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  • Microsoft is trying to make Xbox into Windows: Where 3rd parties make the hardware and then license the platform from Microsoft. It’s a vastly more profitable model. Especially if they get all those end users signed up for a subscription service.

    The problem is that the world thinks of “Xbox” as a console (and a specific kind of controller). To pull this off Microsoft is going to have to re-brand Xbox entirely by making people think of it more like a game-specific app store that runs on Windows and special handheld hardware. It won’t be easy.

    There’s a bigger problem with this plan though: No real coordination with the Windows OS team. Windows on handhelds sucks. The past twenty fucking years of Windows development has been almost entirely focused on improving enterprise features with very little attention paid to end users or gaming.

    Growth in Windows gaming has come despite Microsoft’s investments. Not because of them. In fact, I’d argue that if it weren’t for Steam, Windows—as a gaming platform—would be a fraction of what it is today.

    Don’t get me wrong, though! I love this new Xbox roadmap! Windows gaming has been holding back Linux desktop adoption for far too long. The latest benchmarks that show games on SteamOS vastly outperforming the new Xbox-branded handhelds pretty clearly demonstrates all that bashing of Windows by Linux nerds was deeply accurate.

    It turns out that Linux on the desktop really is superior! 🤣



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  • These folks are all giving great advice but also let us know when you’re ready to really fuck around and have fun with your Linux superpowers 😀

    You, in practically no time at all: “Nearly everything is working great! Now I want to make my desktop change it’s background to NASA’s picture of the day while also putting all my PC’s status monitors on there. Oh! And I want my PC to back itself up every hour over the network automatically with the ability to restore files I deleted last week. I’ve got KDE Connect on my phone and it’s awesome!”

    Then, later: “I bought a Raspberry Pi and I want to turn it into a home theater streaming system and emulation station.”

    …and later: “What docker images do you guys recommend? I want to setup some home automation. What do you guys think of Pi-hole?”

    “I’ve got four Raspberry Pis doing various things in my home and I’m thinking about getting Banana Pi board to be my router. OpenWRT or full Linux on it? What do you guys think?”

    …and even later: “I taught myself Python…” 🤣





  • Riskable@programming.devtoTechnology@lemmy.worldTeachers Are Not OK
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    18 days ago

    Correction: Education is not OK.

    AI is just giving poor kids the same opportunities rich kids have had for decades. Opportunities for cheating the system that was made specifically not to give students the best education possible but instead to bring them up to speed on the bare minimum required to become factory workers.

    Except we don’t have very many factories any more. And we don’t have jobs for all these graduates that pay a living wage.

    The banks are going to have to get involved soon. They’re going to have to figure out a way to load up working-age people with long term debt without college being involved.