No tears will be shed for Tencent Timmy.

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From what I heard, this is "compelled speech" which is illegal under the 1st ammendement of the constitution.

I could see it going up to the supreme court.

This is undoubtedly legal lawfare, they were going to impose these Totalitarian restrictions before 2030 anyways, it's just that now it serves a purpose to distract the public from "The Files", and "What's going on in the world" like Donkey Kong throwing barrels at Mario.

or, Zergling Rush strategy.

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Also, I wanted to add, I think now more than ever with Microsoft Github projects being axed regularly, that we should push Source Distros where users maintain a offline 1:1 copy all source code for the software installed on their computers.

Popular Distros should add this functionality, and users should Popularize distros which have local user-compiling. This will add additional legal protections in some places with "compelled speech" laws.

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Besides that, we're going to need to have access to some kind of hardware revolution similar to the NES 8086 and X86-64 where users can laser etch / print Circuit Boards and Assemble Modular silicon & common chips, even if it has a performance cost.

In W^2 2 the inexpensive modular equipment is what wins over fancy expensive stuff. A hardware revolution is going to come about one way or another as a result of this nonsense, either from the West or the East. Whichever one remains open will come out on top as developers choose the winner.

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The only other third element I could forsee would be the creation of a Git+Torrent where source code for software is distributed via P2P instead of centralized.

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This next few years are going to be very interesting to see. If the right plays are made Linux could stand to gain significant ground above and beyond the already billions of devices.

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This issue is about Internet Censorship.

The mechanisms are being laid down to track and eliminate anyone who criticises a unpopular nation state. And to eliminate people's ability to share "upsetting footage" of things happening in the world.

This is also a war on the younger generation to raise them "jacked-in" to sharing everythign with "The Cloud" stored at your local AI Data Center and to fix Microsoft, pentagon contractor, loosing their grip on customers as their popularity has declined in the last decade.

Notice how various states across the globe are moving on this in lockstep.

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Great news, it will be interesting to see how the community does creating 4k and higher resolution models for this classic.

I'm assuming the mods will go here? https://gamebanana.com/games/22970 [External Link]

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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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