I'm not trusting Sony with my digital games. Look at their own history with digital licenses and digital services. To lock myself in with them, only one digital store with no competition, and beholden to PlayStation Plus to play paid games online. I don't trust the other consoles for the same reasons. Microsoft is screwing up Xbox and it may have no future. PlaysForSure and their other DRM didn't last. Nintendo is a greedy company who likes to keep prices high, and they have already closed digital stores for previous consoles and handhelds and broken compatibility.

At a time where entertainment budgets are being cut, Sony is going to make people rethink their relationship with the company, which relies heavily on PlayStation for its profits. They are playing with fire.

It's probably about the same, but with this one you get a gaming PC with official support for the games themselves and for gaming itself, designed to be plug and play and simple to set up, official game compatibility information, and specifically designed accessories.

For the lazy person, or even for the average person who isn't technically inclined or has time to troubleshoot: Having a gaming PC with the maker actively trying to ensure compatibility and ease of use, this sounds like a winner. No guessing at how it will work on your hardware, there is specific compatibility assurance when you are browsing for games, and there is official support, actively trying to enhance your experience with games.

You get the benefit that console gamers do, except you don't have to pay online subscriptions. And it is easy to share your digital games with your family.

Trying to get the real table to update the ball at 20fps is proving insanely difficult.

Ladies and Gentlemen, LLMs have officially jumped the shark!

The training is not legal. They're using copyright materials for commercial purposes and may potentially be able to reproduce it for everyone who uses it even if it's in bits and pieces.

It goes to show you how full of themselves someone is when they straight up flout the law and personally authorize it.

Platform engagement tactics also show his motives are not altruistic.

It is clear he is a greedy sociopath.

This is a mode that limits what is loaded for the desktop, saving about 2GB of RAM, and gives about 1-2 fps improvement. It's the same thing that has been on the Xbox ASUS ROG Ally handhelds and has been available to install and benchmark on the desktop since the end of 2025.

I'm sure people who work there would know better by now seeing what the company has done to its users?

Now they have AI making they feel like they think they can solve everything.

And there are other people ready to buy it thinking they will be able to solve everything with it too.

Well, time to get rid of my Netgear equipment. I'm too suspicious they agreed on some backdoor deal, possibly including information on possible exploits in both firmware and hardware flaws. Either that or they are supporting the administration financially in a conflict of interest. Both are warning signs.

I have to wear earplugs to see movies because they are so loud. I think it's because the dynamic range is too broad. The very loud things are so much louder than the very quiet things you're supposed to hear. You can hear the quiet things fine but then the loud things are way too loud.

If they compressed the audio they wouldn't need to crank it up so high and you could hear both the quiet and loud things at a volume that is pleasing, with no need for painful excess loudness.

We keep reading reports of people going becoming deluded after using AI for a while. It shouldn't be much of a surprise the business sector dedicated to this is experiencing that effect in some way.

The people leading AI companies are really hyping it in a way that isn't grounded in the reality, and investors are probably not technically savvy enough to see through it. AI company leaders are probably beginning to believe their own rhetoric. There are companies out there, and by way of their investors are demanding that employees use AI and improve productivity. The employees see colleagues being laid off and don't want to be next, they want to try to appear successful.

It all seems to be part of a feedback loop that is inflating perceptions of AI in that sector. It's almost as if there's some sort of bubble.

Will Quebec taxpayers benefit? It only seems like electricity prices are getting higher, they have raised the rates and raised how much people are getting charged during peak hours.

And despite using less oil we are taxed more than other provinces for gas and PST.

If they don't care about Bob Smith then they'll lose all of the hobbyists and passionate creators. Far fewer will be familiar with using and developing for Windows, as well as the potential to lose projects that either make every day life easier with Windows, or address those fringe edge cases that only a few people care about but make possible because it's the most popular platform. But, I admit it's possible that doesn't matter to Microsoft or the people who have to work with Windows.

The more easily people can feel free to ditch Windows, the better.

And I don't mean that as a slight against Windows. I mean that there should be better competition in order to spur more comparisons and improvements. Even people who love Windows would benefit from better rivalry. The way it has made Microsoft want to improve gaming under Windows is a perfect example of why. They could be doing much better on many fronts, and likely there are ways Linux might improve as well.

Additionally, if it is easier to move more freely between operating systems, that makes it easier for people to choose what is best for them. Feeling stuck making do with something subpar is not good. Everyone can agree to that.

Everyone should want Linux to get better. And Windows. And all other OSes.