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  • Interesting wordsmithing. Why did you ignore Xbox?

    Oh yeah, Xbox client ships with windows lol . And Apple has made it increasingly difficult to install apps outside of their store.

    Furthermore, you’ve narrowed down gaming to a very narrow definition. Nobody is stopping PlayStation or Nintendo selling games on PC. Whether or not you like it though, they are selling games, and they do compete with steam. And, they likely sell more than steam too

    Or are you genuinely arguing that Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo aren’t competing for gamers?

    Again, I’m pretty sure that at least part of being a monopoly is that most gamers know who you are, and that doesn’t seem to be the case when I speak to people







  • It’s a play gun that shoots. Basically, it’s something that Australias shittiest people use to help normalize guns

    We only have 1 state in Australia that allows their sale I think, and meta happily lets them advertise everywhere. They don’t care. Sure it’s legal for them to do so.

    They also happily promote our local right wing racists too, who get a lot of engagement

    Even animal cruelty or porn meta cares very little. Lots of hunters with dead animals all over their profile promoting guns all over meta.

    I’m not sure 12 year olds should be having that stuff pop up on their news feed. Even less the constant illegal incitements






  • They started selling 7 years ago the Mac Pro… but, only stopped selling 3 years ago apparently. Microsoft offered 10 years of support for Windows 10, and Ubuntu even offers 15 years.

    Apple generally classes their products vintage after 6-7 years…

    Normally, I’d say “fine”, but, this is now the second time they’ve done this within 20 years (they did it with the PPC -> Intel too), and the exact same way, and not all new apps are generally backwards compatible with the old CPU architecture either. So realistically, a lot of people are forced to upgrade regardless.

    The Mac mini… Fair enough, its cheap. But, the Mac Pro was ridiculously overpriced (even the wheels cost $700 lol). You had to even pay extra money for 3 years of HARDWARE warranty.

    The reality is, nobody knows is the Asahi breakage was intentional or not at this time. All we know is that Apple has contributed absolutely sweet F*** all to asahi Linux (despite it benefiting Apple primarily). The timing is interesting though…


  • They stopped selling the last Mac Pro and mac mini 3 years ago… So literally, their top end computer had 3 years of support of the latest OS (if you bought at the end of the cycle). And, they pulled this same BS from PPC to Intel, so, its not the first rug pull. And, its not like Windows hasn’t maintained excellent backwards compatibility otherwise (they still offer windows 95 backwards compatibility in a lot of cases in the latest OS). In fact, if your computer supports it, you also got a free upgrade to Windows 11 .

    In this case, the Intel Macs include a T2 chip, so, its not like there is a valid security reason to break MacOS… They literally just blatantly screwed them (the Mac Pro was NOT a cheap computer).

    Coincidenally, MacOS 27 beta breaks Linux too. https://www.phoronix.com/news/macOS-27-Beta-Breaks-Asahi .