Foss Fun Wednesday 10: EA Wrecks Your Day and More

MESA Updates

Memesplanation

Community Proton Updates Released

Freed Computer

EA AntiCheat: Bane of Existence for Linux Gamers?

What to Use Instead of Big Tech

FFW 10-1: Great news for any who love CS:GO… and others

Mesa driver stack has a patch that will dramatically improve performance on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, not only taking the startup time from 2.5 minutes to 10 seconds. Also one of the main developers for the stack wrote a blog recently stating that there are about to be huge drawing throughput improvements for AMD GPUs through the AMD Vulkan driver. Good stuff.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/09/mesa-gets-a-big-csgo-speedup-plus-upcoming-amd-radv-performance-boost/

#FFW #FOSS #drivers #graphics #AMD #Linux #TechFreedom

Just do it. Pray. Talk to God. He’s your Father, Lord, and Friend. He causes all things to work out for the best for those who love Him and are called according to His purposes. He knows your heart better than you do, but wants to hear it from you anyway. So, wherever you are, whatever you are doing, talk to Him.

#spirituality #littlechrist #pray #talktogod #memesplanation #TechFreedom

FFW 10-2: Community Proton projects have updates

GE-Proton now at 7.33, and WINE-GE-Proton is at 7.28

more fixes for GTA V, Red Dead Redemption 2, Bioshock Remastered 1 & 2
dxvk updated
vkd3d updated
latest upstream proton fixes included

Should make lots of gamers happier. Good stuff. If you want to read more, follow the link below:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/09/ge-proton-7-33-and-wine-ge-proton-7-28-are-out-now/

#FFW #gloriouseggroll #Proton #Steam #community #linuxgaming

Freed Computer
https://techfreedom.pro/product/tech-freedom-freed-computer/

#freedcomputer #linux #nospying #safe #TechFreedom #parallelEconomy #parallelSociety #shopongab #growwithgab #smallbusiness #gabsmallbusiness

FFW 10-3: EA Anti-Cheat News

BOOOOOO!!!!! Hiiiiiiiiiisssssss!!!! EA has developed a new kernel-mode cheating and tampering prevention tool that will be rolled out in the lastest FIFA game, along with many others, however, EA will not require its use, but will listen to each studio’s needs to see whether it will be necessary for them, even allowing some to roll “user-mode protections” which may allow games to function on Linux. With Kernel-Mode Anti-Cheat, that will pretty much exclude any Linux user who wants to play on Linux rather than either dual booting or spinning up a VM to play their new game.

#smh EA. #smh. Low blow, man. Not surprising, really, but low, nonetheless.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/09/ea-anticheat-could-spell-trouble-for-steam-deck-linux/

#FFW #EA #anticheat #exclusives #Linux #TechFreedom

What to use instead of Big Tech online:

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#techtips #TechFreedom #justsayno #nomorespying #advice