That’s just having actual accessibility and difficulty settings, but with extra steps.

I appreciate the ability to mod games, but decent difficulty options really should be first-class citizens that the developers have put some thought into. Accessibility is important.

Absolutely loved GameFAQs in the day.

I’ve just been replaying Freelancer (2002) for the first time since then, and it’s SO refreshing to find comprehensive guides on GaneFAQs which are just plain written text, not even any images.

If you want to find tips on a modern game you basically have to scan through a bunch of YouTube wikis, unless the game is popular enough to have a fleshed-out wiki (versus a placeholder wiki on fandom where basically every page is just enough of a stub to come up in search engine results despite having no actual useful content)

Unfortunately the ‘religion’ of believing and doing what awful people tell you on social media is stronger than ever, and only growing.

I guess the beefier your system is the less you will notice the impact of a greedy OS (because thats a fixed/absolute overhead) while the performance hit of having to translate directx through Proton will always be there (because that’s a percent-based overhead for each rendered frame)

So for the most top-end rigs, probably still Windows will squeeze a few more FPS. But it’s close.

At the end of the day Linux and Windows are both pretty comparable for gaming performance, so we shouldn’t worry about that as a deciding factor in which OS to choose, and can decide based on other merits.

On the other hand, some testing has found that running games on Linux with Proton is actually faster than with Windows on the same hardware, because Windows is such a resource hog.

The hardware in in this test being the Legion Go steamdeck rival.

Sure. But that’s intended to detect shorts caused by water, and water is a much worse electrical conductor than a piece of metal, and so less damaging in the time it takes to detect a short.

Even if phones have some level of protection, why risk damage when you could use something wooden or plastic and just not risk it at all?

Apparently it really is a spiritual successor to Tell Tale in the way that despite being presented as a “choices matter” game, it is not a game in which choices actually matter at all.

The other big difference is that people actually know how to cook these days.

The brussel sprouts I got force-fed every Christmas as a child were boiled, slimy, plain and gross.

The Brussels I cook these days are cut in half, then tossed in olive oil with salt and black pepper, and oven baked to caramelise the insides and char the leaves a little for that yummy browning. Delicious!

It’s no wonder people hate something when they never tried the good version of it.

As far as I understand, it’s purely marketing semantics.

The point of the ‘Turbo’ button is to slow the CPU down to provide compatibility with old software that was written with a fixed clockspeed, where the software would become unusably fast on newer CPUs.

Calling this a “slow” mode or “compatibility” mode wasn’t very marketing-sexy however, so manufacturers just flipped it around and called the normal speed ‘Turbo’.

With later systems, developers all became aware that varying CPU frequencies were a thing, and started to base their software timings on the realtime clock instead.

So in later systems there was no longer any need to have the CPU run at anything other than its maximum (normal) speed - and the turbo button simply went away.

Because there’s no consensus in monochromatic maps about whether the darker or lighter area should be land or sea, my brain gets momentarily confused every time and I just see a bunch of nonsense shapes until I can work out what is what.

Thanks!

Seems like CCC may no longer be the best choice, but it is still a free choice, and the article doesn’t seem to suggest they are falsifying their data.

Good to know.

This custom SKU trick is also used by retailers to advertise “We’ll price match any other store!” when technically the only store who sells that exact SKU is them!

(Of course some retailers are genuine when they offer to price match, it’s not always a scam)

Do you have a source on that? I can’t find any mention of this from having a quick search just now.

It also plays on that other classic scam tactic - creating urgency.

The victim may not even see the calendar entry until they get a notification “x starts in 1 hour”.

Maybe they’re already in the middle of a busy workday, juggling a bunch of stuff. That calendar popup is just more stress, but it could be important, and they need to find out soon because it’s basically starting!

And so they click.

It’s not in their interest for people to switch to something actually good that they will want to stay on, though.

The ‘reason’ is profit.

And fuck Crunchyroll.

This was never about security. That’s just the excuse.

This is about removing user freedom, and consolidating corporate control. This is about ensuring that every app and service you use is approved by the big G, and consumed in the way they want - with ads, with tracking, and with nothing you can do about it.

For anyone looking for a cheap but decent air filter which DOES do this, IKEA’s UPPÅTVIND remembers its last setting when turned off and back on at the plug.

Bad puppy! Get that bowl off the couch and down on the floor 💢

Yes, significant.

But the point I’m making is that it’s not uniformly significant. It’s not 10% for everyone. So you should make your operating system choices based on which group you fall into.