Pycorax

How do you stop them from randomly uninstalling themselves? A bunch of guys use Ubuntu at work and the Nvidia drivers would randomly nuke themselves occasionally when the device is turned off and they’d have to force CLI mode and do a reinstall.

Does it matter when 7zip handles rar anyways?

unless the game is online only you can theoratically play it forever.

Most games still have Steam DRM either way and you still need Steam at the very least to unlock the DRM at least once before you can run it offline. The only saving grace here is that with PC, the option to crack it is a lot more viable.

Never really understood the appeal of it though the shitty DRM and PC ports they had didn’t help. Tried to play GTA SA(?) more than 10 years ago but the bicycle controls were so bad ona tenkeyless keyboard I couldn’t progress. Same thing with the drone controls in Vice City. GTA IV was unplayable due to securom nonsense which after I bypassed, ran into some GFWL error that I gave up on. GTAV was extremely boring for me with how slow the gameplay was. For a game called Grand Theft Auto I was expecting a lot more action. Being forced to do yoga and deliver cars was not at all enjoyable for me.

On the contrary, I found the pre-reboot Saints Row games really fun and so did Sleeping Dogs. All of those games scratches the itch that I had expected GTA to scratch and did it better than GTA did in my opinion. Maybe I’m just not the target audiemce.

That’s why the MacBook Neo is putting up numbers, because it’s expensive and exclusive. /s

To be fair that’s a pretty new development along with the M series chips. Before then Apple stuff has always been the more expensive and overpriced choice.

international practice

Sorry, what international practice?

This is a shame. The pen is the single most useful thing on my Fold 6. If they’re not supporting a pen, then there’s no reason for me to buy any of their new devices. What a shame because their Notes app is the best pen enabled app I’ve tried on Android.

Yea, the annoying thing is that this used to be fine. I was able to order the Steam Deck with my non-US account and pick it up when I happened to be in the US. Now, I can’t even do that. I have a 15 year old account and spent probably more than a couple thousand bucks by now. Surely I’ve earned it?

Each global region that’s supported that is. I wish they’d have some way for regions outside of those list to still try. There was essentially 0 chance I was able to get a Steam Controller being outside of those lists.

What the other responders have said aside, are you seriously comparing a hardware focused company the size of Asus to Valve who’s hardware business is more of a side thing?

While I agree with the author’s written examples at the top, saying hardly noticeable inconsistencies in the animation causes a lost in trust is quite a hyperbole imo. Still, it does shatter the expectation of Apple’s stuff being smooth and “perfect”.

While it is Ideal to nip all these inconsistencies, speaking from an engineering perspective, this sounds like a huge amount of work for something that almost all users will never notice.

You’re not wrong but is that not the entire console business in a nutshell? Getting a console is essentially signing up for a closed platform

Because you’re trying to work around their excuse. If it’s not bad parenting, they’ll find some other absurd reason. Don’t even try to follow their nonsensical attempts to justify this invasion of privacy, that just gives them more fuel.

Both could be true. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are doing it, heck if I were them, it’s a prime opportunity to fan the flames. That doesn’t mean the hate is manufactured or the concerns aren’t valid. The billionaires did this to themselves.

Europeans? More like most of the world really…

Having played all 3 of them, I enjoyed The Dark Ages far more than Eternal. With the exception of the Marauder, Eternal was basically just “keep shooting and moving and you’ll never die” and was way too fast on its default setting. While 2016 was plenty fast, it was still somewhat tactical at times. The Dark Ages goes in that direction but with the parries which is an interesting mechanic that was refreshing imo. At times it feels like a rhythm game which was pretty fun. My main issue with it is that it drags in for a bit too long and that it felt like they weren’t really willing to commit all the way with the parry gameplay.

I really regret not buying one of the earlier GoPros. The Insta360 frankly has been a huge disappointment. The batteries are really awful.

Cortana was actually really good on Windows Phone but they dumbed it down and added all sort of crap to it by the time it was integrated onto the desktop. They could’ve doubled down on whatads it good but nope.

Seems like their parent company hasn’t learned anything since the whole Superfish nonsense all those years ago. Glad I’ve stayed far away from them all this time.

The US wasn’t even in the war until pearl harbour