I do not trust that Microsoft will be doing anything other than pushing subscription-based streaming. Call me when they have a robust storefront selling games on par with Steam and hardware that allows you to play these games on or offline. Until then, imma press X to doubt.

And yet Helldivers 2 comes out in 2024 and sets the world on fire. Seems to me that gaming is perfectly fine with live service as long as it’s in line with community expectations and not s soulless cash grab.

This is a really late reply but I just read this again and it’s surprising how similar the paths you and I have traveled are. I was a Linux guy since 1998 (server side). In about 2002 my company gave me a Macbook because we had to develop for Macs and it became my daily driver for web and email. Since then I have had a succession of Macbooks as daily drivers, I am currently posting this to you from a 2020 MBA. I never had a problem with Apple hardware except their shit laptop keyboards from 2016-2019, but I’ve always had a Windows desktop around for gaming. I also do music production and atm I have a 2019 MM running Logic (I had a 2016 MBP that since I hated it so much because of the keys, I just was using it for a music machine, but it experienced a mobo failure).

I’ve completely wiped Windows now. I’m all Macs for laptops/daily/music and Linux for everything else. Happy as can be.

Anyway, cheers!

This is their wet dream, but I’ll never participate.

Edit: I don’t participate now. I pay for no subscriptions, no streaming services, and I use no cloud services. Oh, and I’m now completely Microsoft-free since October last year.

Which won’t matter at all once they start losing market share to Microsoft’s stupid decisions. The world will not sit on its thumbs because of Fortnight players. And good riddance in any case.

I came here looking for this answer. I’m actually replaying it right now on my Steam Deck via Cemu and having a ton of fun. It was also my first Zelda game and I had zero expectations. It just blew me away and it still does all these years later.

Technically correct.

This is a cute exercise in lateral thinking and all but will past me know that it is future me talking? Won’t matter what the fuck I say otherwise, the little shit won’t be listening to any authority figures.

While I appreciate the sentiment, I would very much like it if government became less unserious. Jesus fuck.

The irony claiming to be punk and supporting anything at all whatever of the establishment, but especially the orange turd.

Well I’m not going to call 1024, people might think I’m some kind of nut who thinks the market is algorithmically controlled.

I’m calling it now: up 1,000 on Monday.

I’ve never once posted on the Internet using a real name. I’ve never been a member of any social anything other than Reddit and Lemmy. I only even found Reddit because an IRC link aggregator I used to browse for news/memes went tits up.

I’m not saying they’re conscious, because not even fully understanding what consciousness is precludes saying that. But it also precludes saying it’s “impossible” they are conscious.

Consciousness and AGI however, are two different things. I believe my cat is conscious, but it’s not even close to being intelligent. AGI is, you know, a thing. I’m quite certain this dude’s LLM isn’t AGI because if nothing else, it’s not “his” LLM. It’s based on a black box public model he knows nothing about and which very likely changes frequently on the back end without his knowledge.

So now we hype them before they’re even in pre-release alpha? What the fuck is this? ‘You can play the demo now it will hold you over until early access’ yeah no, go fuck yourself. After your game’s been released for a minimum of 6 months and proves to a) not be shit and b) actually be supported then maybe I will buy it on sale. Fuck off with this Christmas in October shit.

I’m without question one of the 90% and I never thought they were going to require it for everyone. But I don’t like the idea that an algorithm is constantly writing a dossier about me to determine my “age” because I wasn’t fucking born yesterday.

Open source your shit and make it auditable or I’m not fucking using it anymore.

False. My reflection can’t tell me that pressing the Steam button and X will bring up the keyboard on Steam Deck’s desktop mode.

I hated discuss.tchncs.de before it was cool.

Otherwise, just save your docs in your normal user directory.

I thought the implication of “disabling” OneDrive was exactly that. This guy doesn’t want to use it at all and it keeps throwing errors anyway. But I don’t use Windows and never touched OneDrive when I did so I could be wrong.

It just… sounds a lot like Microsoft is all, so a lot of people relate to it. It’s not just Microsoft of course, it’s any enshittified tech company that’s been around too long - they have too many mouths to feed and require a constant ever-increasing stream of Number Go Up which leads to shit behavior like this. It’s designed to hassle users into using their subscription services whether they like it or not.

I was just with some out of town friends this weekend and telling them how I don’t use any cloud services at all and they were just stunned “how do you do your pictures then? We have to pay for extra space!!” and I’m like “I… back things up in 3 places manually once or twice a year?” It didn’t compute. People are largely captured, this shit behavior works and that’s why they do it.

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