Omg we’re cryptocurrency twins. I hold exactly these two for the same reasons

Knew it all the time, finally some confirmation

Oh wait this is insane and no normal person would ever come up with it

This is from 6dollarshirts right

This however is implying that the distance traveled is the metric to measure against, which might skew data. It plays a role, but in aviation, other factors play important rules as well, like starts, landings, touch-and-gos, bad weather conditions flying hours, (as opposed good weather flying hours which relates to distance traveled) and so on. For military aircraft, even more metrics might exist, like contour flying hours, desert flying hours and whatnot.

If (accidents / distance traveled) was the only important metric, the safest means of transport would possibly be space travel.

Millennial here, I see nothing exceptional about my made-up generation. Yeah we got fucked pretty bad I guess with 9/11, financial crash (remember occupy wall street?) but that’s nothing compared to what’s about to come, we were probably among the least impacted from COVID so at least there’s that.

Being born a certain year doesn’t magically give you special distinct traits, this ain’t astrology.

Boomer for me is a derogatory term for people with a very special mindset, independent of age. The rest IDGAF about.

Though my favorite meme about generations is https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-year-old-boomer

While discord doesn’t necessarily cost money, it for sure also isn’t free. In fact it’s the reddit problem but way worse. A proprietary non-searchable database with all content fully licensed to discord including the right to sub-license. At least, Reddit had an API and is still searchable through their public facing http. I mean I get people don’t want their group messages readable by everyone, bit for large groups, it makes sense.

Disgusting.

I expected better from a gay furry porn aficionado

I’d wager it’s mostly big studios leaving E3 and holding their own dedicated presentations

Steam doesn’t enforce DRM, your game can use Steamworks even without DRM.

The no-DRM policy sure is very good, but in the end any game on GoG is there by choice of the publisher, who could also choose not to use DRM on Steam.

The reason 60Hz was so prominent has to do with the power line frequency. Screens originated as cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs that were only able to use a single frequency, which was the one chosen by TV networks. They chose a the power line frequency because this minimizes flicker when recording light powered with the same frequency as the one you record with, and you want to play back in the same frequency for normal content.

This however isn’t as important for modern monitors. You have other image sources than video content produced for TV which benefit from higher rates but don’t need to match a multiple of 60. So nowadays manufacturers go as high as their panels allow, my guess is 144 exists because that’s 6*24Hz (the latter being the “cinematic” frequency). My monitor for example is 75 Hz which is 1.5*50Hz, which is the European power line frequency, but the refresh rate is variable anyways, making it can match full multiples of content frequency dynamically if desired.

It’s just not very general purpose right now. It’s Arch but the base system is set up as an immutable image. Here meaning any changes to the system are lost on updates. This includes stuff like the Nvidia drivers, so it’s my understanding it’s of little use for the majority of Steam’s install base. The kernel also isn’t strictly upstream and last I checked was rather dated with needed bits backported. If your PC however had newer hardware, it could mean you wait very long for support in SteamOS. Also I’m not sure there’s a generic installation process. They probably rather have device-specific images.

PC gamers already have plenty of choice with similar options, even HoloISO which is basically SteamOS with needed bits added. I’m not the biggest fan of SteamOS’ approach for a desktop system, and I’m not sure Valve would want to support this use case.

Anyone surprised? MS is one of the shadiest companies out there. Google gathering user data? “Don’t get scroogled!” Microsoft account required for windows 11? That’s completely different. Gamers in particular just fell for their self-imposed image as the good guys because of Game pass and constantly bashing their competitors.

If I remember correctly, it was them first charging for online services under Xbox Live Gold for functionality that was usually free on PC.

This old trope

In fact tech has always been a very deflationary sector (as in the longer you wait, the more you get for your money) yet it’s pretty profitable. Nobody would ever get a phone by that logic

I don’t even understand why they make that distinction. I recently bought a used notebook with Windows 10 preinstalled that can’t be upgraded. But if you just boot up the Windows 11 ISO it works fine without issues from there.

Granted I don’t know why someone would want this; I was genuinely surprised when I noticed installation without a Microsoft account isn’t supposed to be possible. Then you get that system that just feels sketchy to use, Teams in autostart, online services in your menus and all that. And that’s just the stuff you can see. It’s a total disaster in my opinion. But it went downhill ever after Windows 7 as far as I can tell.