On a less related meme

I was anticipating my gym to be this way and it was dead quiet the first week of January. I was not mad. It’s actually busier now than it was in January. 🤷

I would play matchmaking in Halo MCC more if the game wasn’t filled with cheaters. At least when I host custom games, I can ban them and move on.

In short: no, because they were already doing this.

And a lot of spare time.

I would be a lot more excited if I wasn’t worried it was going to cost +$1,099. I hope that I am wrong.

I use Linux daily for work and personal tasks, but I sometimes have to resort to either a Windows VM or Windows running natively for the following:

Hardware

• Gaming with the Oculus Rift S
• My third-party Xbox One wireless controller adapter for the non-bluetooth models
• Brook controller adapters

Software

• Microsoft Office. I absolutely need the documents, spreadsheets, and presentations I work on to be interoperable with Windows users who exclusively use Microsoft Office. I am no position to ask them to change what software they use. OnlyOffice is the closest to achieving interoperability and its UI is very similar, but it still falls short. Multiple animations on 1 slide don’t carry over, none of the macros my coworkers have made seem to work, slide formatting may look different, and transformed cells don’t seem to automatically update.
• Some games, such as Fortnite and CastleMinerZ either have bug-breaking issues or the publisher/anti-cheat sucks and blocks Linux. I don’t particularly care for these games, but I’m also not willing to give up game nights with lifelong friends over these. I’ll play them, suck at them, and have a good time. Then there are games such as Halo: MCC that mostly work, but then co-op campaign de-syncs.
• Original Xbox and Xbox 360 development and modification tools/programs don’t work. I can’t even FTP a file over from Fedora without it being unrecognized. I obviously don’t expect any of this to change.

And I desperately miss the native Stream Deck software. StreamController’s page-changing is very slow, in general is finicky, buggy, and less intuitive.

Do my eyes deceive me? A Phoronix article without people yelling at each other in the comments section? I probably just arrived too early.

I would be thrilled if I could bring life back to my Oculus Rift S with this.

The “why this matters” section of the article isn’t all that convincing. Sure, it’s the most NJ has fined for this matter and shows they enforce the law, but, as the article points out, it’s entirely negligible to Apple, so what’s the point? It’s so negligible, even the state isn’t going to be able to do anything significant with it.

“Join our Discord server!”

I’m sorry, they got rid of what?

Valve not showing the price of these is a pretty strong indicator that these are not going to be generously priced, which is why I’m not allowing myself to be excited about them. I think that they won’t be widely adopted enough to make a large impact on Linux as a result of the price.

You’re also forgetting the precursor to streaming: digital movie downloads, like on iTunes. I’m sure that also helped Blu-rays never really take over.

Which, in some way, is a shame, because I distinctly remember watching a movie on a plain DVD on my parents’ HD TV in very early 2006 and thinking, “Wow, this somehow looks like shit!” and I know I would’ve felt differently if we had a Blu-ray or HD-DVD, but since this was very early 2006, they didn’t even exist yet.

For me, it’s the opposite: I assume anything with enough upvotes will eventually be downvoted by somebody for whatever reason they may have.

I know most of you will say do what you enjoy, the thing is im not sure what i enjoy.

Well, I suppose there’s one way to find out: give it a try!

Beeing 🐝

Are you planning to use the SSD across multiple computers?