GTA 5 PC added anti-cheat at some point and those usually do end up breaking Linux compatibility. I don't see GTA 6 launching on PC without anti-cheat also, because the public lobbies in GTA 5 were an absolute mess of people doing crazy things like turning your character into a toilet. I doubt Rockstar would want a repeat of that.

Also, the other thing they hate even more than cheaters is people using hacks to get free shit. The new game will probably be even more heavily monetized than GTA 5, and those Shark Cards ain't gonna just sell themselves.
 

For a game where a big part of the appeal is the driving simulator aspect (screwy cartoon video game physics aside), 30 FPS feels like a slideshow. There are certainly genres of games where it doesn't matter as much, but high-speed action is kind of the whole point of GTA.

"Come on kid, cut yourself. It's the only way to feel alive."

Why would I let someone else generate my secrets? It never made any sense.

Elon, Sam, Mark, Peter, et al... You are cordially invited to go fsck yourselves.

The magnitude of destruction you have wrought upon this industry, upon our livelihoods, and upon society as a whole, cannot be calculated, much less excused. You have stolen the corpus of human ingenuity and creativity from its creators without recompense, and now are trying to sell a provably shittier version of it back to us at a markup.

And, let's be honest, this is what you wanted to build -- a barely capable servant who will do your bidding, whatever it is, immediately, without question or compunction. It's extremely telling about your moral compasses that you studiously sat on your hands when your customers were creating graphic sexual imagery of celebrities over their vociferous objections; or impressionable young people (who needed help, not encouragement) were being driven to suicide by your chatbots; but "torturing" a memory block of neural net constants is somehow the bridge too far?

I repeat: Go fsck yourselves.

Or just take the phone you already have out of your pocket and use that instead? The main advantage of using smart hub/speaker devices is that you can program them to know what room they're in, so you can say things like "lights on" and just have it activate the lights within that room. But at three hundred doll hairs per room to do that with Apple hardware, that'd be a nope from me, dawg.

I'm honestly still pretty happy with the Echo Dots that I got from some Black Friday sale an eternity ago. They were cheap enough to put one everywhere I wanted smart lighting control and besides setting kitchen timers, is really the only practical use I've ever found for such devices. For anything else, it really is just less hassle to use my phone.

I'm assuming you forgot about the time their cars were wearing out their flash storage modules.

Presently, nope. Apple is yet again insisting that one of their new devices does not actually need 3rd party developer support to succeed. If your smart devices are from an unsupported ecosystem, you'll have to do the usual sort of workarounds to get them to play nice with this thing.

I really wanted to like the game but even a few hours of gameplay showed that it was repetitive and kind of bleak and depressing.

Probably via activating the defrost elements on equipment that is stupidly designed without hardware failsafes in place. Yeah, in the old days you'd expect there to be one of those bimetallic limit switches that physically cuts power to the defrost element, but now you've got software monitoring a sensor instead. Add a little malicious code to ignore the output of the sensor and suddenly Oh lord Jesus, it's a fire!

I have a wildcard cert from LetsEncrypt, which I install on all the services on my home LAN. However, because it's a wildcard, LetsEncrypt insists that I prove domain ownership by updating some DNS TXT records. My DNS provider doesn't support automated updates to TXT records. So ACME won't work, so I have to do that bit by hand.

Next, I have to distribute the cert to a handful of local services, including pfSense, TrueNAS, Postfix, the Unifi Controller (extra annoying, because Java), Forgejo, and probably a couple others I've forgotten about. None of that is automated, either. It hasn't been so painful that I've bothered to write scripts for the process, so I get to do a little SSH dance every three months.

"Deploy your own!" Couple of issues there: 1) Everyone treats self-signed certs as suspicious, so they're inappropriate for Postfix TLS; 2) Every time I've tried that, Firefox and/or Chrome complain about some obscure feature not being what they expect. The latest headache had to do with OCSP stapling, which has to be turned on -- oh, whoops, now it has to be turned off... Bleah. LetsEncrypt certs Just Work, so I haven't revisited building my own CA.

You do know this is an option you can just turn off? Also, the way I assume it works is that it "learns" your charging habits and won't do anything that ends up with you having a dead phone in the morning or a non-charging phone when you're actually plugging into your car or at a Starbucks to charge, because it uses location to determine if you're at home.

It could end up being an issue if your life doesn't follow a routine schedule, which again, is why it can be disabled. I suppose you could argue that the default setting is annoying, but that's true across the entire tech industry - no matter what OS you go with, you're going to have to dig into the settings and turn off someone else's ideas for how they wanted you to use their product.

...sandboxes and commit crimes... That sounds more like a Spider Man villain than a tech IPO.

Ok I guess I didn't follow you. So you ordered the duck expecting wild duck and when you complained the waiter informed you it was grain fed? I raise ducks FWIW.

I don't think anyone is making a claim that grain fed ducks are tastier than ducks that forage. We feed ducks grain because it's cheap and easy.