At "full blast"? Seriously, are you stupid? You do damage to somebody else, you commit assault.

That would be illegal. At least in Europe.

No, it is not. Because Steam already restricts adult games to adults.

Indeed. This is _not_ about "protecting" children from stuff they can find all over the Internet. Steam is already doing that nicely. This has a far darker reason behind it.

Indeed. And Steam knows the age of its customers or can at least determine whether they are adult. Hence this is basically just restricting adults from what they can buy. Not good at all.

Indeed. But fall they do and Intel is showing all the signs. Has any of the large ones ever turned things around?

"Dystopian"? You think accelerating climate change is better?

It is actually not much of a risk to birds. Higher means more wind and steadier wind.

Not just that but when you are setting yourself up to be a buyout target, which is the only thing anyone does anymore because otherwise you get crushed by monopolistic tactics, then what you do is you hire way the hell more people than you need because it makes you look like you're growing faster than you actually are.

Because I don't trust them supporting it with how many engineers they have laid off. It would be madness for them to start cutting their GPU division but when it comes to stock BuyBacks and shareholder value anything is possible.

If arm continues to make in roads on their main business than Intel is going to find itself in a death spiral and it's going to suck because that means only one x86 chip company unless somebody steps up and subsidizes them like they did with AMD.

But the reason AMD got those subsidies was because of the threat of antitrust enforcement on the whole industry and nobody is afraid of that anymore.

Oh and also I'm wondering if some of this is because of the shrinking desktop market. Somebody who is a Linux user is going to have a desktop computer because they're going to be a PC enthusiast in most cases. Yeah there's the occasional family member who installs Linux for somebody who literally just opens Internet explorer but honestly most of those people these days have switched the phones for that, maybe a table.

So I guess what I'm saying is the number of Linux users is likely to stay constant while the total number of other operating system users drops resulting in the percentage of Linux user is increasing.

It does help that basic hardware is extremely standardized so you can just install Linux just about anything nowadays.

And there's a lot of gaming you could do under Linux because of valve. Although the big multiplayer games are still locked away on Windows because of the anti-cheat software with the exception of marvel which remarkably runs very well and is fully supported under proton.

I know some musicians though that are completely stuck on Windows because the software for running they are interfaces just does not work in Linux. And there's lots of people stuck with Adobe software or something like it or who need Microsoft Office. Although I'm not sure how well the web-based version of office runs under Linux it runs pretty crappy under windows.

But that's probably worldwide. There's an estimated 60 million desktops in America though. So I think it's safe to say that a lot of if not most of that is steam decks.

That doesn't really help desktop Linux adoption because not very many people use a steam deck as a desktop. I came across one YouTuber doing it because they killed their main desktop PC but beyond that most people are going to use it for gaming only. Maybe some movies and lite web browsing.

That means a lot of the software that locks people to Windows will continue to be locked on windows. Stuff like film editing and music production for example.

Honestly though pretty much everybody is getting their asses kicked by phones with phones increasingly taking over the casual user computing experience.

They are standard Android devices and can be used for Android gaming. Plenty of people would prefer to do that on a dedicated device.

That's before you talk about specialized use cases like ROMs you legally own or Homebrew. Or hell just loading up any one of a thousand games off of Gog that run under dos box.

More like stupid. Because this is just one more bad idea in the increasingly panicked search for actual applications for generative AI.

That is a really stupid suggestion, because that counts as felony assault. Usually they will not go though with a criminal complaint, but if they do you may go to jail.