I would suspect the market slowdown in VR purchases might be pushing some publishers to spend less money on it than when the Oculus Rift and Valve Index were fresh and new. Meta’s relative dominance of the arena and it’s tightly closed systems are also impacted by people who don’t want to give money to Meta. If the Steam Frame is successful, we might see a turnaround on that, but currently I think the VR market has been stagnating a little under Meta’s dominance. Zuckerberg abandoning the Metaverse entirely also is evidence of a market that exists but isn’t large enough for most publishers to justify the extra costs to include VR support when they won’t sell enough copies to offset those costs.

lmao God I can feel the frustration rising in me just thinking about it. I know these are digital rather than physical objects… but do these people fail to have object permanence?

Wow, usually people lose their shit and complain that Element is too complex and that me and the devs are being assholes asking them to use it… You know kind of like all the people here on the Fediverse who think we need to make it bigger and bring in everyone from everywhere and that the devs and users who defend them are awful for not focusing on user interface first and making it less confusing to choose a server…

Anyway, thanks for being on team reasonable, because I’m with you on this 100%, but I can’t change how little people want to learn anything sadly so I make compromises with people who cant or wont learn how to do things. It sucks, people really don’t seem to understand that security and convenience are a balance, and every time people argue for shit to be easier they’re actually arguing for everything to be less secure. You sacrifice security for convenience, every time, and the opposite happens because you can sacrifice convenience for increased security measures. Security has to be complex by nature to be effective, and the core of Matrix is being a secure, encrypted protocol, which they have already actually put a ton of work into making easier for fucking normies. Yet, it’s never enough for people. Always screams of “It’s too complex! I hate thinking!”

There’s also just something beautifully melancholy about it all, on top of the dark themes under a candy coating.

In my dreams Flapjack, K’nuckles, and Bubbie retire on Candy Island. A man can always dream.

I felt disappointed a week ago when I made a Flapjack reference that seemed like very few people got. I absolutely love the horror/disgust screams during the gross-up-close-ups.

This represents my Captain K’nuckles Squad Goals.

Just to be clear, pirates are gonna do their thing. We were all kids once. Money and the economy is very hard. I get it," wrote the designer. "It wasn’t the piracy that bothered me. It was the people that flagrantly walked in here and wagged it in the faces of people who were waiting to play legitimately. That was the part that aggravated me. That and the Reddit responses that keep talking like i’m a millionaire. I’m very much [not]. I don’t own a home. I rent.

Sounds like a valid response to me. I got into piracy partially because of lack of money and partially because back in the day, I understood how badly record companies were ripping artists off and then using that money to sue their fans. Video games have always been a different beast, just like movies. They often employ so many people at so many levels that it’s not so easy to just say “If you want to make sure they get their cut just go buy it on Bandcamp Friday” in comparison to musicians. (back in the day we also bought merch and concert tickets to support artists, just less of that money makes it to them these days)

I often use piracy to be able to test out a game without risking spending money on something I end up hating, and giving myself enough time to decide that. I actually played Baldurs Gate 3 twice before I was able to afford buying it at full price shortly after release, but it was well worth it to buy an official copy even though I had already played it a bunch. I still played it even more after buying it. Well worth the full-price game.

If you’re going into it with an attitude of that all game devs are rich and that they’re somehow ripping off their fans and so you can feel justified in pirating and taunting them for it, fuck me, grow up.

Oh I was well aware at the time, but I had a lot of friends who still struggled with trying to use Matrix/Element so at the time I was seeking a simpler solution for them.

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This is why corporate promises can never be trusted, because a new CEO can change those promises on a whim.

It’s part of why despite being interested in Beeper, I never signed up for it because I had questions about if those privacy promises they made would be kept if they sold to a bigger company… which they eventually did.

On the plus side Bitwarden already made an official open source self-hosted version, which can be forked and/or return to the community developed Vaultwarden roots.

Meanwhile KeepassXC keeps on chugging along.

They will burn down the planet in an effort to replace us by telling themselves climate change won’t matter as long as they kill like 7.5 billion people in the process.

Danger, danger, high voltage
When we touch, when we kiss

Which, I mean, he’s technically not wrong. Files exist as data on a hard drive that exists in the computer. If you destroy the hard drive in the computer the files cease to exist.

Except Microsoft doesn’t have the respectability to discontinue a clearly broken product now that they’ve baked it into ever installaion of Windows 11 by default

Nice melon.

Thom is too depressed about his access to healthcare at the NHS to hear you.

Fitter, healthier, and more productive
A pig in a cage on antibiotics

I’ve been running Ubuntu on laptops for a lot longer than five years and the last time I had real WiFi issues was over a decade ago. That’s why I think it may be debian related or based on your description, possibly a closed source driver issue. There’s actually quite a lot of WiFi devices that use chipsets that we don’t have proper Linux drivers for at all, and what exists are sort of hacked together projects that live on github. I’ve had to do this with every netgear dongle I ever had, the downloading and compiling drivers for it from github.

I couldn’t even find any evidence in the article or photos that anyone interviewed was running a local LLM, which would at least justify worrying about temps if your keyboard acts as your air intake (which apparently is relatively common now).

Just a bunch of narcissists wanting an excuse to have people ask them about what they’re doing, ogle what they’re doing, and so they can pretend they’re…

Ah, yeah, was there any particular reason you were using LMDE? Because I’m not sure what parts of systemd it uses (especially back then), but I always just edited /etc/systemd/logind.conf to have HandleLidSwitch=ignore and have had zero issues. Pretty sure there is a gnome GUI for changing this same setting, gnome-tweaks.

I would assume the bad WiFi support was due to it being Debian and Debian being notoriously behind in terms of updates for the sake of stability.