I'm building a solution for all kinds of open source to get built, especially where tons of people want something and don't want to program it themselves. It's a new take on social finance / crowdfunding called PrizeForge

Problems I started with:

• Kickstarter has no accountability because the lump sum is controlled by the campaign creator
• Patreon has no coordination. There's no threshold like with Kickstarter. It's basically volunteer if nothing can be put behind a gate, so it can't work well for open source.

In addition, I wanted to extend fund-matching in two dimensions, creating implicit cooperation between huge B2B budgets and everyone on down, from SMEs all the way to individual pro-sumers and casual users. The initial prototype is Elastic Fund Raising. Big funds don't fully move until lots of almost-as-big funds move together with them. By moving together, we're not just volunteering.

Delegation is a Game Changer

Social finance platforms also suffer from a catastrophic source of inefficiency: If there are N projects to evaluate by M users, then N x M decisions must be made. To make this more efficient, I decided early on to use a new kind of "social delegation" system. The "social" part is to enable filling the inevitable gaps with reasonable fallbacks and robust behaviors that make corrupt actions self-limiting. What delegation also gives us is the ability to elevate users with more expertise, meaning fewer Solar Roads style disasters.

Production Finance: Scratching Our Big Itches

One of the core ideas I want to focus on is what I'm calling production finance. It's a really simple addendum to ESR scratch-your-own-itch theory: When a lot of people (especially those who can't program) have the same itch, it doesn't make sense to wait for someone to scratch it for free. Especially bigger itches than one programmer will tackle alone can take forever even if hundreds of millions of people have the same itch.

Social finance 101 is to bundle people together until the value they expect to receive is much greater than the cost of producing or updating the valuable thing. The cost stays the same, but as we add people, the value captured by all the users goes up. Coordinating that finance of production is all that is required to make what is unreasonable to the individual into an obvious decision for a million users.

Production Finance makes sense whenever value capture is difficult, meaning situations where it's hard to put the result behind a gate and charge money for it. Open source absolutely fits that description. Instead of building a gate, we spend money to compensate and motivate production. In the future I want to work on tools that will allow more well-defined relationships. For now it's totally non-binding.

For something to make sense in production finance, there doesn't need to be a business or sales model at all. The value received from the production proceeding only must be greater than the cost. Given the tremendous economies of scale of software, that is an easy condition to hit for a lot of open source.

Toward Viability

In addition to a really basic initial implementation of Elastic Fund Raising, I've just added support for multiple streams. Each Stream that matches over $1000 will receive delegate(s) who will spend money on things that make that ecosystem stronger. Since we're just trying to motivate people to do first contributions and to release cool things a little more frequently, and since the agreements are non-binding, it really is like a weekly prize. If the affected communities feel like these prizes are effective, we are beginning to have a working service.

Raw Startup

These new pilot Streams I'm introducing on are also the milestone where I decided I was going to recruit co-founders again. In other words, I am still soloing everything for the near future. Things are changing fast and usually only half-implemented before changing again. That's the only way this kind of aggressive innovation usually survives.

You can follow the development on r/prizeforge though I've been making most updates on a bluesky recently. I think activity will pick up on both Reddit an our YouTube as I start introducing each stream, starting with Lem.

I'm going to crash since It's 2am in Busan, so catch you all later. Btw, I just deployed, so there is almost definitely some thing things that are really badly broken. Tomorrow is another day.

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Hi there. I love linux, but still cant play without fear of any crash o unexpected behaviur. I choose Debian 13.1 with XFCE. I install nvidia drivers from https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers with Secure Boot enable (Default Bios Settings).

I hadnot any issue with installation. But first, i have to disable or uninstall light-locker because i get black screen on resume pc.

Others troubles is using Lutris to play old games like Resident Evil 3 Nemesis GOG edition or Helbreath Olympia. With RE3 quiting game pressing Escape and Enter (Prompt asking if i wanna quit the game). I get full reset of something to login like fresh start sesion without any error message.

I had to return to my Lenovo neo 50s 4th Gen with onboard graphics because the mesa intel drivers are super stables and havent any issues.

Whats wrong with first one pc? Nvidia still unstable to game? I have to install Open nvidia driver? I have to install other distro? Whats wrong! Thanks for tips

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The Bottles team has released version 51.25, introducing support for the st terminal and several important fixes that enhance stability and Steam integration.

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Hi I’m using arch Linux and tried to play Counter Strike 2 and after I launched the game I got stuck with this error

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Hi everyone,

I’ve tried Linux and really love it, but I haven’t been able to fully switch because of Discord. I’m currently on Windows and live in a country where VoIP is banned for Discord. Right now I use something called Drover, which I understand works like a VPN just for Discord and fixes the issue.

All my friends are on Discord, and I use it every day and I can’t manage without it. I’ve tried using regular VPNs on Linux, but it got messy. I couldn’t figure out split tunneling, and I couldn’t find any free VPNs that worked reliably with it.

I was thinking about running a VM just for Discord, but I’m worried about the performance hit.

I’d really appreciate any advice or suggestions on the best way to run Discord on Linux under these conditions.

Thanks in advance, and I hope you all have a wonderful day! 🙏

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Playing this game on my new sapphire nitro+ 9070xt feels a little tougher than before on a 7900xt. Has this game updated in the last few months hurting performance? Something I need to change?

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I really need to use gamescope for HDR in thos game because Wayland is a lot brighter in comparison to W11. It was working before the KDE update to 6.5. Using : gamescope -w 2560 -h 1440 --hdr-enabled -- %command% Iv tried adding variables but nothing is making the HDR able to be selected except running in Wayland. Tried all the main protons.

Operating System: CachyOS Linux

KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.0

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0

Qt Version: 6.10.0

Kernel Version: 6.17.5-2-cachyos (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor

Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.9 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.

Product Name: MS-7D78

System Version: 1.0

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Thanks.

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In different Games (The Finals, Arc Raiders, Tina Tinas Wonderlands...) the mouse escapes onto the second screen if I don't use proton with wayland - so every game needs a command to work properly. I'm not the only one as a friend who only recently switched to linux faces the same problem.
Is there a more new user friendly way to solve this problem?
Now to the second part - I recently got into Hunt Showdown, but to invite friends the steam overlay is needed and that doesn't work with wayland enabled. Is there a way to fix this?

Bazzite with KDE and proton cachy for the games with this bug

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Hi.
I have been trying to run arkham asylum on my lenovo ideapad 330s-15IKB i5 8250u with radeon 530 mobile card. The game crashes a few minutes in with a d3d error. I tried proton hotfix and proton ge-10-21 with launch option: gamemoderun protontricks d3dx9 d3dcompiler_43. I am on linux mint.

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Piper supports the OG Superlight but not the Superlight 2 and any other software I've seen either don't work or don't have anything above DPI. Thanks for any help!

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Exact problem like in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESAt5vMXhpo

I am using nixos with amdvlk. tried multiple proton versions.

I JUST finished zero dawn and everything was very smooth and played at 60+.

my gpu is RX 6600 which should be fine for this game too.

thank you for the help!

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Hey guys,,, How do I add the line: " mangohud=1 %command%" to this line in the screenshot here

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I can't find a way to force-invert the mouse Y axis for a game, does anyone know a way?

It would be better if there is a toggle, so that I can temporarily set it back to normal in menus. But even without a toggle, I'd very much like to invert the mouse camera in a couple of games that do not support it natively.

Thanks for any help..

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Just wanted to put this here so others can find it when googling...

In Cyberpunk I experienced a degraded framerate consistently after menuing or when talking to NPCs. Turned out that my GPU wasn't being utilizd fully in that scenario (thermals ok, only drawing a fraction of the possible power) and I had to load into a new area to fix it (until it happened again which was giga annoying).

Anyway, I found out that some people on Windows disabled ReBar for fixing this issue. I didn't want to do that in the BIOS as i wanted ReBar enabled for other games, so I went digging and eventually found this flag:

VKD3D_CONFIG=force_host_cached

Just put it in Steam's launch option for any game that shows issues that might be fixed by fiddling with ReBar. As far as I understand, it should work both for NVidia and AMD GPUs.

Lo and behold, Cyberpunk now uses 100% of my GPU all of the time, no more shitty framerate.

I don't own any other games with this issue, so please, if you manage to fix something else with this, leave a comment so people can find it when searching.

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Hi Everyone,

I just switched to Linux mint and it's a rewarding experience. Everything works out of the box and I'm really liking it. Now, I want to play my steam games on Linux Mint so I went through all the documentations, reddit answers and tried installing Batman Arkham Asylum but it won't start. I'm getting a box of errors, the launcher has black rectangles and the game won't launch. I think I'm missing something here. I'm new to Linux gaming so can someone please help me with this? Is there a step by step guide? Thanks in advance.

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