I wish more vendors did an under display front facing camera

Upgraded my minipc to it the other day from 40. No problems. Fedora is consistently stable for me

PS6 when that comes is going to launch at price that will make people rage

Was curious and looked around. There’s a website for this long rumored HMD

https://isvalvedeckardout.com/

Technical specifications from leaked prototypes include dual 2160×2160 LCD panels operating at 120Hz, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processing, eye-tracking capabilities, and wireless PC VR streaming via Wi-Fi 6/6E, potentially utilizing a dedicated USB dongle.

Hopefully it’ll have a Snapdragon 8 Elite or 8 Elite gen 2. Will be interesting to see how all the work they’ve been doing with FEX-emu x86 to ARM translator performs at launch of a device

Don’t buy Ubisoft

And X will continue declining in popularity along with Tesla. More competitiors need to spring up against starlink so anyone on that including the government can dump that piece of shit

I play PC because my copy of StarCraft from like 2000 still works and I can use any computer/gaming in history that still physically works to this day on a PC. A PC is more compatible with PS4 peripherals/gamepads than a PS5. Plus not paying for the privilege to play multiplayer games that a developer is hosting in AWS

The experience being so similar between a PC and a console is more an indictment on locked down PCs as consoles than against PC. E-waste

I’m not buying. I think they could have it be $499.99 and have that pass well enough. Once that leading number says 5, the consoles screwed in my opinion. Not just tariffs, it’s partially their own doing with how everyone has come to understand that buying Nintendo means you’re not going to get good digital sales comparable to Steam and probably not PS5. You’ll get re-releases of games from PS4/Steam that released a decade+ ago at $60+ while you can get them $10 regularly on Steam. Nintendo first party games physical copies barely go down in price and their digital sale prices suck. Nintendo set the tone for games being priced premium even when they’re old old

Would 100% force the US to fold. The loss of influence of American tech and banking software would cripple America further and without negative sentiment from much of the American populace. Anger directed towards Trump and Republicans

Chinese internal consumption grew since the first Trump republican admin. This will drive their local industries even further and grow the significance of relationships with its neighbors. Then here in the US, we’ll spend less, have worse trade relations with neighbors and overseas countries, a good portion of us will have less interest in domestic made goods.

The US stupidly skipped to the end of a trade war plan. Didn’t shore up domestic manufacturing beforehand. Didn’t gather agreement with alliance countries to wage war together with. Didn’t shore up support from the population to shoulder higher prices. No good will built. Just 3 months of immediate attacking everyone and be surprised that now domestically everyone’s panicking too because no one prepared for this

Path of least resistance is at the electronics store and general support from marketed software. So lack of Linux hardware in stores and lack of well marketed software

20 years ago Apple at least had store presence and had their own software as major draws, Final Cut Pro, GarageBand people loved, and really as a brand MacBook’s are/were fashionable

Linux is widespread in software development and data science. It’s mainstream draw is still developing. Could be games. It could maybe someday be seen as the choice for content creators if the selection of media creation/editing continues to improve and have their Blender/Krita rise. Talking like Kdenlive, Ardour, GIMP, etc

I’ve never rapidly lost so much interest in an electronic as fast as the switch 2 reveal to seeing the game prices a few hours later

GIMP 3, Krita, Darktable, Inkscape, Kdenlive

Double whammy of mistrust in media - I think worse with video games as that’s been viewed like it’s tied to the hip as a marketing arm since 90s gaming magazines.

Other whammy I think is PC gaming. Tradiitonal video game journalist rarely get the scoop on the popular game of the week in a timely manner. The popular game of the week is almost always some random game on Steam. FFVII Rebirth is the most impressive game since at least Cyberpunk 2077 and it didn’t go viral with gamers but traditional video game publications spent months writing a lot of articles about that game

Traditional video game isn’t proper to cover gaming which is now core to what is viral. Hyping up AAA games is mild attention compared to the latest Palworld. It even goes back to ~2010 when traditional games media had and continues to have no answer to esports. Starcraft 2 then LoL/Heroes of Newerth/DOTA2 then CSGO then DayZ then PUBG then Fortnite then etc. Traditional games media has very little cultural relevance these days. Not just these days, really the past decade

I have friends scared to leave the country. Husbands/spouses from Canada or Mexico. Friends that did research in Cuba, Venezuela, some other country that Trump defaults to everyone is evil. After the detention of the canadians and germans, everyone’s scared of US travel. No one is scared to visit an east/southeast asian country. Everyone is a bit scared of going through US customs/border crossings

I’ve never put any money in this game. I remember I feel like a decade+ ago they had that ship hanger demo that was the only thing available at the time. I think I installed that. Whatever. If people fund this game and it ends up solid someday I’ll enjoy it

Every year will be easier than the last I guess. I’ve been reading about attempts for well over a decade. LibreOffice is way better than it was a decade ago. I felt like Google Docs would eventually be the downfall of MS Office because how schools were using it and everyone getting used to exporting as PDF to submit

Ideally we keep snowballing the idea of using open source art tools over American proprietary ones as at least a means of national self-resolve. So like Blender, Krita, Kdenlive, Ardour, etc

When Ubisoft introduced always online DRM with AC2, I was out. It’s nice with the Internet how much being anti-Ubisoft has become common enough to be unsurprising

Switch to Linux. Don’t use Microsoft email. If possible don’t use MS Office and if you currently need it, encourage Libreoffice, OnlyOffice, etc

Have you ever heard how super Saiyan is said in Japanese, the base language of the series?