Problem is when things like Kerbal Space Program 2 happen, and they release a buggy mess and charge full price for it and then abandon the project.

I feel like established publishers (Take 2, Codemasters come to mind) should be specifically excluded from the Early Access program, or perhaps price limits should be imposed on games in the program…

Of all the games that could benefit from a remastering in 2024, Horizon Zero Dawn would be among the last of them. That game still looks utterly gorgeous, ffs.

I love how all the reactions to this are either “I love this” and “this is cursed beyond belief”

I personally would get a kick out of this as a skin for occasional use…

I am constantly amused about how “next year” has been “the year of Linux on the desktop” for 20+ years. Meanwhile, Linux & BSD have pretty much completely taken over the whole world except the desktop in that same time.

Way to miss the point. That’s 54,000 that one person knows of across a small handful of organisations in one small country. I’m not even including the dozens more organisations I know were affected but can’t come up with a ballpark figure for.

This number seems quite low. My organisation alone would have had something like 3000 employee devices taken down. Since it happened on a day where most people WFH, there’s at least another thousand static devices in my building alone that may not have been in use at the time that will shit the bed tomorrow morning.

The same thing applies to our much larger sister companies interstate. So that’s another 6,000 or so devices.

The two largest energy retailers were affected too, so that’s another 5,000 devices at a conservative estimate.

Then there’s all the self-service checkouts that went down across Australia. I have no idea how many there are, but if every Coles and Woolworths has ten of them, that’s another ~40,000 devices.

That’s just the organisations that I am personally aware of as being affected in Australia and can get ballpark figures for.

Obviously Microsoft are getting their figures from the auto-reportimg that happened on each crash, but it really does seem like it’s too low.

It’s beyond time to diversify our IT infrastructure. Enough with sticking everything “in the cloud” and paying for software (and devices!!) we don’t own.

My very large organisation has Gimp available for basic image manipulation. I’ve tried to get them to use Paint.NET instead, but nooooo… Apparently we like hitting nails with jackhammers around here

Absolutely staggering film. I am constantly kicking myself for not watching it in cinemas at release, because my god… My god!!

Make Arthropods Great Again!

No Android builds :(

It runs on Android now, which might be what’s gotten Nintendo extra annoyed here, since there are some relatively affordable Android handhelds that can run Switch games at close to full speed with some tweaking.

Having said that, I have an Odin 2 handheld, and it would have been cheaper and easier to just buy a Switch and the games I want to play.

It’s not just the enshittification of their own service; it’s the fact that so many audios decided to pull their content and set up their own enshittified services.

Now, if I want to watch stuff legally, I have to have a bunch of subscriptions, and we’re back to where we started from.

I have a Boox Nova Air. It’s a 7" B&W e-reader. It’s nice to have a boring Android tablet that also happens to be an e-reader.

I wouldn’t recommend ePaper for anything but the very lightest of web browsing. The like refresh rate really is a lot to take in.

Using the pen is nice. It feels a lot like black magic, really. It’s just like drawing on paper.

If like to get a colour version to read comics, but let’s face it, I can’t even remember where my current one is, let alone the last time I turned it on…

I have a novel idea. How about my operating system just being a platform to allow my games and applications to run? I’m sick of Microsoft adding “new features” that slow everything down.

I swear, every time a company adds “AI” to their product, it makes it dumber.

You’ve inadvertently discovered the Windows Rule: every other version sucks.

I use AIMP. It’s available for PC also. It’s like what Winamp would be had development continued, and it’s pretty great

Edit: I’m pretty sure it’s not open source, but that’s very low on my personal list of priorities, tbh

they are still based on Chrome or Firefox doesn’t really matter, since they remove the undesirable parts of them.

Actually it does matter, since Google are killing off the ability for ad blockers to work with a new manifest specification in Chromium.

You’re the one who made the original claim, buddy. The burden of proof is upon you. I’ve made no such claims about the superiority of either connector here.

As a Spotify Artist, I bet I don’t even see a single hundredth of a penny for somebody paying extra for the lyrics, either…

And even if Spotify did pay out extra for lyrics, I’m sure they’d find a way to screw my band out of royalties like they currently are anyway.

You’ve not even presented an argument; you’ve only made a statement that it’s a worse connector. What are you basing this so-called argument on?