Yes, the write-only for long term storage is a definite real niche.

So this could be great there, if it can actually write fast enough to keep up and you can read it without using Azure AI.

This is pretty cool for information density and physical lifetime.

But several caveats:
      - It's write only, this is basically modern DVD-R for stuff that's *done*.
      - They don't mention write or read times times and there's probably a really good reason they don't. As described, they've got to be abysmal compared to HD or tape.
      - The most alarming thing about this is 'Azure AI is utilized to read code written in glass, turning it into usable information.' Uh.... you have a medium that can hold data for tens of thousands of years, but it can't be decoded without an AI that's going to be obsolete in 5 years, and that any theoretical people attempting to read this in 10,000 years will have no access to? Yes, this will be fine for the next 20 years, but your 10,000 year window is just out... the window.

Third world country super angry its lander (built entirely with stolen NASA and ESU tech) was upstaged by another third world country's lander (a country they have frequent shooting matches with at their mutual border), denies it ever really happened.

This is pure jealousy.

If you use uBlock Origin (or one of the many, many other adblocking options), you will never see an ad on Reddit. I never have (though I mostly stopped going there anyhow because they're shitty corporate whores).

Even on your mobile devices (if you must) you can get ad blocking. Seriously, the internet works SO MUCH BETTER, period, with all ads blocked. it's faster, cleaner, less buggy, and far fewer privacy violations right up your tush reporting everything you do to Facebook and other mass evildoers.

He's a giant corporate whore, there are two giant private equity vampire squids breathing down their next, he absolutely hated all your feedback, and there is no sustainable future. They will do this again (see the vampire squids part).

Edit: Then again, on looking at the maps, maybe a lot of them would be utterly incapable of walking the 2-3 hours to the next town, if they could even get the directions right. Better to just cry moar on your Twxxtxr account and post lots of frown emojis on Insta. And then have those both taken down because they violate the EULA you signed when you moved to New Rapture.

I'm sure the billionaires will do great here. If you're any of the disposable scum they hire to do their scutwork, maybe not so much.

I'm kind of sad that this isn't quite the potboiler Rapture is because dumbasses who sign up can actually escape if they really want to.

Actually, sorry for replying to my own comment, but it really helps if you understand how Denuvo works. You get to choose how often to call it and how much crap it does when you call it.

So in the lightest form it can do a verification of files/crcs or in-memory crc at startup to see if there's been any tampering. This will have no impact on later performance, just loading performance, but is easily cracked. It's what Denuvo uses to claim there is 'no performance impact', but is not what they suggest.

In the worst form it can do this every single frame, reducing your frame rate to a slideshow.

Between the two you can do things like a quick memory scan every frame or every second or so looking for executable tampering, and this sort of thing is what most games are doing. It absolutely comes with a performance cost. Some games back it off to every couple seconds, but this causes (surprise) micro-stuttering.

It is impossible to have Denuvo with useful protection and no impact on frame rates unless the game is so CPU unbound that you just dedicate a core to the DRM. Most games that have Denuvo removed have significant performance increases.

'the technology integrates seamlessly into the build toolchain with no impact on the gaming experience'

No impact my ass. They continue to peddle this lie, which they can justify because if you use the very lowest level of protection there is no subsequent impact. But it's easily removed by crackers.

If you want the highest level of protection you are invoking a highly CPU draining routine every single frame, and the Switch is at the very end of its performance limits. It could not keep up with Tears of the Kingdom - that game could not for the life of it maintain 30 FPS (which used to be Nintendo's secondary standard after they abandoned 60 FPS) and regularly had giant performance dips.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Which is great, but you are absolutely the 2 percenters. Which is not enough for anyone to put Linux as their primary game development targets instead of it being an aspirational welfare thing. I sincerely hope that can change, but this '2% market share!' is not going to do it.

You are an outlier and an anecdote and absolutely not the norm, like the guy who swears up and down that he can do everything he wants with LibreOffice (and it's true for him). Rather than the 1%ers, you and your friend are the 2%ers.

Is it really so hard for you to comprehend that Linux people do not pay for games on the scale of Windows or Console people?

I would LOVE to see Apple get more involved in desktop gaming - everything you said is true. They have just never given a damn about it, thinking it's only suitable for the mobile ghetto. Like you, I hope that can change.

Yes, this. You can do anything you want on Linux except play the latest games. And there is zero reason for game companies to target Linux because Linux people won't pay for games.

Apple has nothing to do with desktop gaming because they don't give a f@#$ about it.

And no, most games do not 'run on Macs just fine'. Is your entire sample Nethack?

Yes, this is what Linux on the desktop people said after KDE got established. I lived through that too.

But look at it from the inputs side - there is zero reason for any game company (unless they have an ideological reason, which is fine) to target Linux. Unless something earthshaking happens, consoles and Windows will be the primary market and then Linux gets the crumbs (usually through a Windows compatibility layer), because Linux users are the cheap bastards of the computer world (that's certainly me on my servers). You target the people who have shown they're willing to spend money.

Someone who has a Steamdeck is not purposely using Linux any more than someone who has a Chromebook or is using an Android phone is purposely using Linux. Most of them have no idea and don't care.