different countries with different cultures and priorities

They're mostly in France, yeah?

It turns out that most European countries (and especially France) have actual worker protections, and you just can't point and yell 'you're fired!' at someone and do mass layoffs without, you know, doing them legally.

Because they're still making billions. They're just not making as many billions as they'd like, and as many as the investors are demanding.

That's what's driving the stock price drops more than anything else, but they're not a broke business with no resources, no sales, and no hope heading into bankruptcy.

They're just not feeding the vultures, and the vultures are going to force a sale to someone worse.

Unpopular opinion: I think people are tired of disjointed big stories.

I mean, I know I am. Give me a story about a couple of people doing something that's a good story, not a giant montage of short scenes about the fate of the galaxy.

I don't CARE about the galaxy, I want a good personal story that has stakes that make sense on a personal level, and isn't just some weird superhero story but happens to be wearing a Star Wars skin suit.

Also maybe don't make a trilogy that's the same damn story beats as the previous trilogy, but worse in every way you care to mention.

And, maybe, that's not just me: Rogue One is such a movie and it's been well received. Andor is a show at the same kind of scale, and hey, it's also been accepted as good.

It's like findom, except with your data and you get nothing out of it.

Dry itchy skin? Red rash? It could be SimpleX. Ask your doctor today.

watching players metrics and not seeing many people quit or cancel over this

This feels like a case where the metrics are going to outright lie about the real impact.

Maybe not very MANY people quit, but those that leave are going to have been the ride-or-die, dedicated fans that have been playing for, in some cases, decades now.

They're the only members of the player base that are in guilds that actually have anything in the bank worth caring about, because a new expansion will have effectively devalued the entirety of the mundane gear and potions and food stacks MOST guilds use their banks for.

I may just have a skewed view here, but this is an issue that impacts the dedicated, vocal, and visible section of players far more than your random guy who shows up to run a LFR once a week so uh maybe finding time for a human to actually look at and do something useful would be a good investment.

But then, I'm also not an MBA so what do I know.

Hadn't seen that project but that kind of feels like the way to go. I don't care about having parts to keep something working when the laptop was $50 in the first place. If it breaks, into the trash it goes, and I'll just buy another one.

Those are cool, and they've definitely nailed the aesthetic. Also looks like they're working on a new revision which looks like a reasonable upgrade.

Not sure it's the right choice for what I'm after (it's kinda expensive and very performance limited for the cost), but uh, I'm going to keep an eye out because that's a cool piece of kit.

Also, you should consider new windows and insulation/re-insulation of your house first.

I spent ~$6k on new windows and full encapsulation with spray foam (small house, so ymmv) and had my power bill/gas bill drop by nearly 60%.

MUCH better ROI than the solar is ever going to be and it's also included in the energy efficiency tax credits as long as you ensure the R values are sufficient, and you do it professionally.

Are you talking about disconnecting power entirely, or just generating as much as possible yourself?

Because the first, depending on local laws, is going to be something you can't necessarily do and keep your occupancy permit and be allowed to stay living in the house.

The other is going to be a matter of figuring out your maximum power requirements and sizing a solar and battery system big enough to fill your needs.

Just as a thing to consider: you're talking tens and tens of thousands of hardware if your power bill is $300 a month, and the ROI on this is going to be 10 or 20 years, so if you're not living there that long, it's maybe not worth doing.

Do the math on how much power you use at peak draw, how much power you use in a month, and how big of a system you'd need to generate enough power, and how many batteries you'd need to store your non-solar needs (days with lower production, no production, overnight, etc.).

(Edit) Meant to give example numbers for what I did in 2022. I ended up spending about $11,000 on the solar panels themselves, and the batteries would have been ~$23,000, for a monthly peak usage of about 1500kwh.

I did not spend $23,000 on batteries, because that would have been (and the math has tracked afterwards) more than a decade payback time, which was longer than the manufacturer specs indicated that I could expect the batteries to last.

I'm sure prices have decreased some in the last 2 years, but solar panels aren't too badly priced, but the rest of the storage stuff around it was just a bit too expensive to make any real sense unless I was somewhere doing the no-grid life, which isn't the case here.

“Debian is too far behind! Packages are too old!”

The best rule of thumb I've ever heard regarding Debian Stable is that if the kernel in stable's default repo fully supports ALL your hardware, and the software in stable's default repos fully support your workflows, it's fine.

If those are NOT true, then you probably don't want to use Stable, because you'll either end up fighting it via manually compiled and installed software, or you'll venture into so many 3rd party repos for updated packages that updating it later becomes problematic and prone to making the whole system catch fire and burn down.

I mean the article answers it, but this is not the first time that devs have complained that they MUST launch software that runs on the X and it's sibling, the S.

Like, it's a requirement that the game runs well on the flagship console and it's potato brother.

It's hardly a mystery why a dev might not want to spend time building a game that looks great on PS5, Series X, and PC and then also have to make a 2nd lobotomized version since Microsoft decided they wanted two consoles this time around.

But consider that if you get a more powerful card at the same price you don’t need as much upscaling or frame generation. FSR being sightly worse is irrelevant if you can run the game at native.

I'm on a 3080, and if I'm getting 40fps in a title at settings I'm happy with (which is ending up more common than I'd like), not even a 7900xtx is going to give me the 90fps I'd much prefer. And, lest you think I'm being vastly unfair, I'll also say there are no nVidia cards that will do so either. And yes, this is entirely dependent on your resolution, but the ultrawide I'm quite fond of is essentially the same pixel count as 4k144, which is a lot of pixels to attempt to draw at once.

The only way to get there (at least until the 5090 shows up, I guess?) is to do some sort of upscaling. And, frankly, FSR is - subjectively - not 'slightly worse' but rather such a artifact-y mess (at least in games I'm playing) that I'd rather have 40fps than deal with how ugly it makes everything.

XESS is a lot better, and works fine on AMD cards, but until FSR gets a lot cleaner, or everything starts supporting XESS, DLSS is still the best game in town.

As for NVENC, you're absolutely right, unless you're using it for streaming, and have a hard cap on upper bitrates because you're not Twitch royalty. I'll admit that's an edge case that most people don't have, or even need to consider, but if you do need low-bitrate streaming, and don't want to deal with x264 doing it in software, well, it's NVENC or sub-par quality from AMF. I'm honestly surprised they haven't invested time in fixing the one real use case that hardware encoding still has (real-time encoding of low bitrates), but I suppose someone somewhere has an excel sheet that shows that the market that cares about it is so small as to be of no value to spend time on.

You know, the older I get the more I respect the people who come out and say 'I'm not going to learn that, and I don't want to.'

It's a LOT better than dealing with someone who half-asses and kinda wishy-washes around and says they'll maybe do something but then doesn't and well, wasn't ever going to.

If you're not interested and won't, say so up front so you don't waste your or my time trying to get you to do something.

Have some stuff on a VPS, some stuff hosted as static pages at Cloudflare, some stuff hosted at home too.

Depends on if 100% uptime is required, if they're just serving static content, or if they're in some way related to another service I'm running (I have a couple of BBSes, and the web pages that host the clients and VMs that host the clients run locally).

Though, at this point, anything I'm NOT hosting at home is kinda a "legacy" deployment, and probably will be brought in-house at some point in the future or converted to static-only and put on Cloudflare if there's some reason I can't/don't want to host it at home.

Man, grindr getting dangerous these days.

Biebian is VASTLY superior to Hannah Montana Linux. You should consider switching.

It's not just price, at least for me.

It's also the fact that FSR is worse than DLSS, that AMF is worse than nvenc, that their raytracing performance is not even close, and that AFMF isn't as good as DLSS frame generation, and that the drivers aren't as stable, and so on and so on and so on....

The whole product is just... not strictly equivalent, and the price difference isn't the reason that I don't really look too hard at AMD cards.

If AMD gets to equivalency with FSR, AMF, and AFMF that'd make their cards FAR more compelling than a $100 lower price tag would.

Maybe you'd be happier playing Diablo's parents, a proper rogue-like?

Perma-death provides quite the incentive and intensity you seem to want.

It also doesn't lend itself quite so much to "builds" since you're relying mostly on whatever you find, which is randomized, so you can't "solve the game".

And PeerTube is pathetic. Peertube on the otherhand is “EVERYTHING IS A LINUX VIDEO!!! ONLY LINUX EXISTS ON THIS PLATFORM!!!”

You're not wrong, but the biggest flaw Peertube has is that the search on an instance is utterly worthless and defective.

They do have a good search engine for finding content you might want to watch, but they don't use those results in the instance-level search which befuddles and confuses the shit out of me, because you won't find shit you actually want to watch.

https://sepiasearch.org/ is where you probably want to start, but yeah, there's a LOT of Linux shit, but you can at least find other things when you use a non-broken search option.