First, you can disagree with my opinion and it’s totally fine.

Not sure what you mean here.

Sencond stop commenting every line out of the context of my answer. It makes your answer extremely long to say nothing.

I was saying that the arguments didn’t make sense other than “buy it and ignore the issues” mentality, now maybe I understand better your point.

For my my point? It’s on the Niktek channel.

Whatever the game is. It could cost 60$ whatever I don’t care if it’s bad or not, it’s just a game. What I care about is if the game is worth that amount of money. And in my opinion it isn’t, or maybe if you just want to play a sandbox with loading screens.

If you want game faults it’s mostly on the technical, immersion + developer implication in story telling.

Just look at the latest video on that channel (don’t if you don’t want to get spoiled) : It presents a part of the game where you get chased. You are supposed to get fast to your ship with your crew. The crew does run, but it stops at tables, people… Like everyone is chill jogging. And there is just some cries just for “ambiance”. The run is interrupted by 4 loading screens. When in the ship it’s like nothing happened outside and everyone is chill around the chaser. And keep in mind it’s a f story mission!

I myself cannot call such thing exciting (for a chase part) or something good quality.

Nvidia issues were present on “lower” spec cards with plenty enough vram. Not even sure if they fixed anything. (https://youtu.be/lGL3fczSXaI?si=C2bAg_k77CAkhfcN) Nvidia could also have been at fault (nvidia deivers aren’t always perfect).

Starfield is overall less buggy than the new Gold Standard AAA

Call finished whatever you want, but a game slightly better than others recent releases isn’t “finished” just because it’s better. It’s a company experimenting at what extent they can screw you before they get hurt. And companies have been doing this for a lot of time, each time, screwing up people’s preorders and hopes.

Now if starfield has everything you need, it’s fine. But if it doesn’t have everything someone else needs to play it at a good quality, the it isn’t fine by my standards of quality.

I’m just gonna comment on some things :

Sounds like you’re looking for a year 2000 game. More and more games leave out brightness control the last decade because you can do it at system level on tv or computer.

I’m sorry, but not everyone has a high brightness display. Adding a brightness gauge can be very useful for those people.

The rest is just nonsense and Bethesda fanatism. Like

if you like Bethesda games, you love Starfield

Is one of the worst take possible to save your wallet.

Like if they come out with a broken game at 150$ you are going to buy it because you like Bethesda? I cannot agree with this, and lots of steam comments neither. People are complaining about issues with the characters, broken launch mission launch bugs and bad quest variety.

And maybe you need to take a new look at what “finished” means in a dictionary. Because quest breaking bugs and missing features don’t seem to mean “finished”.

I find what they are offering interesting. But I myself use Thunderbird on my pc, spark on my phone, to get the emails from Gmail and yahoo mail.

Skiff isn’t compatible with imap, and from what they are saying, is because it’s an encrypted service, and using imap would require to unencrypt them.

From what I’m reading, it’s Sony cutting ties with a s* company.

In the open letter they also ask to contact Sony to get refunds, which is not at all how it works. And GamingHeads should be the one giving refunds. They then manage with Sony.

From comments I can read on the website and reddit, it seems that statues were taking a very long time to ship (5 years).

Tho destroying ready to ship products isn’t great either.

It’s not about the bugs. I have no idea what bugs are in the game.

The game was advertised as “next gen” priced as a high quality AAA, then it’s just not next gen, it’s last/previous gen with s* optimisation, and bad physics on many parts. And not delivering well on the rest either.

NikTek did some videos on starfield. The channel is mostly news as meme or similar things : https://youtube.com/@NikTek?si=Ovu03z8y9UeIiiMo

It’s a bit extreme, but we can see the care put into the character, weapon and static object physics and interaction is nothing. It’s year 2000 type of quality, even then there was maybe better character physics.

They didn’t even bother to add a brightness control in the game. No hdr (even if I can’t run it, is a f 60+$ game !). And the start screen could have just been a style, to be “empty”. But with all of this, it’s more likely they just didn’t bother.

And there is plenty more complaints on the game quality.

I don’t call such a game “finished”.

If Google didn’t remove it from their browser… Not sure in how much time, if ever, jpeg xl would become popular.

The bad news is that Android is still likely affected. Similar to Apple’s ImageIO, Android has a facility called the BitmapFactory that handles image decoding, and of course libwebp is supported. As of today, Android hasn’t released a security bulletin that includes a fix for CVE-2023-4863 – although the fix has been merged into AOSP. To put this in context: if this bug does affect Android, then it could potentially be turned into a remote exploit for apps like Signal and WhatsApp. I’d expect it to be fixed in the October bulletin.

So a no-click device hack?

The metroidvania games where saved by hollow knight. And now there are so many good options, even recent releases (some. May not have the tag).

Get yourself something else in the meantime.

I think 180k people disagree with you each day playing starfield.

Tho I myself agree that lots of recent AAA games don’t value their 60$ price or whatever. The low effort and quality put into them at launch is just not worth the money.

Maybe sometimes in the future when they are fixed and on discount they could be better value.

Tho hogwarrs legacy for example did not see any update since 4-5 months. And it’s still cursed with bugs. Maybe it’s what we could see with other recent releases too.

It’s way too big for this little amount of people, and somehow I stumbled on a porn drawing…

There is a flatpak zoom app. I guess it can be sandboxes somehow. It would most likely not pose any privacy threat outside of zoom.

But keep in mind that zoom got into it’s privacy policy, that they can record and use for ai anything you do and say during a meeting (if you didn’t allow access to the desktop during the meeting, zoom shouldn’t be able to record it, so most likely won’t matter for that, only what you send through their servers).

Because it’s a search engine using gpt3. Nothing special/Foss about it. Or at least I don’t see any Foss sources.

You won’t get the date.

The date mentioned in the answer may also be an halucination from the bot, depending on the dataset.

And an answer to Bing chat / bard is pretty hard to do if something like this even exists, as the bot has to be able to search the Web.

Maybe something like this? https://huggingface.co/ https://huggingface.co/chat/

The model seems to be based on the Llama model (but not only, there seem to be multiple models). Tho I didn’t really look into it on how they get their database. It also has more hallucinations than chatgpt.

It can be compared and added to the argument of an European country which proposes to scan all photos sent to detect if it contains illegal children photos.

However, to do so, is a huge privacy issue, and as the ai has a very high risk to not work as expected, a lot of false positives could be sent to be reviewed by a person.

Sadly not everywhere. On mobile it lacks behind. Even more on video content and low power cpus.

Chromium is slightly better in a way where I could clic on the video buttons without lag : On my android TV, (sideloaded) Firefox had issues with video buttons. So I tried using kiwi browser (for the extension support), and it worked well for buttons. The video wasn’t a lot smoother, but it just seemed maybe just slightly better.

I don’t use it because of mobile adblock only. There are multiple private chromium browsers which have mobile adblock, and also one supporting extensions : kiwi browser.

I use Firefox because it’s a competing engine to chromium, and it looks good.

I also have all the synced bookmarks from my PC Firefox, which I use for the same reason, and because I got used to it.

The article only talks about deployment costs. What about the rest?

For you a company should just throw away it’s employees to hire inexistent Linux experts or people using Linux software or whatever?

There is the server side. There I agree that using Linux is great.

On the client side it can be more complicated. A lot of schools in various domains teach the students how to use the software on windows. Not Linux.

Furthermore, a company doesn’t pop into existence the moment where it thinks it needs to switch to Linux.

The company already exists, providing work to the employees, trained on windows. So switching on Linux may change the software if it cannot be used on Linux (not everything is a saas). And that can be a time consuming process for the employees too because they don’t know how to use it efficiently.

They can’t really do that, mostly because it’s not “just 1 person”.

There are a lot of costs going into maintaining the os, apps, custom software, and training for the employees.

Google is giant, and has a huge amount of money. They can afford to spend the costs of training, modifying software, or developing other software for their needs if it reduces their future costs.

A smaller company don’t have all those funds, they wouldn’t be able to invest as much into switching to Linux and maintaining the custom software or finding new software and training.

When people switch to another software, there is also a period of low productivity, when these same people are still discovering the software, and cannot do everything as fast as before. That is also creating additional costs.

Sure. But google does waste money if it brings them profit. It would be rather called an investment.

However the example of Google is extremely bad, because it can only be applied to very large tech companies who already have people developing for Linux.

It’s not a waste of money, it’s a bad example.