No, this is just playstation continuing to hate their customer base.

They’ve always hated their customers. Between Sony, and Nintendo, I dont know who hates their customers the most… but they both certainly try.

and it doesnt matter, because they both have enough fanboys that strip off their clothes and gleefully dance naked and joyous in the rain of shit both companies sputter out of their assholes and down onto their customers.

I hard switched to linux like…6-7 years ago I think, right around when Windows 7 went EoL.

It was not an entirely easy switch, and that first year I was plagued with lots of problems. And thats with a system I hand built with a future linux migration in mind. But i was still able to game with relatively few issues, and what issues there was, was usually fixed in the next version of proton, or in GE Proton. So there were always paths forward and sometimes workarounds. but it took a lot of thought, and research, and effort.

Linux today is astronomically easier compared to back then. I am, for the most part, where I was with Windows 7. What I mean by that is… I dont even think about my OS (I run Nobara, just fyi) anymore. My OS is completely irrelevant and invisible to my daily life, because I can just do what i want without issue, without thought, without worry.

and thats not me becoming more experienced with linux and knowing how to fix things and solve problems faster, I’m still a mouth breathing fuckwit when it comes to Linux, its just so much more easier to use, so much more stable, with many issues addressed and fixed and no longer the end users problem to work around.

I will ad the caveat though, that my gaming is decidedly not competitive. So I don’t generally play games that have invasive rootkit anticheats, which don’t work on linux. So if those kinds of games are your bread and butter, then you’d probably resent any attempt to use linux and be blocked from playing them.

Thats okay. you can be rest assured, theres plenty of people out there that don’t care about the harm they cause and will continue buying sony products and digital downloads, sustaining sonys anticonsumer practices for years to come.

/s

The biggest thing i’ve noticed with proton updates is I no longer have to hunt down specific proton versions, or use GE Proton anymore, or even use launch arguments

Every game I’ve played just runs flawlessly with proton experimental now.

AMD GPU support is excellent and built into the kernel, but i’d still hesitate to day 1 a newly released GPU, but I’d hesitate to day 1 a newly released GPU on windows too (and this is for amd, intel and nvidia)

nvidia is more of a headache, but a lot of distros have nvidia specific packs so you don’t have to deal with the nvidia driver headache yourself, but not entirely perfect.

Intel is still developing its drivers, some updates seeing some big gains… But theres also concern of intel going Ouroboros in the whole “We’re releasing a new product, but its not selling as much as we want due to our history of cancelling products early causing consumer hesitation, so we’re cancelling this product early because of consumer hesitation” and intel owners being left in a lurch of abandoned products.

Personally, I would get an AMD gpu. not out of some weird parasocial obsession with a multi-billion dollar company, but simply because its the most easy, best supported, most plug-n-play gpu to use on linux

This is the kind of enshitification thats good for society.

Fuck these privacy invading creep goggles. I hope they continue to make them worse to use and posses

Exactly the same thing.

And fiber really needs to be recognized as the essential nutrient that it is.

Every time you cook in a cast iron skillet.

Which is actually recommended as a source of dietary iron.

the list of “if they actually cared about kids, they would have/should have done X” is so long you could probably print it out at an 8 point font and it’d still reach from coast to coast across the width of america.

Yep.

When fines are nothing but a fraction of a fraction of the money made, then it ceases to be a fine, and just becomes an evil tax.

Which is why businesses should face fines based on their income, starting at 50% of yearly earnings, and going up to at least 300% of their yearly earnings.

Bad behavior won’t change until you threaten their profits.

No, don’t just blindly believe professionals either.

Cause some of them a assholes who try to sow discord for their own personal profit.

Like Andrew Wakefield, who started the whole “Vaccines cause autism!” fraud, because he wanted to sell shit that would benefit from the distrust he was creating and thought undermining faith in existing medicine would be a great marketing ploy.

and theres been tons of famous, formerly reputable doctors since, that have put down their ethics and picked up the snake oil since then. Like Mehmet Oz.

Projection at its finest, and the typical response when they cant provoke the response they want to fuel that personal victimhood

You tried so hard on that one, didnt you?

Next time try lowering the bar to something a moron can actually produce instead of worrying about other people 👍

If you’re going to go for the personal attack, could you at least be entertaining with it? This is something a 14 year old would regurgitate 30 years ago.

Sure buddy.

Sure buddy.

sure buddy.

Potheads and addicts? Holy shit, is it still 1990 and you’ve got some weird fucking prejudice against how other people choose to spend their time or how they medicate themselves? Oh boy…

I dont care what you do in your own home.

But potheads, like vegans, cant just contain it to their own home and shut up about it. They gotta make sure everyone, everywhere, in every fucking conversation, knows about what they do.

And for the longest time, they all tried to hide behind pot being the magical medicine that cured all woes, and now we have science actually isolating beneficial components without hte high, and the overwhelming response is “NO, I DONT WANT THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS, I WANT THE HIGH”, which is exactly what addicts would say.