darkghosthunter

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The Meta-owned messaging app is extremely popular in Europe owing to its cross-platform compatibility.

There you have it. If iMessages was cross platform, people would use it, but it doesn't, so people will pivot for the second best thing.

Also, Northamerica SMS roots are deep, deeper than Europe, Asia and Latinamerica. Disgusting or not, the people already made its choice: $1 a year was too much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

This article gives some insight on what Zen 5 is all about on desktop and PC. Personally I’m intrigued about how RYZEN AI 300 will perform, and how the availability will be, especially on the Mini PC side.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It breaks football when the foul is against you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

This is a great video to introduce someone to the whole “What is Linux” thing without going into deep detail, plus showing some tools you’ll use every day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yes and no. They had to put the version identifier somewhere to avoid sorting problems or parsing problems, so I think that putting somewhat in the middle is a good tradeoff.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Let's see:

  • There is already Steam for Mac, which a great catalog and sales.
  • The only appeal of an App Store game is cross-platform... in Apple devices.
  • Consoles (with controls) are cheaper than any Apple product compatible with AAA games. (This includes the Steam Deck).
  • There are no platform-selling exclusives.
  • There is no exclusive hardware features.
  • Major most-played games are not available OOTB: PUBG, Roblox, Rocket League, Genshin Impact, Apex Legends, Call of Duty, CSGO2.

Yeah, I get the sentiment: why. But Apple has to start with something, and if they want people to buy games they will need a bigger catalog, and for that they need to keep their porting tools easier to implement.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Well, the thing is that 3 years looks like "too long" but eventually the spec is held by the timeframe of having actual silicon. Even if it's not 1 year or 2, at least is not 5 or 7.

That's probably the problem of standards. Everyone has to agree to a new spec, instead of a company offering double the PCI Express bandwidth and latency that, low and behold, only works on their hardware and will charge for royalties.

3 years look like a lot, but it's cheaper than vendor lock-in, which everyone has afraid of since is in that moment your business is controlled by other business.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Common rule: AMD for Linux, NVIDIA for anything else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That is bloody outrageous fam!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I'm on the same boat, as the Battle Pass was already becoming stale. I hope this empowers more creative ways to get my daily dosis of dopamine in the game, without breaking the bank.

Those Arcanas though, they look sick but I would never buy one. Once you past the FOMO you really don't give a crap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

And they better sty that way for a while. More acquisitions will bring debt that will probably be gambled on, instead of trying to stabilize their portfolio.

The only ones who won with Embracer buying spree were studio owners and execs with their bonuses.

 

I'm hitting a roadblock here.

I've tried to install MacOS Ventura 13.4.1 (currently latest) into a Kaby Lake laptop, but not into the hard disk but rather the same USB drive (not an SSD, just your average USB 3.0 stick).

The installer runs fine, and I can even use Disk Utility to re-partition the drive into a GUID and create an APFS volume to install Ventura. The installer does the install, it takes a while given the USB speeds, and the system restarts a couple of times - OpenCore runs fine and shows the volume so it can continue the installation - but after the third restart, just before showing the first stup screen, the system throws a kernel panic.

The watchdog states that opendirectoryd didn't respond after a few seconds.

Some users also report the same problem when trying to run Ventura from an USB stick, which is resolved by just installing it to the internal SSD or using an SSD/NVMe enclosure connected to USB.

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