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.

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.

OP posts about windows EoL as a reason to switch to Linux. I reply that windows isn’t EoL as soon as OP thought. I’m fighting for windows? News to me. Switch to Linux, don’t switch. I don’t care, because it’s a personal preference, not a club with you gate keeping… Maybe some people who read your post will worry they only have months, when they have more than five years.

And yes, the world is round. Feel free to argue about the firmament over your head and that Antarctica doesn’t experience constant sunlight in summer. I won’t hear you. Have a great day. Laaaater.

That fourth thing is hunger. It only comes when the cat is fed on a schedule, as opposed to free-fed with multiple piles of food out all day. Feed in a schedule and you’ll suddenly see (healthy, right-weight) interested felines licking empty bowls.

I still have hundreds, but they do disappear like any purely digital asset.

I don’t even remember the name of the game, but it was one that was next to a title I do play often when sorted by “recent” which is based on purchase (or redemption) date. Might have been that underwater exploration title.

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.

I’ve claimed probably 70% of the free games for the past four or five years. I’ve noticed some of the titles disappear. So one catch is, you may not get to keep the free game(s) you grab.

Sure. About 10% as edge case as Windows users making the switch to Linux. Those who are scared to move away from Windows to Linux can continue to use Win 10 IoT LTSC for another 5+ years. I shared this as a reminder that the end of support “coming soon” can be staved off for another half decade if desired.

I’d have to settle with LineageOS

Why wouldn’t LOS be affected? On the Calyx post you link to, they say it affects all custom OS projects.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-iot-enterprise-ltsc-2021

End of extended support date: 2032-01-13T22:59:59

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.

They’d probably claim liability as a reason not to hand out food. Solution: draft a form waiver for all recipients to sign.

It was about a fucked up situation and the fucked up police
It’s about comin’ up and stayin’ on top
And screamin’ 1-8-7 on a mother fuckin’ cop
It ain’t in the paper, it’s on the wall
National guard
Smoke from all around

https://lemmy.world/comment/17554647

This link says nothing. Has weirdly impossible statistics:

The most frequently used apps in our sample were Kickidler (49.8 per cent), Spyera (49.5 per cent), Flexispy (49.3 per cent), and Teramind (48.4 per cent).

Asks questions with no answers. I could have written a similar piece called, “The Path to Riches,” and then scribble out seven paragraphs on how money will be required to get rich. Might as well be AI swill.

I looked into these so-called “responsible” indexes a few years back. It seems that whenever I dug into them, they invested in companies that didn’t seem to fit the description. These don’t change that assessment. You don’t have to look past the second page to see the primary holdings are not “socially responsible” companies at all.

SRI holdings:

NVIDIA
TESLA
HOME DEPOT
COCA COLA
ASML HLDG
NOVO NORDISK
INTUIT
DISNEY (WALT)
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS
BOOKING HOLDINGS

Tesla? Come on. Coca Cola? Implicated in more environmental destruction than some oil companies, not to mention their irresponsible use of local water resources, including locking up a sole source of water away from local tribes and villages. Novo Nordisk? A socially responsible pharmaceutical company? Dream on. Intuit? They lobby to make the tax code impossible to understand without professional help, and also to ensure we can never file our taxes for free. Disney? Too many issues to list here. Verizon? Known for red-lining; being complicit in gov’t domestic surveillance; making empty promises to get gov’t subsidies, pocketing the money and not bothering to do the required work: stealing taxpayer money. All of the holdings are financial backers of Trump and the GOP, and most of them happily removed all mention of diversity or equality from their public facing materials to cozy up to this administration.

If you really want social responsibility in a stock, you’re going to have to do the research yourself and find individual stocks that meet your definition. Any day, one of those companies could change their direction, could be exposed as participating in activities you wouldn’t have expected, or simply be bought and or taken over by a non-scrupulous competitor or parent company.

Otherwise, you just have to accept that our money will be part of the problem, and sigh, hoping that your investments at least hold up long enough for you to retire, and hopefully you don’t feel too guilty.

I know we want to invest in funds that aren’t evil, but I’m not convinced that social responsibility and trading publicly are compatible. At the very least, of not likely you’ll find these kinds of finds are anything more than ugly companies packaging the same ugly stocks and trying to appeal to your conscience.

ETA: the climate change one is just as bad, full of Amazon, Google, Microsoft…

Edit2: just invest in the total market, a la Bogleheads, and spend the proceeds responsibly. That’s the best you can do. Social responsibility is defined by the individual.

Edit3: Consider a solar panel company. Green energy is good right? What if you find that they source their materials from a country known for human rights abuses, in the backs of exploited workers? Or they pollute? Or they simply post on ex-Twitter about their favorite fascist leaders? Does that change the SR value to you?

Since we’re being pedantic (love it!), I’d add that monopoly is not required for enshittification. It may lead to monopoly, but that isn’t necessary. Amazon isn’t (arguably) yet a monopoly, nor is Facebook, but they are both certainly enshittified. You could argue they are effective monopolies, but the jury could deadlock there.

Cory was talking about platforms, not necessarily any capitalist venture, but it holds true that more than platforms can enshittify.

That said, things simply getting worse doesn’t fit my understanding, unless it follows the pattern below:

Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two-sided market,” where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

It is the MO of unregulated capitalism.

Read it twice. Not sure what the catch is. Is it that signatures gathering must be done by Florida residents?