They’re just like Hollywood blockbuster execs. They’d rather one game that copies what they’ve identified as popular from other games and media to formulate a game that can make hundreds of millions in profit if not into the billions rather making a bunch of smaller games that can make smaller profits. Single to double digit million dollar profits. It’d take a large amount of smaller hits that they can’t imagine managing to accomplish to equal the profit of one mega hit so go big or go home. Unless you’re Nintendo, they churn out smaller games and they have a brand/game identity that people generally don’t seem to be let down from. They’re consistent

Go from the summer blockbuster equivalent holiday AAA graphics bonanza game where the rest of the year was filled out with cheaper bets to any month is a month for a blockbuster/AAA game. Well, graphics don’t sell games like they used to so you get these multi hundred million dollar budget games struggling to sell any better than AAA games made in 2007 that were made with a fraction of the modern AAA team size and made in like a third of the time to development

When I went AM5 when that was new everyone was like DDR5 is overpriced. Stick with AM4 and buy a better GPU. 2029 AM5 at least now. I’ll be on AM5 until at least 2035. Really I want to take it to 2040

Sweet. Once handbrake and other programs like kdenlive support export in it, I’ll start encoding new stuff in it, at least for testing it out. It’ll be slow but that’s fine. A couple years for hardware decoders in desktop/laptop graphics cards. More for mobile. A couple more for hardware encoders. Then there’s the AI hardware shortage that’ll make adoption even slower. VVC is already practically dead. It’ll be slow for adoption but AV2 is going to be running almost unopposed with how little has happened with VVC in 6 years

I want to go hardwired backhaul eventually. That’s the dream. But when I finally get to that, I’ll do my best to buy TP-Link routers and switches to spite this nonsense

When I think of people I know that actually sleep more than 8 hours, they’re really overweight. Like you can hear them snoring all throughout the day

I bought an android box specifically because of the obvious enshittification coming from Roku. Default Android TV sucks. Not as bad as Samsungs but still sucks. Projectivity launcher and others good. Roku, Apple TV, Samsung, LG - all leave you at the mercy of these companies wanting to leech all they can from you

Anytime I read someone use the CCP to contrast the American government positively, I’m like are we just ignoring the US’s current active bombings and trade embargos to starve populations of other nations and the others in the last century

Me wanting to abandon Nintendo got me to buy this since it was on sale on Fanatical including all the DLC. It’s a good Mario kart replacement. I hope more people buy in. Get some more marketing and sales when the steam machine launch and build up the online and local multiplayer playerbase

Hoping this supercharges interest into the modding scene. The 2024 redkit release was way past the games popularity peak

Not bad for first wave RVA23 chips. Solid for SBC/minipcs. Build momentum from here

The Internets got to be worse thing to happen to the European and American civilian psyche. It’s like constant surprise that genocide and slavery spanned over 600 years of colonialism and imperialism may have a great deal more to do with our wealthy lifestyles rather than the last 50 years of relatively not so over the top slavery. Muh scandanavian democratic socialism built off centuries of violent oppression of labor and theft around the world. Modern day Israel does the dirty work while Europeans try to act like they haven’t been benefactors all this time and now the same with countries like Rwanda and their neighbors

If you’re paying the cheapest $11/m for 5 years, that’s $660. PS6 rumored 2028. 8 years since PS5 2020, $1056. Console itself $500+ since 2020. Expensive now but before the ram and storage shortage, it has been the case of PC gaming being the best value as long as you don’t care to hit the max settings in every game. Couch gaming, my PC is hooked up to my TV, Steam Big Picture auto starts and I use a bunch of 8bitdo gamepads

LibreOffice with the tabbed interface. I think the tabbed interface is mature enough that it should be the default interface

Interestingly, the Ubuntu Concept image is aiming to use ACPI-based support for the platform rather than frustrating Device Tree files.

That’s cool

If I wasnt worried about price to performance then I would get that Spacemit k3 riscv laptop. It’ll have an NVME. Should be fine for non heavy tasks. If you are a software developer, it’d probably be good for most tasks. I remember back when all the old Linux elite software developers complained about desktop environments using too much memory on their 512MB memory laptops that are perfectly good software people love to use

MS is bad against competent competition. The only thing that saved Windows from MacOS is that Apple doesn’t license that out to third party hardware makers. But now I’m certain Linux distros will continue to push forward towards mainstream acceptance and same for LibreOffice against MS Office

Great comment. I heard of Tainted Grail and plan to buy eventual. The other 2 are new to me and look intriguing

I have 4 8bitdo Ultimate 2C gamepads. 2 Nintendo layout and 2 Xbox layout. They feel better than the Series X standard gamepad I had before. My oldest is 2 years old. Durable for me but I don’t smash the buttons and sticks anywhere near as hard as possible like I’ve seen other people do when gaming. Like video game road ragers

I started with Linux off and on back during windows 8. Don’t be trapped in the whims of Microsoft’s profit motive. It’s easier today than ever. Fedora KDE and rely mostly on the flatpak/rpm software store GUI. At this point I’m comfortable enough to not care whether it’s debian, fedora, or arch based. Firefox, Steam, and Flatpaks cover 99% of my GUI program needs

I get if you’re buying 5080 and up hardware, there’s no other competitors there. 5070 and lower, buy AMD or Intel. 9070 (xt) are great graphics cards. The 9060xt is great. You can go down to 7600xt, A770, B580, etc and have a graphics card very capable of gaming and they work straight out the box. No proprietary driver frictions. I use a 9070. I’ll be good for another 5+ years. GPU upgrade. Maybe a CPU upgrade since I’m AM5 based. No motherboard/memory changes and considering the next consoles are likely to be based on Zen 6, I’ll be right with them just with a stronger CPU