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Windows is their #1 marketing platform for their other services. They crash and burned out of mobile and television so in the name of expanding their business into more and more subscription services, Windows is their only popular consumer platform and problem for them is that basic OS functionality that people want pretty much was reached with Windows XP. Everything new is an application that is easily installed afterwards or in a web browser. Packaging it into the basic Windows installation just bogs things down and makes it more busy. It's a marathon. Linux will win eventually by having features and services out the box. Practically no services. No onedrive, o365, and copilot nagging

That newer open source driver is still far behind but is progressing. Those graphics cards will have a great new life with modern kernels someday

Pretty excited for it. Guy that was behind Yakuza since the first game leaves Yakuza studio to work on something new and fresh. Proceeds to make a game that looks like better graphics and possibly more serious tone Yakuza

Get to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for your own 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them

Prices are screwy these days for PC hardware but I find it a bit fun figuring out paths to cheap gaming rigs for friends. Scouring offerup and Facebook marketplace for old PCs to salvage parts from along with what I have lying around. Gaming capable hardware should be cheap and accessible

The ddr5 I bout in 2023 for $200 is about $700 now. I'm guessing 3-4 years after consumer desktop ddr6 to see prices like 2023 again

Eventually I want to read into how the budget deficit has played out. Like what does it matter if you equalize trade but overall tax revenue falls but not spending. Multiple years of data to see how this all shakes out

Before big commercial companies can succeed with the mainstream, flatpak permission handling that is as smooth as Android and iOS. Not everything is going to be in the distros base package manager and devs need a way to distribute software that can be expected to work on any of these devices. No confusions over why they're system doesn't know what to do with a deb or rpm file. Flatpak is the closest thing right now to something with universal adoption. After that it's a slow and steady grind for market share. Like how Macs market share 20 years ago isn't very different from where Linux is today

I think a hardware company could succeed better by marketing the devices as creation devices. Focus on Blender, Krita, Ardour, Darktable, Kdenlive, etc. Pretty much the niche Macs were marketed as 25 years ago getting regular people interested with stuff like garageband and imovie

Proton threads are where the leftists equivalents to sovereign citizens pop up. Learn the technology a bit and about legal systems. That's what you have to operate within. If you want to feel more in control, encrypt everything yourself and only communicate/share in encrypted channels. At least then the primary sources of leaks is you and the receiver. If not, you're whining about streamlined performant services that will never be perfect enough for your standards because they operate legally rather than the user unfriendly solutions that you aren't willing to operate yourself for your life (maybe to be passed on) and/or won't run/can't afford to operate the illegal operation

PS4 online will probably have support longer than the PS3 but ya it's a crappy situation. Ideally gaming keeps shifting away from closed software platforms to open ones so people can write/distribute easily community software solutions and users easily install them in the future as it is today on PC. Console libraries I don't trust greatly anymore long term

Fifa ultimate team. Magic the Gathering cards. Both older

Other companies running game stores/platforms must think like this which is why their stores end up competing with a 2008 Steam. Does nothing is incredibly incorrect