This is a perfect project for a Raspberry Pi. You can run OpenWRT and Gargoyle on the device. It's also possible to extend the functionality of the router by including squid cache and pihole.

Loading multiple copies of the same library in memory is a waste, and having to rely on individual flatpak maintainers to update every single dependency for each discrete flatpak is a security gamble.

Most of what people want to do with AI is create funny pictures. For any real tasks it doesn't hold up because of hallucinations, and people already know about existing resources that are helpful to accomplish what they want.

AI is not helping the average user and is not a killer app. It's more of a toy. For businesses it's precarious and unreliable.

It sounds like the problem has more to do with an oversaturation of content available and that the publisher may struggle to directly reach the consumer. This sounds more like the responsibility of the publisher to properly market their game, and not the responsibility of the storefront.

As a gamer I have no problems finding games I like on Steam, and there are more that suit my interests than I have time to play. This isn't a bad problem for me to have, and I hesitate to even call it a problem.

They should release a Linux client and help with Proton. With all of the yelling Tim Sweeny does about wanting to have equal footing on Android and iPhone, and the complaining he did when Microsoft wanted to move to managed APIs on UWP, one would think Epic cared about leveraging strong Linux support and promoting independence from the control of Big OS companies.

But no.

Service games can pay off big, but putting significant resources into them is a gamble. You must attract players, keep them engaged so they get invested and want to participate in micro transactions. And not just one-off transactions but entice them to keep making them. You have to keep adding to the game and changing things so it doesn't get boring.

Compared to a complete game that you can gauge reactions from a test audience and be assured of some level of satisfaction and potential sales, these are a complete gamble.

Even a good service game can still fail to pull players away from other hit games and already successful service games.

You have to catch lightning in a bottle.

Many phones are capable of local speech to text. It doesn't have to be accurate or compute intensive, as long as it can generally get a decent amount of word matches, or even just keywords, and transmit them as text, then it might be negligible data-wise or even be bundled with other information. Steganography could be used to transmit them mixed up with other random data.

I don't think it's necessarily a good thing. Microsoft is doing poorly with their own games like Halo and Crackdown, and their other projects like Perfect Dark keep slipping and experiencing issues with development teams leaving the project.

They have released a few bad games lately, and with Redfall, Microsoft is now looking to take a more involved role in operating the studio.

The interesting part of this situation is that they were hoping being bought by Microsoft would give them the opportunity to cancel the game because Bethesda did not have faith in it. Instead, Microsoft seems to have forced them to release the subpar game and is now using that as a reason to take control.

With Service Games, games with ongoing content updates, there is pressure to maintain a consistent player base. It seems difficult compared to polishing a complete product that is meant to be sold.

That's idiotic. You can use another device to take a picture of your phone's screen easily. Stopping screenshots is just an attack on the user and not a real security measure.

One of the original coders from Future Crew, Samuli Syvähuoko aka Gore, commented on the video. Positive praise from an OG!

I'd be surprised if they went a year without renaming any product or service that isn't Windows and Office. They constantly seem to be rebranding. Maybe it is a marketing tactic to make something old get new attention, but it is confusing to find help/answers on a product/service when it didn't have the same name as it used to. Microsoft's own forums barely have any answers besides "have you tried formatting and recreating the problem on a new install"

The people who loved them still love them now and that is why these fan remakes get made. It is to scratch their itch, and they will loyally play this and enjoy it just as much as they did then.

Just use your game console to run streaming apps.