Their gamer phones are overshadowed by RedMagic now. They have their marketable cooling methods and under display camera. Asus would need to match at least. Also every high end Android device maker deciding to no do microSD express. Got to do something better than RedMagic

Last I tried MGS4, I was able to get to the first meeting with Drebin before I put down the controller. One of these days I’ll try to play through the whole way

It doesn’t take 3nm/2nm chips to make a great computer. The Switch 2 is has a Samsung 8nm SoC. Steam Deck is TSMC 7nm. A Steam Deck has a better processor than my Intel N150 NAS. We don’t need the strongest hardware for self hosting. Don’t need it for a good gaming experience. Someday we’ll get second hand server parts salvaged into home equipment. The PS5 had that jailbreak. That can someday be a useful Linux machine. Someday the Xbox Series. Someday there’ll be a wave of RISC-V SBC’s that are better than the most recent raspberry pi

Go Valve go. Screw Facebook/Meta, Google, Apple. I want the future of VR to be standard desktop Linux centric. The iOS/Android state of mobile is annoyingly restrictive compared to even Windows let alone desktop/server Linux

The quality of the Fallout TV show to me is somewhere post-season 4 Dexter. Not at Dexter’s worst but far from great. It is watchable. Entertaining enough. Not very memorable. Good for syndicated reruns background noise while you eat. Milking something that doesn’t have a very high peak

Improved over the last year

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-b580-opengl-vulkan-eoy2025

How it compares to Windows I wouldn’t know. I did use an Intel Arc for a while on Linux but switched to AMD for performance and idle power draw before the start of 2025. It was stable though with Steam Proton games and general day to day usage. Probably pretty good performance today relative to what it can do on Windows today compared to 2023-2024 when I was using Intel

When I first got the card, Switch emulation did not work. I think it was around mid 2024 when it started to work well

The PS5 is going to easily be relevant longer than the PS4 and the PS4 is still relevant

The thread is about servers and supercomputers being dominated by Linux

They haven’t had a crossover hit yet. The Switch had at least 2. Breath of the Wild on Launch and Animal Crossing during COVID. Hoping Star Fox get’s a major Breath of the Wild type jump for the series and maybe a new IP. Metroid would be good to have a new sub-series that changes up the formula for 3D adventure. Hopefully a new IP too

This being one of the games that turned me off AAA single player narrative action adventure games. They’re pretty much TV shows but not as good as TV shows yet take way longer than TV shows to develop so why play these games

I don’t think 10 lifetimes is enough for me to learn about all the software that people out there run on Linux servers. Then I die my last lifetime and people come up with new software. Myself as an individual could see all that and say that software like that should be available on a server OS especially to compete with Linux. A huge company with over a hundred thousand employees. They can probably crowdsource through their employees a way longer list than me but will leadership read the list? Will they greenlight funding development for all that software? Will they match up to as good and ideally better to be worth paying for than the free and open source stuff on Linux? Will they keep up development on all that software or fall behind the open source stuff?

If they can’t do that, there’s no reason for any company to smartly spend money on a proprietary server OS license for what would be immediately a worse product or a product that is at best just as good or a product that would inevitably end up being worse than the Linux ecosystem. I consider it an impossibility for a new proprietary OS to cover the whole breadth of server software out there and even the whole breadth of server hardware support. I’m not sure what the status is of Windows Server ARM and Windows Server RISC-V. Don’t know how popular POWER is on server or if SPARC is still kicking. That’s top 5 largest company in the world Microsoft that’s been doing operating systems for like 40 years.

Doing a Linux spin makes the most sense.

Plus Linux development is supported by a huge amount of large companies. It’s not rag tag open source freelancers vs mega-corporation. It would be a collection of mega-corporations to small corporations plus independent individuals vs a mega-corporation

The games supposed to be a bit of a live service game so maybe it has a chance in the long term. Still skeptical though that it’ll succeed in the face of its budget

Lol. Please everyone contribute to the change you want to see. If you’re not sharing spreadsheets and slide decks in a team, then for personal use you should be good with Collabora (LibreOffice based). It’s great. Write your novel and short stories in Collabora

https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-office/

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/

Looks like the ARC B580 has a TDP of 190w and comparable to the 7600xt. If it’s priced like a 9060xt and performs between a 9060xt and 9070, someone may bite but whatever it comes out to, I bet a 9060xt can overclock to match it

I use GeForce Now for like 1 month a year or when they have a really good deal on a 6 month like a game I want

~300w TDP for RX 9060xt level performance which ranges ~160w. Really going to need to be priced well

It’s been good for the average PC user for like 5 years. Pretty much when Google Docs became pretty ubiquitous from elementary school through university. Then also stuff like turbotax becoming something people use through a website rather than a application they buy a disc for from the store. Steam Deck was when Proton maturity reached a point where it became suitable for most gamers. Steam games on Android is the next mainstream frontier to pull users away from Windows. Now the main barrier to me is improving prosumer software/making open source alternatives competitive like how Blender became. Pretty much need people to get away from Adobe and FL Studio/etc

Pretty excited for it. Guy that was behind Yakuza since the first game leaves Yakuza studio to work on something new and fresh. Proceeds to make a game that looks like better graphics and possibly more serious tone Yakuza

Get to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for your own 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them

Prices are screwy these days for PC hardware but I find it a bit fun figuring out paths to cheap gaming rigs for friends. Scouring offerup and Facebook marketplace for old PCs to salvage parts from along with what I have lying around. Gaming capable hardware should be cheap and accessible