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- Comment on Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users 12 minutes ago:
I virtualize windows for certain apps like Wendell does at level1techs. You can use Chris Titus windows utility to make a microwin11 image for your VM and install Adobe into there. This is a power user solution.
Imo the Mac is technically cheaper than it’s ever been and a great alternative for a second PC.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users 11 hours ago:
F this noise dudes. Leave windows while you can.
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 2 days ago:
These platforms seem more vulnerable to alternatives than they ever have been before but it turns out the opposite is true. The hosting infrastructure is so expensive that it prevents competitors from even starting. Datacenters are basically a cartel and getting your foot in the door is near impossible without bouncing in on the heels of someone who’s in. Making compute storage cheaper is not the name of the game when it’s easier to profit by simply limiting access and driving the price up.
On the other hand, YouTube has never been profitable.
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 4 weeks ago:
I passed on this one because I always feel like there’s a real chance I’ll get screwed one way or another by Ubisoft so I just avoid them outright.
- Comment on Ryujinx emulator GitHub repository currently down 1 month ago:
Can’t wait 'till they go to sue Valve for enabling people to perform piracy of their software on their platform.
- Comment on New Storefront Law Tells Us What We All Should Know: We Don't Own Digital Games | Time Extension 1 month ago:
… Then piracy isn’t theft. Let the whole digital content industry burn at this point. I don’t care anymore.
- Comment on Asus Z890 motherboards emerge at a U.S. retailer — pricing starts at $280 and goes over $1,000 1 month ago:
Rant:
I built a PC for a friend of mine recently and got a bundle CPU motherboard and GPU (5600x3D microcenter exclusive at the time). I had so many problems with the Phantom Gaming 6600xt at the time. The machine would boot inconsistently. I went back to microcenter and returned the card after reading that the sapphire 6750xt didn’t have the same problems and swapped up to a sapphire.
This week I just bought a Radeon 7800 XT steel legend for 480$ USD. It was smaller and cheaper than comparable products. The card has the worst coil whine I ever heard and performed poorly. I assume I paid the price for not going for something like the sapphire nitro+. I went and swapped it out (at microcenter). 7800xt nitro+ is a much better card, does not whine and works as expected.
This may be related to the AMD/Radeon products…
I have a 3080ti from MSI that is a huge RGB glowing monstrosity in one rig and a dell 3090 24G in another. I got them used for 350$ and $600 respectively. I’m running the 3080 with a 12600k and the 3090 with a 7900x with higher end motherboards (Asus Maximus and ASRock Tai chi) and have no issues. I paid extra for these motherboards to ensure that I didn’t run into any weird compatibility issues.
I just keep getting burned on ASrock, MSI, gigabyte models of things in the lower tier price category. It makes me feel like “the medium soda 40 cents cheaper than the large because it exists only to make the large seem like a better deal.”
- Comment on Asus Z890 motherboards emerge at a U.S. retailer — pricing starts at $280 and goes over $1,000 1 month ago:
It feels like the bottom felt out of the market and now if you want a computer that works as expected you need to get these ultra high end luxury RGB brainrot products.
Anytime I try to buy something in the mid range now it basically comes broken or falls apart in the first month of ownership.
You may as well buy Chinese ewaste from Ali express at that point.
- Comment on Qualcomm approached Intel about acquisition, report claims 1 month ago:
Please stahp the mergers and acquisitions already pleeeeease.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 2 months ago:
Stay with me in my ass
- Miki Matsubara
- Comment on The full original Marathon trilogy is now free on Steam, but Bungie are still quiet on the reboot 2 months ago:
I hope Bungie realized that if they make another free to play shooter that it will cut into the profits of their other free to play shooter.
People who still play Destiny2 are like people who drink Hennessy. “When a mfka drink Hennessy all he drink is Hennessy” - Kat Williams
Maybe they can try something smaller, more original, and riskier and see if people will buy that. Shorter development time, tighter budget, minimize the scope of the first title and see what people will buy. Leverage the fact that you have all this game tech, expertise, and capital and make three smaller projects that do not compete against the core product directly and come to market quickly.
- Comment on Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux 2 months ago:
Honestly when I think about it, this is just Mac Users have been doing for years. It’s ok to have different devices that do different things.
With that being said, I know my journey with computers was me breaking a lot of stuff and installing software I shouldn’t as a child. If they want a windows PC, make them come up with the build. That’s the best way to share your hobby.
- Comment on Etsy sex toy ban sparks seller outrage 4 months ago:
Craftsturbate.com
- Comment on People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? 5 months ago:
There is something about the Palm Pre or Jolla Sailfish OS that was so endearing back then. Devices that support it just don’t exist.
- Comment on Feel the burn 5 months ago:
You didn’t EMPTY THE GREASE TRAAAaaaAAYY!
- Comment on How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time 5 months ago:
Honestly, this article shouldn’t be called how to. I’m trying to make heads or tails of this documentation but I would love to see more. I just want to recompile Mystical Ninja starring Goemon as it’s my favorite N64 game from my childhood.
- Comment on MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! 6 months ago:
I gotta be honest, I love his deadpan dry ass thumbnails.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble 6 months ago:
Just a thought, remakes like this tend to appeal to people in the PC crowd. We’ve all moved to PC for various different reasons. Better games, better prices, better hardware? Emulation and software preservation is the name of the game for a lot of people. Those people are working everyday to make things like the steam deck the dream game console they always wanted. That’s the kind of person who will go back and replay Final Fantasy 7 four or five times.
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 6 months ago:
It’s usenet.
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 6 months ago:
Don’t forget about newsgroups (⌐■_■)
- Comment on Nintendo Says It Will Reveal Switch Successor By March 2025, But Not At The Direct Next Month 6 months ago:
Oh no … Anyway
- Comment on Valve graphics dev gets Gamescope working on NVK with Explicit Sync 6 months ago:
I’m so stoked for this! I want this in Nobara and Bazzite Asap!
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu 6 months ago:
Nintendo is going to be the company that makes or breaks the legitimacy of the DMCA. If it wasn’t for the DMCA they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on as they’ve lost in court several times before.
Honestly I think they’re going to start having problems in places like Europe if Nintendo can be classified as a “gatekeeper” on their locked down hardware.
- Comment on How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status 6 months ago:
This. It used to be the dream because we believed in what technofuturism had to offer. We believed in instant access to knowledge and we thought we could all make it cheap enough that it would be an uplift across humanity.
We came up with so many cool things in the process. Little did we know we were simply building the foundations of our dystopian cyberpunk corpo future.
“We just wanted ice cream cones and fast cars” (South park).
- Comment on MattKC announces plans to develop an open source DIY WiiU gampead 6 months ago:
There are a lot of Android based Pocket devices out there like the retroid. Imagine having a retroid or ayn odin that can also double as a wii u controller.
- Comment on Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK gets more enhancements 6 months ago:
Once Nvidia works with Gamescope, I think it will be high time to move the rest of my gaming PCs over to Bazzite. I hope these changes are getting us over to that reality.
- Comment on $70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO 7 months ago:
Everybody who plays videogames has had this experience
Pay 70$ for a game:
- it’s digital only
- comes loaded with Micro transactions
- grinding mechanics that have a pay to skip function
- single player campaign: 13 hours
- buggy and unfinished glitches and freezes
- PC port locked at 30fps, runs Denuvo.
- gets removed from my library in a few years because “It’s too expensive to maintain and licensing reasons”
“I’m never getting ripped off like this again”
STUDIO executive “I wonder why no one wants to buy these games… Must be the price.”
- Comment on The Crew has started disappearing from game libraries after its closure last month 7 months ago:
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 7 months ago:
Abso lutely
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 7 months ago:
Depends on the usage. That’s the gamble you take. I would maybe buy three and put two in a mirror and keep the third one as a replacement?
That’s 240$ for three drives without warranty though… Nevermind I’d prefer to buy two new Toshiba X300 new for 210$ a piece and forget the headache and get the warranty.
Sometimes you get what you pay for … Sometimes