I’ve seen project managment in industrial fields go in circles in similar ways, and now that you put it this way I can totally see it.

But then, why do they keep canceling them before release? They don’t know if they’d have been hits or failures.

I have an nvidia GPU and it worked out of the box.

MS execs blathered about “the age of software running locally being over” long before Chromebooks.

“Inflation decreases” means “the prices are being raised slower”.

What you are looking for, prices going down, is “deflation”. Governments generally do their best to avoid that, because people would start holding off on purchases expecting lower prices next week, month, quarter,… and it would tank the economy.

Plenty of people will never experience these worlds or stories due to the turn-based combat

What? No! If anything they should make new original FF games with decent turn based combat again! X was the last good one, it’s time.

Of course. You’d just never see this and go “oh, that’s so unique and has a variety of hardware and software requirements”. That’s what I was getting at.

European heating system:

“The rules were you guys weren’t gonna fact check.”

Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from installing the software they want on their computer.

Imagine if Microsoft required all software developers to give them 30% of their earning or Microsoft will ban them from Windows

I think that’s exactly what Microsoft is aiming to do in the future.

Dad! Please! No!

I’m going to take a look at that.

Nintendo Boss Doug Bowser

Is this a joke?

I am hoping that the upcoming SteamOS Desktop would make Linux friendly enough for games that aren’t native to Steam, such as my GOG collection

You can just add those to steam or use a launcher like heroic.

All this nvidia stuff is so complicated on Linux,

I installed mint, opened the driver manager, picked the latest NVIDIA driver and it just worked. No idea what everybody is talking about …

Granted I’m on an old 1080ti, so maybe that’s it …

Biometrics are not more secure than a good password.

You also would not have access to your password manager when logging into your OS, would you?

“Specific use cases” here seems to be “has a Nvidia GPU”

My 1080 Ti was plug&play in Mint …

Baldur’s Gate 2. There’s no game I’ve played through more often. BG3 is a very fun successor, but Larian’s writing can’t hold a candle to classic Bioware.

Not even the lemmy instance you’re on needs a license to your content, and it is stored there and displayed for the world to see. Why is that? Because storing and displaying your posts is the very thing you want it to do. That is the service it is providing for you, and you declare that you want it to do that by clicking “send”. They would need a license if they wanted to do anything else with your stuff, which doesn’t directly have to do with displaying your posts in the fediverse.

The browser is supposed to take my requests and inputs, carry them to the server that I’m talking to and bring back the answer. The mail doesn’t need a license to my letters. That only changes if they want to open them and do something I originally had not intended.

But you know who claims a license to your content? Meta. Because you’re the product there, not the costumer.

And let’s remember that the last thing Mozilla got heat for was the introduction of a method to anonymize bulk user data for sharing & selling purposes, as opposed in addition to the granular, extremely invasive tracking that 99% of websites are doing these days.

Ftfy. It’s never going to replace more invasive tracking and just constitutes yet another party collecting my data.

I see a company that needs to make a decent amount of money

Mozilla already makes enough money from passive investment income. They don’t need to make any money from Firefox at all (but they do, it’s from google). They also don’t need to pay their CEO 6 Million a year.

Edit: Typo