Not a good idea to mix personal and work devices. I’d recommend getting a cheap budget phone to use for work.

I buy complete editions. My trick is I just visit isthereanydeals and see what the sales price is and buy games when it is cheap. I don’t consider retail price the real price.

Yeah it is. That site and isthereanydeals is what people should visit before buying any game. Retail price is meaningless. Sales price is what people should be paying and the sites do an excellent job of showing price of games across different stores and sales trends.

You don’t have to pay retail price if you do a little research before clicking buy.

Retail price doesn’t even matter anyways. It’s more a placeholder to make sales seem more impressive with X% off to make people feel they are getting a bargain.

Too bad companies seek exponential profit due to line having to go up, so pricing games higher wouldn’t lead to killing off microtransactions even if priced at $200.

Companies don’t hit a point where they go this is enough money. They became companies because their mentality is this isn’t enough, and its only the a mount consumers are willing to pay that keeps price from inflating more like companies want.

Yeah, IOT is the version to choose at install with it getting 10 years of support compared to 5 years for the regular enterprise.

Nice. Lot of games I’ve played on RPCS3 have run flawless as long as the wiki shows playable.

Ratchet and Clank and Uncharted trilogy are the ones that have issues and no PC port that I’m still hoping becomes ironed out some day.

But, nice to have one knocked off the list.

That looks like a nightmare.

Windows 11 ltsc is interesting in that its like a time capsule. More like Windows 7 than 10. Has no Microsoft store, no onedrive, no game bar. And has old Microsoft paint, calculator, and notepad from Windows 10 with no tabs.

There’s not really anything to uninstall. And it just gets security updates. Its a bare bones OS that feels closer to Linux because of that without the crap that even Windows 10 had showing tiktok and meta in the start menu to remove.

I think social media for profit played a large role in getting a new generation of ad acceptance, since most use the official app with third party apps generally dead.

So they are going to get exposed to ads using it on their phones, and then there’s the users themselves seeing social as something to try to use to make money so you got human being like living ads too.

Windows 11 ltsc comes with old Notepad. Looks like the same one from Windows 10.

Even Windows users don’t like Windows. Unless someone is setting up LTSC to avoid feature updates to not get AI crap and ads I would avoid Windows for the average consumer.

Chat control was one of the most notable signs that this is an issue around the world with it still popping up over and over in the EU. This is a global fight.

Its not restrictions that is the issue but the attempt to normalize handing out ID and face scans. It would have been more acceptable for them to flat out disallow restricted content than moving towards normalizing this type of entrustment of sensitive data.

I don’t get it either. I see millions of followers but their streams don’t give off a vibe of someone with charisma worthy of that type of obsession.

Most of them come off of as really obnoxious loud people ranting into a mic. Well…maybe it does make sense seeing the type of people society has rallied around to hold positions of power.

Companies get away with nothing but a small fine that is far less than the money they make from breaking privacy laws, and you are still naive enough to trust things handed over to them is actually private when there is zero transparency on what is going on with their app to perform an independent audit?

Good luck convincing the masses to follow your line of thinking.

People like us aren’t the majority of the population. The only control we have is to either opt in or opt out of what other people are doing.

We are being dragged along by their decisions.

Bet they going to try to use it as an excuse to require age verification. They want to collect everyone’s selfies and IDs for online accounts.

No. That is just the nature of public social media. It comes down what you choose to share when it comes to risk, so the same amount as reddit.

But, userbases who behave more like old school forums are more likely to not share personal stuff like other social media such as facebook, Instagram, tiktok, etc which have drawn people who want to publicly catalog their personal lives.

For actual privacy that’s better left to encrypted private messaging like signal and so on. Social media isn’t the place to expect privacy.

Ironic to argue that trying to stop AI is a waste of energy given how much energy is wasted to use AI. Could have used better phrasing in your quest to get people to stop being negative towards AI.

Yeah, making something portable tends to cost more. If it wasn’t for tariffs and sudden ram price hike Steam Machine would have been priced cheap with the specs not being anything crazy over powered for a desktop PC.

If Valve had been able to move up their release by just a couple months they could have pushed out some reasonably priced Steam Machines out before ram prices went out of hand.

That couple months made a huge difference.