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I would argue for a “Publishers are arseholes” tag, along with other ones like “Studio got closed”, “fired most of the developers”

I agree with you on DRM, but it is worth noting that Value is a rare case where despite having a dominant market position, they continue to offer and improve the best client experience.

Not without missteps of course, but there are nowhere near as bad as Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc.

I tried it on my main desktop after dumping windows. Tried ot along with CachyOS and Bazzite.

CachyOS was too bleeding edge for me.

MX was very easy to work with, but I could not get a lot of my gaming stuff working with my limited skills. Things like HDR was not working well on my monitor, everything just looked washed out. Could not get it converted to Wayland, etc. It did not support 5.1 audio over Spidif on my sound card.

Settled on Bazzite with plasma which was similarly stable, while having the gaming, display and audio stuff correctly configured out of the box.

Kerbal space program

(The first one)

Massive modding community with literal years of content.

Open Transport Tycoon

While I agree the industry is under-regulated, spaceflight has been a massive benefit for humanity. Earth would not be able to grow half the food it does now. Global communication and logistics would be significantly more unreliable and expensive. Even down to simple things like cellphones would not work without GPS.

Spaceflight is not the problem. Unregulated bilionaires and corporations are.

Back when screens were smaller and lower resolution they were a lot easier to use.

But look at what needed to happen to trackpads for them to stay relevant. Physics only allows you to do so much with a pressure sensor.

Thats my strategy for going to food markets. I take $20 of cash and leave my wallet at home. That way I don’t end up buying and eating everything.

Exactly. Much like crypto, the productivity and capability gains are there, but the toxic shareholder value culture hijacked it for its own purposes.

What I have observed in busienss is that smart people do smart things with AI. Just Like a well skilled person can do great things with a spreadsheet.

Stupid and lazy people do stupid and lazy things with AI, while looking smart. Just like that guy who build crap spreadsheets, but knows how to make them look pretty.

Most of the labour destroying practices come from market capitalism and shareholder culture. AI is just the excuse.

The IP theft is part of the business model in my mind, but I take your point. Its similar to the early days of the internet and the dot com boom and bust.

Its not AI that is the problem. Its the current investment and business model around the AI tech industry that is the problem.

And it manifests in way more places than just AI.

And its getting better more modern implementations. Not code from the mid 2000s that has been run though dozens of code translations and compatibility layers.

Reality

It’s called incumbency.

I remember a time when IBM had 95% market share of the PC market.

Then Apple and Microsoft innovated them out of the market, in software.

Blackberry had 80%+ market share of the smartphone segment they popularized. In 4 years it was almost entirely gone.

It happens when the engineers are sidelined and the finance and marketing people take over.

They are blind to any trends that they do not control. They are unable to innovate and unwilling to take risks. It kills gigantic companies slowly at first and then very quickly.

The older your CPU, the more dramatic the benefits get, due to the lack of windows bloat, kernel level anticheat, etc.

Copyright killed the internet star.

Its not about forcing anyone.

Its about empowering them with a more complex communication medium that allow them to send and receive photos videos and voice notes. Not just with you, but with other people as well.

The process can be quite empowering for them. I would say discuss the option with them and let them decide.

I know many grandparents that made the effort to stay in touch with Children and Grandchildren.

They are not incapable of learning, they just need sufficient motivation and support.

Something like signal is simpler and less likely to push slop their way.

Also look at some of the simplified launchers available for android. It allows you to setup a locked down UI for them that hides everything they don’t need.

EDIT: I used BIG launcher in the past with my 84 year old grandfather to great success.

Why is VoLTE important for you?

If you are worried about privacy, you should not use normal phone services.