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
They have a cover of this song for one of the boss battles.
Were you playing Hi-Fi Rush recently?
It got hyped up by the project lead completely lying about it.
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.