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on deck: nothing really. Just no time right now.

On desktop: I gave up on Ghostwire Tokyo about 2/3 or 3/4 through. AWESOME GAME! Absolutely loved it, but my god that end game just got REPETITIVE. Wow. I pretty much maxed out the combat and exploration skills, so there was nothing left to unlock there, and they had the same ol collectathon missions over and over again, just getting more tedious with their mechanics which makes them LESS fun. Overall I'd give it a solid 7.5/10 and I absolutely loved all the cool x-files side missions.

So now I moved on to Sector Unknown. A small indie crpg from a solo dev. I've had this one on my radar for a long time, and it just recently released out of EA! so far so good! I'm just at the beginning building my base up, but seems cool! I'm a sucker for a scifi crpg since there's so few of them.

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Here's my thoughts:

• Ardenfall - absolutely loved it. Can't wait for release! Morrowind is back baby! (it never left but hey ...)


• Replaced - can I just hook myself up to this art style and mainline it all day every day? Incredible.


• Dead Fibers - ouch. Shouldn't have released this demo. Sadness.


• Dungeons of Dusk - seems great for the Deck!


• Darkhaven - meh. TQ2 is top of my argp list right now, and I have seen SO MANY arpgs with promising EA periods flame out and get abandoned (cough cough wolcen). So it's a "wait and see" and I hope it turns out awesome! We need more good arpgs to challenge the diablos and poes of the space!

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Non-issue. Download and install Linux on your device, you automatically fall in the 30+ age bracket 😄

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is this just a change of reporting method? Strange.

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Quoting: vic-bayWhy doesn't Steam just collect hardware data automatically, are there any legal issues with it? I'd like to see smooth statistics without sampling swings every month.

This is not really a problem of sampling swing, it's chinese new year. Every year, there are massive rush of work in China / southeast asia until mid jan, then relax time starts, and people suddenly play many more games, with many probably only playing at this time. This culminates with chinese new year's golden week. Since Linux is not used much for Gaming there, you automatically see a huge drop at that point. So factually, during that period, there are way more Chinese players, and they factually use windows more than they use Linux.
It's true that a yearly or at least quarterly average would give a broader picture though.

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so a 15% increase. Honestly not bad and I was expecting higher.

Also ... how does HK get away with no price increase?! lmao

Quoting: ChrisznixNarf. I even got scammed while trying to buy a used Steam Deck OLED... not fun.

just curious: what was the scam?

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I'm not a huge controller user (only on deck) so I'm wondering: isn't this just recreating the steam community layouts feature? Why not just utilize that?

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Oh no... this is really going to delay the release of AmigaOS 3.3!

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from a technical standpoint this is a complete non-starter since there's about 50 ways it just simply is impossible to implement in the linux space. And by that I mean TRUE age detection with some kind of auth.

If all they're doing by this idiotic law is making a new checkbox that says "are you over 18?" then 🤣

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What I find interesting is that it applies to any user base size, includes hobby OSes, and could even apply to a rescue disk OS if it allows downloads from say, flatpak for instance. I suppose the rescue OS could just disable internet or try to claim it is "enterprise software".

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Great, now it will be super easy for scammers to target children. Imagine what the ad industry will do with this. Targeting toys and fast fashion ads to the most vulnerable (fews kids can ignore ads and they have yet to develop defense systems against ads). That's totally crazy.

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I know MidnightBSD is entertaining a desktop ban on California starting 2027.

That'll be an entertaining precedent. lol

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Quoting: doragasuAnd what about my smart light bulb? Will it have to verify my age to turn on?

Your light bulb will stream the picture to the central server where AI will evaluate your age. If you're <18, The light will automatically turn off at 22:00 so you get a proper rest before school.

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Why doesn't Steam just collect hardware data automatically, are there any legal issues with it? I'd like to see smooth statistics without sampling swings every month.

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1984 was a warning, not a tutorial.

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Somehow some folks manage to make every day a bit more dystopian than the next. You have put it out first that this will come, and here we are - faster than i expected. I have four children, and of course i want to protect them, and yes, i have to bickle about media usage every day with them. But this is not protecting kids - it's cocooning them. And absolutely hate that they use our kids as an excuse to deploy all this.

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What's next, CPU checking your age?

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Ubuntu: California Edition when? 😁

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It's again nonsense brought by people that does not understand technology. How can Archlinux or Gentoo guarantee that the age check exists if the user does not install the corresponding package? What about my router, will it have to verify my age before connecting WiFi? And what about my smart light bulb? Will it have to verify my age to turn on?

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: eggroleI DO blame over consumption.

Sure. Why blame the system when you can blame the ones with no power. You're blaming the addicts, not the pushers. You're blaming the players, not the ones writing and enforcing the rules.

Quoting: eggroleIf you're interested check out Propganda by Bernays for a really easy read and a good look at how this works.

As long as you keep in mind that it's not an objective, much less a critical look. It's written by one of America's leading advocates of propaganda.

The first point is a perspective. You say the consumer has no power while I say they have 99% of the power. If people stop buying, the corpos go broke. If corpos stop selling... the people don't get trinkets?

On the second point, of course it advocates for propaganda. If you want to learn what your enemy thinks, listen to what they say. If you only read books that are critical of things you already disagree with, you'll never expand your understanding. I read almost exclusively books I disagree with now-a-days. (Another book in that regard would be Cybernetics by Weiner).

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: eggrolebut (at least here) we don't have anything close to what Smith or Ricardo described in their seminole works.

The modern "free market" is a market that actively promotes rentiers. Smith would have hated it.

Yes, that is what I was saying. I don't like to argue semantics as people call things capitalist and socialist (or any other -ism or -ists these days) when they have little understanding of the roots of the words. I argue that we don't have capitalism today in the USA (or the west in general) and we have a system much closer to socialism.

Now, I'm not saying socialism is bad. But when I look at the redistribution of wealth today it is astounding. The "problem" is the middle class pays (via taxes and manufactured consumption), the poor get bribed with crumbs, and the wealthy accumulate even more. When the fat cats make bets that go awry, they get bailouts or trading is halted. When the bounce goes the other direction no such guardrails are implemented. If we had anything close to classical capitalism, failure wouldn't get bailed out.

All that said, I feel like we are nearing a period when the "free market" (lol) is going to seize up. As you said the pie is shrinking and more people are getting locked out, so-to-speak, of a future. IMHO so much happening these days (Epstein, now Iran, endless things really) are all to distract from the cumbling global economic system. And, if you'll allow me to don my tinfoil hat, when it finally "crashes" the very people that strangled it to death will be waiting with their Hegelian synthesis. I think this will be bribing people with UBI that allows for even more surveillance and control. But again, I'm a tinfoil maniac. 😁

P.S. I really enjoyed this exchange. I like seeing rational opinions that differ from my own without all the name calling and echo chambering I see elsewhere. Cheers!

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Narf. I even got scammed while trying to buy a used Steam Deck OLED... not fun. Now i have ordered an Anbernic RG 476H and will try to make it a mini-Steamdeck. Will report when it worked.

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Quoting: syylk

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyWhat we need is a solution to the component shortages and the most obvious solution is a new player.

I'm pretty positive that if it was that easy, it would've already been done - long ago.

I suspect kicking off a new fab (lithographic printers, clean rooms, heck PEOPLE barely knowing what they're doing...) even for relatively stupid components, like RAM, would have costs well beyond your or my wildest imagination.

And at that point, the only way to recover them is to sell the products to genAI d/c...

Oh, I'm well aware of the costs involved... Well, at least I have a pretty good idea as much as you or I would, anyway. And yes, it's a big outlay.

But there's still entire segments of the market that has nobody manufacturing components en mass for consumers... The consumer market might only make up for a small portion of the overall tech market, but that's still several hundred billion dollars each year to be made by one or more companies willing to outlay the initial setup costs.

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I heard that inflation hit Japan quite hard so I'm not really surprised 🤔

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Pain, peko.

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Win10 on its way to dethrone win11 lmao

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyWhat we need is a solution to the component shortages and the most obvious solution is a new player.

I'm pretty positive that if it was that easy, it would've already been done - long ago.

I suspect kicking off a new fab (lithographic printers, clean rooms, heck PEOPLE barely knowing what they're doing...) even for relatively stupid components, like RAM, would have costs well beyond your or my wildest imagination.

And at that point, the only way to recover them is to sell the products to genAI d/c...

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Did Steam break through the Great Firewall of China all of a sudden?

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It has been working for a while but you needed an opt-in Beta. Seems you no longer need that.

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Quoting: fenglengshunChinese New Year, as usual.

We do usually see a drop every February, but nothing like this, it's usually quite minor.

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Chinese New Year, as usual.

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