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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Quake 2 multiplayer is such a blast. The cat-and-mouse chase fights in that game is what defines the genre of "arena shooter" for me, there's still nothing else really like it. The campaign has a place in my heart too, even i
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Israel has conscription laws that require all Jews participate in the IDF. It's one of the only places on Earth where a pacifist Jew would be forcibly made to participate in lethal conflict. There are thousands of other, safer places
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
People say this about all unjustifiable products. "Why do I want a Juicero? Why do I need a Surface Laptop?" The same form factor, just works, convenience argument. Nobody wants to acknowledge that it's all marketing halo. It
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Even simpler, this is a "no Scotsman" scenario. Apple has unprecedented contempt for Open designs and software standards, even compared to the pitiful example that Microsoft and Google set. Unlike them, Apple takes a stance of con
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Merging a PR with Apple is harder than merging into the left side of a six-lane highway during rush hour.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Okay? You can wipe off your tears and go buy a cheap gaming PC off Craigslist. Toss Bazzite on it, and you're good to go. I'm not sure what type of sympathy people want to court with the "woe is me" narrative around how
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
> I suspect we'll see M5/M6 Ultra later this year with 512gb-1tb of ram I suspect the opposite. 512gb of LPDDR5X is enough memory to make sixty four Macbook Neos. Apple's HPC/server audience is not very large or dem
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
I feel a great disturbance in the SAAS. As if millions of Slack API startups suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Especially in Elden Ring, it also contributes to the ludonarrative cohesion. Hyetta's quest (no spoilers!) isn't meant to be completed by everyone, her story is a foil to Melina's "default" questline that is manda
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
If Mac Minis were viable for gaming, everyone would get one. Unfortunately, Crossover has very spotty support and GPTK starts fraying at the seams on CPU-heavy titles. The upcoming Steam Frame will be the real make-or-break moment for ARM
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
> Lack of developers specifically developing around valve hardware Like what? The only "specific" thing that comes to mind are the boot animations and the Decky plugins (which should work with all SteamOS-like distros). All of
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
The "rage" is largely surrounding the price, not the Machine hardware itself. The Deck sold like hotcakes at $400. We'll see actual outrage when the masses defer new smartphone upgrades due to price bumps.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
The Xbox is subsidized by the Xbox Live subscription service, Windows and Steam are not. Mainstream console pricing is a bloodbath enabled only by perverse financial incentives.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Well, let's defer to the market share statistics, as usual. We hear this line every few years, but the market knows what it wants. iPads are almost a larger market than Macbooks, at this point.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
> with Windows but still open and you could load SteamOS on it You're describing Every Computer Ever.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
You claim to be an author on this blog. Surely you expected it a little bit?
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
The iPad Mini is cheaper than the Macbook Neo, is more efficient, and has more apps. Comparing the Machine to the Framework to the Mac is an Apples-to-Grapes-to-Oranges comparison.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
They do have a point. Omarchy's "credit" is that it's a downstream dotfile delivery mechanism. That's about it. Even divested of emotional arguments, "LARBS but in 2026" is the sort of deliberate toe-stubb
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
I don't think by "better" they meant financially. It sounds like they own both consoles and are surprised to replace their Switch use with a Deck. Which tracks, to my wit; my Switch 1 is a buyers remorse product. If I knew th
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
"effective" and "solved" are too easily conflated, here. Consoles have the solution, if you enforce hardware attestation then you reduce the attack surface to people using XIM, Cronus and other detectable exploits. Whe
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Omarchy is a fine starting-point for ricing, but I generally agree with the sentiment that it's a LARP distribution for people that feel warm-fuzzies when they use a TWM. I don't think I could recommend Omarchy to other developers
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Now that Bloodborne is "on PC" (wink wink) there's kinda no reason to own a PS4 or PS5 in my opinion. Persona 5 was the only other holdout, but now P5R has a great PC-native release.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
You can install a SteamOS-style console experience on any old PC, including handhelds or mini-pcs with integrated graphics. Bazzite is a great choice for that, even my RX560 handles it without issue. > a Nintendo Switch would provide muc
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
> A new survey of 2,000 Gen Zers and millennials by the self-improvement app RiseGuide ...so a sample of a subset of workers who are all looking for self-help? The survey might be self-selecting for people with anxiety disorders, methink
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
You can still buy and use Nvidia GPUs to play games. That was the case during the crypto boom, the AI boom, and now the RAM shortage too. It's also hard to blame Nvidia for the pivot, from where I'm standing. Their proprietary mid
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
"I cannot be contradicted because I can hold conflicting viewpoints" was Chomsky's bit, HN can only take credit for imitating it.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
AR simply has no market. Apple could sell Vision Pro for $10,000 apiece, if there was natural demand for high-quality AR hardware. But the product isn't competing for Hololens' commercial contracts, and it forfeit the consumer V
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
It is more expensive than all three VR headsets I have owned and the PC I built for them, combined.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
It's probably translatable with Crossover or GPTK. Waiting for a native Metal port of most games is a good way to speedrun old age.
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by bigyabai 4mo ago
Still expensive, for a devkit. $1,750 would buy me a new in-box Pimax Crystal, or likely a Steam Frame with enough money left over to afford a Steam Deck. Vision Pro just doesn't have the content to justify that price. I use VR for fli

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