Eventually I want to read into how the budget deficit has played out. Like what does it matter if you equalize trade but overall tax revenue falls but not spending. Multiple years of data to see how this all shakes out

Before big commercial companies can succeed with the mainstream, flatpak permission handling that is as smooth as Android and iOS. Not everything is going to be in the distros base package manager and devs need a way to distribute software that can be expected to work on any of these devices. No confusions over why they’re system doesn’t know what to do with a deb or rpm file. Flatpak is the closest thing right now to something with universal adoption. After that it’s a slow and steady grind for market share. Like how Macs market share 20 years ago isn’t very different from where Linux is today

I think a hardware company could succeed better by marketing the devices as creation devices. Focus on Blender, Krita, Ardour, Darktable, Kdenlive, etc. Pretty much the niche Macs were marketed as 25 years ago getting regular people interested with stuff like garageband and imovie

Proton threads are where the leftists equivalents to sovereign citizens pop up. Learn the technology a bit and about legal systems. That’s what you have to operate within. If you want to feel more in control, encrypt everything yourself and only communicate/share in encrypted channels. At least then the primary sources of leaks is you and the receiver. If not, you’re whining about streamlined performant services that will never be perfect enough for your standards because they operate legally rather than the user unfriendly solutions that you aren’t willing to operate yourself for your life (maybe to be passed on) and/or won’t run/can’t afford to operate the illegal operation

PS4 online will probably have support longer than the PS3 but ya it’s a crappy situation. Ideally gaming keeps shifting away from closed software platforms to open ones so people can write/distribute easily community software solutions and users easily install them in the future as it is today on PC. Console libraries I don’t trust greatly anymore long term

And the corollary to that, Windows 10S. Don’t remember of Windows 8 had an S mode option even if just only on the ARM edition of win8

Fifa ultimate team. Magic the Gathering cards. Both older

Other companies running game stores/platforms must think like this which is why their stores end up competing with a 2008 Steam. Does nothing is incredibly incorrect

Can’t speak for this month but last I tried was like October and I couldn’t alt-tab another window over a full screen game. I’m thinking of giving another go when 26.04 popos comes out

It’s always about bringing back the old Bioware names for star wars rather than the old obsidian Kotor 2 names. Kotor 2 raised the bar even with the rushed development. Raised it so high that the mega budget multiple single game story sized MMO with Bioware disappointed, Same with the book before the game. I don’t get what about these suits and Bioware alumni seem so allergic towards Kotor 2. Mass Effect was a step back compared to Xbox era Bioware and a major step back comparison to Xbox era Obsidian. Besides David Gaider, if the name is a former major Bioware figure, my interest plummets

Regardless, new studio. They probably don’t even have a clear idea on what the narrative even is. Probably spin the wheels on asset generation, concept art, and narrative round tabling with a back and forth with LucarsArts/Disney canon approvers. Keep expectations low. 2030+. Don’t expect risks. Bioware and the old Bioware alumni still directing games besides Gaider with Dragon Age 1-3 all seem obsessed with making Hollywood knock offs with very basic morality and basic heroes journey narratives. Pretty much covering up a new hope in new paint over and over again

Last I had it on my desktop was like 2 months ago. Oddities with games here and there was a deal breaker for me. Don’t remember if I could alt tab over video game windows yet. Not being able to alt-tab other windows over a video game is a deal breaker for me. There were random nich applications I don’t recall that didn’t handle dialog windows/file pickers well. That may be better by now. The file explorer is really bare bones even compared to nautilus. Not expecting Dolphin but I want something better.

High hopes though. I may give it another go as my primary with 26.04. The Cosmic applications are all pretty fast. I think I like how it looks more than KDE just KDE is way more fully featured

Haven’t found more details yet. Issues I remember from the Xperia Play.

It’s chipset was a year out of date for its price range. Really it could be that today and be okay, games availability is way better today because of emulators and even the high end gacha games. That MMO Where Winds Meet just released on mobile. Got to try that

When the Xperia Play came out, big phones were considered like 4.5-4.7 inches. Xperia Play 4 inch display. Really cramped. A slider today would have way more space to size up/space out the controls. This i mainly want to see what is the thumb stick press down buttons. Display it’s probably 20x9/21x9. That ratio I’m happy around 6.5"-7" with miniscule bezels and no front facing camera

Ayaneo so probably real expensive but I hope it succeeds so we get slider phones again. Bring back thickness. Foldables/flips should be getting people cool with chunky devices again

This could give the RedMagic a run for its money

One of those things people waste energy getting concerned about. Better than highly stringent curation that has no chance in being representative of all different taste/demographics. It’s a more level playing field. Happened to music and books. Then video/movies. Video games followed quickly after. Better than the days of payments for every patch you push through Xbox live/PSN. Better than needing to get 35mm prints and access to theaters

only difference with tech ceo’s is that a handful are relatively public figures. Finance CEOs have a stake in everything, mostly publicly faceless. Even the ones directly appointed around the Trump admin, non-news. The food/beverage conglomerates, mostly publicly faceless. Dupont family poisoned the world, mostly publicly faceless. Weapons exporters, mostly publicly faceless. Real estate investment trusts, mostly publicly faceless. Insurance companies and pharmaceuticals, mostly publicly faceless. Mob justice almost always fails because it’s easily swayed towards fall guys and/or it’s so minor to just be a pyrrhic victory. Expended so much effort for something that’ll wash over in short order. Next guy up

You can real all you can about both sides of this civil war and their leaders. It goes back decades. You are unlikely to come to much understanding of what either side even really wants. It is the most incomprehensible conflict I’ve read about. Only rivaled by the different conflicts in Nigeria that also features many nomadic herdsman’s that have managed to organize very well compare to the non-nomads

Hopefully he’s still weird. People often lose a lot their teenage/young adult fantasizing as they age. It’s not a bad thing. It’s just I feel the major thing missing from modern RPG writing is that they’re not idiosyncratic enough. Worlds written that cater too much to modern (American) sensibilities, slang - anachronistic. I like when it’s written like an all star dungeon master really going hard into the lore of the desert bandits 3000 years of traditions

The outside display is just about 21:9 and internal about 4:3, sounds like it’s an ultimate retro gaming handheld. Lack of SD card support is a pain though

For folds, I like the old flip phone style flips better. The only puzzling thing with those ones are why keep the front facing camera when the rear cameras have a display on that half on the phone. The outer display on this is 6.5". It’s not a compromise in size at all like the flips/razrs. Internal screen shouldn’t have a selfie camera either

Good luck on no stumbles to the first game. Then I guess reuse maps and assets as much as possible like Yakuza games though scope creed that requires major development is more common than not even with asset reuse

Let’s see if the coast guard is happy with the new patrol ship once one of those are finished. If the coast guard fails too, pretty entertaining incompetence

Iris is really good with faces. That’s it’s design. The reason is going from a high res up 4x takes too long and downscaling fuzzes up the picture a bit so things don’t get too smoothed out when you upscale a 2nd time. Also there’s a resolution limit on the upscale so can’t get too large

Iris I always use medium video quality source. Anything that needs low usually looks terrible on the upscale