A few years ago Walmart released a line of gaming computers and the ars technica article I saw was titled something like “Walmart released gaming computers and the prices aren’t awful”.

I copied and pasted the title verbatim and the post got downvoted a ton and all of the comments were trying to give me shit for the prices not actually being good (I feel like they were in line with normal prebuilts but oh well).

The Internet is a weird place. And to be honest, since I left reddit and have been on Lemmy I feel like people here vote with passion instead of based on the content of the post/comment a lot more than reddit. Its one of the only complaints I have so far.

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For some actual numbers, Valve had sold ~4 million steam decks since it was released over 3 years ago.

Nintendo has sold ~150 million switches to date. And they sold nearly 18 million of them in its first full year (2017).

Plus Saving Private Ryan directly allowed him to make Band of Brothers which is easily one of the best wat shows of all time.

We should make just one more standards agency! To include all the standards for everything!

They also don’t sell that many of them.

Some quick googling says that Valve has sold nearly 4 million decks, which is pretty good.

Lenovo sold ~62 million computers last year alone. And they only make up ~1/4 of global market share

Yeah I feel like “industry standard” and “vendor locked” are kinda opposites?

October is when security patches for windows 10 will stop. Its when it goes full out of support. LTSB will continue getting security patches for a couple years though.

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Source Code release could be complicated, especially for games that aren’t 30 years old because the devs don’t start over from scratch every time so there would still be an enormous amount of proprietary code in it.

Itd be cool (and as impractical as it is, I believe all code should be open sources) but not really feasible

There used to be but the moderators forgot to sign up for HP Smart® Instant Ink™ and used non-authorized ink (first party ink ordered directly from HPs website) so it got shut down 😔

Yeah but if they let users control the data then how are they supposed to sell it to insurance companies to boost their value to VCs???

someone who promotes a product while hiding the fact that they’ve been paid

Streamers generally say “this is a sponsored stream”

So by your own definition streamers are generally not shills?

My buddy is a little streamer (gets maybe a few dozen viewers) and he got early access to it as well. Although he doesn’t add any fake hype, he’s just a very good hype man.

Ubuntu Server baby. That shit is absolutely rock solid, I’ve literally never had an update break stuff in the decade+ I’ve been managing it.

I actually love the cross platform PowerShell stuff for two reasons. One it’s really nice to be able to have something that works on my windows environment and the Linux one, and 2 because PowerShell is enormously better than bash.

but at least people who can’t even navigate their basic file explorer that they are expected to use scary terminal commands.

This! I work in IT, in fact, I’m the director of both the IT and software teams at my company and I am constantly teaching my new techs and reminding my existing techs that they need to remember just how little the “average” person knows about computers, and how much more that is than what they’d actually care to learn.

99% of people don’t care about computers, or how to make things “more efficient”, or anything else. They just care about the easiest way to do something. And like it or not, the easiest way for the vast majority of people is through a GUI.

There is even an XKCD about this

And that’s even before you get to the security problems! I am constantly trying to prevent users from going to FreeNuclearCodes.com or sending passwords and social security numbers to i7716tvq_88@gmail.com (actual email address I had to block last week)

It seems to be hit or miss. I hear people online have no issues with HOTAS/HOSAS/other sim gear on Linux. But I could never really get mine to work 100% correctly.

Plus it was a lot more fiddly every time I wanted to play my games than windows. Idk I just keep windows for my sims and do everything else on Linux

For me (sysadmin actually) it’s because what I’m doing is either simple enough that I can use Nano (editing simple config files) or complicated enough that I’ll want a full fledged IDE. I use VSCode and it handles remote files really really well.

Although I have learned a little bit of Vi/Vim because sometimes thats all you have.

Plus if you’re doing major changes (like more than editing a line or two) you shouldn’t be doing that on a production server anyways. Like if I found out an engineer or dev was primarily working directly off of the server they would probably be on their way out the door. Uptime is worth way too much for that nonsense.

Nanos search and replace is Alt+R as far as I remember

Good. They need to be humbled haha