My secondary PC has a GPU in it that is more than 16 years old. Works as if it was brand new. I’d be pretty pissed if the support for any part of that PC just ended for no other reason that a billion dollar company trying to safe a few bucks 🤷

They pulled support for a GPU still widely used. If you buy an NVIDIA GPU today you will most likely face the same problem a few years down the line.

Eh, GitHub Actions might suck. But it doesn’t even come close to sucking as much as JavaScript, and most engineering teams seem to survive that just fine.

Underhand is a nice little resource management game.

Not judging, just curious.

What games are those? In the last 12 months I tried 151 games on Linux. All of them worked, only 6 required tinkering.

She outsmarted us all. Long after all twentieth century musicians have been forgotten random kids will still look her up.

Apple can’t even be arsed to support games that were released on their own platform like 5 years ago. Why would they suddenly start bothering to support games released for other platforms?

How do you propose GOG should handle forever support for a nearly endless number of shovelware games? Preservation is more than offering the downloads, the games also need to run on systems people actually have.

As far as I can tell they are fullfilling all their marketing promises by taking charge of updating games when developers stop doing so. I wish they would do that for the Linux versions as well as the windows versions, but it’s absolutely better than nothing.

Just like Windows it’s absolutely fine if you never used an alternative. But if you used something else it becomes apparent how much better Teams could be if they just focused on the key features instead of trying to cram in every AI-powered garbage product owned by Microsoft no one actually wants to use.

(Of course this isn’t the fault of the lead developer, but I guess that is besides the point for this meme)

Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness is a slightly obscure CRPG from Hungary / Austria

Coridden is a very unique ARPG from Sweden

If you are willing to slightly stretch your definition of european you can also get the IMO best two CRPGs on the market Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader from Owlcat which have their headquarter in Cyprus, but if I understand correctly most of the actual development happens in Armenia.

I just made sure to buy a motherboard that allows disabling secure boot in the BIOS.

More importantly: I no longer support Microsoft

Their niche doesn’t include humans, even little ones. That makes them more suitable as a pet, even if they are better at killing their prey than dogs.

That is true, Typescript and JavaScript look easier. And heck if all you want to do is make the money dance on your web page it really is easier.

But writing actual application? That does actual work with error handling? Hell, no. It honestly baffles me that anyone would use JavaScript of their own free will, unless that’s the only language you know.

Easy to make? Have you worked with JavaScript before? It’s an absolute mess and full of footguns.

And I assume your project doesn’t use async code for shits and giggles? Async code is just as hard in JavaScript except that everything is single threaded anyway.

And even assuming that it really is easier to make: I’d rather have fewer well made applications than hundreds of crappy ones. Each fucking application having to redistribute a whole ass browser is insane, and they’re all slow despite needing massive resources.

Not really relevant for an iPad, but it’s a good example:

Have you ever tried putting a custom ringtone on an iPhone?
In Android you just put an audio file in the ringtones folder, either by plugging it into a pc or with an on-device file manager.

For an iPhone you need to either buy the ringtone from the store or put it on the device through iTunes (🤮). Also it can’t be just any format. It needs to be a specific profile of AAC (if I remember correctly), then rename the file to have a specific extension. There is no way you could do all that without reading a guide.

Here’s how it works in countries that are not dystopian hellscapes:
You tell your boss “I’ll be at the doctor’s on Tuesday from 08:30 to about 11:00.”
You go to the doctor and pick up a paper from the receptionist when you leave that confirms the hours you were there.
You go back to your job and hand HR the paper, they put the hours into the system. The time you spent at the doctor’s office as well as the time you spent going there counts as work time.
This works the same for other things like getting your passport renewed or school events that parents should attend.

If the system in your country is worse in any way you should probably fight to improve it, or get out of there as fast as you can.

I hope you’re right. I’m future proofing anyway by preferring DRM-free stores when possible.

Sure that’s reasonable at the moment. And while it seems Gaben would never sell out, he is going to die at some point. What’s going to happen to steam / valve after that?

GOG enabled regional pricing several years ago.