But why pay all those programmers when all they had to do from the beginning was a simple

#include “ai.h”

Don’t worry, though. It’s not in development hell, it’s going to be a AAAAA game, and that takes time.

“Two popular games with little else in common can be shoehorned into my pet narrative” is a bad title, though.

99% of gamers knew this years ago.

It’s always been a race to gobble up the handful of whales that keep the mobile game industry alive. Now add hundreds more desktop and console games to that list. Sure, there are lots of people that will happily spend thousands of dollars on any shitty game, but once you’ve got the entire industry spending billions fighting over those players, the well runs dry eventually.

“Apple is the North Korea of tech companies.”

https://bsky.app/profile/klonick.bsky.social/post/3kn42c234ds24

Samsung did have a major problem early last year, but it seems to be limited to a run of products with a specific firmware.

It’s Sony, so they’ll advertise Linux support, then pull it with a firmware update in 3-4 years.

I’m just waiting for that glorious day when I can, in fact, download a car.

And then when these games continue to flop critically, and never reach the player count they forecast, it’s the developers’ fault and layoffs abound.

Just started S1E1 to check, and the credits on Netflix are indeed updated.

Sony deleting purchased items from a person’s library?

Shocker.

It’s all about publishing something, even if it’s hollow click bait.

If you know the details, put the year in the search. “c.h.u.d. 1984” gets six results.

Internet Archive has tons of relevant magazines. This Old House, ShopNotes, etc.

Plex desperately wants to be more then just a self-hosted library solution, as that’s often (though not exclusively) associated with piracy. They also have a free streaming service, similar to Tubi and Pluto, that can integrate with your own library.

I like my Roku, but it would be much more annoying without a pihole to block the ads.

Pure speculation: of the people who don’t like Epic, maybe 25% are legitimate, principled objections to their business practices. The rest are split evenly between people who just want to manage their entire library on a single platform, and folks just going along for the hate-ride because it seems like the “safe” position to take.

From a technical stance, Steam and GOG are superior platforms (for different reasons). For equal-price purchases, I can’t think of a single reason to choose Epic over other options. But claiming a game for free? That doesn’t make anyone a bad person.

It’s not in any of the articles, but in dropbox forums:

The Third-Party AI features are not available to everyone yet. The features are in alpha and are only available to customers on Dropbox Professional, Essentials, Business, Business Plus, and some customers on Dropbox Standard and Advanced.

If you’re on a Basic, Plus or Family account, or you’re part of one of the other groups that don’t yet have access, the Third-Party AI features won’t be available to you.

It’s been a few years since I built my computer, so no specific recommendations. Today, I’d start at PCPartPicker.com and work through the wizard to build. It won’t (or shouldn’t) let you pick anything too small, so no worries about the wattage (but go a little more than you think you need). Once you have it narrowed down to a few options, read lots and lots of reviews.

That site has review scores. Amazon, Best Buy, Microcenter, New Egg, and others all have reviews from real buyers. Tom’s Hardware, IGN, AnandTech, and probably dozens more have professional reviews. Every brand is going to have an occasional stinker, so model numbers matter.

A quality power supply plus a good UPS will take care of any power-related instability. Other than that, buy reputable brands from reputable sellers, and you should be fine.

IMHO, “ultra-reliability” is kind of a trap. You can spend a lot more money on enterprise-class hardware to get another 0.01% uptime.

Your situation may be different than most consumers, so I hesitate to speak in absolutes, but for the vast majority of people, software configuration issues are going to be the cause of instability by orders of magnitude over hardware.