I typically don't even watch tv programs until they'e at least 2 or 3 seasons in or better yet, completely over so I don't get lost'd and GoT'd.
Unless the studio wants a tax break and the series gets Willow'd.
On the system requirements angle, PC gamers generally don't care anymore, however, MS can certify a few standard tiers, say, 'xbox 2026', 'xbox 2026 premium', 'xbox 2026 ultra' and the software and hardware ecosystem follows those.
Microsoft tried to do something like that before with the Windows Experience Index in WinSAT. It didn't last long: the GUI was displayed only from Windows Vista through the first release of Windows 8.
Microsoft can curate a store of games regardless of the nature of the hardware. The app stores choosing to let developers run wild has nothing to do with in-house hardware.
If next to nobody signs up for Microsoft's curated store, this curation will be ineffective. The only thing that encouraged third-party developers to publish through Microsoft's store is that Xbox consoles are cryptographically locked down not to run games from anywhere else.
An xBox Series X equivalent GPU is like $250.
Plus the cost of buying the rest of the computer around it. This can prove more expensive if you want a case that looks more attractive in the living room than a big noisy tower.
Most games that release for xBox release on Steam for PC as well.
I'm curious why it took over 14 years after Red Dead Redemption was released for Xbox 360 for it to get a PC port. Rare Replay and several other respected Xbox One games still haven't been ported.
That's why pairing a game controller with a PC is so popular, and steam big picture mode.
In 2012, the consensus was that most users were unwilling to either build a second PC, cart a gaming PC back and forth between the living room and the computer desk, or run cables through the walls, to use Big Picture mode in Steam. (Source: adolf's comment) When did this change?
It's not PC alone, it's all the streaming services, they are convenient and offers no real incentives to collecting
The incentives to collecting are 1. ability to watch if you rely on wireless Internet (satellite or cellular) with a harsh monthly data cap, 2. ability to watch a particular movie or TV episode again after you have switched to a different streaming service for the month, and 3. ability to watch a particular work again even after its publisher has destroyed it for an "impairment" tax deduction or the service it's on has ended (particularly for game consoles).
I am relieved to note that Ubuntu is NOT Wayland only. It's just that the latest Gnome only supports Wayland. So all I have to do to keep X11 available is not use the desktop environment that I despise anyway.
I've read that dropping X11 in favor of Wayland goes beyond GNOME and reaches all of GTK. This means developers of other GTK-based desktop environments (particularly Xfce) and users of distributions built around those environments (I have Xubuntu and Debian Xfce in mind) will have to make hard decisions.
Sex trafficking is a crime, hardly a matter of merely selling explicit material
I think what happened with FOSTA is that some of the more conservative states or the federal government redefined "sex trafficking" to include not only sexually-oriented human trafficking but also all other sexually-oriented commerce.
True, higher-priced prepaid mobile phone plans have unlimited text. Lower-priced plans do not. SMS-based 2-factor authentication is not cost effective for a subscriber making do with a lower-priced plan.
I don't recall debanking being something practiced in the USA
Then you must not have followed FOSTA, a 2018 US law weakened the protections of Telecommunications Act section 230 with respect to sexually explicit material. This made it easier for acquiring banks to get away with debanking sellers of erotica.
How do minors (children and teens not yet old enough for a bank account in their own name) pay for things in Sweden?
the software stack hasn't really benefitted from a locked down hardware BOM in quite some time.
When did these advantages of "a locked down hardware BOM" go away?
- Easier for the audience to compare a game's system requirements to a particular device model
- Console maker's imprimatur makes it easier to sort through Theodore Sturgeon's 90 percent crap that fills more open online app stores
- Restriction against software modding reduces likelihood of cheating in online ranked play against strangers
- Restriction against software from unidentified publishers eliminates need for intrusive real-time anti-malware
- Console game discs and cartridges can be resold and used even if you are stuck on slow satellite or cellular Internet with its low monthly cap
- A GPU for a desktop PC costs as much as a console, and then you still need to buy all the other parts of the PC if you want to be able to use the console for something else while someone else in the household is using a PC for gaming
- Consoles have historically had more couch multiplayer games than PC
And modern tablets, phones, and mini-desktops are so fast and powerful that most people already have a sufficient gaming device with them all the time.
As for tablets and phones, how many people carry a Bluetooth controller with them? A virtual gamepad on a flat sheet of glass offers no tactile feedback as to where the player's thumbs are. Not all games adapt well to that.
GTK began as the GIMP toolkit (hence the name). What's the Qt based replacement for GIMP, including editing pixel art in indexed mode? Last I checked, Krita didn't support indexed mode, instead expecting all images to be in RGBA.
Text is preferred as it will always go through unless they're in a cave.
Or unless they live in a country where carriers charge their prepaid customers for incoming text messages (such as Slashdot's home country) and they're out of texts for the month.
What Rust lets you do is confine the "unsafe" parts so that you do most of the logic with full safety on and then pass the results to a much smaller "unsafe" part that interacts directly with the hardware.
Assuming Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit multilib, how would a 64-bit Steam client run 32-bit games whose (non-Valve) publishers have not released a 64-bit executable?
The summary sounds like a district-scale counterpart to Cloud&Heat, a German firm that colocates server racks running OpenStack in businesses needing heating. See "Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud" from November 2014. Interestingly enough, the summary of the Cloud&Heat story mentions Qarnot as well.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.
