chiliedogg @ chiliedogg @lemmy.world

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I'm saying that people are varied and that individuals have a maximum potential. Not everybody can lift weights to the point they become the strongest person on the planet, and not everyone can study until they're the most-knowledgeable person on the planet.

We're not clones. Everyone is born different with different brains and bodies, and it's important to recognize that so we can cater to people's individual needs, learning styles, abilities, and passions.

For those who weren't around at the time: The PS2 had a huge shortage of memory cards the first year or so. So you could buy games, but had to keep the console powered up 24/7 because you couldn't save your games.

I ended up buying a 3rd party card, but since Sony didn't officially allow them it came with a disc that launched an application that installed a driver in the local memory that allowed the card to function until the next power cycle. So you'd put in the driver disc, turn on the PS2, load the drivers, then swap discs to the game you wanted to play and pray that the game you were playing didn't make use of the same memory addresses as the 3rd-party drivers.

As someone who works all day, commutes, and then has to sleep, I don't understand this viewpoint.

What am I going to do with extra daylight after work? I'm still just going home and then to bed. It's not like I'm taking an excursion to the lake at 8pm when I've got to be up at 5am to get ready for work.

It's way worse than that.

They essentially crippled the standing for citizens to sue the states for violating their rights, so long as the states violate them the right way.

Windows was wildly popular prior to Doom. Doom for Windows 95 was a showcase for DirectX, not Windows.

Doom was on more systems than Windows 95, yes, but that's a little misleading. First off, it was released several years before Window's 95. Secondly, people upgraded computers less often back then, and Windows 95 wasn't packaged with most systems and wasn't distributed online. You had to actively decide to go to a store and buy it.

Third, the vast majority of Doom copies were the shareware version of the first campaign. It was tiny and free. People would bring their floppy to a friend's house, or they'd post it on a bbs for download.

The port to Windows 95 was a technical showcase of the advantages of using DirectX. It showed that Windows had integrated features that could be used to enhance games with minimal development cost, and that games could be run without having to exit Windows to DOS, which was a huge hassle required for most games at the time.

Yeah, but they were also still making new standalone gaming boxes with a dedicated OS, and they didn't have the Xbox division take the lead on game mode.

Linux and Mac gaming also weren't a threat, and the solution to a bloated Windows installation was more horsepower, which was relatively cheap.

Now the market is completely changed. The Xbox Series S and X have had their lunch eaten by Playstion and Switch. Linux gaming is exploding because of the Steam Deck, while more-powerful Windows handhelds are performing worse with worse batteries than the Deck because of Windows bloat.

Mid-range GPUs cost more than an entire high-end gaming rig from 5 years ago, so high-end gaming PCs are rarer than ever.

Microsoft has to do something. And what they've chosen, for now, is to partner with Asus to launch a true Xbox-branded competitor to the Deck. To do that, they have to actually be competitive. There's 2 keys to that. One is Gamepass, and the other is moving Windows out of the way of the game experience.

I think this time actually does have the potential to be different. They're co-launching an Xbox-branded handheld PC designed to go head-to-head with the Steam Deck while downplaying the future of dedicated consoles.

Microsoft's gaming division is going all-in on PC, so it matters more than ever.

Yes. People have different natural abilities.

I played the bassoon for over a decade. I had access to truly excellent instructors and a great music program and worked hard at it. And after years of training and work, I was decent. I saw other people with no prior music background pick it up and get better than me in 2-3 months.

People's brains are wired differently.

I'm really curious to see what kind of performance gains the Xbox-mode or whatever they're calling it is going to provide. I don't know if it'll reach SteamOS levels, but it does legitimately look like they're taking the bloat's hit on gaming seriously with the Xbox-branded ROG Ally.

The reality is that mostly people aren't going to leave Windows, so if Valve and Linux force Windows to improve it's still a win.

There's definitely variance in human intelligence, yes.

Smarts/intelligence is the capacity to learn. An educated person has been taught. A knowledgeable person has learned.

They'll be more knowledgeable and better educated. They won't be smarter.

Why is murder the crime they commit? How about financial crimes or permittless construction and demolition?

Killing people isn't profitable compared to other crimes.

I could go blast fishing and have frozen crappie for the next year.

11 days.

Texas ice storm in 2021 froze the pipes from the well. We had stored water in jugs and the bathtubs in anticipation of the storm, but it was for drinking, cooking, and flushing the toilet.

Being better educated doesn't make them smart. I know some geniuses who had to drop out of high school to work and some real dumbasses with doctorates.

They want to make an example of him. Their goal is for everyone to fear them.

They're trying to be Machiavellian. In The Prince, he wrote that weak rulers are loved and strong rulers are feared.

What they forget is that he wrote that worst of all was to be hated.

It's a separate legal issue.

The sad fact is he already had his asylum denied years ago and is eligible for detention and deportation to any nation except El Salvador. The fact that he can't be held for pretrial detention for the bullshit human trafficking charges is immaterial to that.

The second he's acquitted, I expect they'll deport him to one of the other torture prisons they're opening up.

There's no happy ending for him without a US regime change.

I don't think there's a person on the planet who would take that bet in good faith, except maybe Trump himself.

He truly believes he's a genius. Everyone else on the planet, including his supporters, knows deep down that he's by far the dumbest person to hold the office.

There's a reason ICE conceal their faces.

They know what they're doing is wrong and don't want to be held accountable if their fascist rule collapses.

Are people required to know how their car works?

Do people have to understand chemistry to buy gasoline or mercury thermometers?