Trust is hard to earn, but easy to lose - I’d be very careful to trust my data with a company that’s willing to play these games.

They’ve been caught lying before when they introduced the branded drives requirement, but it was too obvious to not see through it. Their backtracking was pure damage control.

Trusting your data with a company that’s just waiting for the right opportunity to extract money from you is not something I’d do. I’d consider their devices time bombs and would take measures to not be impacted when they hold your data hostage. I’m not saying this will happen, their made it very obvious that the risk is there.

Yesteryear’s technology for the price of a complete system

My 2020 PC build has twice the RAM, and it’s also faster, yet it cost less - not the memory, the whole machine, with a ryzen 3900x, a graphics card, 1 TB of flash memory.

Ahahahaha that’s just laughable

The backlash when they only allowed self-branded (overpriced) drives for their systems was so large that universal hard drive compatibility was their main message at it-sa 2025. Huge banners at their stall advertising what you’d imagine is the bare minimum!

I never bought their shit because it was always overpriced. “But their software is so good and easy!” Thanks, I consider myself capable enough to configure a machine myself.

They’re sucha company that doesn’t understand that for proper enshittification, your users must not have alternatives that they can easily switch to. But there’s no proper lockdown effect for a NAS manufacturer: existing customers can just keep using their old systems, and new ones can use competitors / implement the functionality themselves.

But now they have revealed that they’re just as greedy as others and will happily squeeze you for some extra cash, without offering any more value. You need to hide the fact that your product gets worse for the money! Get rid of existing plans and make sure new ones have additional features (they don’t have to make sense, AI would be a perfect contender if people didn’t hate it) that you can use to justify the price hike!

I know you’re joking, but this is for when you have a reboarder type baby car seat in the passenger seat, in that case the airbag must be deactivated

The Gameboy with Tetris was a huge phenomenon, and it released in 1989, it was very popular with young adults back then which were Gen X and boomers

I guess it just boils down to how much you accept a company to push you around. For me, the writing was on the wall with Windows Vista, even though I did have a Windows 7 machine/ partition later that actually worked well.

I also gave Windows 8 a chance when it came preinstalled on the notebook I bought, but I hated it. So I finally fully switched there, and no Windows since then (excluding the machines my employers provide, IDGAF about them since I get paid to use them and don’t have to administrate those). There is way less need for Windows nowadays, back in the Windows 7 days, you could basically only play Linux native and OpenGL titles, PulseAudio was iffy, Vulkan and by extension DXVK didn’t exist, AMD drivers weren’t great (AMD had just begun releasing documentation late 2007 and fglrx was a pain), so there were a lot of things that just wouldn’t work, and yet switching was possible.

As the author notes, there are way fewer blockers nowadays, and most people are just looking to excuse their complacency. And I think it’s fine to be ok with Windows, but then you shouldn’t complain too much. Microsoft under Nadella only cares about numbers.

I used to like his jokes

It’s Ford’s Quantum Computer, it will factor any number you want, as long as it’s 15.

I do prefer 2D fighters, but I personally don’t like how 2XKO looks. I don’t know how to put it. Floaty? That said if I wanted to go into a tag fighter, it’d probably be Skullgirls; yeah the game is super dead but the game is snappy, has fun characters and still like good because of its style.

All that said I’d give the game an honest try if I could because that’s only fair before talking smack. But I can’t

Wacky characters aren’t really out of place for Fatal Fury, or fighting games in general. Duck King for example never was too serious either, and Mai is a joke / comic relief character as well. In fact I’d say fighting games weren’t 100% serious since World Warrior.

Regarding Ronaldo, I agree with the point, though I think the fact that he is in the game is the Saudis, and SNK managed to get a pretty good fighting game character designed around that. The fact that they had to include him specifically and not generic soccer dude shows how out of touch the Saudis are with the audience. But I guess they don’t have a problem with rapists in the first place.

I won’t stand any slander against Ganacci though, he seemed really happy to be included in the game, played it and even visited tournaments.

But doesn’t it speak volumes about the genre of the eighth best selling game of 2023 can’t support three years of service (as in meaningful content updates)?

While there weren’t any Fatal Fury entries, the characters did have presence over the years via King of Fighters, and Mai and Terry were even in SF6.

SF6, arguably the biggest game in the genre, is currently in 60th place in the steam 24 hour charts. You might argue consoles have a higher share for the genre than games you find on steam, but still, that’s not totally mainstream.

While I do like the genre, fighting games are a niche nowadays, and you’re always going up against Street Fighter, Tekken or Smash. I don’t know what Riot expected. It has similar vibes to the Saudis investing millions into a single marketing event for CotW.

Even Mortal Kombat 1, while it was initially a commercial success, is basically no longer supported as far as I know. And that game isn’t old either.

The visible audience (Twitter) is very picky and vocal; they’ll tell you they want thing X, they get thing X, they’ll tell you it’s bad because Y. There is very little nuance it seems sometimes.

Remember when everyone complained there were no defensive options and everything was getting too easy? Them CotW came and nobody plays it because the menu sucks. Or they don’t like the character that they don’t have to pick.

I at least have a legitimate reason not to play 2XKO (kernel level anti cheat that won’t work on Linux), but you don’t see me complaining about that.

Anyhow, if you want to make a game that sells big numbers, don’t make it a fighting game, because your audience will be comparably small and hate you.

I only know this joke for Norwegians

This release is very relevant for NixOS users: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/444543

The last couple of years have shown that insanely rich people are not only disconnected from society, but also reason as a whole

Hyperloop, Metaverse, AI, and now this BS

Almost, as I said, arch-chroot didn’t exist back then, and while the official method is still manual, archinstall is part of the official ISO, while back then, no helper was provided, so you had to do it manually.

archinstall?

Back in my day, we needed to do all of that by hand, and there wasn’t even arch-chroot, no, we had to bind mount dev, proc and and sys manually as well!

Though in fairness, before that, there was the AIF, which I also used, but that doesn’t sound so manly.

Little did arthropods 1 and 3 know that ultimately, they’d just do like 2

It is (was?) actually worse

https://neodyme.io/en/blog/bitlocker_screwed_without_a_screwdriver/#teaser

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