Oh boy, if you haven’t played Half Life Alyx you’re in for a treat.

“Know your fucking place, trash”

• Filthy Frank (.deb/.appimage enthusiast)

Lineage, Graphene, and /e/ OS are all forks I believe, not alternatives (since they are dependent on the main Android branch for some updates and feature implementations).

Linux phones don’t really have enough support for the necessary applications to be viable for most people, at least for now.

Then it’ll be moved to a self-hosted git in a country where that doesn’t matter. Or the scene will host copies.

The modder in question for this case is not above placing DRM within his paid mods, including malware payloads. So I’m skeptical of any system of monetization not immediately succumbing to malicious compliance.

Mods are by the community, for the community. If your mod has enough significance that you believe it is worth monetizing - create your own game with the endless amount of tools available with that hallmark feature. (Or actually talk to the devs to work out an official arrangement rather than being a hardass and witnessing the consequences of your arrogance)

…you are aware of the perverse incentives that kind of system would bring right?

“Here’s alpha 0.01. It gets to the title screen.”

“If you donate here’s version 2.00 to download with experimental (wink) features such as actual playthrough complete testing.”

Threadiverse doesn’t necessarily imply meta.

The hacker known as “4chan”

Nah, we’d love to see you cook. Hell, you could hook up your piano keyboard to your PC and experiment with music creation or using MIDI for keyboard shortcuts (can be fun to try to game with lol)

Iteration is key for building a better platform after all!

(With all the mistakes on record from someone else XD)

Regarding EVs I agree with you, but I was referring to battery production.

As for Chinese production leading the charge, I also think that’s apt, but I’m referring to the availability of domestic alternatives for things such as military production, which seems to only being kickstarted recently compared to say the 2010s. Currently, it seems like compromises will have to be made in order to minimize reliance on imported batteries from China, which is not necessarily a problem for the consumer market, but may be for governments seeking isolationist policies for their self-sufficiency (EU, US).

There is still plenty of time for things to change of course, but there are plenty of missed opportunities along the way.

Their hardware options were quite competitive and were very accessible price-wise for people who wanted to experience VR. Nobody wanted to use their software, though. Grab a USB-C cable (or use Airlink), connect it to a PC, and play SteamVR games like VRchat, Pavlov VR, Into the Radius, and Half Life Alyx for a good time. Or play VRChat with worse quality textures and heavy model restrictions natively on Meta Hardware.

Nobody wanted to use Meta software, but the budget conscious really liked meta hardware (basically owning the sub-400 USD portion of the market).

Of course the privacy-conscious saw the writing on the wall and didn’t opt in at all to their ecosystem

Oh, certainly. However, if enough nations had their heads out of their asses and spoke with engineers rather than oil tycoons, we’d have a more competitive and distributed market for these technologies and a lower future dependence on Chinese imports for said technologies.

Right now, I can see a chokehold forming on that sector, and it’s a completely self-inflicted circumstance for those deadset on oil.

Facing reality and evaluating technologies through the crucial era of the 2010s with an eye on efficiency and pollutant reduction in the overall energy sector. From there, having the empirical justifications to your nation that focusing on energy storage and further electrification would be more beneficial than fossil fuels.

Rather than doubling down on the existing status quo due to lobbying and sunk cost beliefs from prior consumption rates.

Ah, thanks for the correction.

Nexus Mods is actively developing the linux native port - check their website.

recursive

You may need to use mods to fix Fallout 4, but I believe Nexus already ported their vortex modloader over when you’re ready for that.

Yes there is (especially in terms of feature support from Win 7 to Win 10), but it is true that there are a lot of functions mandated for Windows 11 that could definitely run on prior windows versions. While there are significant rewrites in the codebase from each major version, a lot of the base stuff stays the same for backwards compatibility’s sake, so a lot of features could totally be backported to say, Windows 10 or with enough effort, even Windows 7 or 8.1.

With that being said, if Windows is getting better for the user with each version is up for debate, but I think it’s fair to say that there’s a lot of bullshit features in Windows 11 that aren’t exactly compelling for Windows 10 users. The hardware restrictions especially are totally arbitrary, they do not need to exist whatsoever.

Microslop also isn’t exactly winning people over with their premonitions of what they want Windows to become (a cloud-base subscription where you own nothing and have perpetual data scraping), leading to some people looking at Linux distros or cracked Windows 10 IOT Enterprise LTSC as better options.

It’s recursive for Wine Is Not An Emulator. The program is a translation layer - including translating Windows specific function calls into something Linux can understand (IE: DirectX to Vulcan).

This is distinct from emulation - primarily because it allows programs to utilize native functions of the machine and has much less performance overhead compared to true windows emulation (which is just a VM with extra steps).