking all the cash until they recoup costs. She is tone deaf at the very best, and an outright sociopath at worst. 21:45 they sound like Epic Games Store at this point. If you don't want to pay 30%, go to the EGS, they have a lower paycut. valve isn;t imposing sancions if you do or anything of the sort. Or sell it by yourself. Devil is in the wording: "imposed an excessive comission, of up to 30%, charged to publishers". Publishers, not per game, not developers, but publishers. This does sound more and more like publishers are starting to get butthurt that, from the 70%+ they take from the developer at best (at best for the dev, of course), 30% goes to Valve and they are trying to claw back.

[@s.b.asokadissanayake4276]

This Women has gone Bonkers

[@SqualidsargeStudios]

Of course vicki is at it again -_- she os always doing this bs. People like “her” like lying to people for “her” own benefit

[@Blankenship203]

Yay first comment 😊

[@bertnijhof5413]

Don't defend monopolies, they are perfectly capable of defending themselves with the money you paid them.

[@michael_tunnell]

What monopoly? If you mean Valve, they aren’t a monopoly

[@danmac_au]

@@michael_tunnell Epic charges 12% commission on games so they want publishers to be able to charge 18% less for games on EGS but they can't because Steam doesn't allow them to. This is using their dominant market position to harm their competitors. This is the same as Amazon not allowing people to charge less for ebooks on competing platforms, and I don't see anyone saying Amazon is a good guy in that situation.

[@Bixmy]

Valve is not monopoly. Dev can sell anywhere they want. The pricing arent even require to be the same if its not selling steam key. Im saying this as a dev for a game studio. Valve is probably the easiest to work with. They are very open about their platform compared to any other competitors. If valve is not fair no other distributior are fair.

[@Bixmy]

If valve is gone i had a feeling that itll be worst. Cos therell be no competition from a decent company at all. Epic are losing money to gain marketshare ea ubisoft is even worst xbox pricing are atrocious. Psn game are very expensive. They r already selling the cheapest in the market.

[@bertnijhof5413]

@@michael_tunnell Let's just wait for the decision of the UK Justice system. I'm not from the UK, but I trust their system more that the corrupt US system, where even Supreme Court Justices are bribed by the billionaires. Besides looking at the US Justice and the Trump cases, it still seems to be based on the speed of the Pony Express.

[@leandrodasilva2523]

50wh battery at 1.3kg.....?? common tuxedo....

[@backhdlp]

it's ethernet, not ethernet

[@michael_tunnell]

Much more clear, thanks 🤣

[@louchitchat]

Don't defend monopolies

[@realmwatters2977]

It be a zoomer who wants the game off Steam for free they upset because a they want it free, yeah it somebody doesn;t like paying for games. UK

[@sean7221]

Is that shotbolt woman a jew by any chance.....

[@HarishPillay]

e-ther-net.