I could barely get Minecraft to run 20fps on this old laptop I had given to me a few years ago. Loaded Ubuntu on it and Minecraft ran near 60fps. Blew my mind.

I’m not buying or spending money in any more games with a killswitch

Most people do not care about (and do not want to care about) anything under the broad topic of “politics”.

If you try to force them to care, they will punish you. That’s what we’re seeing, but it’s also why it’s so damn hard to stir people to action before things go wrong.

Shouldn’t have to use fucking group policy just to stop your machine updating at inopportune times. Fucking Windows.

Especially if SteamOS remains immutable when it lands, then I really won’t be able to suggest it except for situations like “my kids have a habit of blowing up their computers” or something.

Vermintide and Left 4 Dead’s rolling commentary works because they use it strategically rather than filling every moment of time up with bullshit. Borderlands just got worse with each game until the third one went off the rails.

Now that we have viable PC handhelds I no longer have a reason to care about Nintendo. Blast the pirates or don’t, I’m not buying their shit either way. On the other hand I’ve got a lot of friends who actually have decent money in Nintendo’s ecosystem who use emulators to play the games they own in a way they prefer. This has left a bad taste in their mouths…

Given the nature of their matchmaking approach, this is probably the best option.

Would be easier if we could choose our lobbies out of a list…

ADL report

Opinion discarded. Those ADL fucks lie about damn near everything.

One whole paragraph followed by a comment like that implies someone is usually talking about the whole episode going on and not just the keywords you singled out.

Ok I’ve heard all kinds of different reasons someone might be privileged, but doing work on the ground for years and laying the groundwork for real activism rather than whatever the hell you call this terminally online bullshit, is now what you people call privilege?

This shit is why Occupy died.

My Steam Deck plays a lot of games, more than I even expected it to. Honestly I’m not sure where this “iffy library” crap comes from.

I still strongly dislike limiting cosmetics so much, especially in a setting where they can mean so much. Darktide’s $20 skins pissed me right off: role-playing is 100% part of the game and that price is absurd.

It doesn’t help that the Rust community tends to bring extremely divisive politics with it in places and ways that just don’t need to happen, starting battles that aren’t even tangentially related to programming.

I’m not buying this game at launch but could be convinced to do so after private servers come out.

The alternative is to just keep getting fucked by Microsoft…

no u

No thanks.

It’s such bullshit too because drastically changing someone’s working conditions is clearly a constructive dismissal and should lead to severance payments.

Sounds like you want smart devices, wearables, DIY electronics, home assistant, etc… “Technology” communities are pretty much always about the tech community and not the actual tech itself.