Hope this gets legal traction and destroys the ability of dodgy game devs to exploit. Unfortunately that's wishful thinking. They will just fire everybody to keep the profits high, Oh, they are already doing that.

Also this statement:

"The purchase of in-game currencies is a well-established practice"
It's definitely well established, but so is the practice of loan shark-ing.

", and well understood by players."
Obviously not, else you wouldn't even get this action at this scale.
It's also well established that these are classical diversion tactics.

Dodgy…

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Luckily I managed to get it to accept my kids's accounts as family.
I'm excited about the ability to NOT have my whole account locked when a kid plays a game that's not in their accounts.

I agree they really need to cater for cases where the kids don't live with the playing parent, or not all the time.
But across country regions, sure, I get that limit.

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Quoting: EikeI guess it's considered difficult (which is not completely wrong) and people don't want to admit that they want to avoid difficult stuff.

But getting anything done on Windows is significantly harder as a software dev primarily developing code that runs on linux servers, using containers and kubernetes, etc...

They have to fight with vm's that perform terribly and randomly corrupts. Forced restarts for updates at inconvenient times. And most recently, ads in the start menu.

Honestly, any of those things would make me look for alternatives. But they don't want to try.

As I said, it's weird.
Excuse my tirade, I really don't get it.

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So many people I work with avoid Linux like the plague. When you ask them why, they avoid the question and look to flee from the discussion.

Is there some kind of Taboo going on that we just have no clue about?

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Wonder if the Z2 Extreme is going to be based on Strix Point or a highly cut-down Strix Halo.
The difference is that Point has 16 RDNA 3.5 units, and Halo has 40 RDNA 4.0.

A 20 RDNA4 CU cut down version of Strix Halo should be notably more energy efficient for the same performance than a 16 RDNA3.5 CU full-fat version of Strix Point.

It also looks like the Zen5c cores are noticeably smaller (cheaper) and use less power at lower clocks, but can't go to the 5+Ghz range. Would be a decent option for a handheld. You're more interested in performance that matches the GPU, and it should be lower power.

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Loved the original. But yea, it didn't really have lasting power.

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This is strangely interesting. It also seems very self aware :grin:
Wishlisted

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The one big issue for me that's still left is that it will just download binary blobs from various online places, and do so continuously. It will always update to the latest version of whatever thing it decides it needs. One has no control over it.

So it will always run the latest release at basically all times.

One of the few things that saved us from the XZ disaster was that as a library it took a few weeks to roll out, and that delay allowed someone to notice the behaviour change before it was rolled out everywhere to limit the impact.

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Quoting: Lamdarer

Quoting: grigiIt's really looking like a second order trend line would match those stats much better.
Or at least a trend line before/after the steam-deck release?

Not sure if it really is necessary, but yeah pretty much matches, although we don't know how it will develop in the future for sure.

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That trend line does track very closely.
Statistically we know these things end up being s-curves, and if so, we might be out of the long preceding tail.

Exciting!

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I think the bigger issue with Canonical is that their previous open-source projects was developed, dropped in the open, and if you wanted to submit a fix you had to sign a CLA.

That's basically signalling that they didn't really want to cooperate.

A few of their projects was very successful in my opinion. Unity is one of them.

Another big issue is their doubling down on their own thing which is incompatible with everyone else, like them dragging Upstart for years after it was clear they lost to Systemd, and the same with how they Snap everything.

Canonical doesn't listen to its users, Even when they have something good (like early Unity) they make it really hard for anyone else to use, and even harder for anyone else to work on it.
Then after the initial good work, they leave it to stagnate.

Same with Launchpad. Same with Upstart.
Look at the LXD fiasco, their one project that got outside traction somehow affronted them and they killed it off.

There is some really weird culture going on there.

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