CerebralHawks

CDPR did nothing wrong. PS4/XB1 were hobbled by hard drives. Put SSDs in them and they get a lot better. Same with PCs from the same era. Also, tech was not ready for their game. Not their fault for not letting it hold them back. Excluding consoles would have been worse for them.

They support Mac with CP77, which is worth a lot of goodwill for me. It plays better on my XSX, so I play it there. The Witcher 3 doesn’t support Mac, but I got it on the XSX for ten bucks. I’m happy. I already owned it on Steam, but I’m not mad. I got out of White Orchard for the first time! Looking forward to spending some quality time in the world.

He may have been at one time, but I’m pretty sure he had a working prototype before Google got involved.

I do know that even before the iPhone was announced, we (tech blog/forum commenters) were expecting Google to make a “G Phone”.

People who understand Linux know, people who don’t, don’t care.

That is to say, yes you’re right and I understand why, but to most people, if it runs Android apps, it’s Android. Like GrapheneOS is “Android without Google.”

So, to explain, or at least qualify myself as someone who knows (as opposed to someone who doesn’t care, so you don’t think I’m blowing off what you said), Linux isn’t an OS, it’s a kernel, and Android uses the/a Linux kernel (I’m not sure if they use the most up to date one — macOS is certified UNIX, but it’s UNIX 3 which is a very old standard and it’s only barely that, so in practice it really isn’t UNIX except they can say it is). So these things we collectively call “Linux” (SteamOS, Ubuntu, Mint, Arch, etc.) are distros, which the lay person just thinks of as “flavours of Linux,” but in fact, Linux is the kernel, GNOME or KDE is the desktop environment, you have all these other packages, and all of it, together, working as a somewhat cohesive OS, is a “Linux distro” (i.e. the Linux kernel distributed with stuff to make an OS).

I used to say Android was Linux. That’s… not entirely accurate, but like saying macOS is UNIX, there’s some truth in there. Android basically exists because Steve Jobs said the iPhone would run OS X (what macOS was called then), and Andy Rubin said “shit, if Apple can put UNIX on a phone, I can probably port Linux to one as well.” And he did. And it wasn’t going to go anywhere because he had no real plan to monetise it. And then Google said, “shit, we can take that and scrape way more user data to sell than we could with Gmail alone.” Then Google threw a ton of money at Apple to become the default search on iPhones so they could get that data, too. And most iPhones leave the setting alone. (Mine uses DuckDuckGo. Fuck Google.) A lot of iPhone users also use Chrome, so Google gets the web history as well. Most iPhone users, and smartphone users in general, don’t care about privacy. I do, but not as much as some others.

I kinda want one, and my main phone is an iPhone. (I also have an Android phone, but it’s 5 years older.)

They say it’s based on Linux, not Android, but I’ve heard the reverse. That it’s just another Android fork that is made without Google. I hope this article is the accurate one, or that I misread before.

The problem is, I have a great phone now, and I have a good phone I’m not adverse to using, so I have no need for a new phone. But after paying down some cards and getting some other shit paid off, I’d like to buy another new phone in a few years, and I’d like to replace the Android phone rather than the iPhone, since the iPhone will be “good enough” for about a decade.

Macs can do this with iPhones… natively. I can tell either of my Macs to take a picture from my iPhone, and it’ll just do it. I’m not sure why that is a thing (e.g. if my iPhone isn’t in my hand, it’s not pointing at anything I want a shot of), but it is. Also, they make clips that attach the iPhone to the top of the Mac(Book) and point the screen away from you, letting its 2-3 cameras point at you, looking over the screen at you.

So if Apple does it, the big Android/Windows/Linux players want to make it an option, too. Fortunately this has been a thing (on the Apple side) for a couple years now, so, even before I skimmed the comments, I thought, “I should fucking hope so.”

It’s the brightness and lack of cooling with my M2 MacBook Air. I have that, my iPhone, and my Galaxy S10. I’m on Lemmy on the S10. Even that isn’t as bright as my iPhone, but the typing is ten billion percent better.

Notepad is still fine. You can disable markdown and the AI stuff.

I use Macs at home, but use Windows 11 at work. I actually use a combination of Notepad and Sticky Notes daily (well, not on the weekends). It’s fine.

One thing I want it to do is stop telling me a file is not saved if I change something and then change it back. The unsaved indicator (the dot) annoys me.

Cool! Does it do it automatically (once set up)?

Apple guy here, so no, I don’t use Linux. I have before, and I have off and on for about 30 years. I’m not subbed here, I browse /all and see a bunch of stuff. Thought this was worth replying to.

Like I would never tell an Android user they can’t use a Mac because they wouldn’t get Universal Clipboard, but dammit, that feature is so useful. Of course we don’t have Linux phones but supposedly they’re coming, and I’d be super interested in one. At one point it was important to have an iPhone because of privacy and power. But we hit a plateau years ago and it’s all marketing bullshit now. Any flagship from the last 5-6 years is still pretty good. So until someone takes a step forward, might as well get a Linux phone, and it’s gonna beat the iPhone to privacy.

So looking back to the Linux that exists today, I’d like to see an E2EE clipboard sync system that, for now, syncs between a Linxu desktop and a Linux laptop (or two of whichever). Shouldn’t matter which flavour of Linux either. Syncthing does similar stuff and it’s on Mac and Windows, so maybe something involving that? Then when people get phones, just run the service on the Linux phone.

I’m a big fan of the “the mentor dies to push the student forward” trope, so it makes sense to me that Jackie dies and that pushes us into Johnny’s camp, for better or worse. And Johnny is a worse Jackie in every way (except that he’s modeled after and voiced by Keanu Reeves), until he’s not, which takes a while.

Still, I felt it would have fit to have more time bonding with Jackie. They imply it in the opening movie after the prologue, but it would be nice to actually go through with all of it. I feel like it makes more sense if you’re playing a guy, but since they let you play a woman and they got such a damn good voice actor to voice her, not using her makes about as much sense as replacing Keanu Reeves with some rando for whatever reason. As a nerd, pairing Asuna (SAO) with Neo (The Matrix) is just too freakin’ cool to pass up. So anyway, girls tend to have it rough in Night City, so it would stand to reason it would take longer for V(alerie) to trust Jackie, not just one mission and then a montage of hanging out. Mass Effect, I think 2 or maybe 3, did this so much better, especially if you were romancing Liara (the blue chick), you had all this extra time to build a solid friendship with Garrus (the tall greyish, blueish alien with the ridged forehead). You could altneratively romance him, but if you weren’t going for that, the game made a hell of a friendship between him and FemShep that was believable, you could fully expect Garrus to follow you to Hell and back at the end of the trilogy. (Granted, that is a whole trilogy and not just a first act. Still, Mass Effect laid the foundation a decade prior.)

I think they should offer a base of 512GB (or 500GB?) for the storage, but yeah, I mean, I got a 2TB external SSD for around $110-120 on Black Friday a couple years ago. That plus my 8TB external hard drive… My Mac has 10.5TB to play with (and around ~1TB free between all drives).

So the article writer is basically saying they gave up on a free OS because it doesn’t have corporate backing.

So split the difference and get a Mac. Forget what people tell you about the Mac tax, they’re $500. They’ve been $480 on sale for the holidays. That’s the M4 Mac mini. You can spec it out with more cores and more RAM, but it’s 16GB RAM, 256GB storage, and something like 8 cores. Good enough for most people, but you’ll probably want more storage. So add some, it’s got like 5 USB-C ports on it, and hubs exist. It’s also like, the size of your fist. Anyway, it’s a corporate (Apple) backed computer, and it’s not Windows. So, there. Problem solved… right?

Obviously not for Linux gaming, and Proton doesn’t exist on macOS (Crossover does which is kind of the same thing… Crossover contributes to WINE, and Proton is based on WINE), but gaming is roughly the same prospect on a Mac as it is on Linux. You gotta emulate or whatever the hell WINE is (WINE Is Not [an] Emulator) but whatever. Compatibility layer, same thing to the lay person. Which you are if you go running back to Windows after trying Linux for 5 whole minutes.

Can you remote into a Steam Deck? I’m guessing yes but I’m not sure.

Switch 2 is an easy win in your mother’s case, though. People see emulation but they don’t see the hoops you have to jump through, and the Switch 2 is a solid machine, it just doesn’t have the breadth of games.

I kinda want a Deck (I only have a 3DSXL and Switch 1 for mobile gaming, not counting phones) but I’m also not discounting the Switch 2. On Switch, I almost exclusively play Animal Crossing, and the performance gains of the Switch 2 upgrade alone make it almost worth it for a game I play almost daily. But I’ve been playing for a year, I’m on my third island, and I’m afraid I’m starting to get tired of it. I know about the free hotel DLC/update coming in January, it’s basically a lite/free version of the Happy Home Paradise DLC (same mechanic), but I think it’ll be too little too late for me, let alone people who have been crossing since ACNH came out in 2020 — or longer, with previous titles. (I have the modded HShop version, Welcome Luxury, which supposedly fixes a lot of stuff, but I’ve had a hard time getting into it after being spoiled by New Horizons.)

Oh yeah, I heard people didn’t like the idea of a Black guy in the Japanese AC game. Is that the one Shadows was? So yeah, that person may not have existed in history. Then again, neither did Robin Hood. Stories don’t need to be based in fact, and as much as the original Assassin’s Creed was all about historical accuracy, the whole Animus thing placed the game entirely within the realm of fiction and fantasy, which tells me any artistic liberties they take with the history you dive into is A-OK in my book! So I don’t care if that guy existed IRL or not. I was intrigued by the idea of a Japanese AC game… but put off by the developer.

And racists are idiots, just, full stop on that count.

Cool, but I wish they’d look at why people hate them, ignore the bullshit reasons, and focus on the good points — and work to improve them.

I haven’t cared about Assassin’s Creed since the first one. The fights are like playing Guitar Hero blindfolded, but on Expert, except if you fail, you die and have to start over. QTEs where you can’t even see the prompts are dumb. They had a cool vision for the game, but the actual implementation sucked.

Another game, I forget which one, had forced inverted X-axis and you couldn’t un-invert it. Bonus, the Y axis couldn’t be inverted like I like. So the game was completely unplayable.

I feel like they don’t give a shit about gamers.

We all have to do the course. And honestly I’m not even mad.

In my line of work, most people are not computer savvy. We’re running Windows 11 and no one has admin privileges, even the highest ranking people. They’re all limited. That’s fine. We can’t install anything. I’m pretty sure I could hit up PortableApps and get some portable software working, but I’m not trying to push my luck. I’m pretty sure I know what I can and can’t get away with, but it’s a good job and I don’t want to mess it up. Besides, a lot of people are illegally streaming sports or movies and getting away with that, so IT security is pretty lax. That’s probably true at a lot of places.

I don’t mind the cybersecurity courses because I mute them and make them run at double speed and I ignore them, clicking through, then I ace the test. It’s not that I don’t care. I just know the material already. I’ve also helped coworkers who earnestly sat through the whole thing and are genuinely struggling. I know they hate how casually I get all the questions right, but they hate having to go through it a second time even more.

Plus, there’s one vendor of training videos that is kind of like an office comedy, and one of the workers has a bunch of anime fan art in their cubicle. So it amuses me to no end that all of my coworkers are seeing these characters. It’s nothing recent and I haven’t seen it in a while. I know Killua from Hunter x Hunter is there. 12 year old boy, has super powers, something with lightning? (been ages since I watched HxH, and Meruem best boy) and he can rip your heart out of your chest (he’s done it before). I feel like they need to add Anya Forger (from SPYxFAMILY) to the wall. That would be funny. (Telepathic toddler, dumb as a box of rocks, and just as adorable.)

Yes.

But let’s be real, most of us aren’t going to read all of them.

I really tried with Cyberpunk. I love that game. But the credits just went on and on and on and…

I did it with Animal Crossing though! But every time I ask K.K. Slider to play a song, the credits roll. And there’s an achievement for doing it 50 times. It takes a year. He shows up once a week. I mean it takes a year if you play Animal Crossing every Saturday after 6pm.

I can’t wait to roll credits on Blue Prince. One dude made that game. Like Stardew Valley.

“Too expensive” means "beyond what the market will bear. Objectively, the Switch 2 didn’t cost enough — there was some other higher price that would have given Nintendo numbers such that while it might not have sold quite as well, what it would have sold would have made up for it. Would the market bear a $500 Switch 2? Maybe. $600? That, I doubt. $450 was a bit high for my liking, but the market bore it just fine and now it’s thriving.

I’m still laughing at those who said the Switch 2 was too expensive (on Reddit). The numbers prove otherwise.

So you also like it? You disagree with everything I said… including the part where I said I don’t like it? It sounds like you just want to be antagonistic. I’m not the future — being mean to me on social media won’t stop the future from happening. It just makes you slightly less of a good person.

The reason streaming boxes are the future in gaming is the same reason they are in movies and music. In movies and music, the common players don’t support physical media anymore — they’re too small. How do you get a tape, CD, or vinyl record into an iPhone? You stream it. Same with games. Even now, vs 20 years ago, physical releases are getting rarer and rarer. This generation, Xbox and PlayStation have digital-only models, and a lot of games are digital-only.

The compression is a trade-off and it exists in movie and music streaming as well. Latency will be mitigated by more servers.

And it’s actually already here. There are “Smart” TVs out there that play Xbox games. Via Cloud Gaming. I know guys out in the sticks who do cloud gaming. The myth that it’s only going to work in NYC, LA, and Chicago hasn’t ever been true. Seems like every town has servers now. And the fiber and cable running everywhere is good enough to solve most of the latency. Of course, there will always be latency… hell, I can’t catch fish in Animal Crossing if I’m using a wired controller, I have to take the damn Switch out of the dock and play handheld, but if I do that, I can catch the 5-star rarity fish every time, first try.

You don’t have to like it. I sure don’t. But, how’s refusing to accept things you don’t like working out for you? You wish us a good president yet, or do you actually like the one we have (in the US)? Your wishes in tech are about as effective… same as mine.