☠️ Better user experience, perpetual access.

And so AAA gaming dies because most consumers are too slow to tell the difference between authentic talent and AI bullshit.

It keeps getting better. Better HW support, newer packages, no Canonical corporate crap. I run it on my gaming machine, work laptop, server, nas, and a 2013 netbook.

Media on their way to doxx and leak every single detail about a guy who MAYBE killed some rich heartless exec

Debian > Ubuntu. Less extra stuff shoveled in and while not bleeding edge it’s not a dinosaur.

Right age. It’s my 2010 gaming rig turned server.

Feels

I have a non ti 1080 and every subsequent generation seems to have been worse with everything from firmware issues to actual fires.

I grabbed literally the cheapest HOTAS from Aliexpress a few years ago and it has been awesome.*

*It required tweaks. The stick centering spring was WAY too tough and had to be shortened. And the measured range of motion was only about 80% of the physical range of motion so there were deadzones at the end of each axis. Resistors can be added to each POT to stretch out the measured range.

They took away Lost Coast? I know they removed HL2 2D because of some burned in ads but Lost Cost was 100% Valve material.

I played HL2 when it came out but never played HL1 until around 2018. Some how I never learned about jump-coruching, do you know how much harder HL1 is when you can’t jump onto crates? I had to walk the entire underground train level.

Is this The Onion? It sounds like The Onion.

Our sales specialists have found that adding diamond to the GPU can increase profit margins by up to 30%. And with optional ruby studded HDMI cables we expect out customers to be selling their parents into slavery this holiday season!

App /ăp/

noun

A small program designed to duplicate existing features while collecting private data and monetizing user interactions.

Welp, looks like I’m changing brands next time I buy a router.

Pretty on brand for EA to take a good thing and just fucking murder it.

Interesting when I fired up steam Apex was the title ad on the Store page.

Unless their machine doesn’t meet the hardware requirements.

In our efforts to combat cheating in Apex, we’ve identified Linux OS as being a path for a variety of impactful exploits and cheats. As a result, we’ve decided to block Linux OS access to the game.

Translation: Software development is hard and we would rather spend our time maximizing in-game transactions.

Valve continues to do the minimum to keep it’s users happy, and that’s 100x better than than the industry standard. Tiny steps but in the right direction.

When my gf buys a new laptop she hands it to me and says:

Linux this

Market share. I know it’s a meme but seriously, push Linux on people who will benefit from it.

My girlfriend is totally non-technical but I set her up with an old laptop running Debian and after a few months she loved it. No ads, no popups selling cloud storage, no forced reboots, and it doesn’t crash. That’s one more browser hitting websites without Windows in it’s useragent string.

Oh, I’m stupid too but only in ways that make me difficult to relate to, work with, or really just know at all.

I’ll have to try again, the last time I tried was close to the Index Launch.

Just like popups about cookies!

The second that VR support becomes passable on Linux I can dump my last Windows install. It’s amazing how such a terrible product still has a chokehold on the PC market pretty much out of momentum alone.

In 19 years I have never been burned by Valve, in the same period I have lost access to software (and hardware) from Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Epic. They are a money making business and will always act in their own interest but so far it seems like their own interests includes not stomping on customers (in my experience).

What monopoly? Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and Epic all make money hand over fist selling videogames.

Past 30 years: VIDEO GAMES ARE THE DEVIL!

Now: DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY!

On the bright side hospital and airline computers don’t have GTA installed on them

Are you sure?

Mostly that I’m bad at it and can see my imminent death coming 5 to 10 second before it actually happens.

Rain World is the most awesome and frustrating game I have ever played. I’m glad it’s still getting support.

Yay, ageism!

TikTok users are pretty evenly spread from age 10 to 50.

https://explodingtopics.com/blog/tiktok-demographics

Valve has been the least shit player in the game distribution ecosystem for decades. Maybe they could lower their cut but the push for Linux compatibility is worth any premium they want to charge.

In 7 and 8 I really liked the Gnome-like ability to just type the first few letters of a program and hit enter. OpenShell looks like I’m not the only one.

It’s the combination of suing for sales that do not exist because they choose not to make those sales. I can’t type it any slower, man.

Nintendo shouldn’t be allowed to litigate against people they accuse of cutting into sales of not-for-sale games. They know there is a demand for their old catalog but do not release it for sale, forcing a market for piracy.

Nintendo has hundred of games that people are willing to pay massively inflated prices to play, but Nintendo would rather sue emulation projects.

Stop it, just stop. Its been too long to get my hopes up again.

Ooo, tough call. I guess EA should be in there too.

Emulation is not a crime. Refusing to re-release existing games should be.

No company hates its fan base more than Nintendo.

I had a similar problem with an NUC where the install would work but was unbootable after. In my case the USB showed up as both a BIOS and UEFI boot device and the mobo was picking the legacy mode. This made the install a legacy boot install which was not bootable.

To fix it I had to manually choose to boot the install USB’s UEFI mode.