Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Whitewolfe80Don't know what you are all on about onlive is where it's at..... Oh wait it died just like all the gaming streaming sites will or it fragment just like streaming TV Netflix used to have everything now there are exclusives and you need multiple subscriptions to see everything

Yeah. On one hand, monopolies are definitely bad. On the other hand, I went from a £6.99 Netflix sub to:

Netflix family: £9.99
NowTV + Sports package: around £25 in total, per month
Disney: £7.99
Prime: £7.99

And of course, my cabled TV connection, which includes my 300mb internet and a landline I never use: £70

Like, yeah, monopolies are really, really bad (just look at Microsoft), but how much would Netflix have had to put up their prices, per month, before people complained? Because even taking out NowTV, if they'd DOUBLED their prices, it would still be cheaper for the consumer than dealing with Netflix+Disney+Prime.

That said, before streaming services existed, I paid Virgin for their "Everything" package and it was just over £100 a month, which included Sky Sport and Sky Movies, and was therefore much cheaper than all this multiple-streaming-service juggling!

And don't even get me started on my £16.99/month spotify family plan.

With inflation going through the roof, at least we can save some meals we'd have at a pub lol and we can still say it isn't as bad as train tickets, though xD

In my case, don't even want to think in the amount of money I end up spending on the likes of Linux Foundation, A Cloud Guru, HyperSkill... Or even in Cloud solutions like DigitalOcean, AWS, etc.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: scaineYeah. On one hand, monopolies are definitely bad. On the other hand, I went from a £6.99 Netflix sub to:

Netflix family: £9.99
NowTV + Sports package: around £25 in total, per month
Disney: £7.99
Prime: £7.99

My solution to that problem: rotation. View stuff on one. Cancel, subscribe to the next and view there, cancel and so on until I'm back at number 1. Won't work for your sports stuff, but hey, if you want that, you're bound to get cheated.

Also, glass fibre internet now and cable tv: cancelled.

It's a good idea, but that requires effort.

I came to realize we can't enjoy or have everything, so decided to get one service/subscription and enjoy it as much as possible. By the time there isn't anything I want to watch there, maybe your suggestion can come to play.

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How did I miss this? The game captivated me, and scared me, when I first played it. Definitely would recommend to anyone interested in point & click games.

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Another project that Google will abandon.

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Quoting: LiamMcBrideIt wouldn't surprise me if the chip shortage is to blame for it being delayed, I'm guessing it's going to be about as difficult to find as graphics cards are right now because of that

It is the sole purpose of it. They mention it on the email sent to people that pre-ordered it. The shortage is affecting other big companies too, e.g; Nintendo recently reduced their expectations to create/sale hardware on 2022 by 20%.

The irony in this story, is that the IT industry spends trillions of $/£/€ in resiliency, high availability, failover… you name it. Yet we rely on TSMC, as a single point of failure, for over 50% of chip manufacture.

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Don't worry, it is not March, nor 2023, but 02/2022 so Valve will definitely release the Steam Deck :D

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Based on recent blog posts, accusations, etc, I wonder if Pop_OS will eventually try to get this patch merged upstream.

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Quoting: kalinI tried popos and it was the same garbage as ubuntu. After some update the system got broken. From my experience manjaro is far better choice then anything Debian based. Turd is a turd no matter how much chocolate topping you put on

Ubuntu/Pop_OS != Debian and Ubuntu/Pop_OS < Debian

But I get your point.

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Minigalaxy is brilliant, glad to see they continue to make it even better!

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Quoting: ShmerlGPUs - the new gold.

It's even in the name, Gold Processing Units.

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