I wonder if Sony is getting a bit scared of Valve. Maybe they're even seeing how well their games are selling on the PC and the fact they're selling well scares them even more than if they didn't.

But at the end of the day it's free money. Sell the game exclusive on the console for a year or two and when it's back catalogue port it over to the PC and sell it again.

Is WHO willing to admit Taiwan is a place, yet?

A master's degree in my personal experience simply denotes someone who was willing to pay an exorbitant amount of $ for 2 more years of "school time" (I'm not going to say learning) in exchange for the ability to claim a "higher" degree.

Aside from my own experience, I know many people with masters degrees. None of us can point to anything meaningfully learned in those 2 (or more) years. It's a ticket punch for cash.

Setting aside my own knowledge from inside, I have worked with *many* MBAs over the years. I've generally found them to be highly talented at presenting themselves and their ideas as brilliant, no matter how intrinsically stupid either may be. I've yet to meet an MBA that was successful, that (in my opinion) wouldn't have been just as successful without the MBA. Most MBAs I've known are merely the business equivalent of highly polished turds.

Note I'm not hashing on academics; I wouldn't say this about PhD's who have to work fairly-to-incredibly hard and demonstrate meaningful knowledge to earn that degree. I generally admire PhDs.

College in 2026 is all about the feelings.
Facts are so 20th century.

https://outrider.org/climate-c...

Chinaâ(TM)s Abandoned, Obsolete Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Cities

"A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles."

Which is why it was there in the first place, obviously.

Remember when they advertised Gmail as having storage that grows with you? Infinity plus one storage?

If it was that incredible, Tesla would be handing out their raw data like candy so everyone could see how amazing their FSD systems were. Except they don't. They hide it from independent evaluation, they hide it from the NTSB, they hide it from the families they've killed. But trust us bro, it's soooooooo safe.

...if only our legal system was that stringent?

Ban on practicing law for a year if your submission to the court includes AI slop, how about that?
A second offense, disbarment.

(Personally I think disbarment should be a first-offense result for an ostensibly high-competence field like law, but our society has gotten away from "consequences" for "easily predictable results of ones actions" in general...)

Did I say it had to be like GNOME? No I did not. I said most dists (i.e. mainstream dists) use GNOME. But usability is why they do. Admins maintaining dozens, hundreds of desktops do not want to waste time on bullshit support calls caused by traps and complexity in the desktop software which thinks it should shove every option under the sun in the face of users.

If KDE had proper human interface guidelines that didn't fit on a cereal packet and adopted a UX ethos & direction rather than a kitchen sink mentality then something might change. But it hasn't changed in decades so I won't be holding my breath. But if it were me dropping 1.5 million on the project that's where I'd be demanding the money be spent.

And by "literally everyone", the usage of KDE is lower than GNOME because it is not the default in any mainstream dist with the exception of openSUSE. And if you're so into KDE you should be begging for the UX to improved instead of trying to pretend the way it is now is a virtue. It sucks. It sucks even compared to Windows. Because the KDE devs play the notes without understanding the tune. This has always been the case and makes for a complex desktop that generates support calls for admins who have better things to do.

I would say that maybe if the devs followed the KDE human interface guidelines they might improve, but the KDE human interface guidelines are practically non-existent, about 7 pages that read like somebody's weekend assignment. Spend the millions writing some proper ones, and adopting it. It doesn't require KDE become GNOME, but GNOME has at least made the effort and despite your dislike, it is an slick, unsurprising, simple, forgiving and discoverable desktop.

At one point even Musk realised it. Now it's all move fast and break things. Even if those things have people inside. Because money matters than a few lives.

KDE is still a usability dog's dinner from a UX perspective. It needs to move all the advanced settings out of the day to day experience and ensure that it is forgiving and discoverable. That would pay off big time over the long term. But I'm not holding my breath because I've been saying that for decades and it never happens, so no wonder most dists use GNOME instead.

While universal basic income is a useful policy tool and I think we WILL reach it eventually, there are economics papers out there that demonstrate that, sans Pigouvian transaction tax, AI is a race to the bottom.

The AI Layoff Trap by Brett Hemenway Falk and Gerry Tsoukalas is still sitting on my desktop. A quick Google search reveals they are not the only ones who are pursuing this line of thinking.

BUt here in the U.S. "muh freedumb" will ensure that we run that race till the bottom falls out. Hopefully Asia and Europe play this transition a bit smarter, so something of our society continues.