…probably also a 400$/€ PC, but here’s the plot twist: it did cost 400$/€

After cutting the price to reach greater audience (originally too expensive) Sony had to remove Linux support from Playstation 3 because companies where amassing lot of those things to set up some sort of DIY supercomputers.

It needs to be cheap.

However, when comparing to the power of locked up device such as ps5, it never hurts reminds that the supposed GPU processing power of a ps5 doesn’t come for free… even if you’ve fully paid your console. Aside for demos or jailbreaked devices (piracy on console) the only way to run graphics at full potential on the locked ps5 is paying full AAA (which now is settling around 80$/€) for EACH product. There are alternatives in the spending (ie: the Netflix alike from Sony’s store)… but those are only options that Sony allow you to (you can’t run weekly free games from EGS, itch.io… or even web browser games!).

Whatever power you pay for any generic PC potentially cover you in any way: you can play arcade vector games as Asteroid at 4k (or even teorical 32K when the hardware will exists).

The difference Valve could make is showing the topical console gamer customer an easy to use access to it: once they’ll see the light… things may go different also for console-only customers (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo wouldn’t want to lose more customers to Valve’s better deal)

I doubt that the Steam Machine outperforms anything made in the last 5-10 years.

It’s all about the price… and the very recent years weren’t exactly kind in relation for price per performance

It’s mostly a poker game: you need to call with money to keep playing, otherwise you “fold” and they win… even if the winner got shitty (“no papers”) cards.

I am not defending IP laws, I am avoiding people making confusion about what’s SKG scope. I am completely in favor of a similar initiative that addressees IP craziness; but it need to be appropriately represent on what the initiative is about.

Broadly spreading the scope of an initiative is a hostile technique to sink the initiative down: I don’t know if you’re aware of the PirateSoftware fiasco: he tried to say that the initiative would force companies to keep server online forever… just to basically spread the idea “this is impossible, so SKG is impossible”. Luckily SKG initiative was appropriately (and painstakingly patently) readdressed by Ross Scott calling on PirateSoftware, de facto, BS.

SKG address a different issue than NOLF’s IP hellscape.

When a game is killed it doesn’t mean either is free or random shops can sell it without agreement with the right’s holder: only people who bought it previously are (and must be) allowed to play.

If only all monopolies were so user-positive.

All monopolies come into being super ser-positive: it’s the moment they need to make money that shit hits the fan.

Is: Google Chrome is an overly appreciate, open source, web browser… then they came to shut down ad blocker “we gotta got +80% web browser share, what are you gonna do about it?”

Must be lemmy.ca then:

That’s the one lemmy did suggest: you can see yourself in the previde lemmy itself auto generate vere insidie the post.

I guess pcgamer sneak the clickbait title in the metà data so they can have clickbait whenever their article are shared, but don’t take full responsibility on their own very pages

Valve is “de facto” monopoly, bit the actual monopoly potential is in Microsoft hands. Microsoft is for PC gaming industry what Google is for the web browser one. Sure, there may be other cool web browsers, but it’s Google that (through Android base) decide whic web browser will be delivered with the next billions of Android mobile device: some elderly people on smartphone don’t even know what is a web browser (“oh, you mean when I Google? I don’t know: I just Google”).

All future new PC will be sold with Microsoft Store and Xbox junk ware: Microsoft has been exceptionally shitty for not being the actual monopoly in the PC gaming industry. But that’s a very feeble protection: break Valve business is just a mandatory “security update” away to happen. They can break Steam little by little (such as suggested by Tim Sweeney) or just a big blow by sheer monopolized manipulation (such as Google not allowing adblockers to chrome to feed their advertising business)

They fire the developer who says “2+2=4” and hire the one who says “2+2=5”… then the hired developer is absolutely free to say his/her “5” anytime they want until EA doesn’t roll a new formula. (they is fire&hire again)

The problem is that also… Apex Legends was fully linux/steam deck supported. When developers are insecure about their ability to provide protection against cheater… Linux is usually the first target so they can “show” they are resolute (in truth, insecure indeed) about anti-cheating.

Kernel level anticheat, is the foundation of insecurity by developers. An example of “non-insecure” developer is Valve: all their efforts against cheater are nearly kernellevel-less.

From the quote of Noja, switch the word “Russian” with trump, like this:

repeats what trump disinformation campaigns say, doesn’t understand why they’re banned… huh

and you get the identical quote of Amnesigenic…

Just because you don’t like the people saying it doesn’t make it misinformation

but from Maga.

Picture this: it’s early 1900’ and you’re a opera singer or an actor for a Shakespeare’s play and you’re asked to give your opinion on Cinema… and someone theorize even TV to you.

I know what you’re going to say: these talentless people is coming to steal your job.

Cinema is not a recognized art form: is a gimmick, a trick made with a huge number of photos.

Those who want to call themselves “actors” are just talentless people who need “one right shot” and being patched in a sequence of “right shots” to complete a wanna-be play. But that not how you make are: every night, every play, you need to walk on stage, in front of the public and deliver “true” art.

Advice? If you were an actor for live theater in the beginning of the 1900… just shut up for a a pair of decades to make sure is not actually art: or you’re going to record in the history how much of a… uhm… short sighted person you were.

Humans make arts, humans decide what’s art… Usually this happen in the switch of the next generation of humans: everything can be a tool for art, future generations of humans decide if they want to call it art or not.

I would add [satirical fake news] to the title, just to be sure

UK, France, Canada and Australia are all in the ICC: this mean both Hamas and Netanyahu are wanted criminals if any of these put feet on the ground of these nations.

Netanyahu would be reasonably safe in China, Russia, USA and Hungary tho.

Last week argument in the PR team: “do we middle finger to our possible paying customers or not?”

It was an heated discussion.

Putin can freely set foot in the US, China, Orban’s Hungary and… you guess: the good friend India.

Anywhere in the EU; he would been arrested and investigated for crime against humanity thanks to ICC agreement. But it’s not all fine in the EU: fascist governments like Orban and Meloni are fighting back the ICC because they want to be free to “friendly host” criminals exactly like US, China and India are doing.

Who else would be jailed up and investigated for war crimes by ICC?

Netanyahu.

As some muslims in a muslim theocracy don’t think they are the only worthy to be saved: they go around saying they know they are.

Which is the universal annoying self-centered people who have no real nation, religion or actual belongship: they give a fuck about their flag/religion/social group only in the measure it serve their damaged, narcissistic, ego.