I can easily see that happening on x86 machines because of the presence of the Intel ME aka. MINIX3. Putting it in the ME would be convenient for big tech and the 3 letter agencies, since enterprise-grade x86 machines have a BIOS option to disable the Intel ME completely (like my ThinkStation).

every breadtuber would start off their videoessay with their own version of this:

Instead they take sponsorship offers and shill for some crap nobody wants and desperately try to be influencers. They worry about viewer retention & going viral before they even think of anything else. I’ve learnt pretty early in life that people who shill for whoever pays the most are not to be trusted or taken serious. Their continued actions show where their values are, but too many people are far too easily swayed by a few nice words and charming personalities.

Completely Agreed. What I really hate about “Mobile OSs” is the fact that they’re the most slow and bloated pieces of crap ever imagined.
Android and iOS are insults to Computing, they’re not useful for anything. People just put up with them because most of the time there is no other Option.

Most Phones right now are many times better than the Work/Gaming PC I had back in circa 2010.
Some ARM Computers even come with an NPU, or some have Instruction Set Extensions that are better than anything you can find on x86;
Some ARM Computers have literal Super Computing capabilities, yet none of that stuff is made available to the User (or if it is, only to to a limited extent) because the Manufacturers just shit out binary blobs for Android that work “good enough” and call it a day.

And then a couple years later people are expected throw out their Pocket-Sized Super Computer just to keep investors happy, it’s insanity.

Meh, for me that is already the case because I refuse to use most ARM-based devices due to how locked down they are to the point where the user is basically just renting them.

What disturbs me however are people who seem convinced that Mobile/Cloud-based devices are “the future” or “next step” and act as if PCs were just a “Phase”.
It saddens me that there are many people out there who don’t realize the power and potential of Personal Computing.

This whole thing feels like a celebrity ad.

HL3 will retcon a ton of stuff because of HL:A’s ending

That’s what I’m expecting, why else would they suddenly decide to change the EP2 ending after 13 years.

I agree, I’d rather them conclude the Story HL2 has set up ASAP and see something completely new.

they released a side game that only a small percentage of the players could play—which is based on the leaked story of E3

I’m assuming you’re referring to Epistle 3 by Laidlaw? In what way is HL:A based on that? I thought HL:A takes place before HL2 (minus the ending scene).

Personally I’ve come to terms with the fact that we’ll probably never get a proper continuation of EP2 years ago. Like I said, I don’t expect much from Valve at this point.
If the game comes out and it doesn’t have bad writing and features interesting and innovative gameplay I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
If the game comes out and it not only has interesting gameplay but also continues to follow the Story that EP2 set up I’ll be very pleasantly surprised.
If the game comes out and it’s overall OK but they retcon a bunch of stuff and make it so Aperture and the Borealis are no longer relevant, or worse, abandon the storyline for something completely different, then it’s time to forget and play some more indie games! :)

Right now I’m mostly interested in what their current Half-Life Project even looks like.

Lol, FO4 kind of replaced Skyrim in that regard since it’s literally just the Skyrim build of Gamebryo with a facelift and some improvements.

They wanted Starfield to be the next big sandbox game engine, but nobody wants Oblivion in Space.

The only big-Name Game I have any amount of faith in is HL3, although I don’t expect much.

Same. I tried getting into TES4 but couldn’t make it past half the game because I found it too boring and watered down compared to Morrowind.
In FO4 I made it past the beginning area before I got bored and quit.
I already know that TES6 & FO5 will be yet another Loot Hoarder Sim with a “You are the chosen one” Story and MMO-Tier Quests.
They’ve been making bad Morrowind clones for 2 decades now with no end in sight, and that’s how they’ll probably die lol.

I’m more annoyed at the people who leave Twitter only to go to the next Bigtech Platform.
The Fediverse is right here with no Ads, no Influencers, no AI Shit, no bullshit algorithm that feeds you some narrative or rage/engagement-bait, impossible to monetize and anyone can use it today!

This is like something I’d expect to see on 4chan. Posts like this remind me of how much of a shithole reddit really is.

They pulled the plug on Ensemble Studios and then like 10 years later they noticed that a lot of people are still playing and modding their old Age of Empires games, so they went ahead to produce shitty remakes that look like mobile games and after that they proceeded to continue the series with live-service trash.

Fuck those fuckers @Redmond. Now I feel dirty everytime I look at my old AoE Game Discs.

qutebrowser is just Chromium under the hood (same goes for anything that uses QtWebEngine). https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtwebengine-overview.html

weather monitor

I’m intrigued, are there any daemons for this out there that you can recommend? Would be neat.

Maybe they left it running for a while. The current Steam Client is basically an Electron App.
I miss the old Steam Client that was made entirely in Valve’s own GUI Framework which was written in C++.

Hey, I’m posting this via lem.el! I’ve been using it for a few months now.
Could still use some work, but far better than using a Web Browser.

Thanks for posting, now I want to play a new Point & Click featuring art like this.
I’d rather see indie devs trying to move towards this than that ugly low poly shit, or that generic hyper-realistic look.

They might be able to squeeze through a crack in the wall this time, but one day the BigTech Reaper will catch them!
Not even the iCult, armed to their teeth with unrepairable landfill from their deity, will be able to help them!

I suspect that in the not too distant future, the PRC will eventually outcompete them in terms of Quality, Quantity & Price.
China will make actually innovative and useful hardware using domestic ingredients that will make Apple landfill obsolete.

Washington may hand out sanctions and the iCult may cry and tell people to vote with their wallet, but that won’t stop the Reaper.

Literally one of the first things OpenBSD does when you first boot it is automatically install firmware blobs via: https://man.openbsd.org/fw_update

SteamOS is just a by Valve customized Arch Linux though. You can always just install Arch and customize it yourself if you want.