And then they become incubators for new zoonotic diseases and kickoff the next global pandemic. What could possibly go wrong.

This is how enshittification perpetuates.

Not necessarily. It is known that some vitamins can have differing effects depending on whether they’re in whole food form, or in a supplement.

Haven’t read the article yet, but my suspicion would be more correlation than causation. Those industrially manufactured ascorbic acids virtually always end up in highly processed foods, and that’s what is more likely the main harm.

If it’s not open source as much as reasonably possible, it’s ultimately no better than Android. Kind of annoyed that distinctions need to be made between “real” Linux and “fake” Linux.

Wish I could care but I never got to play Destiny 2 since they never supported Linux. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ll do a replay of the original Marathon in honor of old-Bungie. 🍷

Yeah admittedly building still largely has the best price to performance ratio. This is why I have never been able to bring myself to buy a gaming laptop even though I really want one. Too many compromises for too high of a price.

Depending on what the next Steam Machine is like, and how it’s priced, I still might build my own again. I would only get the former if they price it really competitively. But if it’s too much, I might hold off on buying a new system all together until something breaks with all these price raises.

Yup, when that became mandatory on all consoles, I stopped buying consoles.

I love what RetroFighters does, but I wish they would design their Dreamcast controller to fit a vmu, and add a second analog stick while they’re at it. Dreamcast still has so much homebrew potential, but the lack of dual analog inouts holds it back.

Gulikit ES Pro is easily my favorite Xbox-style controller. It’s almost identical to the Xbox Series controller, but everything about it is a little better. The dpad is as accurate and tactile, and not as loud. It uses tmr sticks.

It uses bluetooth for wireless, but it’s kind of miraculously low latency for being bluetooth, and rivals most 2.4 controllers in latency tests.

But to be fair I have never been able to bring myself to spend $200+ on a controller. This one is only $30.

I got disenchanted with PC building after my first and last build. It had benefits, like being able to buy one component at a time instead of spending a bunch at once (except now it’s spending a bunch many times to build). Reparability is nice too.

But my issue is that despite getting what were some of the best components at the time, I’m at a place where virtually every part needs an upgrade, so I may as well build a whole new PC, and why bother if that’s the case?

If the upcoming Steam Machine is less than $1000, I am probably getting one.

It’s time to bring back this stuff!

This is also exactly my problem with minimalist systems. That, and things being hardcoded in a way I don’t like and not having any reasonable recourse to change it.

My preferred dpad is the Xbox octagon style one. The main issue I have with most dpads is when pushing in on it causes the whole thing to press in as if it’s a button.

I hit the reservation button the very minute they opened up the second round. I’m still waiting for that second email to actually order a controller though.

Why am I doing this? I’m probably going to hate the dpad anyway.

That’s slightly better, but the salient question is, how would these things function in system that overall is more rights respecting and built on free software principles? It’s still an anti-feature, it’s still drm, and it’s still a component of a part of Steam that is proprietary.

While Steam is doing a lot of good, it can’t be forgotten that the majority of their systems are still not free software, and still fall far short of a more ideal platform.

What’d be really nice to see is maybe something like Bazaar but with a gaming focus. A much more open storefront that can still allow game devs to be compensated for their work.

I work in pharmacy, and what I see between prescription prices and insurance adjudication processes… it’s a fucking eugenics program, plain and simple. I feel awful for people who need insulin and adhd medication in particular.

Valve certainly isn’t perfect, and I used to buy more games on GOG. But then I noticed those games, which initially had Linux support, were no longer getting updated or working properly on distros. Their Linux support just kind of fizzled out.

On the flipside, even in it’s early days, Steam/Proton made Linux gaming such a far nicer experience. If Proton were proprietary, I would stay away from Steam still. But what Valve is doing for Linux and free and open-source software is a net good right now, and that is worth supporting.

There are things that suck about Steam, like the drm. Just the other day I had a game running and also tried to run a second game through GameNative only to find Steam only allows me to run one game at a time, dumb. And there will probably be a day when Valve pulls some kind of enshittified bait and switch like Google is doing with Android right now.

And when that day comes it will be necessary to fork and forget them. But until then I’ll enjoy the ride.

It’s pretty rough trying to get by on 512 gb.

I mean it is pretty long in the tooth at this point, with a growing number of games that it is not powerful enough to run.

Yeah that sucked, I was at work and missed it.