Low power gaming is better than ever. AAA graphics games are uncommon and unremarkable. It doesn't take great hardware to play like 99% of great games of the 2020s. Same with pretty much everything before 2020. Steam Deck is a non high end laptop

So many people let perfect be the enemy of good. Firefox is great. It's the pillar of non-Chromium of browsers. Servo and Ladybird are not there yet and will take many years to surpass Firefox if ever. A Firefox fork has a better shot than those 2

GIMP is great software. Is it just Photoshop and Affinity better than it. Not seeing as much hate on Inkscape when it's just Adobe and Affinity as better.

OpenOffice is outdated but was good for like ~2010

A bunch of y'all would have been ragging on Blender 10 years ago. Ragging on Krita. In 2012 acting like gaming in Linux was doomed. In 2015 acting like Kdenlive would never reduce crashes and improve functionality. Acted like Darktable would never be competitive with Lightroom. Godot would be no good for anything more than 2d sidescrollers and never compete with Unity 5. A bunch of do nothing fence sitters. Firefox and GIMP developers contribute more to the good of humanity than anyone crying about them in this thread

Windows won't turn around and go back to a simpler advertisement-free offline account model this decade. Core Windows developers may know that they're making things worse. Leadership won't care as long as they get temporary boosts in numbers for office, copilot, and OneDrive subscriptions

Amazing thing for open platform operating systems when Windows Phone failed (MS managed that like trash. It didn't have a chance)

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-launches-criminal-investigation-fed-chair-jerome-powell/story?id=129114228

Saw this in the news. They're trying really hard to stack the federal reserve board and send interest rates back down to financial crisis/pandemic levels. AI bubble can have some leg room if interest rates tank

Unity is a slow bleed. They're going to keep losing indies to godot and it doesn't look like they'll out-compete Unreal for AAA. Anytime I read about unity, users complain about new features that are half baked coming out while the previous new features are still half baked. Screams marketing driven development rather than user driven

Damn. Too expensive for me. My TV has a dark spot after 8 years. I'm going to be on the market for a new one in the next year or two and displayport would be sweet. Hopefully this starts a trend. This is Hisence and am excited to see reviews for the latest TCL models to drop

Tried it just now with Steamworld Heist 2 and it was perfect. Ultra wide resolution. Google and Apple have done a poor job getting non-free to play games a path to success on their stores. Steam on phones is the way to go

Google is trash. Next phone will absolutely be one of those upcoming graphene supporting Motorola phones. I'll grab an old phone to test out postmarketos too

If you're offered the job, take it I guess because no one expects you to succeed. If the internal expectations are to focus on the following: Minecraft, CoD, Diablo, WoW, Overwatch, Candy Crush, then maybe this person will excel in that direction. Also all those being video games that found success before Microsoft

Actually trying to make Xbox a success, it's been nearly 13 years of trying to course correct and probably a good amount north of 100 billion dollars and still no strong consistent lineup of new releases. Fable can knock it out the park but that would just be one single player AAA game hit for Xbox after 13 years. So I imagine her expectations are going to be in managing what's proven profitable and winding down what's been proven to be outside of what they're good at

After the Witcher 3 successful, felt like GoG became a sideshow for CD Project. This could be really good if this in any way helps them operate without being a part of a game dev first studio. I don't think it'll ever be as popular as Steam for new releases without DRM but it can be way more popular. They need a big picture/gamepad interface and a streamlined Proton-type solution. I think mobile/handhelds are where they can compete well with steam for more buyers

I also remember GoG being a really low profit/barely breaking even store. Not a great situation being a part of a public company

Stopped buying Ubisoft games for years. Don't even play the ones I already have. It's been a crappy company since at least Assassin's Creed 2 single player always online pioneering

I don't have a wheel setup so I appreciate gamepad centric racers. I need to spin up GT6 on RPCS3. I just occasionally try GT Sport on shadps4 to see if it works. I at least own the first project cars on steam before it was delisted. The only current game I'm planning to buy on deep sale is automobilista 2

I get a feeling EGS lack of feature development is a Tim thing. Like he decided what the minimum viable product was to beat Valve and there's no way they'd fund copying feature after feature that Steam has. That'd be admitting he was wrong

Also that talk where he was talking about Unreal Engine 6 being way more tied into Fortnite. Like make a game that's standalone or make one that's in Fortnite. Or both. Players in Fortnite can pay for your game. Fortnite metaverse is the primary future of EGS. Not copying Valve. Doing something only Epic can do. Somehow get people who don't like Fortnite to open Fortnite to play games that aren't Fortnite in Fortnite

Keep increasing battery size and range until they're ready to just go full EV

Forza Motorsport being a flop was most upsetting to me. Probably the best funded simcade game next to Gran Turismo with a long development time and they fall flat and it still doesn't even work on Linux. Forza Motorsport should be low hanging fruit with their experience and budget and they still managed to drop the ball

I once tried to use Amazon Prime Music and the app ended up being incredibly crappy and the catalog poorly handling artists with the same name. I quit Kindles when I realized Amazon was more out of touch than Microsoft

I regularly smoke big chunks of pork and beef just to shred and mostly freeze so I can later throw on top of stuff. It's a huge upgrade to instant foods. Smoky instant ramen

The main thing I've seen are people having issues with tap to pay after a couple of years. I almost never use my phone for payments and I've only had the phone since early, December. I'm not super concerned. Phone has been good to me

I'd consider at top $100. One should come with the Steam Machine right? It can't be too expensive to manufacture if it's coming with what should be a competitively priced PC

I'm hoping this becomes the norm for media consumption applications. Gamepad/TV interfaces