I don’t know, I’m really interested in all these internet services that are 100% safe from hackers. Sounds like very useful information that should be shared around.

It costs inconsequentially more to host large files, sure, but the cost is usually on the consumer vis-à-vis their ISP to stream larger files.

You are wording this like you are disagreeing, while still agreeing with what I said.

Why should quality be a tier?

Because it costs more to stream 4k content than lower quality content?

Not agreeing with it, but the justification is easy to make.

Problem is when you procrastinate because manually importing transactions and correcting them is just annoying enough to make it a hassle. Then the transaction batch gets too large and you can’t remember details anymore so you give up and don’t track your budget at all.

That’s been my experience in the past at least.

It’s more complicated than just a spreadsheet but not as complicated as regular programming. You will want to learn general accounting practices like double entry bookkeeping to really understand how to use it though.

Seems to me that anything beyond the actual hosting and serving of the video file is unnecessary to include by default in a federated video streaming solution…

You are basically saying “Other than the most expensive and complicated parts” the rest is easy or unnecessary. Which isn’t necessarily accurate but still is being a bit dismissive of the problems at hand.

And one of the biggest criticisms of Peertube (aside from the dearth of content, which helpfully avoids the “expensive/complicated” parts) has been Discoverability. How do people watch your videos (or your playlist) if they don’t have a way of knowing that your videos even exist?

Being the market leader, Sony will have a much harder time making larger acquisitions than MS did, and this ABV merger didn’t exactly breeze through.

It’s hard to block mergers based on a company involved being a monopoly if none of the companies involved are monopolies or will become monopolies.

Regulators have to come up with a different set of rules to block “large but not monopolistic mergers” without also just effectively protecting the actual leader in a given industry from competition.

That’s not what “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” means. You just came up with three numbered items to correspond to the fact that there are three words in the phrase.

That applies to open software standards, what does it have to do with buying cash cows?

It has no real meaning anymore. It’s now a phrase people throw around as effectively a meme. You won’t get anything but a wrong answer to this question.

IIRC they did sign the deal that let’s the continue to get releases for a couple more years…

It is ten more years. If Sony isn’t able to come up with a decent alternative in a decade, well, I won’t exactly feel sorry for them.

You have the PSVR2 which is comparably priced but requires a PS5 console. You have the Valve Index which is $1k.

So, it may not be “cheap” but it’s definitely cheaper than some of the alternatives.

He’s not saying he prefers 30 fps over 60 fps. He’s saying he prefers higher fidelity at 30 fps versus sacrificing quality to hit 60 fps. Given how people seem to enjoy such options in games I think he’s far from alone in that opinion.

Only problem was that I forgot to get a memory card so I couldn’t actually play the games that my coworker gave me, but hey it works!

That’s an interesting take on “works” for a game console. Being able to play games seems like a pretty important piece.

In other words, they release games at a similar rate to most AAA developers that aren’t making CoD or yearly sports titles?

How often do people expect developers to release AAA titles?

Guerrilla Games released Horizon Forbidden West in 2022, and the only previous title in ‘recent’ history’ was the prequel 5 years earlier.

Larian released BG3 this year, and the only previous title in recent history was Original Sin 2 was 6 years earlier.

What information in the leaks do you think prove how dangerous Microsoft is?

“I have never played the game but here are my strong opinions about it.” is the sort of commentary I’m seeing more and more of these days.

And I have to say, it’s not something I’m a huge fan of.

I’m not really talking about preferences. I’m asking more about the niche that games like Skyrim/Fallout/Starfield fill. If it is so simple to just make “Skyrim but better” or “Starfield but better” then where are all the games from other developers that are just that?

Or from another angle. Where is the Path of Exile for Skyrim?