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I find it wild that people are still this militant against wearing a seatbelt. Seatbelts are mildly uncomfortable due to how my body is built, but I’d rather not die in the unfortunate event of a serious collision. Then again I’m sure it’s the anti-intellectual crowd that refused to mask during the height of COVID. Maybe we should start telling them that airbags are woke.

I wonder if the Democrats are trying to boost his rep and turn him into Blue Trump essentially. Kinda weird seeing a hail of posts about this guy when most no one thought about him for the last couple years.

Haven’t they been saying this every election cycle since Obama?

In the second instance, Warner Bros. found itself in a similar situation. In 2017, as the publisher was preparing to launch Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the company was allegedly informed by Valve that pre-orders for the game had been removed from Steam. Valve’s reasoning was that the price was “significantly higher than what was available at other retailers for the same version of the game.” David Haddad, president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, allegedly tried to resolve the situation directly with Valve so as not to face its ire.

I am honestly struggling to see the issue with this one. Seems to me that Valve wanted the pre-order price to be lowered on their on platform to reflect how it was elsewhere. To me that looks pro-consumer, but perhaps I’m looking at it from the wrong angle? But both examples given just seem (to me) to be them trying to get the same price or product for their platform’s consumers as other platforms and not them driving up the price on other platforms. If someone has a better angle with which to view this, please share it.

Genuine question; What compatibility layers exist for modern MacOS systems to run games? To my understanding, it’s fairly difficult to translate x86 instructions into ARM.

I sold mine last year on eBay due to needing money for bills. I am in a much better spot financially and just picked one up again to replace it (from eBay for less than I sold my old one). I figured now was better than when the secondhand market finally self-corrected and used ones were going for the same price or more than MSRP.

But gods did Valve beyond over correct on that price. Though I wonder if it’s as much of an overcorrection as people think. When it boils down to it, when it cones to hardware manufacturers, Valve is probably fairly low down the list of importance with RAM producers. They’re probably not getting this RAM for a good price. Also, they’ve probably been funneling their limited capacity into the likely DOA, ill-fated Steam Machines.

The only issue with the MacBook is compatibility. A lot of games do not have a Mac build available.

Be mindful of scabies when petting outdoor cats/strays. It’s how I ended up with them for a while. Very unpleasant little bastards.

You’d think the markets would be tempered to this nonsense by now.

Here I am patiently waiting for them to auction off his comically large spoon collection.

Xi Jinping

Daiseizan Daisuke (Altan-Ochir Asgakhad is his given name)

Eileen Gu

Love how two of mine are sports stars.

Had a horrible one the last couple of days. I have gotten more migraines this year than any previous year that I can remember.

Happy Pride Month everybody!

Hoping to see some big lore shakeups in 11th. Maybe this’ll be a precursor to something with the Corpse Emperor. Unlikely but a girl can dream.

It couldn’t hurt. I left for similar reasons. The incident in question caused a very severe, negative mental state and I just had to stay away for a long time. I think I’m better?

I remember sharing a few ideas a long time ago but I can’t possibly remember what they were. I think it was more involving admin/user trust or whatever.

I just returned after a year and a half hiatus. It’s much slower than it was then. There are about 300-400 users/day less than back then. I couldn’t possibly tell you why it’s like it is, but it is. Because of the lower amount of conversation, I don’t see myself just hanging around on here for more than a few minutes like I used to.

We’re almost certainly in the twilight of personal computing at this point. The AI bubble was simply the catalyst of its downfall. Once it pops, all of that datacenter buildout is likely to be used for something rather than scrapped, and that something is cloud computing. Gaming and compute heavy workloads will likely be offloaded to the cloud where we’re going to end up paying some form of subscription to use it for any reason or purpose. Home PCs will end up being nothing more than thin clients.

If the personal computer market somehow survives, it’s going to look very different 5-10 years from now.

Oh yeah. It’s been a hot minute since I used KDE. Been using GNOME 3 for the last 4 or so years.

I believe Dolphin is named Dolphin since it was the codename for the Gamecube.

There are also a bunch of really boring named programs out there. e.g. Gnome Text Editor.