Ya, I even wrote into a Linux podcast like 7 years ago making this exact prediction. It’s not new.

I think they just borked some store check code somewhere.

The fact that this is even possible just demonstrates how broken Windows is fundamentally.

No idea how I should be pronouncing it though… K-den-live? Kde-n-live?

Yes, that’s how it’s pronounced

PCGamer is officially off my reading list now.

Stop calling it “vibe coding”. Vibe coding is literally yoloing the generated output and then repeatedly reprompting when it doesn’t work. The second you put in a modicum of effort to examine the code generated you are no longer “vibe” coding.

Not sure what to tell you, but a Mac is the last platform to go to for gaming. Apple has zero interest in gaming and have made the platform virtually hostile to gaming development.

Steam regularly has sales (really good sales, like under $5) for fairly modern games (within the last 10 years).

Wait for a sale on something like an AMD Beelink and use that.

This is an explanation on why it never gets fixed.

The technical debt would be the additional damage being done to the rest of the house each time it rains.

It wanted me to make an Embark Studios account. And yes that is a big deal.

You are aware that you see beforehand whether the game requires a separate account (at least on Steam)?

No, because as I indicated in my post, I didn’t buy it. I installed it from someone else’s account within my family group.

Also, how else would you enable crossplay/crosssave?

I don’t know, but not my concern.

And you don’t even need to use separate credentials. You can log in with Steam just fine.

Not according to the prompt I was shown.

I installed Arc Raiders from my family sharing group, fired it up then closed it and uninstalled it as soon as it says I need to create YET ANOTHER account just to play this game.

I’m done creating an account for every single game.

It’s more about making aware those unaware how much of a clown Linus Sectarian, and the people at LMG/LTT are.

Burden of proof is on the accuser.

The burden of proof is on the party making a positive claim. This is true when in a debate, or maybe a professional setting.

But this is the internet. No one owes you anything here, besides, Linus Sebastian’s statements are generally known. And often he directly contradicts himself from show to show.

You know, I was fine with LTT for a while (many years ago). I knew they were clowns, but they seemed genuine and well intentioned. Their first Linux challenge made me raise my eyebrows at them, because I was a long time Linux user and knew much of what they said was either off the mark or disingenuous.

Then their storage server video came out and I almost fell off my chair with the levels of bafoonery I had watched. Even the real experts that helped them out had a hard time keeping their words civil while discussing the postmortem of the situation. That’s when I lost respect for LTT and Linus Sebastian as a tech “expert”.

Then all the other stuff about the lies, the made up metrics, the years of garbage test data from negligent and lazy practices, and the cherry on top which was the Billet Labs thing. The arrogance of Linus Sebastian to do the test in bad faith on a GPU that was explicitly stated by Billet Labs to not be the target device, and then Linus whine on the WAAAH Show that it would cost him too much money to do a proper retest, and then just selling off the prototype. Then doubling down twice in a forum post that LINUS SEBASTIAN is somehow the victim in all of this! Poor Poor Linus Sebastian.

And the moron couldn’t even do an apology video without making some wise-ass joke. Couldn’t read the room the one time he needed to do it.

He’s just an ass-hat.

I refuse to watch a video with Linus Sebastian. I’ll get better tech advice from my cat tripping on catnip.

if Plex enshittifies.

Anyone want to break the news?

HEVC (x265) takes half the space of x264

In some scenarios, it can. Generally I’d say it’s about a 20-30% reduction in size.

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

I guess you’re right, because I’ve never worked as an IT admin, or had the policy at multiple companies I’ve worked at changed to allow Linux devices for devs.

Taking Immich as an example, there’s a lot of heavy lifting happening there behind the scenes in external libraries that are not written in JS.

Real programmers are language agnostic

Thought terminating sentence.

In an ideal world, id love a debian thinkpad or framework

Then make your world ideal. Pester your boss or the IT guys with articles showing how Linux is better than Windows at security or dev work. Show them how Linux isn’t prone to the same security concerns. Show them articles or examples about how you could do your work with a Linux install.