Which is why their latest generation of cards costs almost a thousand dollars or more.

its the worst version of Weekend and Bernies ever.

their power and influence wont stop 100 million people breaking down their gates, grabbing them out of their beds, and throwing them into woodchippers.

Completely offtopic, but just saying Pollyanna causes me emotional turmoil thanks to the Earthbound Tribute for the 20th anniversary… 11 years ago, which means Earthbounds now 31 years old. .

Which…Combining the tribute, with the fact its 11 years old, just critically hits me for psychic and emotional damage.

last time I tried it was Simcity 4, and I couldnt get it to install right.

But I’m not an IT/SysAdmin professional. I’m just a random idiot, so my capabilities with linux… while improving over the years, are still far from useful in most circumstances.

Its not exactly easy on linux either at least for average users like me, unless you are lucky to find a lutris script specifically for the CD install.

at least in my experience.

Yeah, but everytime a company gets sold, they always say a bunch of shit that always ends up being lies.

not saying that is happening here, but it happen oftens enough that I just don’t believe anything.

Why is this happening if nothing at all is changing and everything is sunshine and butterflies.

Aldi and Trader Joes are owned by two seperate people who have a… lets say difficult relationship.

We finally got Aldis around here and I was so disappointed

Thats how I felt first time. Every time I mentioned food affordability, not here but just in general, the overwhelming response has almost always been to go to Aldi, as if it was some wonderland of below market prices…

But it wasnt. At best its prices were the same as walmart… and thats at best. Walmart was typically lower in most things I typically buy.

And yes, yes, I know… Walmart is evil, I dont have the economic luxury to pay twice as much for my groceries elsewhere.

Its Bethesda and Todd Howard, their entire career is built on learning the wrong lesson.

Its just gotten to the breaking point of where its castrophic for the games. the point where even modding wont fix it or even create interest in. Honestly Bethesda probably would have crashed out 20 years ago if it wasnt for modding keeping their games afloat and being the major driver in their popularity.

And they fucked up so catastrohpically with starfield that even the modding isnt saving it. Literally, at the time of this post, Fallout 4 has significantly more players (34,500), than Starfield does (4,400). a 10+ year old game is crushing their supposedly great new property.

I remain convinced to this day (aint seen season 2 yet) that the only reason Fallout TV is as good as it is, is because theres enough people in power on the show to basically tell Howards worst ideas and impulses to get bent.

Trying to get all they can out of the last great tech bubble before total collapse.

cant just distract from the epstein files, gotta profit from the distraction to.

cause hes a greedy pig.

So Linux, “the free alternative to Windows”, needs corporate backing to sell it and make it mainstream?

It does help. Just look what has been achieved thanks to Valve.

And I think the worst thing, the thing holding Linux back the most, is the divisiveness of the Linux community

True, but the linux community is SO much friendlier and welcoming now than it was 20+ years ago. And its getting better all the time as that kind of behavior gets further and further ostracized, alienated, and shut down.

I still remember the amount of toxic hostility and hatred I received from Linux communities in the late 90s and early aughts when i gave my first couple tries to linux.

Average Joe lives in ignorance and doesnt know enough to care.

and theres also a good chance they don’t care enough to know… until shit hits the fan of course.

I felt the same way when I switched to Nobara.

it was the fastest, easiest, most hands off install of linux I ever had. and that same kind of stuff carries over into its every day usability. I do precious little thinking of “I have Linux” or “I have Nobara” anymore, I just think “Imma go do X” and immediately do X without issue.

Linux has become absolutely amazing, especially for gaming, in the past couple years… as I said in a previous post, yeah you’ve been able to game on linux for longer than that… but the past 2 years have just been fuckin butter.

Yep, choice is nice, but everyone and their uncle rolling out distros is excessive as all fuck. Especially when there is precious little that isnt ultimately, deep down, just another flavor of Debian, Arch or Fedora.

No one wants to use any OS.

People just want to use their computer easily, and do what they want with relatively little hindrance or concern. The overwhelming bulk of people, I’d wager, Don’t care about the OS as long as it stays the hell out of the way and isnt obnoxious.

Which is why Windows reigned for so long, because regardless of what criticism you throw at it… Microsoft was amazingly successful at creating a GUI and interface that you could set anyone in front of and they’d be able to figure out basic usage in half an hour with relatively little direction… and, especially in its heyday of windows 7, did an excellent job of just being mostly invisible to everyday use. It wasnt even a thought in your head. Just throw your disc in/download your software, and run. No thought, no worry. Just doing what you need and want to do, without having to think about it or worry about it.

Linux, depending on the distro, is finally getting close to that same place… Where you can just use it without having to think about it to much. Where you don’t have to dig into a terminal and look up command line actions and such. For basic mom&pop email and banking computers, you know…basic web based stuff, Linux has been there for I would say almost a decade at this point.

But for gaming and other stuff? I You’ve been able to do it for longer, but I’d say the past 2 years have just been an absolute golden age of being able to just do stuff without really having to worrying about your OS/proton/etc. The only remaining roadblock that requires you to stop and think at all is to see if the game uses a kernal based anticheat, and thats pretty much the only roadblock to playing a small minority of games on linux, Which doesnt feel like a small minority if those are the bulk of the games you play, in all fairness… But thats not even linux’s fault. Blame the devs for being shady fuckers for it, cause plenty of BIG games out there use regular old anticheat that doesnt have to have full root access to your computer and often does an even better job at stopping shit than the kernal anticheats.

Justice Department has ruled "Anything that we don’t like, and can be used against the administration now, or in the future, is Domestic Terrorism, and we have issued millions of pre-signed execution warrants "

for now

by the time i can afford it, and a new PSU, the ram issue will probably see GPUs skyrocket as well. Especially with companies cutting consumer production for AI production.