Quoting: EikeIf enough people do want it, they sell us what we want.

Assuming that it's profitable, no matter the wants, or even the *needs* of consumers; and also assuming that possible satisfactions of such wants/needs can't be manipulated. In consumer electronics, 'products' are slowly turning into further 'revenue streams', or portals for indefinitely extended rentals.

For example -- "If enough people do want" ... perpetual licenses as opposed to subscriptions ... would "they sell us what [they] want"? They wouldn't, and they don't; and those smaller companies that do sell perpetual licenses weasel their way out of it the moment they get bought out.

As luxury/specialist items, vinyl players, or even penny farthings can be produced at smaller scales; what's at issue here is mass production at scale, of things that have everyday use -- things that you can't just "vote with your wallet" not to buy, because you *need* them; things that you can't get from the 'competition' ... because there's no competition when it comes to the large-scale trends like what we're seeing with electronics right now. 'Competition' is at best a short term illusion, when the model requires the bigger players to keep swallowing the smaller players, or at the very least constrain the possibilities with which they have to work.

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Gamers Nexus coverage: youtube link [External Link]

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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.

The direction that RISC-V and ARM seem to be moving in also support the notion that locked-down systems will be replacing today's PCs. Both of those platforms appear to require a ton of proprietary extensions to be able to serve as the CPU of a PC. That doesn't bode well at all for the (farther) future of desktop Linux, needless to say.

The relative 'openness' of the x86 PC platform really was a historical accident, the result of IBM scrambling to make a late entry to the 'micro market'; and they did try to take some measures against it, but failed ultimately.

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I remember paying $100 for a 4MB stick in 1995.

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Looking forward to the impact these releases are going to have on the software side of things.

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Nice; Minecraft itself started as a mod on top of Zachtronics's Infiniminer.

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Hopefully the new fork will have a sane build script now; because currently the thing that builds GZDoom is an odd concoction of shell scripts & CMake recipes.

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I wonder why there's no Arnold face on the T800 -- did they have to license it separately from the former governor, maybe?

But yeah as a kid who loved the movie and the boring-ass C64 licensed game, this looks amazing to me.

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Hardly a Linux gaming favorite, but I saw Far Cry Primal at $2.79, and jumped on it immediately. I'd heard that they hired some linguists to invent some sort of imitation of the reconstructed proto-IndoEuropean language for the stone age people to speak in this game, so I'm curious to hear that at least.

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During development, the team even had to build basic features like text rendering,

I'm curious to know more about that, actually. I wonder if they're using a replacement for FreeType, together with the new Rust port of HarfBuzz? FreeType especially is long in the tooth, so projects like Pathfinder (the 2d rendering backend of the Servo browser engine) are developing alternatives; but it's such a labor intensive process.

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