I thoughts bears had the right to human arms in the US

Or was it people and bear arms…

I don’t think Windows uses a microkernel. Hybrid kernel is the term I’ve heard used.

Hosting services behind a VPN I suppose

Yeah. I have no need for a new computer right now (if I did, System76 would be at the top of the list though), but I wouldn’t mind a shirt.

Wouldn’t that be UPS?

I feel that if Apple could have soldered the RAM back then, they would have.

Apple used to ship repair and upgrade kits with guides on how to apply them. Not sure they were as anti-repair then as they are now.

I’ve done that once. Then I made the mistake of updating past the Android version it came with. Suddenly it was no better than most of the cheap androids I’d owned before that. It was the Oneplus 7 Pro and it just started lagging like hell 2 years in.

I’m now 2 years into my iPhone 13 mini, have also kept up with software updates and it hasn’t slowed down at all.

I’m actually looking at something else for my first bike, but it does have a forum because it seems to have a huge fan base - I’m looking at older Ducati Monsters, particularly the 620.

Nah, the Complex instructions are ridiculously complex and the Reduced ones can still do a lot of stuff.

ARM and RISC-V are entirely different in that neither one is based on the other, but what they have in common is that they’re both RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) architectures. RISC is what makes ARM CPUs (in your phone, etc) so efficient and hopefully RISC-V will get there too.

x86 by comparison is Complex Instruction Set Computing, which allows for more performance in some cases, but isn’t as efficient.

You set out a container of water and wait for it to heat to 50C

But to be fair, the evaporation will cool it too much for this to work

Cars too. Lots of marque or model specific forums still kicking it.

I’m hoping entire custom campaigns.

Back in the day, Operation Flashpoint, the predecessor of ArmA, had a mod community that built mods that came with huge new maps, new equipment and actually decently written campaigns. All because of the official mod tooling, which even came with tutorials.

Direct Rendering Manager I believe

Used to be that they’d sell you both worthless DLC and actually good DLC.

Knights of the Nine?* Awesome. Horse Armor? Worthless.

Similarly, Skyrim had Dawnguard and Dragonborn which were great. It also had Hearthfire which was kinda meh, but at least it had stuff to do and was cheap, so I’m not too mad about it.

*There was also Shivering Isles, but at the time that was marketed as an expansion pack, not merely a DLC.

Lifelong iOS hater who moved to iOS 2 years ago here. They’re different strokes for different folks.

If you’re like I used to be, get an Android! Flash a custom ROM on it! All the freedom is amazing.

Now I have an iPhone. It may even lack some features Android has. It gets them slower. But the experience is ridiculously polished and consistent. This is a device I can’t have fail on me.

I still use Linux on my gaming PC and one of my work laptops. I love it. I love fiddling with things. I just want my phone to be an appliance like my fridge now. I buy it and forget it for the next few years.

That’s great, but you can actually thank Apple for it as much as Google.

I believe that was the time it was hated the most because it was forced on people

Add in the costs of a PC vs a console and it’s not even close

PC: 0€ because you already have one for all the other stuff you do that’s not gaming?

Or does everyone really just rely on smartphones exclusively nowadays?

I think it’s because there’s no real competition and nobody wants to be buying DVDs (blu-rays?) nowadays.

Consider that the only other storefront that treats its’ users with any sort of dignity is GoG and many major publishers would rather avoid it because it has a policy of being DRM free, so you lose out on a lot of games by sticking to GoG for everything.

You’re left with Steam, Epic Games Store, and some other platforms nobody’s ever heard of. Epic Games’ policy is “we don’t need a better store interface because it doesn’t affect sales” and “there’s no need to support Linux, nobody uses it”. Steam has a good-enough UI and not only supports Linux for Linux-native games, but also integrates Proton (which Valve also develops) so you can play Windows games on Linux.

Sure Epic will take less of a cut from publishers, but I’ll have an inferior experience and probably pay the same.