And there's lots of subjectivity with coffee; you can get the tools to dial it in exactly how you like it, or just a machine that makes it really easy, with lots of space in-between.
Homeopathy convinces people to take a mixture that has no active ingredient instead of one that can affect what they're sick with. If it's a cold, eh whatever. If it's cancer, that's incredibly dangerous.
And if you like playing certain games with kernel anti-cheat, the only way you're getting away from Windows is on console. Unless gamers jumping from Windows to Max/Linux increase by improbable orders of magnitude, that's not changing anytime soon.
Honestly, as someone comfortable with Linux already, but running Windows because of games, it was the last straw for me in a bigger way. A bunch of people up and down the chain at Microsoft thought recall was a good idea, and didn't need really basic safety features at launch. Not only is that very poor judgement, but what they think I want and need is so far disconnected from reality that following their upgrade path is a huge risk.
Maybe they'll put switches in to disable Recall, but maybe they'll want to take them away for my own good at some point in the future. Maybe they'll do so silently. I know there'll be an adjustment curve, but I'd rather be in control of it rather than let the people who thought Recall was a good idea updating my OS internals. I'll never install Windows 11 on a device I own, and I'm not holding my breath on future versions at this rate.
My old desktop has been demoted to console, and some time before Windows 10 goes EOL, I'm planning to try Bazzite on it. Seems like the closest we'll get to SteamOS on any hardware in the near future.
The risk of starvation isn't the only way to get there, but people who have little to lose in trying to change things are motivated to try. "The alternative is starving" is a really quick way to get there.
I think you and the person you're responding to both have a point. They're totally passing the buck to their users, but their users will probably be better at putting accurate information than they are. It's a different set of problems to be sure, but I think it's a preferable one
I've long had a mix of Windows and Linux machines, and currently have a gaming desktop with Win10, my old gaming desktop/media center PC on Win10, and my laptop/homelab machines all running Proxmox or Debian. At first I hadn't migrated to Win11 because Microsoft hadn't convinced me it's an upgrade, but Copilot has now convinced me it won't be an upgrade.
I haven't decided exactly when, but the Windows 10 EOL is going to drive me to remove Windows from my remaining computers, and just use Linux.
I like the idea that Fuentes saw a coincidence, decided to play it up, by cosplaying as a dude with a crossbow who was actually in his neighborhood, standing threateningly on his own porch, to play a victim because he didn't get to be one in real life.
Even if it didn't transpire that way, it's funny how it totally fits.
Faster than gigabit, but not 2.5 gigabit. Your cables likely support the speed, just your ports and switching hardware are capped at gigabit.
It's not extremely expensive, but unless you move around a lot of big files, you're probably getting very diminished returns, even spending less than twice as much for 2.5x speeds.
The report exists, but it has so many errors, misinterpreting its own data to bend to the conclusions its authors decided they wanted to find, lots of cherry picking, and ignoring any fact inconvenient to its conclusions.
Imagine a paper that concludes that dowsing or homeopathy is good science. It's about that accurate.
I would happily shell out $60ea for remasters of RA2 and Generals. Improved graphics, proper modem compatibility (64 bit, Proton, ARM chips), maybe a modern vs original balance mode? I'd be happy as a clam.
Renegade had some interesting gameplay ideas as a shooter, and a new C&C FPS has so much story potential. It's a shame they cancelled the one, but a future release still has that potential. If they do it.
Command & Conquer series as a whole, no releases in 4 years, the last new release was a mobile game in 2018, and the last proper new entry was 2012.
The fan community has (at least) two really high quality mods still undergoing active development, with an actual release in the last two years. Giving this series the Sonic Mania treatment would be incredible, and probably make EA a lot of money, but also is very unlike their usual business practices.
I wouldn't doubt companies would use it any place it's not enforceable, and at least attempt to collect.
I'm not sure the nuances of it, other than having talked to a couple of people who were in that situation, talked to an attorney, and ended up paying. I would suspect having a valid reason like sexual harassment wouldn't affect if it's enforceable per se, but give you a lot of leverage to convince a company it isn't worth pressing the issue.
Cheap garbage is cheap garbage, no matter the price they expect you to pay for it.