Eh. I flashed Calyx on my Fairphone 4, works just fine. Hope it does so for half a decade.

Enshittification. They’re too big to care.

Or take a selfie, that’ll generate a picture of an ape!

Before I say anything else I’ll make it clear I think the for profit prison system is one of the worst atrocities modern humans are responsible for, but…

Whether it works depends entirely on which end you’re on. The owners would say it’s not in shambles at all but working exactly as intended.

But if you give players what they want, how will you sell it to them later?

Fun fact: Decimation is originally a Roman practice. It’s a form of punishment where every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.

The bastard Jack Welch implemented this as a business practice with a sanitized name: rank your team, fire the worst 10%, even if the team did great.

Shareholders cheered at this practice. They bought shares in droves when businesses literally decimated themselves. Shareholders are mostly glorified gamblers with a boner for hardship. Making employees suffer is just dandy, as long as it can be sold as an improvement.

My point is that shareholders usually don’t know wtf they’re doing. This doesn’t surprise me.

Yeah I don’t see 8K delivering any value. My eyes can’t resolve past 4k anyway, it’ll just be heavier on the GPU and it won’t get me a damn thing.

Sure, 64k ought to be enough, yada yada. That doesn’t apply when you’re running up against biological limits though.

That’s fair enough, but the article is wrong in other places.

The game has been developed exclusively for x86 systems: exclusively those built on x86 chips—Intel or AMD chips.

That is not true. See here. It is ARM native for Apple silicon as interpreted by MacOS’s own activity monitor. There is no Rosetta translation going on here.

The article continues:

But Apple has a weak spot: gaming. Almost all games today, be they intended for PC or console, are built for x86 systems. Apple had sought to sort of get around this with the Game Compatibility Toolkit, which is a tool to get games running on ARM, but it’s not being used to actually bring a larger gaming library to Apple devices just yet. Qualcomm’s comparable tool, however, is.

So I’d take whatever else they state with a bucket of salt, they’re just wrong and they didn’t bother to check.

That’s not exactly an honest headline, Larian already made an ARM build of this game to run natively on Apple silicon.

Much cheaper, no electricity required, no ChatGPT generated clickbait horseshit AND you can kill flies!

So their amazing management platform ultimately manages the pile of horse shit the end user will have to deal with. That is shit with extra steps.

Except for the larger companies you still need a bunch of trained experts in house to manage everything.

Yeah that’s my point. The elite assholes that run this world happen to be white, heterosexual men with Western sensibilities.

I also have those characteristics but that does not give me power or invalidate my problems.

This is needlessly divisive. Just because men share characteristics with a subset of people who opress and live life in easy mode does not mean they can’t be disenfranchised.

The minimum requirements are there for them to set a lower limit on what they’re willing to support.

I agree and they’re free to do whatever they want. I get to have an opinion on their actions though.

What I take issue with is they are enforcing minimum specs because they’re choosing to put a bunch of stuff in the operating system that won’t run (well) below those specs. In other words they are choosing the job that the operating system has to do (GenAI in this case) and I think that is up to the user, not the OS vendor.

If the GenAI stuff they want to build in were optional then you could choose to purchase a cheaper computer or upgrade your existing hardware to a current OS. By going this route Microsoft is artificially inflating hardware requirements.

Anythjng that can’t do the job is literally 8+ years old.

So what? How about Microsoft lets me define what ‘the job’ is and I will decide for myself whether my machine is up to it? In my opinion the job of an operating system is to expose computing resources to whatever the user wants to do and then get the fuck out of the way.

Am I reading correctly that ARM is required?

Maybe it’s because they view playing the game differently than you do. Personally I see it as a game you can ‘run’, sort of like a rogue-like. There’s different ways to execute missions, a few different ways to interact and varied builds for a character. I’ve played the game twice now, once as a corpo gun slinger and once as a street kid hacker. For this update I’m doing a nomad ninja.

They seem extremely difficult to repair so it’s a hard pass from me.

Not saying you don’t realize, but Safari already has this tech. They call it Personal Access Tokens.

If you switch to a browser that cannot be remotely attested, eventually commercial websites will just stop serving you. So switch now and tell everyone you know to switch to something that is not Chrome or Safari.

Safari already does this in the form of Personal Access Tokens, and the reason the web hasn’t taken it and ran with it yet is because their market share is ~20%. Chrome is 70%. This is about to be a systemic problem that you cannot fix by switching to software that respects your freedom.