DOOOOOM!
Unless you are working on some massive project, 5 year old hardware and local storage is totally servicable. My server is from 2016, my NAS is from 2009. No one is putting a gun to your head and making you use Onshape, Makerworld, or Adobe.
The Epic store sucks ass, the EA store sucks ass, Nintendo hates it’s fans more than Trump hates women.
As a counter example, Mincraft is a stand alone game, it came out long after Steam was established and it runs on Linux as well at it does on Windows.
If independent games came with a launcher/update experience as good as Minecraft I would have no problem buying outside of the Steam ecosystem.
His hobby is yachts, which tells you how well Steam is doing for him.
Memetovirus.
I can not think of anything worse than MS publishing the source to Windows.
I almost wish California had stuck to their guns and the tech industry had pulled the plug on the whole state. Making an exception is not as good of a teacher for your neighbours as burning your own house down.
Chinese law mandates that businesses do intelligence gathering and that all encryption has a backdoor. So the question you should be asking is do you want to support a government that openly slaughters those who oppose it and use slavery to lower labour prices, or do you want to support China?
Cheap ram isn’t cheap if you have to buy it twice.
Like Torvalds, Stallman and Wozniak, Gabe Newell had an idea of how he thought technology should work and has never let up on it, it’s a shame they couldn’t profit as much as Gabe.
The yacht hobby is a bit much but compared to the standard billionaire hobbies, destroying the planet, rape, and murder, he’s pretty mild.
The Steam Deck has an absolutely fantastic set of inputs. If the new controller comes with the all the same bells and whistles then it will be well worth the price.
Honestly, I have no fucking clue what Roblox even looks like. I have been hearing about it for years but not a single forum post or article has ever had a screenshot.
Assloads of ram, and GPU is exactly what you need if you are going to run graphical applications, encode them, and stream the results to the withered remains of desktop/laptop hardware.
I was planning on replacing my 2017 build next year but I bit the bullet this month. Even if prices drop by 50% in the next year there are going to be no parts to buy :/
While completely murdering the home PC market. When the AI bubble pops get ready for desktop as a service as those datacenters get repurposed.
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There is a Defcon talk on libraries and the threat they face from government and capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJT6_OcY_dc
Archive.org is the largest digital library, a very new concept, that I know of and they are constantly being sued.
Tinfoil Hat Time
I’m pretty sure Pokemon Go was used, successfully, by law enforcement to look for the bodies of missing people.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pokemon-go-body-river-wyoming-leads-woman/
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/man-playing-pokemon-go-finds-dead-body-nashua-nh/
https://mashable.com/article/pokemon-go-dead-body-discovered
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-diego-dead-body-pokemon-go-20160715-snap-story.html
https://www.10news.com/news/pokemon-go-players-discover-body-at-marian-bear-memorial-park
https://www.ksat.com/news/2016/08/26/pokemon-go-players-find-mans-body-in-new-braunfels-cemetery/
And the list goes on.
When the game was new I suspect that law enforcement were asked to provide lists of areas they would like to search but did not have the time or manpower to cover, and that these areas were used as points of interest in the game.
There is also the fact that the CEO of pokemon go’s developer/publisher was partly funded by the CIA when his company was building what would end up being Google Maps. I would be surprised if he didn’t keep a few contacts in the government given his career.
Maybe I’m paranoid, maybe a boom of people wandering around aimlessly would have found just as many bodies.
Yeah, they are thinking of 2000s xbox live chat. It’s been a while since then.