You don't own games generally. It's always a license for software use. You may own the game, if you buy the company and the license is fully under its control.
Software is not a product. And there is no guarantee you will be able to run it forever, even if you made a copy of your entire setup. It's especially the case with Windows, because it's bound to a specific hardware that will break one day. Microsoft also cares less and less about gamers (see what they do with their operating system for consumers) and they have a way out with XBox. My bet is that Windows is not making money for Microsoft anymore and it will degrade more and more. Gabe knows it and has a strategy against it. If you're a gamer and want have games on PC, use Linux and support the good cause.
I'm a total newb when I use GUIs. I need max automation... I don't really know how to do this. Also.. I never had issues with drivers. And on Windows there is almost nothing installed. You need to install stuff by using a browser .. horrible.
I’m still trying to de-Google my life, little by little. I don’t trust Bing for similar reasons. DDG is feeling shady of late. What’s the search engine you all recommend that I can inject into my daily life? Is there perhaps a search engine that is focused on code, or have we just all moved on to AI for searching?...
Every time someone cries about hardware not being supported, you find out they didn't care to look up compatibility. You can also ask the vendor, if you're lost.
It's like you buy a Diesel car and complain that it it's annyoing because it breaks when you fill in gasoline.
There is a lot of power to waste for the savings you made, when not buying expensive SSDs (20€ a year is not much). Where we use HDDs, we don't care about noise. Durability? We use huge RAID systems with lots of redundancy.
I personally like to swap new drives after 5 years to avoid failures. So when you find a 16 TB SSD for 350€, you send me a message.
My HDDs run 24/7 without spin up btw. I'm just talking about the costs. My drives don't fail that much as yours. The recent drives that failed were WD Blue that were very old and only used for backups. And yes, all backups were still readable, even the drive was reported as failed. Compare it to SSDs that often fail "spectacularly".
Long story short, I have a desktop with Fedora, lovely, fast, sleek and surprisingly reliable for a near rolling distro (it failed me only once back around Fedora 34 or something where it nuked Grub). Tried to install on a 2012 i7 MacBook Air… what a slog!!! Surprisingly Ubuntu runs very smooth on it. I have been bothering all...
This doesn't seem to be a problem with snap. Canonical probably tried to show vendors a way how to distribute software commercially. But vendors are on the level of cavemen and don't know shit about Linux even after serving a solution. Or they simply don't care about building up a market opportunity.
I don't want to defend Ubuntu. I don't like Ubuntu especially, but it might be a simple explanation.
The exact group which is officially declared as "evil" does not matter. Using a scapegoat is the point. Hiding complex problems and present "simple solutions". People are scared of problems they cannot solve themselves. They want someone to solve them.
Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse....
Also, I doubt that Google wanted to destroy XMPP. They simply needed a chat then noticed it's crap for mobile devices. They wanted to offer their users seemless migration to the new proprietary protocol.
I was sad that Google stopped to use an official standard, but there are many better free options left.
I’m trying to expand my library of classic game/game-inspired music. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I’m including some music that I particularly enjoy for reference....
I mostly use lightweight virtualization with containers and jails at home. I have one BHyVe VM, but I plan to eliminate virtualization completely. It's a waste of resources for my setup.
Huge win for Epic Games in their court case against Google. The court decided that Google’s Play app store operated as an illegal monopoly and the case also challenged the transaction fees of up to 30% that Google imposes on Android app developers....
That doesn't make sense, because Android is quite open. You can literally download apps everywhere from the internet.
The only thing that you're not allowed to do is to take advantage of the Google store and circumvent their microtransaction system. If you want to have own microtransactions, do it on yourself.
The unanimous verdict reached Monday came after just three hours of deliberation following a four-week trial revolving around a lucrative payment system within Google’s Play store. The store is the main place where hundreds of millions of people around the world download and install apps that work on smartphones powered by...
Many people have f-droid installed. And you can freely download Android apps from the internet and install them. Where is the anticompetitive behavior?
I read more about the case and it seems it's not about the store itself. The real issue is that behind the stage Google makes individual contracts with companies. They agree about fees etc. This is really not fair.
The court ruled that the lower court made a mistake in ruling that the woman, Kate Cox, who is more than 20 weeks pregnant, was entitled to a medical exception....
Steam keeps on winning (www.pcgamer.com)
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What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing?
I’m still trying to de-Google my life, little by little. I don’t trust Bing for similar reasons. DDG is feeling shady of late. What’s the search engine you all recommend that I can inject into my daily life? Is there perhaps a search engine that is focused on code, or have we just all moved on to AI for searching?...
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What's the consensus on swearing here
Noticed not many people use curse words....
Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters (www.tomshardware.com)
I absolutely love VideoLAN's stance regarding patents (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
CDC director says U.S. isn't yet near peak Covid or flu levels for the season (www.nbcnews.com)
Company tells employees to run miles each month if they want their bonuses (www.techspot.com)
Is Ubuntu deserving the hate? (lemmy.ml)
Long story short, I have a desktop with Fedora, lovely, fast, sleek and surprisingly reliable for a near rolling distro (it failed me only once back around Fedora 34 or something where it nuked Grub). Tried to install on a 2012 i7 MacBook Air… what a slog!!! Surprisingly Ubuntu runs very smooth on it. I have been bothering all...
Sony Patent Aims To Change Game Difficulty In Real Time As You Play - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)
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What is the most cost effective solar battery on the market today?
primarily for small scale DIY
Situation.. (i.imgflip.com)
How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux
How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux...
Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. (mstdn.social)
Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse....
Best chiptune/gaming-inspired music?
I’m trying to expand my library of classic game/game-inspired music. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I’m including some music that I particularly enjoy for reference....
Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners (arstechnica.com)
Epic Win Against Google (simplifiedprivacy.com)
Huge win for Epic Games in their court case against Google. The court decided that Google’s Play app store operated as an illegal monopoly and the case also challenged the transaction fees of up to 30% that Google imposes on Android app developers....
Federal jury decides Google’s Android app store benefits from anticompetitive barriers (apnews.com)
The unanimous verdict reached Monday came after just three hours of deliberation following a four-week trial revolving around a lucrative payment system within Google’s Play store. The store is the main place where hundreds of millions of people around the world download and install apps that work on smartphones powered by...
Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Woman Who Sought Court-Approved Abortion (www.nytimes.com)
The court ruled that the lower court made a mistake in ruling that the woman, Kate Cox, who is more than 20 weeks pregnant, was entitled to a medical exception....
Russia to hold presidential vote in occupied Ukraine (www.lemonde.fr)