I’m so torn between “good that the kids learning to do the math” and “kid is still basically paying for Barbie dream house clothing packs which change the actual game exactly 0”

Net positive I think, and good on op for nudging kinder the right direction, but…damn have game companies gotten us under their fingers.

PCs are, steam is not

It’s primary purpose is DRM which is a net burden to society. Everything else you list is to help you forget that.

30% is mad decent. For all the haters on California’s insane tax, steam takes a 3x larger cut on all income, and California build roads with it. Steam maybe develops half-baked features.

Gog

The most cleverly disguised url in history. Come on man, don’t be ridiculous.

As far as I can tell it separates the base os from user changes which could break things by forcing you to use containers by annoying you to death any time you’re trying to permanently install a package.

It’s fine but it seems better for servers than users.

At least he didn’t fuck a couch

So like, Ronald Reagan colluding with terrorists to be elected or watching as a major disease breaks out among populations he doesn’t care about.

I think the new Wayland fork will fix that

Hey hold on, I also hate Ubuntu because of how awful gnome is. Can’t blame everything on snap!

Interesting, thanks for the links I’ll take a look

Yeah was thinking about that (edited to add immediate) – games are certainly background loading nowadays but the stuff needed is intended to be in ram by the time it’s needed, afaik.

For sure I’m just saying i’d guess that’s because at play time you’re loading everything into ram. For bulk loading I would encryption perf follows the general use case.

(Tldr encryption shouldn’t matter for games)

That’s quite a take given the source of most current end to end encrypted messaging algorithms.

But also, whooosh

You didn’t explain the implications of what radio free Asia is, I did. I don’t know what words I’m putting in your mouth.

That’s fine, but why?

You have granular control over universal windows apps (ie windows 8+ apps) and one global lock over all desktop apps (non uwp), and one global lock over everything. It’s pretty solid considering how little control Microsoft has and it’s wonderful fetish for compatibility.

Tldr basically same as Linux, except app distribution in Linux was bad enough for so long that more stuff is in the new restricted format while windows still has tons of things which will never go away and aren’t in the sandbox. I think not finding a way to sandbox all desktop apps was a mistake.

Define properly shut down. Do your thieves usually ask first?

If it has to go to disk for immediate loading of assets while playing a video game you’re losing more than 1-5 fps

Signal is an objectively better experience than xmpp, and has about identical security (same with matrix). Irc isn’t secure afaik. Telegram isn’t secure afaik.

A better wish would be that people in 2024 would stop being fuckign weird about their cell number. Some people don’t want to give it out despite white pages being the standard for years (and how the Terminator knows who to kill). Other people refuse to use a messaging app where they can’t use their phone to sign up. Some people want to sign up with their number but not give it out.