Maybe an optimistic take: people moving = people realising they can move. Eventually some of them may also realise they can move to a platform that’s not controlled by a shitty corpo.
Maybe an optimistic take: people moving = people realising they can move. Eventually some of them may also realise they can move to a platform that’s not controlled by a shitty corpo.
Lately, PS Plus has felt like a better GamePass than GamePass. That almost certainly wouldn’t be the case if there is further market consolidation.
So I get Microsoft’s angle but ultimately I want to see them both compete for value and monopolies don’t do that. Also we’ve seen what Microsoft do with monopolies…
Tough place for 1Password, who clearly want to be able to collect data to maintain a competitive edge, but have an audience of security conscious users who may not be comfortable with this. But as always transparency is appreciated.
Yep, vote with your feet is all that we’ve got, and shouldn’t be underestimated.
Who? Not the same body responsible for enforcement, which is a good start. Language in the article to me suggests they’re targeting obvious disinformation spread by bots and telling platforms they need to have processes in place to manage themselves internally - so would punish the likes of Twitter who have decided that anything goes (because it saves Elon money).
But not enough information at hand yet, so best to remain skeptical (but not conspiratorial).
Kinda interesting:
“Hillary would print that out all the time, you know. Her private emails,” Trump’s staffer said.
“No, she’d send it to Anthony Weiner,” Trump responded, referring to the former Democratic congressman, prompting laughter in the room.
Democrats really living rent free in Trump’s head. Years after winning the election, he can’t get over it.
Yep. The headline could have been “Reddit to start charging for Premium if users want to use third party apps” and it would’ve been and gone in a day or two.
Instead, Huffman’s ego stepped in and he gave media cycle red meat with how he’s handled this. The story now is how aggressive, dishonest, and incompetent he looks. I think there’s a lot yet left to be written about a tech company that relies entirely on the health of its community treating members of that community so poorly and so openly attributing that to $$$.
while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype)
^ I took that at face value. If true that they didn't do this until after GN video then this was very unethical. This is pissing in our pockets.
I feel weird supporting Zuck, but the thought of someone knocking that shit-eating grin off Elon’s face…
Absolutely. If DeSantis is “Trump but more savvy” then all this proves is that the Republican Party is a failure due to its values not (just) its cult leader.
Are you in the new TestFlight Mlem launched a few days ago? Link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/MelFP11Y
Also check out wefwef.app, it’s a webapp you can install to your Home Screen and it’s fully featured and amazing.
Or the owner of 100 cats, who also happen to smoke a pack a day each?
What I’m concerned about, they took everything. I don’t know what they took. They could be stuffing it.
Classic Trump. “Interpret my intentions generously and interpret theirs as poorly as possible.”
It’s almost bizarre to me how fully featured and polished wefwef.app is. Really amazing.
So far the Dev (who has/is active on Mastodon) has said he’s not immediately planning on developing Apollo for the fediverse. Which I can understand, he must feel pretty burnt, and probably burnt out. He’s a nice dude, I really wish the best for him whatever he chooses to do next.
I understand the point you are making, but combating market consolidation with more market consolidation doesn’t help consumers in the long term.
And can choose amongst thousands of such instances
Kinda glossing over that point.
I don’t see how market consolidation benefits consumers. I’m not sure that I understand the point you are making?
Alan Wake Remaster is a decent inclusion 👍
What’s happening in Finland that they turned to the right wing to solve their problems? Here in Australia we’ve recently swept right wing governments at the federal and state level, they were not nearly as extreme, just your garden variety corrupt, climate-denying boomers mismanaging our country to mediocrity.
I really enjoy spending time alone to recharge. I make espresso, watch YouTube, play video games, listen to music. Just whatever grabs my fancy. I’m a single dad so that doesn’t happen very often tbh, but also why it helps bring my back to my middle.
Both are great options! Just to counterbalance arguments against:
I can't buy a Steam Deck in Australia, but I can buy the ROG Ally.
Windows can be clunky, but that less-than-stellar experience is limited to navigating and launching games. The stock launcher works fine, it's just bare-bones. You can set Steam to launch into big picture on boot at which point it's the same experience as the Steam Deck anyway.
All games install and run, there's absolutely no dicking around required compared to some experiences on Steam Deck.
Touch controls are nice. 120hz VRR 1080p screen is a better draw imo as it's universally applicable to all games. That screen makes sub-60fps experiences much nicer and has better colours and contrast and uniformity (not to mention resolution).
ROG Ally cooling system is really great, and really quiet. I don't feel like there's a desktop machine wedged between my hands.
The ROG Ally performance isn't what ASUS sold, but it's still a good bit faster than Steam Deck, and most games I've tried I can hit a visual and performance fidelity roughly on par with an Xbox Series S. Which ain't bad at all.
Both are convenent and versitile systems, I think probably Steam Deck is more convenient whereas ROG Ally is more versatile.
I don’t like exclusivity deals and platform fragmentation either, I think it’s anti-consumer. But to be fair I don’t think the Microsoft deal is just about that.
Microsoft’s market cap is something like 23x that of Sony’s; the reason they are in 3rd place is entirely down to mismanagement. It’s pretty typical for Microsoft to find themselves in this position in many of the markets they have chosen to occupy over the decades, and so they instead use their deep pockets to buy their way to being market leaders. Microsoft have a long history of using acquisitions to buy out or block competitors, to the detriment of the market.
We saw what happened when Microsoft got a whiff of success in the 360 era. The Xbox One was anti-gamer and anti-consumer, and it didn’t happen by accident: that’s straight out of Microsoft’s playbook.
The increased competition might be nice in the short term, but it gives Microsoft an opportunity to disproportionately influence the gaming industry for decades into the future imo.
Handheld Companion are doing good work implementing better controller options (including gyro) and power management (including autoTDP) and I believe will have napping to the OEM keys sorted out eventually. If that sort of stuff could go into a distro I could see Arch or ChimeraOS being really interesting options. Hopefully the ROG Ally sells well and there's a community to support it in this way, it could be great!
I would have loved to see something like that on the Ally. It's very situational, but I can imagine in those situations it feels great (I own a Steam Controller, so I've used something very similar).
I think if you had a chance to see the Ally screen in person you might have a similar feeling. It changes the experience a lot.
For example, Diablo 4 with upscaling and the right settings is a 1080p experience, so text is crisp and UI elements are clear. At those settings in 15w I get mostly 60fps in dungeons, when things get hectic and the frames drop to 45 or 50 the VRR makes it hard to notice. Fan noise and heat aren't really notable either, I just wish there was a little more battery to round that all out.
“Coming when it’s done 2023” is the release window according to this trailer.
1080p is a more flexible choice though. You can always just set it to 720p for better performance. Or upscale to 1080p or drop the internal render resolution so the UI remains 1080 while the game itself renders 720. You gain many options and lose none (other than just battery).
Not really. A screen of that size is really forgiving. I'm not sure if you have seen the Ally in person? In a lot of games you can turn some GPU intensive settings down or upscaling on and it's not nearly as noticeable. The sharpness really stands out though.
Anyway, you seem pretty thrilled with the Steam Deck, which is great. I'm just pointing out that there are some pretty sweet perks with the Ally (there's plenty of downsides too). All the best!
Yep it's shifty. And it doesnt need to be: I watched LTT's response video and they explained the sequence of events in more details. The first response tried to spin it which was an own goal.
That’s so short sighted.
The fact that all of Huffman and Reddit’s claims are so easily debunked is honestly a sad and sorry state.
It’s a pretty great app! I am going to make it my mastodon home.
That’s rough. Come to think of it, I remember seeing the headlines about “outrage over Finland PM doing young-person things”.
It’s such a weird time and if we hadn’t seen a swing in my country towards the far more reasonable left wing I’m sure I would feel pretty grim about the future. I hope there’s a shift over there before they have a chance to ruin things too badly!
This is so incredibly cool and helpful, thanks so much for pointing this out!
Fair enough. I can't even buy a Steam Deck in Australia so I'm pretty happy the ROG Ally exists and is what it is. Maybe we get the Steam Deck 2 done day, I would be keen to check it out.
It will be interesting to see where things stand in a few days and whether it’s causing ongoing pain to Reddit. I doubt they will comment until and if there’s a risk of ongoing, widespread blackouts.