MudMan

Didn't they just recently have to recall a bunch of exploding batteries? PC World may want to rethink that endorsement.

The next step would be to map the heights as well, but I bet that looks like a mess. Plus... I mean, what do you even set as sea level? Do you start counting from Earth's deepest point and go from there? Highest point? Average?

It's genuinely more complicated than that, honestly. Apple did a great job of pretending these ARM devices were on par with desktop PC hardware when they... kind of aren't, in absolute terms. I wonder how much of an incentive they have to keep doing this if the result is their top of the line five grand devices start to look like mid-range PCs and the bullshit way their naming conventions are designed starts getting exposed by widespread FPS counts on tentpole game releases. I genuinely don't think Apple wants to have that conversation.

So if anything it seems weird to me that they are focusing on this. Honestly, getting triple-A releases ported to phones and tablets seems like a much safer bet. I guess it's just hard to leave the laptop and desktop users entirely out of the loop for no good reason, but they have a lot of experience doing just that, so who knows.

It seems pretty obvious that unifying the software is the next step for them after unifying a lot of the hardware. what that means for gaming on their devices is anybody's guess.

And of course I don't particularly care because... I mean, macs.

I don't think it's particularly controversial these days to say that Linux gaming is way ahead of Mac gaming, so I'm not sure that part is suprising, beyond the notion that in other metrics the OS split for those is more like 15% to 5%.

I mean, the Mac side was celebrating this month that Cyberpunk finally runs natively on it, and it is borderline unplayable on most of the hardware out there, gets comparable to what? A 5060? on the very top end.

I read in that two missed opportunities: One, Mac gaming should get so much better. Two, somebody on the Linux side should really start taking non-gaming compatibility seriously.

When the product is the content or the features rather than the platform this chart is useless.

You don't sit down and go "I'm going to stream video", you go "I'm gonna watch Star Trek" or "Hey, there's a new season of Severance". It's the same with chat and social media. It's not "I'm going to instant message", it's "I'll text mom".

You use what you gotta use. You don't decouple from US big tech by boycotting it, you decouple by having EU big tech (at which point you've fixed nothing) or by competing with them with a different standard, which is possible but very, very hard and way outside the typical thought processes and organization patterns of most of these alternatives.

See also: why Bluesky entirely replaced Mastodon as a Twitter alternative despite showing up a year late with no pre-existing working standard.

This chart is less "yay let's make things better" and more "woof, things are dire".

Bread is coarse and crumbly. Jam is gooey and wet. Surely butter makes it less likely for the jam to stay on. I always assumed it was just for flavour. My grandma used to do butter toast with just a sprinkle of sugar on top, so I never even considered that butter was there for a functional purpose.

Butter on peanut butter is just weird, though, unless you're buttering before toasting. But then peanut butter is a recent import here, so maybe it's an old fashioned thing in the places that cultural imperialisted peanut puree unto us. Who's to say.

AI is whatever, but man, has social media been mind poison.

I say we burn it all down, honestly. Including this place.

I think that amount of pawns is pretty much what you need to make it winnable. Maybe a few less if you take black's pawns away. Pretty sure this one, as presented, is unwinnable, which... kind of undermines the point they're trying to make.

I mean, cross-platform cloud save support isn't about "a Windows clone" and has zero to do with Linux doing things differently.

Also, it is supported, just not by GoG. Which makes this excuse weirder, because presumably it's blanket deflection for anything that doesn't work until it works, at which point it becomes bragging rights. It's a weird way to evaluate how both these things work.

And it IS absolutely reasonable to expect software you need or want to work as a requirement to switch over. It's not the user's fault that the software they need doesn't work. If their needs aren't supported they're just going to use whatever supports what they need.

This is not true, to my knowledge. Heroic can download GOG cloud saves on Linux. Upload them, too. There may be edge cases for games using a launcher or their own cloud save system, and some games don't support GOG cloud saves, but you can absolutely keep using existing GOG cloud saves on Linux through Heroic, which has at least some official endorsement from CDPR and GOG (they have an affiliate link that gets them some revenue if you buy games from GOG within the Heroic launcher with ad support turned on).

I get that it's easy to miss this because GOG itself won't advertise it, you just kinda... have to know to use Heroic for this and turn the cloud saves option on. But it works. I use it on a dual boot setup and I've been playing The Alters back and forth.

For the record, I agree on some of the pains of trying to daily drive Linux for some things. Which is why I dual boot instead in the first place. And I do agree the packaging situation on Linux is absolutely bonkers and only makes sense in that ecosystem for entirely self-referential reasons that don't matter to users and shouldn't be a thing.

All but one of the major papers where I'm from have a print version. I imagine that changes in different countries.

But... yeah, point taken. Over here you can't even not have a Whatsapp account. Some businesses and transactions just... assume you do and default to it for communication.

An interesting wrinkle is that some of that legacy media is part of this loop, too. You can, in fact, buy new tape players and tapes and you can put new music into them. It's all just very expensive trendy, hipstery small run collector stuff that costs a lot of money and sells to privileged people with a nostalgic desire for posturing. Which does put a lot of where this message ends up in context, I suppose.

Consistent habits.

The couple of games where I got those types of playtimes were either things I had semi-perpetually running for long periods of time (because reasons) and one game that became my "one hour decompression post-work" for maybe three or four years. Turns out if you do a thing consistently for a couple thousand days in a row it adds up.