please elaborate on your question

yt-dlp also has sponsorblock support, btw.

didn’t know that, deff will check it out

ffplay is nice, but mpv has yt-dlp integration, and supports addons (love me some nice sponsorblock integration)

mpv my beloved

To invest billions is more difficult because high growths opportunities with high margins rarely exist in that price range.

Yes, you won’t be able to multiply your money. But once you have millions or billions to spare, it’s pretty easy to invest them in such a way that the returns will cover more than you spend on a daily basis at least. This easily develops a certain sense of carelessness.

Are they stupid or do they optimize for different constraints? MS could have introduced AI for surveillance and not for growth.

Ubisoft stock prices plummeted down and nearing the historical minimum.

Microsoft’s trust in ai is akin walking a bridge across a chasm, while building the said bridge on the go. Considering that linux share actively grows in later years, they’re doing a bad job with that bridge. EUs latest concerns about US and reliance on the US technologies don’t help either.

The quality of their product also depleeted, thanks to the reliance on aformentioned ai hype train, and usage of inapropriate technologies to build their OS companents (i.e. using react native for the start menu). All of that tops of with dubious investments, be it OpenAI, or bying Activision a few years prior. Not even mentioning the smaller game studios like Tango Gameworks that they bought only to close off immediately. Everything listed can be summarized as poor management decisions.

You might argue that they’re rich enough to spare a billion or two on such mistakes, but those mistaces appear to be systematic, rather than one-offs. To me it seems like a start of a slow and very painful fall.

Thanks for my new wallpaper :3

they surely will. That doesn’t mean they’re sharp enough to properly strategize. IMO when you have lots of money, you don’t really have to think as much, because it’s kust that more easier to breed money when you already have so much. So when the crisis finally comes, you won’t be able to properly analyze the situation.

Case in point — corpos like Microsoft and Ubisoft.

are you sure?

yeah, i think something like gachiakuta works waay better with this caption.

it’s a bit more complicated. Linux runs games with anti-cheats perfectly fine as long as the anti-cheat doesn’t require kernel-level access.

Basically, this allows to detect some cheats that would be undetected otherwise. But it also allows anti-cheats for absolutely unrestricted access to any user data. In other words, it’s a giant safety vulnerability, that you’re forsed to intall, that still doesn’t solve the cheating problem.

Not like the devs are actually interested to solve anything anyway, cheaters buy new accounts regularily, stimulating post-release sales.

please don’t use garlic bread for sexual purposes

your deleted comment has the same comedic effect as the bethesda’s environmental storytelling skeletons

i switched from gboard to ThumbKey. Took some time to get used to, but now the usual qwerty/swipe keyboards seem inferrior to me. Like, swipe is cool and all, but only as long as the keyboard knows the word you’re looking for. As soon as you need to type out anything manually, it always turns into hell

i use cachyos, runs swimmingly for me. I’m not sure arch is good for your usecase tho.

Mediacenter/homeserver? I’d personally choose something like fedora, but debian sounds fine too

kde, hyprland and mangowc are working without issues for me on cachyos with gtx1660

i guess Nokia n900 kinda feels like a lost technology now, huh?

idk, i kinda think that nokia’s smartphones were peak technology (the og nokia, not what came after with microsoft buying them)

Some of them had linux before it was cool. I also kinda miss the formfactor of a smartphone with a keyboard.

Modern smartphones really lack in variability. Basically now, when choosing between comparable models of diferent vendors, you just choose whether you want qualcom or mediatek soc, and which vendor’s bloat you tolerate more. I really miss all the wacky experiments with formfactors and OSes

ayo!?

too many companies already supporting blender for too long for it to be the case. Giants such as AMD, Intel and Nvidia are omongst them for quite a long time. No indication there’d be any “extinguishment” in the foreseeable future.

i mean,if i was a neutrino, i’d have “humans DNI” in my twitter profile