Looking at my own gaming expenses, I’ve definitely stopped buying as much as I did say 10 years ago. To me it seems like the value of what you get for your money has fallen. I can afford it, but why should I? On one side, the corporations are actively trying to lock down everything and make it clear I’m just a guest in their theme park and on the other, they’re offering investment safe sequels and remakes of past successes. I’m also kinda tired of Sony’s “AAA cinematic gaming experiences”.

I may also be getting too old cause all excitement of GTA VI fell through the floor once I learned I can’t own a copy without the explicit approval of either console maker. So fuck that…

🦎

Indeed. OG xbox feels a lot more like a Microsoft endeavor. It’s built on x86 hardware with very little proprietary components, powered by direct x.

Boy, who ever posted this to lemmy does not understand the audience.

Public code repos are not anonymous

They can be. Throwaway account on hosted git service, connected through anonymity service (TOR, VPN…).

And torrents require some form of advertising

Many indexers are anonymous, a magnet link on a forum or even a site like lemmy is good enough.

I’m not going to argue about the semantics of anonymity on the internet. If you want to stay hidden enough to distribute a mod and not be found out who you are, you can do it. Its not that difficult.

Without even thinking: open source public code repository, p2p networks like torrents.

Gen Y had suicide jokes for a while now with similar looks from boomers. Meme feels more like passing the torch to Gen Z as they’re starting to do it too.

They probably don’t because it would introduce technical debt. They want to support multiple platforms with one code base, and this is one way to do it. That being said, there are other alternatives…

The reason behind not wanting to have this debt points to deeper issues at Valve. They’re a multi billion dollar company, but act like some local two location mom and pop store. The 350 employees they have is simply not enough to do what we expect of them.

They should do better, but they probably can’t with the human resources they have. They have financials to expand, but I question what would become of them if they do. Right now and for the past 10+ years, its been status quo with slow changes and improvements.

Mmm yeah, pump it full of cream.

Back when your computer picked up the phone and called some machine far away.

Its a complete UI rewrite. It signals that F-Droid: the repositories, the philosophy of open source app distribution and the titular app are here to stay and will continue to exist in these trying times of google and android enshittification.

When its released for everyone, afaik this month, you should try it and see how you like it. I’ve never tried droid-ify, but im positive F-Droid 2 will be an improvement over version 1.

Lemmy feels very gen z ish though.

Just certain parts of it. The political side of the US is certainly a clown show right now (no offense to clowns), but what else is to expect with the person leading it…

For the rest of the US and Americans in general, I do recognize the country is huge with many different cultures. Its not like this for everyday Americans - whoever that may be, because they’re all living vastly different lives.

The media trying to politicize everything and dividing everyone on everything because it drives clicks is certainly not helping anyone. If anyone is winning here, its media.

Its not a bad design. Personally, I couldn’t get used to anything else (and I’ve tried). My first PC had Win 95 and I’m now on a Plasma desktop.

Microsoft is doing a great job at completely crippling the fuck out of their start menu though, proving once again they have no idea what direction they’re going in.

I’ve grown to hate these routers. They only seem useful if you live in an apartment and place them in the middle and your walls are made of paper. Bought a few through the years thinking more money = better wifi, but wall construction and placement have much more impact. Living in a brick house, they’re pretty shit. I’ve switched to non gamified wifi AP’s connected to ethernet and the wifi’s been great. Still prioritize wired wherever possible though.

MIT license in a nutshell?

I’ll go to the grave believing it was either intentional or Musk said ‘fuck it, if it breaks, it breaks’. I have no proof of it, but as soon as I saw it something in me said ‘come on…’. Call it extroverted intuition…

You mean like Musk throwing a rock at an “unbreakable” window?

I’m more into the sun shroom myself.

Since this is an ARM device, can we play traditional x86-64 games on ARM64 now? Like, on other hardware besides Steam Frame?