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- Comment on "Stop this from happening again": UK politician calls out Rockstar over GTA 6 developer firings 2 days ago:
Wdym, again? You need to punish them so hard they would never even dream of doing anything like it again. Prison for the decision makers is not too much.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 2 days ago:
I badly phrased it tbh, so its a fair misunderstanding :)
One thing i kinda dislike about all ARM devices ive played with so far is the lack of a proper replacement for the concept of a BIOS. I want a subsystem for multiboot and toggling hardware features as well as tuning and stuff like that.
Sure its cool that you can just flash an SD card and it works, but you can keep that as default functionality while still allowing more customizability.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 2 days ago:
The most you will be able to play on device will be stuff that would run on a phone.
Which is why i wrote this. The translation layer and additional requirements for VR will further reduce the selection of playable games. But yes technically you can run x86 programs on it, just not at a “playable level” for 99% of games.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 2 days ago:
how they’re now also running x86 code on ARM at a playable level
The answer is that they arent…
At least not most games. It doesnt even have active cooling. The most you will be able to play on device will be phone games basically. But that is not the point, the thing comes with a custom wireless adapter to stream video from your computer to the headset, so primarily the processing will happen on the computer / steam machine. - Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt to fully shut down in April 2026 2 weeks ago:
And no word about releasing the server code :(
- Comment on Xubuntu website hijacked to serve malware 3 weeks ago:
Its been more than 24h and the site is still down. It only loads the main page but all links are dead.
- Comment on Twitter is changing how it handles links to try and keep you in the app 3 weeks ago:
Tbh mastodon annoys the shit out of me with how it handles linking and cross instance posts.
Every time you open an off instance post in a new tab (middle click on post body) it actually opens that post on that instance instead of your own. Then it forces you to click through the below warning. Because of how mastodon works, you basically always want to open posts in new tabs, otherwise you lose your feed position. The devs say its a safety/moderation decision but that makes no sense, because if you open the post normally (leftclick) it opens on your own instance just fine. - Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 1 month ago:
They block porn afaik, but not journalism. Journalism is illegal in the UK so that is a problem of course.
Seriously tho what i mean is war footage, Gaza footage, images promoting “proscribed” groups, etc.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 2 months ago:
Definition wise thats not a “free market” its a market thats regulated in their favor. Its totally correct to say that capitalists hate free market capitalism, because they could never compete if they didnt constantly get tax payer money shoved up their asses and laws passed that prevents competitors from taking any of their marketshare.
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 months ago:
Yes, this just levels the playing field so i think there is little to no downside.
- Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 2 months ago:
its just being done for the wrong reasons
Thats what i meant by that. Its not the 10% stake itself that hurts the company or economy, its how Trump is utilizing it.
I dont give a fuck about Intels well being or how well the US economy is doing, but if this leads to normalizing government involvement in essential industries again, then that would be a win globally. - Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 2 months ago:
Nah this is just red scare tactics from Intel. This is not actually an entirely “bad” move by Trump, its just being done for the wrong reasons. People have been asking the government to start doing this kind of thing again for decades. The most prosperous period in US history was during the height of government interference in the market.
- Comment on Developer of PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation threatens "removing Linux support entirely" but not yet 3 months ago:
As i learned yesterday, the old fully copyleft licensed code works just fine and literally nobody cares if he stops supporting it in newer versions.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 3 months ago:
PayPal is a US company. Everyone should expect them to eventually put bans political content that doesnt align with the Trump admins policies. When that time comes, Valve and Steam is either going to become a worthless racist, queerphobic, science denying, shithole or it will hold the line. Lets hope its going to be the latter.
- Comment on Anubis, tool to stop “AI” crawler abuse, gains non-JavaScript option 3 months ago:
I was happy to see Anubis have a place in the canvas and quite a big one too :)
- Comment on Multiple games from Slitherine are free to keep for a limited time like Battlestar Galactica Deadlock 4 months ago:
146€ worth of games for free, nice :)
- Comment on Germany asks Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores 4 months ago:
The request follows similar measures in other European countries and is driven by concerns about data security.
Then also ask them to remove all Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI apps please :)
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 4 months ago:
Efficiency is also a major problem i think. You can always just slap a higher power APU in there, but then you also have to cool that thing. And that means either a higher RPM fan or a larger device with a bigger radiator.
- Comment on Is the Steam Deck getting outdated soon? Should I wait for the next gen? 4 months ago:
Yeah there isnt anything of the same size with significantly more power afaik. Gotta go with a laptop then if u need the power.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 5 months ago:
Well thats sounds like a pretty good source. What a joke Microsoft is ffs
- Comment on The WRC games rally behind a new publisher weeks after being dumped by EA 5 months ago:
Imagine all the buy ups of game IP slowly reversing because the publishers mismanaged so bad that the CEOs are scared that their 6th yacht wont possible.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 6 months ago:
It mostly still exists, you just arent interacting with it.
- Comment on Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users? 6 months ago:
You have no idea what you are talking about. You can own and resell any physical piece of game media. If you have a gameboy cartridge, nobody can take that game away from you. If you have DRM free game files from gog, nobody can take that away from you.
The only case where this disgusting lincense shit is possible, is when games require being online and logging in to unlock the DRM.
- Comment on Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users? 6 months ago:
the fact that I don’t actually own my games
It doesnt solve this in the slightest. Steam and game publishers can always take your games away without prior notice.
- Comment on Valve’s Proton, the reason most Steam Deck games work, has a version 10.0 beta to try 6 months ago:
This means they pulled in Wine 10 which is the thing that will actually have interesting changes. Proton updates are mostly just game specific bla bla. The real game changing (hah) things come from the libraries it depends on.
For example Wine 10 brings:
- ARM64 improvements
- An initial version of a Bluetooth driver is implemented, with some basic functionality.
- and more
- Comment on Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did 8 months ago:
Bluesky enshittification has already started. You needed 3rd party clients to use it properly from day one and they have central control over the whole platform. It will only take some politically controversial event and they will quickly show their true colors.
- Comment on Modder transforms Steam Deck with broken display into a mini PC, and you can too 8 months ago:
Nah 350€ is really good value for that hardware, but only tinkerers would buy it because mainboards in the steandeck almost never break i would assume. I think the issue is more that valve wouldnt get any ROI from selling a mainboard without steamOS on it because it might not be used for gaming.
- Comment on Modder transforms Steam Deck with broken display into a mini PC, and you can too 8 months ago:
From the beginning i just wanted valve to sell a standalone mainboard for exactly this purpose.
- Comment on The US just added the world's biggest games publisher Tencent to their list of Chinese military companies 10 months ago:
Yes we do, it is involved with military things and is technically a US military contractor
- Comment on The US just added the world's biggest games publisher Tencent to their list of Chinese military companies 10 months ago:
I mean yeah, they arent just a game company even if thats all people know them for. Its like calling Samsung a phone company.
