I know the cards are worth a few cents each. Selling those is more trouble than it’s worth.

I meant the inventory gift games being worth something.

Wait, these are worth something? I have so many of them rotting in my inventory.

Most people call that “Windows.”

If it’s “barely a problem in practice” why did you bother to mention it like it’s an active performance issue?

This post is so full of inaccuracies that I don’t know where to begin. I’ll just mention the first thing I noticed: just because drivers are compiled with the kernel doesn’t mean they’re all loaded at runtime. modprobe exists for a reason.

Try putting a laptop running Windows to sleep for a week and see if it has any battery left.

Pop OS too.

Nobody who packages debs are updating their applications for jammy anymore. Anything I install is several versions old at this point. Just the other day I tried to compile an application that uses Autocxx, only to find that it requires C++14 headers, and the jammy repo only had up to 12 or 13. I know I can add PPAs or get things other ways, but it kind of defeats the point of a package manager if I’m constantly hunting for things outside of it.

I’m looking forward to Cosmic, but I’m curious if it will delay the 24.04 LTS release. 22.04 is pretty long in the tooth at this point.

What? I didn’t want you to list a bunch of things off the top of your head. I asked for one factual thing, and you instead you provided a bunch of assumptions. If you can’t provide actual facts maybe just don’t state guesses like they’re true?

I stopped reading when you implied that Facebook invented pancake optics. They have been used in cameras for decades. And while I agree they’re the way forward in the future, saying they let more light in is factually incorrect: they only let about 10-15% of the light through. This page has a good overview of why that is and how they work.

Buying up game developers to make them exclusives and selling hardware at a loss to stifle competitors is the only “benefit” their money has produced. This is a net negative for VR as a whole.

Like 90% of what a modern VR headset is made of has come from their money.

Like what? I can’t think of a single invention they pioneered that’s used in their own headsets, let alone everyone else’s.

The Switch is 7 years old this month.

PinePower is another good option that’s not very expensive. 65W with 2 C ports and 1 A port for $25.

Try Sidebery instead.

“Could do”? I haven’t used Windows in a decade at least, but doesn’t it have ads in the start menu now?

It’s happened to several games in the past that couldn’t prevent people from cheating.

And those games are…? There are plenty of games that have allowed anticheat to work on Linux and haven’t imploded, but I don’t know of a single one that has. Care to encourage enlighten me?

Show me a standard that was destroyed by EEE and I’ll show you a standard that never took off in the first place.

XMPP says hi.

Declaring Game Pass profitable right after they reclassified every Xbox Live user as a Game Pass user smells like creative accounting to me.

It’s not even a question anymore. Even if every single subscriber is on the highest tier, they’re not even close to making back their third-party costs to run the service, let alone server costs, cannibalized first-party game sales, and whatever else they pay to run it.