circuitfarmer

When will people stop supporting this clown?

Remember when some people were like “well, I don’t support him, but I’ve had this Twitter account forever, so I’m not leaving.” This is what happens. Things just get worse until you gain plausible deniability for continuing to support the bullshit.

Who saw this coming???

/s

This is the way

+1 for Pop. I fully expected to distro hop but have had it on my main rig for over a year now. Surprisingly pleasant.

Just to make sure it’s clear: not being Deck Verified doesn’t mean it won’t run on the Deck or on Linux in general. It means Valve has not hit their testing threshold for the title to mark it as verified or unsupported.

More specifically, it means Valve cannot guarantee a) the game will run (though anecdotally, I’ve had most if not all unverified games I tried work without issue), b) that the text is large enough to be readable on the Deck, or c) that the controls are usable (=you might have to just use the configurator yourself).

I think a danger Valve has introduced with the verification system is people thinking that not verified == no worky.

This result is predictable for a lot of different things that started as products and seem to be ending up as services.

Microsoft wants Windows to be a subscription service with the associated perks to the company (namely, targeted ads, and also extreme control over anything the system does, including this ad scheme), and so an increased number of people seek a more traditional OS.

The movie industry pushes streaming down everyone’s throat as a highly fragmented market where media ownership no longer exists; thus an increased number of people start to return to physical media.

Car companies push to paywall features of their cars behind subscription services. An increased number of people seek used cars which have no such paywalls.

The patterns are clear, in my view, but the C-suite is always driven by a naïve lust for ever-increasing profit.

And not to mention: the original versions actually run fine to this day. Pure money grab and they made the product(s) worse to do it.

Such a weird gatekeepy headline. I’d argue it’s virtually anyone born after 1980.

Also why in the hell is a giant corporation like Amazon, with pockets do deep they exceed the GDP of many countries, getting a loan from the federal government. Make it make sense.

Yeah some apps do, some don’t. Connect for Lemmy had it until the latest update

Meh.

It’s not designed for or good for VR gaming. As an AR device, I find it a bit silly since I can just look at a real screen. It would be a novelty at $100, but at the price Apple wants I kind of think of it like a joke.

Some in the gaming industry are foaming at the mouth with excitement that everything can be a subscription. They want you to stream games and not be using your own hardware to play them, because then they control more of the chain. It’s the next logical step since everyone seemed happy not having physical media.

The crypto involved can be furnished such that nothing but the issuing authority and the fact “18+” gets transmitted, no name, no id number, no nothing.

This is a best-case-scenario implementation. I just think it is extremely likely that any approach actually implemented would not have the privacy of the user in mind.

I’ve had 2-3 a day for the last few weeks.

The infrastructure to support such things are naturally anti-privacy. Ultimately it requires someone to simply ignore other info that would otherwise be accessible. There could be a unique governing body for that part which is chartered for only sharing appropriate info, but even then, it’s an ask for people to trust that body and that it wouldn’t leak.

Do you get as many filtered to spam? I think a lot of it comes down to phone number leaks, not spam filtering (and also spam filtering on SMS is dicey, because a false positive can be very costly).

I suppose dropping humanitarian aid is kind of like dropping bombs without the boomy bits, so I can definitely believe it. The bigger issue is that the only effective way to get aid in is air dropping. If a certain country would be a little more sensible, the logistics could be easier.

Also: for a civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel to want to destroy us is unlikely. The universe is filled with resources. We pose no threat and don’t really have anything special.

Nah see, the pier can be used for both. Synergy.

Tryna drop that iron curtain again