It has to be so incredibly difficult to make a competitive (in the market) video game these days.

I did an update or something and it corrupted the bootloading for Fedora Silverblue. Had to just reinstall everything. Also was a time when the update url or something was broken and I couldn’t update. That remains the biggest issue. But it might not be an issue for a professionally maintained distro like Ubuntu that has a company backing it. I feel like it’s safe to recommend Ubuntu but not any other distros.

And it’s definitely true that the average user has more control on Windows. You can download installers and random zip files with executables and they’ll just work. Linux has such a messed up model for executables and libraries that they usually have to be recompiled for every Linux distro unless you use flatpak.

But I think it’s mostly the learning curve of getting used to how linux desktops work and their idiosyncrasies that makes it hard for people. And tons of bad advice online telling you to run commands.

Linux actually has lots of GUI apps that can help fix issues and do things in Linux but people keep offering outdated advice about using command line tools and editing brittle config files.

And some things are distro-specific.

That kind of software is often a pain in the butt to set up or requires weird stuff you shouldn’t have to do like compiling code from source. They could easily have a button that just switches to XInput/DualSense mode on the controller, or acts as a standard HID device with some special steam controller sauce that applications could start supporting directly. But I think they just want to tie people to Steam in a vendor lock-in sort of way as another counter to other online stores like Epic (not that they’re even competing given how bad their software is).

The video says the new steam controller only works with Steam lol. So you can’t even use it as an Xbox or DualSense device unless you’ve got Steam running (and probably running the game through steam). Any hardware that requires proprietary desktop software is a non-starter.

Mostly boring stuff.

Games just keep increasing in fidelity, but it’s all done at the development stage instead of being algorithmically generated at runtime, so you get giant, complex geometries and textures that bake in a bunch of algorithms performed during development (like generating terrain or noisy textures or whatever). It takes a long time for that to shift to runtime. And storage is “cheap” right now so they don’t care.

Apple is such a frustrating company lol. In Seattle we still don’t have tap-to-pay for public transit with iPhones because Apple keeps so much control over what the NFC transceiver on their devices can be used for. You can tap-to-pay with Android devices. So I’m stuck still using my physical card.

Thanks for the history!

Apple developed CUPS https://www.cups.org/

The project’s aim is to create an Android-compatible OS. I like the Linux-on-phone approach of postmarketOS better but whatever they end up working on should end up benefitting both projects since they’ll probably just be contributing driver code like postmarketOS. It’s weird that they don’t even mention postmarketOS in the announcement.

Seems like they’re mainly doing it because he has Russian citizenship??? Right-wingers are so bloodthirsty lol.

Ubisoft is kinda funny in that it’s a French company with a bunch of studios including the famous Ubisoft Montreal in Canada. So sometimes they dgaf. In Watch Dogs 2 there’s a level where you break into an FBI office to steal from them, and they’re an enemy faction you can fight. I cannot imagine any American company making the literal FBI an enemy faction (the other factions are the police and gangs).

Battlefield. They also own Respawn Entertainment (Apex Legends, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, which they’re probably working on a sequel to at the moment)

Seems like it could be beneficial. It will be interesting what a company as big as EA going private will mean for what types of games they make. Of course it could just mean layoffs and stripping out the copper wire. But Saudi Arabia is doing this kind of thing more for “soft power” than for pure economic benefit. So I could see them trying to improve EA’s image by focusing on putting out good games rather than profit seeking via nickel-and-diming. But in all likelihood, nothing changes. I think it would definitely help Saudi Arabia’s image if they “saved” Electronic Arts.

I am also in favor of all foreign buyouts of American companies because the US should own less stuff lol. It can also mean less of a hard-line propagandistic American perspective. Although I doubt it will really change anything in a company like EA.

right that’s my point. They’re obviously not going to make them indigenous, just indigenous-coded. Same thing they did in the movie Bone Tomahawk. There’s still a weird vibe of anti-indigenous propaganda left over in this country.

Is it maybe based on some tales or cultural stuff from that time period about cannibalism that they incorporated into the game? Or maybe it’s just anti-indigenous racism?

Pretty cool but the statement saying

The world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice, has ruled that there is a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza

is still pathetic. Won’t even call it genocide, and they still have to appeal to some stupid international institution.

govern me please

wow nice! Surprisingly long battery life.

I’m not sure how easy it would be to put desktop Linux on it. postmarketOS may get support for it but it looks like it may require a bit of work to put the OS on it. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Pad_6_(xiaomi-pipa)

Searching for “tablet PC” or “Windows tablet” instead of just “tablet” will probably help in your search. Most computers with x86_64 CPUs (Intel or AMD) should be able to run Linux distros fine.

But tablets don’t seem to be a common form factor for PCs. It seems like the term has really been narrowed down to mean one that runs Android or iOS. Very frustrating.

If you can’t find anything that doesn’t have an ARM SoC, you can try postmarketOS, but it will require more work and risk than a “PC” that is a tablet. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices