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  • I was wrong that it was water-themed. It was “Pacific Drive” which I guess made me think of underwater. I never got a chance to play it, and it’s no longer in my library. I think there was another one, but I can’t remember now. It was a while back that I discovered it.

    EDIT: I agree with you 100% about ABZU. Boring after the first five minutes. Also, I don’t see Pacific Drive on the free games list. I need to try to remember the sequence of events. I know I never bought it, because I’ve never bought any games from EGS; all my titles were free ones.


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    Lol. 😂 I hear you. I feed at 10am and 10pm (with a 90 minute variance to keep them from getting to good at timekeeping). After almost a decade, I figured out a way to sleep in! Course, they still whine at night starting at 8pm sometimes, but my vet says my cats are unusually fit and a good weight, so I know I’m not starving them like they want me to believe. Their chirps and whines have gotten more and more elaborate and detailed on the last three years.






  • Presumptive argument you’re making. Most people worried about the expiration of windows 10 support aren’t in the market to buy windows 10. They already have it. Either way, massgrave.dev exists and makes that a moot point.

    What’s closed about LTSC IoT? Download, install, activate for free and carry on.

    Switching from Windows to Linux isn’t an easy move for most people. Most of then freak the fu$% out at the tiniest difference, and Linux is not a tiny difference.

    I switched before Windows 10 was released. I switched my Mom six months ago. Now she uses her work computer (win11) rather than her own laptop because, “the start button looked strange.” If you think a support deadline will get windows users (since the nineties) to suddenly adopt Linux, you haven’t been paying attention.

    You’re preaching to the choir about MS shenanigans. But… For those who feel they need win10, there is an option to continue chugging along until 2031.

    As for Linux being “superior” to Windows, I think most Windows plebs would disagree. It “just works” is what they think.






  • Every year, around 245 million PCs are shipped globally. If even 20–25% of those are gaming-focused, that’s 49–61 million gaming PCs annually.

    That seems like a too-charitable estimate. I would guess that 95%+ computers built and sold are for business uses. Of the remaining 12M, I would further guess that 90%+ of those aren’t for gaming, but for Grandma and Pop to use “The Facebook,” and for Mom or Uncle to file their taxes and buy airline tickets. By my guesstimate, that could be around 1M gaming computers sold.

    As an example, the place I used to work from ’16 to '21 bought about 700 computers yearly. One big year had us replacing about 3k desktops and about 300 laptops (changed from Dell to HP). My family (about forty of us from Grandma to my son) bought four in the past four years. Of those four, one was for gaming. My last gaming rig purchase was in March, and replaced an Intel 8xxx from 2015, which was itself just a mobo/CPU/RAM upgrade

    It seems to me that almost all computers sold are for business, and only a tiny sliver are sold for gaming.

    I don’t have anything else determinative to add about it. I just wanted to opine about the question of percentages.