The only reason I started buy games on GOG years ago was because they offered customers something nobody else did -- DRM Free, Downloadable, Offline Installers.

I want to see a proper Linux Client or a API upgrade for 3rd Party Game Library Organizers.

They really should team up with WINE and build "GOG Bottles" to aid in their game preservation program.

There is also space for a 2nd Gaben in the gaming industry, but only from a private company who has no other masters other than their customers.

I wish them well, but they really need to take a page from Valve and read what people say online to keep an hand on the pulse of their customers.

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I think I paid $320 a while ago, was a great modding unit. The LCD version will always have a spot in my ❤️

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IF YOU ARE NOT THE CUSTOMER YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.

YU WILL UZ ZE AI AN YU VILL ZIKE ITZ

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Project Zomboid is a guilty pleasure of a game.

It's a bummer the saves are broken, I wish I had a huge chunk of time to sink into this game, I played 3-5 player and it's a lot of fun.

I accidently woke up an entire concrete building and had to do donuts in reverse for so long to clear the area of the uhm zomboidlings ;P

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I wanted to jump back in here to remind everyone to direct their anger at the Big Corporations & AI Companies for doing this to gamers & consumers.

Anything other than directing the collective hate at the source of the problem is copium.

Intellectual conjecture is useful to an extent, but as a form of expiation your time is better spent improving your IRL.

I really hope that this "selection pressure" causes hobbyists to create "digital hardware innovaitons". This is literally the story behind how Linus Torvalds started Linux -- the cost of the UNIX license was "too damn high" 🤣

If you actually listen to what Larry Page (Google), Elon Musk (X,xAI), and other high up CEO Data Center owners talk about, you'll find your screen as a object of content consumption with remote data is unfortunately infact the plan.

All you have to do is literally read and listen to them to understand their trajectory.

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@Eike

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: ElectricPrismIn the near future, possibly the year 2030, you will not be allowed to own a modular computer as we know it now.

That's nonsense.
I offer a bet for 100€ to be paid on 1.1.2031.

"as we know it now."

2005 is unlike 2025

Gone:
☑ Removable Batteries on Laptops and Phones
☑ Optical CD/DVD/HD/BluRay Drive on Laptops
☑ Ethernet Port in many cases gone necessitating USB-C Hub
☑ Anything outside a single USB-C
☑ Removable MicroSD Storage on Phones
☑ Ability to open devices with a screwdriver, Screens are glued.
☑ Increasing un-affordability of Modular PC Parts eg: after 29 years in business, this article: "The RAM price and availability situation is going to worsen as Micron pull their Crucial consumer business"
☑ RAM Soldered to Silicon
☑ Phones, Tablets, and Laptops as SBC where no parts are removable or replaceable, or difficult to repair

Some tech people have "Stockholm Syndrome" for Big G, Big A, or Big M.

If we don't demand moldularity, consumers will no longer able to mix and match hardware outside of niche hobbyist markets.

Now if you'd like to move the goal post, go ahead. The facts are the facts regardless of arguments, opinions and speculations -- things are not getting better, they're getting worse, again the compute world especially with regard to modularity in 2030 will not be "as we know it now."

The RAM situation is bad enough, just imagine what your power bill will look like as AI eats needs double the power output we currently have now and everyone got the genius idea to shut down their nuclear and coal.

The West is cooked.

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I did hear criticism that you need MS Visual C++ Studio to build the binaries and that there is no guarantee pull requests are granted that allow you to build outside of Windows, fair argument. We'll see.

I try to be fair, credit where credit due, they seem to be pivoting to a direction via the MIT license that makes them grow into something valuable.

At this point my reaction isn't pessimistic, but not really more than mildly optimistic. If they get a good track record for a few years I will expect great things to come from this.

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"But I mean do we really need memory?"

In the near future, possibly the year 2030, you will not be allowed to own a modular computer as we know it now.

All data & compute will be centralized in the Mega Centers under central control and your device will only be a low powered screen you use for content consumption.

They will say it's for the environment, they will say it's for the children, they will say it's because scarcity and ewaste, but really it will be because centralized control means power, and is a means to an end.

I hope the RISC-V and HomeLab/Modders are paying attention, because compute is about to be dramatically reduced due to the strangulation on price of electricity, and economic warfare against the peasants.

I hope people have enough GOG, education materials & offline content stockpiled and are pushing the hardware frontiers that mean tech freedom for humanity.

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Head Tilt*

This is a very interesting development, I will watch this from afar with great interest.

I see this as a potential shift to fame like Gabe Newel when Steam was new, very interesting development indeed.

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RedHat and therefore IBM are terrible stewards of Xorg, which lead to the forking and creation of XLibre, which unlike Xorg is __NOT__ on "life support" with people trying to kill the project.

I've now read about Wayland for 15 years, and it still has basic issues according to conjecture.

Viva La X

More Choices, More Better.

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