I buy games and I buy hardware, but I don't buy operating systems or closed hardware, and I'm certainly not going to buy in to a closed ecosystem.

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: doragasuAnd what about my smart light bulb? Will it have to verify my age to turn on?

Your light bulb will stream the picture to the central server where AI will evaluate your age. If you're <18, The light will automatically turn off at 22:00 so you get a proper rest before school.

Also, it will have the wrong time zone, and thus turn off the lights between 15:00 and 03:00

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All age verification schemes are ultimately dangerous to the very people they claim to protect, because they are endangering their privacy. And everyone else's as well.

This is bad; but the culprits here are idiot (and/or malicious) politicians in the respective countries pushing for these privacy violations.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/24/10-not-so-hidden-dangers-of-age-verification/ [External Link]

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Why can't they have a decent numbering scheme?

There is one Final Fantasy VIII but about 10 Final Fantasy VII for fucks sake!
https://ff7.info/every-ff7.htm [External Link]

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Yeahyeah, it also says you need Microsoft Windows to play this; nobody needs Microsoft Windows to play games anymore in 2026. 😆

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Right now I'm using a Corsair Ironclaw (you need to plug it in to Micro-USB to change/deactivate the LEDs, but it comes with its own 2.4Ghz Wireless USB or can do BT); medium happy with it. I already have a Keychron M3 on standby which will probably replace it.

Keyboard I use a Keychron K10 Pro, which is niiice. Has USB-C and BT. I replaced my aging Turtle Beach 100 with it, which isn't available anymore, and which only had USB-A.

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Uh, I compile my kernel myself, and I missed this until now.
 make; make modules_install; make install

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NOW I might want one.

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It's not ARC Raiders because of the third-person-perspective. I do play these games, but I do find them a lot less immersive than first-person-perspective ones.

For instance, I finished Return to Moria [External Link] with friends a few weeks back. Still, one of the gripes I have with it it's that you can't change the perspective to first-person.

I also don't like the "cinematic"-style that comes with a lot of them, like featuring long cut-scenes & dolly shots (And of course I absolutely HATE when they're trying to emulate a camera with motion blur, chromatic aberration, lens flare, depth of field and film grain. The only time you're allowed to do that is when the player really sees the world through a camera lens. Computer graphics do not have to emulate technical shortcomings of movie cameras,). Games can be more immersive than movies can ever be. Unless you deliberately break them by trying to emulate movies.

Instead I've been playing FTB Stoneblock 4 [External Link], a Minecraft modpack.

And every week I'm also usually playing Deep Rock Galactic [External Link]

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Liège Waffles from the food trucks probably need a dedicated budget line. Club Maté drinks also deserve a special mention,

Also, the beer. Belgians probably have the best beer in the world. At FOSDEM itself you only get a very mainstream version of gueuze and kriek (these are types of sour beer, not brands), so be sure not to miss the pre-FOSDEM beer-event at the Delirium.

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