Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Mountain Man"...free until COVID-19 is under control"

Let's be honest, it's not the virus that's out of control, it's our governments.

Yeah, why not making fun of 1.5 million dead people?

I wasn't making fun of anything, just pointing out that the damage being done to us is not because of some virus that's out of control but because of how our governments' have responded. The fact is, someone in the world dies from something every single second of every single day, and government totalitarianism can't stop that.

Actually, I think there's quite a lot of evidence that it can. Not that government regulation can make people immortal, but it can sure as hell make them die somewhat later on average, whether it's seatbelts, or not allowing poison in our food or water or air, or safety standards at workplaces, or insisting that people stop at the nice red light.

The government might be able to reduce certain types of injuries and deaths through regulation, but overall human death rates do not rise or fall based on government mandates. And in the case of the Chinese cornoavirus, the "cure" -- reducing human socialization through fear; destroying economies; forcing people to stifle themselves with face coverings that have their own associated health risks quite apart from any influenza and don't actually prevent the transmission of illness -- may, in fact, be worse than the disease when all is said and done.

As Benjamin Franklin famously said, "Those who would give up essential liberties for a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Mountain Man"...free until COVID-19 is under control"

Let's be honest, it's not the virus that's out of control, it's our governments.

Yeah, why not making fun of 1.5 million dead people?

I wasn't making fun of anything, just pointing out that the damage being done to us is not because of some virus that's out of control but because of how our governments' have responded. The fact is, someone in the world dies from something every single second of every single day, and government totalitarianism can't stop that.

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"...free until COVID-19 is under control"

Let's be honest, it's not the virus that's out of control, it's our governments.

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Quoting: The_Aquabatit surprises me taking into account how buggy Cyberpunk currently is. It's a bad sign that devs are getting away with buggy releases imho.

This is nothing new. Many years ago, I read an article in PC Gamer titled "Best and Worst Gaming Trends of 1996", and the top worst trend was games being released in a bug ridden and unfinished state.

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And yet Epic still won't port their most popular game to Linux. I personally don't give a crap about Fortnite, but the fact that there's not a Linux version tells you everything you need to know about how Epic feels about us.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Mountain ManUnless Razer quality has dramatically increased in recent years, I won't touch their products ever again. About seven years ago, I bought a Razer Black Widow keyboard and a Razer Onza gamepad, and both developed significant faults within a year -- LEDs started to burn out on the Black Widow, and both joysticks on the Onza developed significant drift that could not be corrected with calibration. If the second-rate quality of their hardware wasn't enough, the fact that they started requiring drivers with online connectivity to unlock the full capabilities of their products has kept me away for good.

Now I have a WASD mechanical keyboard [External Link] with custom keycaps and a Zowie EC1-A mouse [External Link], and I couldn't be happier.

Ha, this is the same reason I have stayed away from Radeons for so long.
I always like hearing about other keyboard snobs.
I bought recently a blue Cherry MX keyboard that a friend of mine said was obnoxious. I told him I bought it because I can barely hear it through the noise canceling headphones I end up wearing all day for work. :p

I'm a Cherry Brown aficionado myself.

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Unless Razer quality has dramatically increased in recent years, I won't touch their products ever again. About seven years ago, I bought a Razer Black Widow keyboard and a Razer Onza gamepad, and both developed significant faults within a year -- LEDs started to burn out on the Black Widow, and both joysticks on the Onza developed significant drift that could not be corrected with calibration. If the second-rate quality of their hardware wasn't enough, the fact that they started requiring drivers with online connectivity to unlock the full capabilities of their products has kept me away for good.

Now I have a WASD mechanical keyboard [External Link] with custom keycaps and a Zowie EC1-A mouse [External Link], and I couldn't be happier.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Nibelheim

Quoting: pbAny word on the price? I would like that but with a bit more ram...

16GB eMMC/2GB of LPDDR3 RAM = 150$
32GB eMMC/3GB of LPDDR3 RAM + HUB = 200$

Those prices are very reasonable. I would love to get away from Android and Google and the "always on" tracking system built into Android phones.

Ah, much like the days of the Amiga and Atari ST, it's better to live in Europe if you want 'alternate' phones.

I'm not sure what your reference is to Amiga and Atari ST in Europe, because those were both very popular home computers here in the US.

Anyway, I could always install a third-party open source OS on my Pixel 3, which is tempting but not without its risks, and since I do depend on my phone for work (primarily SMS for logging into certain remote systems), I really can't afford a bricked phone if something were to go awry.

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Quoting: Nibelheim

Quoting: pbAny word on the price? I would like that but with a bit more ram...

16GB eMMC/2GB of LPDDR3 RAM = 150$
32GB eMMC/3GB of LPDDR3 RAM + HUB = 200$

Those prices are very reasonable. I would love to get away from Android and Google and the "always on" tracking system built into Android phones.

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Quoting: GustyGhostI flown several different aircraft in this and I can definitely say you need at least a joystick controller to be able to manipulate everything. Flightgear might be what pushes me to finally try a full joystick.

If you're serious about flight simulators then a joystick is a minimum requirement. Even better is a yoke. I have CH Products Eclipse Yoke which has integrated rudder paddles. It makes flight simming so much more enjoyable (although I don't fly as much as I used to).

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