Quoting: damarrin

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: damarrinMS isn't evil or good, it's a publicly traded company whose only purpose is to generate shareholder value.

This mindset always rubs me the wrong way. As if it's somehow a mechanical or natural process that doesn't involve human beings making decisions that benefit a relatively small set of human beings over the good of a larger set of human beings. Ethics applies to every single decision people make, and neither businesses nor governments deserve a free pass.

It's up to you if you want to reward harmful behaviour or not, but please don't buy into that bullshit mindset. And I'm not saying "all corporations are evil" here, just that as long as corporations wield influence and have legal rights that equal and indeed often exceed those of citizens, we can and should hold them to equal if not higher ethical standards as well.

My point here is that this is an inherent characteristic of a publicly traded company - it exists to generate value for shareholders only, all its other actions are ancillary to that. It takes genuine effort from many individuals within a company for it not to display exclusively this behaviour. That is why there are various laws, including anti-monopoly laws, which are designed to limit companies in the ways in which they can pursue said value.

And my point was that none of this is a valid excuse, and people should judge the actions of a corporation in the same terms as they'd judge those of an individual. If a person can do good or evil, a corporation can do good or evil. There's no ambiguity there. Just excuses.

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Quoting: damarrinMS isn't evil or good, it's a publicly traded company whose only purpose is to generate shareholder value.

This mindset always rubs me the wrong way. As if it's somehow a mechanical or natural process that doesn't involve human beings making decisions that benefit a relatively small set of human beings over the good of a larger set of human beings. Ethics applies to every single decision people make, and neither businesses nor governments deserve a free pass.

It's up to you if you want to reward harmful behaviour or not, but please don't buy into that bullshit mindset. And I'm not saying "all corporations are evil" here, just that as long as corporations wield influence and have legal rights that equal and indeed often exceed those of citizens, we can and should hold them to equal if not higher ethical standards as well.

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Quoting: Sil_el_moti have an 1080 ti, from comparisons the 5700xt should be slightly faster and better but i dont feel like changing now, as long as the drivers are not yet ready to play without a lot of tinkering.
thats why i love nvidia, you have zero tinkering.

At this point, if you make sure your kernel is somewhat up to date and your Mesa is recent enough, then that's the extent of tinkering required. At least it was for me. I enabled a PPA for Mesa and occasionally grab the latest stable mainline kernel. For you, on Arch, things should be even simpler. I think people making use of multiple Display Ports still had some power management related issues with Navi hardware just a while back, but my single screen couch gaming setup has been running smoothly since I upgraded late last year.

In any case, I agree with you that going from a 1080 TI to a 5700 XT isn't likely to be a meaningful upgrade if you don't have a pressing need to switch. Maybe the next generation is worth it though.

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I still don't particularly like Kickstarter, but I backed this game right after it launched, just like I did Encodya. So far I have no reason to doubt that the games will be fun and their releases timely. I'm actually a bit excited for Encodya now that it nears completion, and I'm the kind of guy who doesn't normally mind picking up a game after it's been on the market for a year or two.

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Quoting: EikeIt was floppy discs for the computers that were far spread here in Germany (mainly Commodore 64), but yes, that kind of price. :D

I had all but one of my C64 games on cassettes (didn't own a disk drive). That's how games were sold in shops. The one that wasn't on a cassette was one of those console-style cartridges you inserted into the slot at the back of the system. Can't remember which game it was.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: DuncIt's actually possible that if Nintendo had launched here in '83 or '84, soon after Japan, they might have found an even more receptive market than the US, but I doubt it. The main impact of the crash in Europe, although it's hard to believe today, was that consoles were seen as a thing of the past. Remember, computer games were being sold in filling stations and newsagents for pocket money prices at this stage. Why buy a console when you could get 20 games for the price of one cartridge? (And convince your parents that a computer would help with your school work, too. :D )

I heard games were even cheaper on school yards, which was an important reason for kids to prefer them over consoles as well... ;)

About the price of an empty cassette if you had a double deck?

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Quoting: ageres

Quoting: slaapliedjeTo be fair though, the Switch IS Linux, just not x86...

It's based on FreeBSD, just like PS4.

With various components from Android on top. They've created an abomination. :O

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Quoting: razing32Makes me think you should have a legal advisor on GOL staff Liam.

Maybe he'll find a legal professional willing to work for exposure? :whistle:

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Quoting: DuncThe NES wasn't really a thing in Europe.

Maybe that was just your corner of Europe? Plenty of people had them up here. I had a proper computer of course but I had several Nintendo (and Sega) console plebs in my circle of friends back then.

Console fans please don't murder me, that pleb bit was a joke.

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Quoting: Faalhaas

Quoting: FaalhaasI am now downloading HL:A to test if it is playable natively.

Well, looks like it is. I just played HL:A natively on Linux. :)

Although, like in most VR games, Linux has a bit more stuttering in VR than in Windows overall. Might be performance related.

Valve does note that performance is not great on Nvidia hardware, like Liam says in the article.

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