Kraft will presumably also end their consumer food business to focus on supplying hog farms. Drop the filthy poors to focus on profitable slop!

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Kernel Anti-Cheat is generally a sign of a game you'd be better off not buying/playing in the first place.
Linux users can't play Battlefield 6? Good for them!

The only difficulty is just that sense of exclusion, I think. "Everyone" plays yearly release shooters and the like.
It's like being excluded from TwitX. Yeah, it has a massive presence and you'll see people talking about a service you can't use. But you'll realistically avoid a lot of drama and misery that comes with using it.

Besides, remember why GOL doesn't promote games with AI content: There's an inexhaustible supply of excellent games without AI. The same goes for games without Kernel Anti-Cheat.

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For once, all the acquisition announcement nonsense can at least honestly say that the company shares values with the new ownership.
I'd say good riddance if I believed this would have any negative impact on EA's business beyond the usual self-sabotage.

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Microsoft decided to belatedly compete with a smaller company known for an established digital marketplace by badge-engineering a mediocre imitation of their hardware.

It's just the Zune again.

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The good thing about open source is that if something goes bad, people aren't forced to either stay or replace everything from scratch.

I've been using Firefox-based Waterfox and recommend it. The lead developer has expressed unambiguous contempt for AI search results. I don't think they'll be adding (The Two Most Expensive Vowels in the English Language) anytime soon.

From a "passive" to an "active" experience. Looking into some electronics history, then hearing recent quotes by companies around AI plans to this effect, has convinced me this isn't new. They've just gotten much more powerful tools and strategies for achieving it.

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