I mean guess I did interact with Progress Quest to launch it the first time lol

I am not defending this stupid idea at all, I’m just saying there IS a market for idle games

Nah. I definitely don’t plan on getting this game but there’s a market for what you’re describing. They’re called “idle games” and there’s a shitton of them.

It doesn’t matter if it’s humans playing, many people just like to see things progress. I liked “playing” WorldBox because it was fun to see who won given the “scenario” I put in place. And long before that, I had Progress Quest running

10% market share is when I expect it to be impossible to ignore and I think we’re gonna get there fast like you alluded to.

But…mainly for games. The corporate crowd will stay on Windows because they benefit from propping up other corporations. PC/laptop manufacturers will still push Windows for the same reason

ATT cut my cable feed for 4 days while installing their new fiber lines and I still plan to drop Comcast as soon as the fiber is live

You’re not a very observant person, are you?

I dunno, there’s a pretty big distinction. “Please use our shitty thing” vs “Please make our shitty thing better so people want to use it”

It’s placing “blame” on the industry leaders for failing to make something useful

Oh you don’t have to convince me it was a mistake, his comment just wasn’t what it’s being made out to be. “Find a use for it or we’re fucked” is a lot different than “please use our product or we’re fucked”

I was expecting something much worse but to me it deels like he’s saying “we, the people working on this stuff, need to find real use cases that actually justifies the expense” which is…pretty reasonable

Not defending him or Microsoft at all here but it sounds like normal business shit, not a CEO begging users to like their product

Yeah. And it could be the master of a LOT if it just gave up a few.

I love USB when it connects things at my desk. I like it a lot less elsewhere

It’s ok for consumer stuff but it has a lot of problems in professional environments. I’m not talking peripherals and laptop docks.

It’s hard to extend/convert, has a cap on hubs, and there’s compatibility issues. Enforcement of the standard is understandably lacking when it’s supposed to work in every application. But it’s like every company invents their own proprietary way to use it so there only thing standard is the connector itself.

Solaar has been good for me as well. Last I checked it doesn’t have the MX Master 3 listed as supported but it seems to work fine

USB is pretty jank now, too, with how they’re trying to make it the “everything” connector. I am dealing with USB issues every week (pro/commercial AV) nowadays

According to the article, the actual performance is on par with a GTX 660 Ti

Sounds like it’s about equivalent to Intel’s latest GPU. Both are running about a little over a generation behind AMD and Nvidia.

Sounds like it’s more than “a little over one generation behind” if it benchmarks near an Nvidia card released 14 years ago??

No thanks

Emberward. Roguelite tower defense game with Tetris blocks. It’s great

I definitely will, I liked the last one! I just wanted to clear up what the scandal was - it wasn’t something anyone could think creators should have seen coming

Another thing even the most cynical person can easily see is extortion!

I know we’re all jaded nerds on this corner of the internet that are well aware of “if you’re not paying, etc. etc.”

Haven’t watched this video but IIRC the real scandal was that the extension would change the cookie to identify Honey as your referrer so the content creators whose referral you actually used didn’t get paid. No matter how jaded you are, you can see that as the theft it is