user is from lemmy.ml

Yeah, that tracks

God forbid a fascist authoritarian government known for cyberwarfare be banned from working on the Linux kernel.

You’re just doubling down with your bullshit claims? You do you.

Not to mention that PC games are all digital now too. It’s all the same issues, problems and behaviours. I don’t like it either, but my point is gaming isn’t perfect in PC land either.

Except PC is an open market place. Consoles are not. On consoles, used games often served as the competition to prevent costs from going insane.

64gb of ddr5 ram was going to run you about $1200-1600 Canadian dollars. That’s just the ram, and if you are going to be building a PC right now, thats what you are going to want going forward

You do not need 64gb of RAM for gaming. You don’t even need 32gb, especially if you aren’t using an unoptimized ram-sucking OS like W11. 90% of your argument hinges on these overinflated numbers

Works well enough for Mod Organizer 2 in my experience

Except you don’t have to pay a $110/year subscription on PC. That adds up fast. Nor do you need the highest end hardware.

And the price of the PS6 is expected to be >$1000

For now

I’d imagine indies could release “special editions” with physical SD cards sent out for collectors and fans about a year after release. There’s some indie games where I’d definitely buy that.

And even if the cartridges didn’t have DRM, so what? They already made a lot of their money

Metal

They’re both weasels, so that’s not weird

Still, what’s wrong with ChromeOS? Did I miss something important? Beyond Google dropping ‘don’t be evil’ obviously.

A quick look through some of the privacy communities will give you an overall vibe on what Google is doing. But overall, they’re getting monopolistic.

They’re requiring all android developers register their identities with them or they’ll be blocked on all Google’d android versions (which almost all Android phones ship with). They’re also datamining everyone more and more each year, just like Facebook.

And they’re using their influence over Chromium to force adblock blockers into every Chromium browser. And the only non-Chromium browsers are Firefox and its derivatives

And by far the worst one, they bought out ReCaptcha and they just rolled out an update that requires verification with a device that has either iOS or stock android. It doesn’t support deGoogle’d android like GrapheneOS or LineageOS, and it doesn’t support desktop. So now any website you visit that uses the new version of ReCaptcha requires you to verify your identity with a phone, even if you’re accessing the website on desktop. This is so they can link all your systems to your identity

If you value your privacy, you should work to get your digital footprint off Google’s software as much as possible

Also, don’t forget there’s Chrome OS

No, please forget Chrome OS. Also, I’d hesitate to call it “Linux” at this point

Firefox is already using Google’s Play Integrity API. They don’t give a shit about us, they’re helping Google fuck everyone over.

Hey dumbass, you remember how Mozilla decided to use Google’s Play Integrity API for their Android browser?

Mozilla is cooperating in fucking all of us over.

Reddit is now popping up banners that take up literally half the page if you’re browsing a thread. Half of the value of Reddit is that you can find answers to a lot of questions on there via Googling, and they’re now killing that

As someone who uses Excel on a daily basis: Excel is a bloated, unstable, bug-ridden pile of crap

It’s still not pushed out to phones. I’m going to keep shit talking them until it’s actually out, because they’ve spent far too much time stringing them along

“People don’t use their browsers how I want REEEE!!!”

Firefox dragged its feet on an extremely useful feature for years.

Are you seriously trying to act like Firefox hasn’t been continually shooting themselves in the foot the past decade?

And then there’s their offshoot, the Zizians, which are even crazier. The episodes of Behind the Bastards covering them were wild