misk

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[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago

Valve was always waiting for the moment when Microsoft would be at their weakest, possibly during some kind of transition. They were too early with Steam Machines as a response to Windows 8 but this might be the time. Xbox is faltering and ARM threatens to end Wintel ecosystem. I wouldn’t be quick to applaud those developments though.

We have Google Linux for phones and it looks like we’ll have Valve Linux for gaming PCs. Valve is not your friend so this platform will be gradually locked down, for convenience at first. Then you’ll either use Valve Linux or you’ll be locked out of your games library - obviously not directly but alternatives will be too fiddly for mainstream. This will allow masses to be herded into Valve operated marketplace which was always the point.

The biggest corpo mistake of last century, computing Wild West for mainstream will die bit by bit unless this process is stopped with regulations. It’s ironic that it’s happening with money made from Windows.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Please consider creating a public news source blacklist for this community. Alternatively we could use some kind of guidance on what are criteria for sources to be accepted. As it is I’m not sure what kind of rule I am breaking.

Also: you are not personally responsible for Holocaust, no need to please Israel, just don’t vote for AfD. Lots of love from Poland.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

I want this to be a thing now.

Can the French pick up the slack on this kind of game development please?

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Hopefully they start supporting ARM64 on platforms that made the switch already too.

Unfortunately I get a feeling that Valve is going to make a proprietary platform out of Linux like Google did with Android and people will be clapping all along the way.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

That makes it that much more cruel. They are going to single out those two dozens of Xbox users.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

That would be par for the course of my life decisions.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

Don't forget about Xbox players, there's dozens of us!

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's the reason I'm rooting for everyone, including China, to do well with domestic chipmaking. Makes everyone have little less reason to try this modern day mutually assured destruction.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

They won't stop piracy ever but they can also make it as inconvenient as possible. You treat it like a game of cat and mouse while 90% of society uses adblock because someone told them how to do that.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

You're getting angry at a company and capitalism in general. Big techs should be broken up and regulated up to their tits. In the current legal framework they don't owe you anything and are well within their rights to put up a fight though. They won't do anything out of good of their hearts because companies don't have one.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Nobody here wants peertube really.

They want free bandwidth (streaming 4k60), free computation (encoding, optimization), free research (codec development) and free storage (for endless amount of videos). Google sucking is a valid reason to piggyback on Google infrastructure but they seem to feel entitled to Google just letting it happen.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have only smoked regular cigarettes (quit 5 years ago after 10 year long addiction). Not sure why you assumed I use ecigs. I can only say tribalism is a cancer upon internet discourse.

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