It helps distinguish it from all the times Microsoft intentionally broke things in order to prevent interoperability with their rivals. I sure am glad that their illegal Monopoly was broken up back in 2000 and we didn't just elect a heavily pro corporate president whose doj dropped the lawsuit the first chance they got... That would have been terrible for computing.

I think the main innovation is proton. I have several buddies that have switched to Linux and it's just fine for them. Several of them switched over because Windows 11 was so effing slow and they just installed Linux and installed steam and stalled their games and played them and didn't think of anything else. It all just worked.

It looks like epic is looking for somebody to Port their anti-cheat to linux. Honestly if it wasn't for all this AI bullshit destroying our entire civilization and the complete lack of any Anti-Trust regulation preventing anyone from making RAM and storage except the existing players then I think this would massively take off and really screw over Microsoft.

I mean I'm running Windows 11 for work and holy fuck is a terrible. Eventually I'm going to get forced to switch operating systems since I'm on 10 and when that happens I don't know what I'm going to do but it's probably going to be installing Linux with proton. I mean assuming Microsoft hasn't found a way to kill it by then. I don't play call of duty so I don't have to worry about that but I could see them going around buying up every company that might possibly make a game I want to play to keep you from doing that...

I am really sick and tired of companies having unlimited cash and zero regulations. I can't even pretend anymore that it's not impacting my day-to-day life and I don't think any of us can without really sticking our heads in the sand.

I've got three PC game pads lying around that would just work out of the box with it. I play on PC but I play a lot of console ports. The steam controller is there for people who are going to play the kind of games best played with keyboard and mouse but they want to do it from their couch. It's hyperoptimized for that. So it makes sense not to include it in the base unit because a lot of people wouldn't actually use it myself included.

Mind you at$1,100 I will not be buying a steam box. The price is competitive with regular pc hardware and for something that small and usable it's pretty good. Keep in mind that if you buy an equivalent laptop and you actually game on it it is likely to have much less performance because of thermal throttling and it's likely to burn out and die in a few years.

But I will stick with my aging ryzen 5600 and my ancient GTX 1080 I picked up off eBay years ago. It's good enough for pretty much everything I want to play except for one ratchet and clank game

And I have no idea how it is that the right wing convinced you that going to sleep was a good idea.

I'm sure it's fine. You can go to sleep surrounded by jackals and none of them will bite your neck out while you're unawares. After all jackals are famous for being helpful to anyone caught unawares...

The problem is AI data centers and a complete lack of antitrust law enforcement so nobody is going to risk getting into RAM or storage manufacturer even though there's half a dozen companies that could be up and running in 6 months to a year. Several of them have had their CEOs interviewed and just quietly hinted that they wouldn't take the risk. They usually talk about the bubble but the underlining thing that they will hint at but never outright say is that they all know if they enter the market the existing manufacturers will just drop their prices long enough to put them out of business.

Don't get me wrong nobody is a saint here one of the reasons why none of these companies are pushing for antitrust law enforcement is they want to be the ones committing antitrust and violations. Several of them are in their own spaces. So none of these fuckers want to see the government come in and clean things up because they are all crooks.

A drug dealer might like it when a cop busts their competition but they don't want the cops coming around in general.

Or whatever your local equivalent is.

If we had antitrust law enforcement other companies would enter the RAM and storage markets because there is years of demand.

Every company eyeing those markets knows that if they even try they will get run out of business and go bankrupt.

If you're American there is one political quality that enforces antitrust law and one that doesn't.

Everything is political whether you like it or not. And that includes your video games.

Anyway have fun with the mod points. Nobody likes it when I point out reality around here

Those filters were suspended for muskrat. They did it for him at they'll do it for the other soon to be trillionaires.

Every one of em will become trillionaires the same way muskrat did, by stealing your retirement

Why don't you just come out and say the n-word already.? Drop a few f-bombs and I don't mean fuck.

When the fascists are done letting you beat the hell out of queers and brown people they're going to do terrible things to you. If you happen to be getting paid they'll take all your money and property. Of course this is probably I'm just responding to a bot. After all Trump fucks kids. And by repeating Trump fucks kids a few times these shitty little llms pick that up.

But there are a lot of mean old racists on this forum and I know they are out there. The kind of people who are casual racists. The kind of people who will tell you with a straight face that anyone can be an n-word. The kind of people who are really really angry they can't say that word anymore..

It's about what you're willing to give up is a 60-year-old versus what somebody in their twenties is willing to give up.

I don't pay much attention to the media. It's billionaire owned and they are fully exercising their power now. It's mostly just propaganda now. AP and rueters are still a little functional but they are in the process of being dismantled.

Give me a list of two or three issues you would be willing to compromise on in order to ban those cameras. Give me a list of the last three people you voted for in a primary election. I don't even need names just tell me why you voted for them.

When I find people who react to me pointing out that old people are terrible they are almost always the kind of people who are pretty fucking conservative and maybe you're willing to let the trans girls have their hormones as long as you don't have to look at them in public. Hell maybe you are begrudgingly willing to let them be out in public. Or maybe it's not trans people that pushes your buttons maybe it's something else. Maybe it's violent video games or maybe you're obsessed with getting lower taxes or maybe you want to make kids work harder for less or something. But there's some little bit of nastiness in your soul that you won't let go.

Because any generation that gave us Ronald Reagan Bill Clinton Bush Jr and Barack Obama is pretty fucking lousy. I can just barely forgive people for Obama because he was good at tricking us but Ronald Reagan getting a second term after all the shit he did there's no excuse.

Actually they tend to be more conservative but the right wing hides itself behind conservative propaganda.

There is also a healthy amount of pulling the ladder up behind you. People for example who had their education paid for by the government but didn't know that it was happening because the subsidies were indirect. So those people desperately fight to prevent student loan debt forgiveness because it's not fair it's not fair it's not fair. When they had the government paying for their education the entire time they just didn't know it.

This is obviously just graft and grift given to well-connected companies to do bullshit that has no effect on anything.

One of the things that really pisses me off about these obviously corrupt government contracts is that people see this shit and just decide that government is completely irredeemable and worthless. Meanwhile government funded scientists are the ones making all your medicine and you drive on government roads and you're not dealing with feral teenagers because of public schools. Education not prisons is why you haven't been shot and killed by gangs...

So these miserable motherfuckers set up corrupt government programs for them to profit from and then they go to the public and campaign on eliminating government because of the corrupt programs they set up and then when they get in power the only thing they eliminate are things like the program to prevents screw worms from making shitty ground beef $15 a pound or the stuff that prevented 8 million dead kids overseas every year.

And when it's all said and done you have a bunch of angry voters who are convinced they should vote for even less government voting for these assholes and you have the first trillionaire.

I hate how it's also obvious and transparent and how it fucking works.

Think of books. You buy a physical book and you think you own it even though strictly speaking you bought a license. I feel the same about my '90's games as my '90's books, I bought it, I can sell it, give it away or do anything besides distribute copies of it, along with a couple of other things like public performances

Think of a book, comes with a license that allows you to do all kinds of things with it, excepting making copies and distributing them. Actually I have at least one book that says the license is only good as long as you have the book cover.
Even though the book is actually licensed, you basically own it. And if you own it long enough (actually your family etc), eventually the license expires and you can do anything you want with that book including copying it.
Now a days, some books, just like software, are only in electronic format and the license can be revoked even though you paid for it just like a physical book

Betteridge strikes again.

Muskrat bought a bunch of gpus before the AI bubble really got going because he was preemptively pumping the SpaceX stock by shouting look at me I'm buying all this computer hardware for my AI so you know I'm going to make you rich!

He never did anything with any of it because that wasn't the point. He wasn't building data centers he was scamming investors.

Now he's got stacks and stacks of gpus sitting around gathering dust and to keep the stock price pumped for the time being he needs to make it look like he's going to have a ton of revenue coming in. In practice he's not and he's just going to steal all your 401K money but we're going to get bullshit articles like this because anyone who does real journalism like Patrick Boyle over on YouTube gets fired or demonetized.

If you watch the most recent video from Patrick Boyle and go to the end of the video he explains how the scam works. Initially investors get murdered in by the promise of big fat returns but they can't sell the stock for the first 120 days as part of the buying agreement. Just one of those investors are at the point where they can sell the stock and it's likely to crash the rule changes to NASDAQ for SpaceX stock into safe index funds.

Your 401k will be forced to purchase SpaceX stock for the index funds that were the otherwise be safe investments. You will not have the option of not buying SpaceX stock. Eventually your 401k will be full of SpaceX stock and a variety of other rotten AI bullshit stocks that will collapse eliminating the value of your retirement savings.

When this happens the people who saw it coming will still be screwed because there's nothing they could do about it because the people who didn't see it coming refused to vote for the kind of reforms that are needed. It doesn't matter if you realize you're a crab in a bucket you're still a crab and a bucket and they're going to drag you back down every time you try to get out.

There is 10 trillion dollars in 401ks. If you think the thieves that have already created 1 trillionaire are going to stop and leave that money sitting there you're nuts. That money belongs to them not you. You gave it to them when you kept voting for culture War bullshit instead of boring annoying people like senator Warren who know how to regulate Wall Street

If you want to ban these you're going to have to give something up. Maybe not you personally but certainly some of the people reading this.

You have to change how you vote and doing that means giving up other issues. These are going to typically be issues that appeal to the right wing, especially culture War issues because you can give those up without it directly impacting your civil rights or your income.

That's a tough sale for a lot of people especially anyone older. And they can always just tell themselves, hey I'm not doing anything illegal why do I care? Meanwhile the cop shows they watch every night on cable television are going to tell them how these cameras are the best thing ever for catching those evil evil criminals...