Yeah it’s definitely windows. But I don’t have a choice on my work laptop. The old 16gb model became a nightmare after swapping to windows 11 and moving to using teams. That combination just killed it dead.

It isn’t already? Even my new work laptop came with 32gb of ram. In windows at least 16gb is useless before you even try to launch a game.

I tend to agree. I’ve never been much of a fan of his style and the events I don’t need to repeat certainly hasn’t made him grow on me.

But I think he’s been dog piled enough. Yes he makes it worse by not backing down. But I think it’s been done to death now.

He should be ignored and we can focus on the positives of the movement.

I think the problem is that this is one part of the puzzle. Samsung are doing the other half. Locked bootloader. I fully expect the bigger manufacturers to go with both for a “fully trusted platform”. That’s how they will sell it at least.

The only question is, who will be making the unlocked phones and how much will they cost us?

Seems to be not so bad for those with a credit card at least. They have my payment info already. So just adding another form isn’t terrible.

Also the text says mature sexual content. So seems like it’s specifically the porn games I guess.

I can tell you why they do it. Which is to get installed at launch time (like a driver required to boot for example), so they can watch absolutely everything that loads into the system.

But yes, I wouldn’t play any game that needs a kernel anti-cheat.

I blocked the entire ASN for Meta, because they were downright dirty with their scraping. No gradual crawling, fakes UAs, random addresses across a large number of subnets.

They weren’t the only ones either. The AI scraping heist is the new goldrush.

It’s good to see. The UK one is still ticking upward too (133.5k/100k). It’s been an impressive last minute push.

Now, we wait and see I guess. I expect nothing useful to come from the UK one, but at least we force them to respond again. Even if it is the same response.

The EU one, I really do hope something comes of it.

Completely agree. It should not deter anyone.

They didn’t close it. They provided an answer early. That as they see it, existing trade and consumer law should cover games and they don’t plan on carving out extra legislation for it but they will “keep an eye on it”.

Now it is over 100k, it doesn’t actually mean anything more than they “might” debate it in parliament.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I signed the petition, and I think they SHOULD look into it. But, my old cynical bones tell me that even if they do have a debate in parliament. It will be at a time when there will be 5 MPs in there, who will have nothing to say on the matter and it will be swept under the rug with a further canned statement drawn up by some civil servant in whitehall talking about consumer law just like the statement before.

Most western governments are on the side of industry, and that includes game developers. I cannot imagine they care about this subject and will do the bare minimum lip service to move past it.

I hope I’m wrong.

I do have a bit more hope for the European parliament. Just a little. They do seem to be a bit more pro-consumer. That is the one that matters most IMO.

“8gb ought to be enough for anybody”

Yeah, but it randomly freezes for me in Linux. Really annoying.

Otherwise it looks quite nice.

Just to expand on this. The app likely isn’t always running in the background listening (since that’s what it seems the op thinks). The push message causes the android system to wake the app to deal with the message. Otherwise it’s not actively running (and you can limit background running in android settings per app).

I had this on the commodore Amiga. It was an absolute classic.

Sir, this isn’t a Twitch.

“Gamers”? Who else do they think is even going to encounter their shit? If the people that are forced to endure your shit aren’t happy, seems like a you problem.

I like the idea of AI. But I want it to be optional.

I’m going to be honest, I’m not a fan of talking to my phone. So I’d not want to use this so called feature. If they force this change this will be my last Samsung phone.

I just hope the other manufacturers don’t follow suit.

They problem is, one company leads and other’s follow. It’s hard to say for sure that this will remain a Samsung “feature”.

This is the answer. If you don’t like live service don’t buy live service games. If the majority have the same opinion there won’t be profit in it.

Games publishers are businesses and they want to make money.

Now in reality I think they make more money from those that are buying microtransactions and so long as that makes them more money than selling a plain single player game, it’s a no brainer they’ll keep making the.

That’s weird. I’m getting to the age where I wouldn’t see the point in 4k, I’d need to have my head on top of the screen to see it. But refresh rate can be felt in fluid scrolling etc and definitely even if only on the unconcious level, improves awareness in games too.

7 digit steam ID and only level 15. Clearly, my life took a wrong turn somewhere…

I would say older than that (well maybe not elite), as much as the tech could handle it you should include:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Esprit

Here you had several town maps, including dual carriageways, main roads, side roads, one way streets. And you could just drive down any of them. They were all nondescript, but the amount of memory really limited what could be done.

There was also the games using the freescape engine. Driller, Darkside and Total Eclipse. These were all about as open world as you could achieve on the hardware of the time.

In terms of “open world” the definition is open to interpretation. I’d argue that text based adventures were open world too in their own way. So it really depends on what features people agree makes an “open world” game as to what the first game that contains all those features was.

There have been “open world” games since the 1980s. Just of course, memory limited how big that world could be, and how much you could do in it. The genre as a whole is ancient.

This was normal back in the days of CS 1.5/1.6. People would play at 640x480 on a monitor that could handle 1280x960 because they could drive 640x480 at like 150+hz.

I would have thought the plastic screwdriver was more likely to be able to adjust variable inductors/capacitors with minimal interference? Using a metal screwdriver you have to adjust, move it away check result since the presence of the screwdriver adjusts the result too.

So between 0 and 20. 😛

EA Ads, they’re in the game!

So if you mind sharing your data, don’t get the shiny. You know it will become like that shiny pony back in wow’s wrath expansion. It told you more about the person than anything else.

I really don’t see the problem, provided it is cosmetic. If you don’t want to link, you don’t get a glittering, whatever in game. If you don’t mind sharing your datas, then you get the shiny thing (and everyone knows you don’t mind sharing your datas).

I think that’s entirely fair and similar to store loyalty cards. You get something in exchange for your datas at least.

I’ve not found many instances where performance in terms of frames per second is worse. If anything on linux it’s more stable with less dropouts.

But, for whatever reason there’s definitely more latency (NVidia 3080 here) when playing for example CS:GO (not tried since CS2 though) on Linux compared to Windows. Not sure where it is being added (possibly the compositor?) but it is definitely noticeable. If I move from playing on Linux to windows I’ll overshoot when aiming for example.

I am not sure activity has changed much. I’m getting around 8 messages on my instance (that’s not actual posts or comments, just inter-instance messages about any form of activity) per second and this has been the case that it ranges between 5-12m/s depending on time of day and day of week. This is not too different to when I started this around a year ago.

Kinda the same, and it’s almost an irony since I’m on my own instance. I must have manually subscribed to this community myself, and I think this is the first post I’ve ever seen on my front page from it.

You can already “tip” aspiring developers, it’s called kickstarter, or just buying their games.

If by developer they mean employee of a game studio, that’s called a salary and it’s the job of the studio to pay. If they mean studio as developer then. Just a second let me get my reply just right. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha no.

OK buddy, I’ll leave you to your online persona :)

Well, in the first line they reference an article from yesterday which made it very clear.

I’m not too sure why the response was so defensive. That point made up a miniscule part of my overall comment and wasn’t even close to the primary subject matter.

Read the article. It’s the UK (which still has most EU employment law active). Now, I don’t think it’s illegal to do what they’re doing. Effectively, I can bet I know exactly how they’re framing this, and it’ll be totally legal.

The calls were almost certainly initiating the redundancy process. That is, technically EVERYONE (probably below management) is being made redundant. As part of the redundancy process, an employer is expected to attempt to find internal opportunities for the employees to be culled, and this new position is what they are likely offering as said opportunity. I suspect this is working around a bit of a grey area in redundancy law. But, I don’t think they’re falling foul of any law. But, I’m not a legal expert.

So, at the end of the required redundancy period (it varies based on employment duration) they will either be let go (with whatever statutory redundancy pay they’re owed) or re-employed under the new zero hours contract.

Personally, I think this has the potential to blow up in their face a bit. It’s not allowed in the UK to employ someone on a zero-hour contract and not allow them to work elsewhere. Such a clause in a contract may be ignored. Now, this could well mean they say “Oh we need you on Wednesday” and you say “Well, actually I’ve already agreed a shift elsewhere on Wednesday” and there’s really not much they can do about it. I also hope the people working there just move on.

The worst thing that can happen is that the parent company benefits from this. It’ll just make other retail companies do the same in a race to the bottom.

Well, procedural when applied to generation of scenery/galaxies etc means to create the exact same thing using random values that are the same random for everyone. It just saves on storage.

But, I cannot tell you how this would apply to recoil. It would only make sense if there were an absolutely huge number of possible weapons.

I don’t know. I saw some reviews, and in the consumer space at least I’m not aware of a device that is putting stuff in shared space fixed in a location and can make virtual screens with the rest of your vision maintained. It’s these things I expect to be copied and homogenised pretty quickly.

That and the price is the problem, in my opinion at least. What it can do looks quite impressive I think and has some nice ideas not really done commercially at the consumer level before.

But, I suspect it’ll be another iPhone. It will rule the roost for a short time and then someone will come out with a comparable product, for noticeably less that will work with other hardware too and connect with other non-apple software.

But, I guess for those in the ecosystem (who already have big pockets already for this kind of thing) it looks really good.