Here are some other examples:

A book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar about software development.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar

A fashion and “lifestyle” magazine

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/

We have a lot of foreign food stores around here that are called “The Bazaar Supermarket” etc.

I disagree.

I’ve been though the Steam Sales for well over 10 years now, and I remember when they switched up how they did it.

Yeah you no longer have a 90% discount for a single day on a game so there isn’t anywhere near as much chatter, which I miss, but there are plently of big names with 90% off. I think that is either what you miss, or you are now 5 years older and just don’t get as excited, or there hasn’t been much released that interest you.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/only-15-percent-of-all-steam-users-time-was-spent-playing-games-released-in-2024/

Games with good reviews and 90% off:

https://steamdb.info/sales/?min_discount=90&min_rating=80&min_reviews=500

Is it the sales, or are there just less games coming out at the moment that interest you at any price?

Windows 8 on a tablet was better

PC makers like Lenovo, Asus, and MSI have all opted for Windows-based handhelds so far, but as consumer patience with Windows on tiny screens wears thin and Microsoft’s progress in improving the experience is slow, it seems like OEMs are looking for a better alternative.

Microsoft hasn’t make any progress on improving the experience because the Windows UI is simply not suitable for non-mouse environment, and you are not allowed to sell a Windows device that doesn’t provide the Windows OOB experience.

Linux is the only sane choice with restrictions like that.

I used them to dismiss the EA middleware bullshit, and Cities Skyline.

Regardless of how “clean” ReactOS is they cannot legally reverse engineer Win10 or Win11 due to the EULA (which Microsoft would enforce in court)

How would they prove the developer signed an EULA? I know I haven’t been made to use Windows since the Vista era. And even then, that was a work computer so I never agreed to anything.

The rest I agree with. Windows is trash, why bother cloning it? Wine exists to run applications that are desired but don’t have Linux equivalents.

Yep. Fucking hypocrite tells people to use something he is hostile towards.

Fuck Epic, they are destroying PC gaming which means they are not developer friendly.

They are actively trying to shrink the market that developers can target.

The fact that you can’t use the Epic games launcher on Linux should be telling you what you need to know.

How is their 12 foot interface these days?

How is their position on running things via wine? Tim the bellend has generally been telling Linux users to use wine, but at the same time been generally hostile to it.

I wrote Mesa but meant ffmpeg. Wishful thinking that they are able to make a generic ffmpeg encoder in Vulkan to allow it to be accelerated in hardware but not relying on bad video driver codecs.

Oh well, back to Intel.

If the driver is no longer using a dedicated piece of encoding hardware thats shit, but using the Vulkan logic then surely the quality would be essentially guaranteed by it being Vulkan conformant?

The hardware wouldn’t support b-frames in this scenario, and wouldn’t matter because your just using the standard matrixes to encode the stream and if it didn’t work then surely games would also be broken.

Or am I incorrect. Is this just standardising the API in Vulkan and it gets forwarded to the same video encoding driver? Could we not have Mesa doing a better job? 😒

The video quality for encoding has always been bad with AMD.

I’m hoping that by using Vulkan we can bypass poor quality encoders in drivers and get standardised accelerated encoders.

Why would you want to prevent strangers, future humanity or governments from using open source?

Normies bots

Title is clickbate.

You can support Palestine as a people right to live, and condemn Israeli blanket bombing without supporting Hamas’ shooting civilians.

Or did you also struggle with condemning British occupation of Ireland, whilst also disagreeing with the IRA bombing of civilian targets?

Your confusing a state with a people.

Hama’s want to stop Israel (the state) from existing as they occupy their territory, and make them live in internment camps.

Israel wants to stop the Palestinian people from existing, because they are an inconvenience.

I almost didn’t make it through the intro for RDR2, 20 mins of trudging through snow.

IDGAF.

This is wild if true.

I loved RDR, and played the fuck out of that. RDR2 spend so much time trying to distract me from actually playing that I got bored.

I was down voted a lot for preferring the original. Thats neat that others found the first better.

On a related tangent, because I see that this is mostly discussed to death, I dont get why Americans decided to merge other unrelated words.

For example, being exhausted and the rubber circle that cars and bikes use to roll smoothly are the same word in American English whereas we (UK) use different spellings.

Tire - Being exhausted

Tyre - Round rubber wheel thing

Funny jokes are welcome.

That was more the type of thing the annoying kid at the back of the class shouts out, where even their friends tell them to shut up.