The cost is insane though. I think there’s a disconnect between what they want and what they can afford. I think it’s like a 10x adder per user license to go from regular office 356 to a copilot enabled account. I know my company wants it hosted in the cloud - but we aren’t going to pay the going rates. It’s insane.

Meh we’ll see. But I do wonder what happens when they get packaged up easier as a program.

I think local compute will kill these huge data centers for AI. It’s amazing what you can do with free tools like ollama or rag agents like n8n. Even on a business laptop with only 16GB of ram. If you’ve got a 4090 at home in your gaming pc and some big ram sticks - well, you’d be surprised at what some models can do (and how quickly they can respond).

You all know how the internet works - in a short time someone’s going to put together a free tool that’s as easy as “click this button to install” and it’ll do 80% of what ChatGPT can do. ie probably enough for the average user - for free.

So how are they going to recoup all these billions spent on data centers if peoples personal computers can mostly do the same thing? How do they monetize your information and sell you ads if it’s all done locally?Go download one and ask questions-sure it’s not perfect but it’s surprisingly good locally hosted.

I think the people spending these billions are starting to realize that…. Meanwhile I think this keeps video card prices high unfortunately…

No, but it’s a set it and forget it thing. I pay zero attention to it and it just runs. Easy means it runs more if I had to check what to mine and switch and blah blah, well I’m lazy…. So for me - ya it’s better. ;)

I went to 11 and have gone back to 10. The only thing it does is mine crypto coins (I need a heater in that room anyway - whatever). Everything else works better in Linux.

11 was fine until they repeatedly kept breaking their updates. Next time I have to reload that os on that drive it’ll be hiveos. It won’t be as convenient as the auto switchers like nicehash and their alternatives. But ya, windows sux these days.

My wife is not good with computers. I moved her over to Linux with vanilla gnome. It took one 1/2 hr session and she was off and running. The next day I got a bunch of questions - another half hour. About a week later she said “this is SO much better than windows - I love it!”

Linux is easy to use. Installing and maintaining-no. But using - yes.

No, my pc doesn’t have an internal optical drive…. But doesn’t everyone have a usb portable drive?

A couple of years ago I bought the pioneer BDR-XD07UHD. I just plug it in and it works great. It works flawlessly with makemkv and eac for ripping. I’ve used it on three PCs across Ubuntu, fedora, and endeavoros. No issues.

Amazon doesn’t sell this one anymore, it appears there’s a new version. Might be worth checking that one out.

Hollow knight Elden ring Nier Automata

I never got the hype of the first game. Cool idea sounds and visuals, but the gameplay was trash. I felt burned paying for the first, no way I’m touching this one with real money. I’ll wait for a $5 sale maybe, but that’s it.

I bet a lot of people are in the same boat.

Pathetic.

For my 75 year old mother who doesn’t do anything besides Facebook. Ya an iPad is perfect! ;)

She thinks it’s a full blown computer and it’s impossible to break or install a virus on it. iPads can be surprisingly good for that purpose…

This is honestly such a pile of shit from Microsoft. Right…. Grandma is going to resize her partitions with those ridiculously cryptic instructions. She’s totally going to figure out which partition we’re talking about, she’s totally going to open a command line interface as admin, heck she totally even knows to find those instructions. Its hard enough for people to distinguish between “ya that’s windows update, click that button” vs “no that’s a phishing attack, never click that button”

Now the rest of us who know what we’re doing have to fix everyone’s PCs in the family. Keep pushing everyone to iPads and Linux Microsoft…

I agree. I’m the guy who picks, buys, assembles, and installs the OS and programs for like everyone around me. I enjoy doing it, they enjoy getting awesome PCs for good prices.

My next build for them will absolutely not be Microsoft. The average person can get away with an iPad running iOS for their computing needs. So it’ll be a user friendly Linux distro going forward.

That’s the first positive endorsement I think I’ve heard. Awesome, because I really like the genre and want this game to be successful.

But it’s been very negative press so far and that doesn’t make me want to shell out cash.

Anyone else out there think the game is worth the price of admission yet?

I’ve been waiting for them to fix the base game before I buy it. And they are releasing dlc?

Guess I’m never buying this game…

Ugh, I was just about to buy this game too. Not anymore.

I got it for “free” with my new cpu purchase. I played about 5 hours. It was a total slog. Put it down and have zero regrets. Bethesda has been making some very boring games lately imo.

I literally did this on a new pc two weekends ago. Downloaded win11 iso, installed, typed in the key off my win 7 cd rom retail packaging that’s god knows how old, done.

I’ve long since moved to linux and just dual boot win11 for games that don’t run well in linux. I won’t buy a key at this point just for that.